The Multiple Genres of the Book of Revelation

Timothy Stanley: You have mentioned genre a number of times already. And in fact, that's where we need to go. I wonder if you could just explain to us why it's so important to understand the genre of the book of Revelation, the literary genre. Well, why for Revelation would be the same why for any book of the Bible that you need to understand the vehicle in order to understand how the vehicle is going to travel. He says George Beasley Murray identified three genres and identified those genres in the first five books of the Bible or first five versus a Revelation one.