A book only makes complete sense when you have read the end of the story. But as David Marshall zeroes in on the end time crisis–Babylon, Armageddon, the Beast–you realize the inadequacy of the old preacher’s summary of Revelation: “Jesus wins.” Much of Revelation is concerned with the crisis before the final victory, a crisis in which we shall have to be able to tell counterfeit from real in order to survive. This is the business of this book.