THIS MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
The answer
An unveiling. The Greek apokalypsis means an unveiling or disclosure. The English title says the same thing in the singular: Revelation, not Revelations.
Why it’s interesting
The word later came to name a whole family of end-of-the-world ideas and movements. The book itself calls what it holds a prophecy (Revelation 1:3; 22:10).
Scholarly consensus
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