-- Excellent use of The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" format to provide comprehensive information on a complex and daunting topic.

-- Provides a variety of views answering readers' questions about other scenarios -- often questions raised by popular books like the Left Behind books or Tim LaHaye's writings.

-- Jim Bell is the co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to The Bible and has a proven track record with this series -- and in approaching complex topics for the religious audience.

Authors Bell and Campbell take readers through the symbols and explain events of the time when the Book of Revelation was written and their possible meanings. What was happening in Rome at the time? What have scholars had to say over the centuries? Is it metaphor or will it happen exactly the way it's written? The authors explore multiple schools of study and interpretation such as the Premillennial view, Dispensationalism, the Amillennial view, Postmillennial, Historical, and Liberal views.