Drawing on recent research into verbal aspect in New Testament Greek by Stanley E. Porter, Buist M. Fanning and others, this work addresses the issue of verb tenses in the book of Revelation and how they function within its visions and discourse.

David L. Mathewson, Ph.D. (1998) in New Testament, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Gordon College, Wenham, MA, USA. He is the author of numerous articles on the book of Revelation, and the author of A New Heaven and a New Earth: The Meaning and Function of the Old Testament in Revelation 21.1-22.5 (Sheffield, 2003).