books.google.com - The Book of Revelation presents the reader with a frightening narrative world in which the people of God are tormented, threatened, and sometimes killed by various agents of Satan. Scholars have traditionally thought that it was written in order to encourage believers to stand fast in the face of the...http://books.google.com/books/about/Who_Rides_the_Beast_Prophetic_Rivalry_an.html?id=5bCOXhf4sc4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWho Rides the Beast? : Prophetic Rivalry and the Rhetoric of Crisis in the Churches of the Apocalypse