Revelation is notoriously difficult for modern readers to understand, which is partly due to a persistent desire to interpret the text as predictive of current events in our own day—no matter how many times this is shown to be misguided. Such approaches to Revelation have only increased in recent years, taking on new fixations ever since the pandemic, the past few election cycles, and the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Palestine. In this short class we will discuss, in a flipped classroom format, what Revelation was all about in its original first-century context, where it possesses its own political message and words of comfort for Christians living in a precarious time, which both challenge our assumptions and provide clarity about the sorts of ways in which Revelation is relevant for us today.