The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle,[1][2] but the precise identity of the author remains a point of academic debate.

[4] This chapter contains the writer's vision of "the Four Angels of the Four Winds", the sealing of the 144,000 and the "Praise of the Great Multitude of the Redeemed".

[11] The noncomformist biblical commentator Matthew Henry suggests that "the blowing of the four winds together means a dreadful and general destruction".

[13] Jamieson, Fausset and Brown relate the holding back of judgment to the plea given to the saints on the opening of the fifth seal in Revelation 6: English clergyman John Keble uses the image in his poem, All Saints Day: Verses 5-8 list the tribes of Israel: 12,000 were sealed from each.

[19] New American Standard Bible This is the only instance in the New Testament of a prayer beginning and ending with "Amen".