Jeanne Guyon's Apocalyptic Universe: Her Biblical Commentary on Revelation with Reflections on the Interior Life

In seventeenth-century France Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717) writes about the suffering of the apocalypse followed by the consummation of the second coming. Guyon believed that in our earthly pilgrimage we may find the way to union with our Savior Jesus Christ. To read her commentary on Revelation--translated into English here for the first time--is to be caught up in her conversation with the living Lord. We experience the wonder and passion of this conversation which is her authenticity at its highest level. As Guyon expresses her love to Jesus Christ the words carry the attentive reader into the heart of God while deepening our own interior being. In her commentary on Revelation Guyon interprets Jesus Christs grace needed for living faithfully during the time of suffering in the apocalypse before the advent of the new heaven and new earth in which believers experience eternal union with God. Guyon writes It is your universal reign that I desire O God and about which I am passionate. . . . So come Lord Jesus! Let the grace of the Lord Jesus prepare us all for the second coming. Amen.