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themes Revelations Revelations is the last canonical book of theBible’sNew Testament and is the only onewhose content is exclusively prophetic (containing theRevelations of Saint John) and where an important part of the richly symbolic collectionof potential stories ofWestern Christian culture comes from. Themeaningof the term used nowadays is drastically different from the original book writtenby John theBaptist. Todaywe no longer refer to the apocalypse as a final judgement thatmust savemen andwomenof good souls, but rather as something that destroyed the established order of things. The endof the knownworld. For this reason, themeaningof theword has shifted towards thepragmatic. The loss of what he have become attached to. Agenesis of fear of the unknown. The terror of being judgedby unfulfilledduties.We nowpresume that we are unworthy of the glorious endof days proposed by thebook of Revelations, of salvation, or wemight ignore any belief on the subject. Other cultures see it as the most fervent periodof faith and see theApocalypse as an opportunity to enter ‘paradise’, ‘nirvana’ or other empyrean places. After an epistolary presentation in the church, theGoodBook continueswith the signs and symbols that represent theMajesty of God via a series of theophanies as a reminder of theOldTestament, such as theBurningBush,Mount Sinai, theCall of Isaiah andEzekiel’s Vision in the river Chebar. It then carries onwith the presentationof the humble and powerful Lamb (Christ) as the only being that knows thedivine JohnMartin. El grandíade su ira/ TheGreat Day of HisWrath , 1851-1853. TateBritain, London. El pintor romántico inglés era un apasionado y devotoCristianoquedurante sus últimos cuatro años de vida experimentógran fascinaciónpor la representaciónde temas bíblicos/ TheEnglish romanticpainter was apassionate anddevotedChristian that, during the last four years of his life, developed a fascinationwithpaintingbiblical subjects. WilliamBlake El grandragón rojo y la bestiadel mar Thebig reddragon and the sea-beast , 1810 GaleríaNacional deArte,Washington. 115