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Today my class on the Bible reached the Book of Revelation, and the student who presented used a picture in his PowerPoint that would have been perfect for the discussion yesterday in my class on Revelation about the (lack of) climactic battles in Revelation<\/a>. The one place we do get an impression that there is an actual battle is in Revelation 12:7<\/a>, which the Brick Testament depicts as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Today my class on the Bible reached the Book of Revelation, and the student who presented used a picture in his PowerPoint that would have been perfect for the discussion yesterday in my class on Revelation about the (lack of) climactic battles in Revelation. 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