198 JOURNAL OF THE EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY form of argumentation more than the substance, but this approach can give the impression that the body of evidence has been infused with the conclusions. Urga pulls together illuminating background that must be considered by in- terpreters of Hebrews and of other NT texts, in isolating and explaining some key questions for debate, and in clearly setting forth his own exegetical conclusions, as such and in relation to other prominent views. Intercession of Jesus in Hebrews is a wor- thy contribution to the WUNT II series and to the field of Hebrews scholarship. Jon C. Laansma Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL Foretaste of the Future: Reading Revelation in Light of God’s Mission. By Dean Flemming. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2022, 245 pp., $28.00, paper. Dean Flemming, professor of NT and missions at MidAmerica Nazarene University, provides a missional reading of the book of Revelation. A missional reading seeks to answer these three questions: “First, what is God doing in the world, and how does Revelation bear witness to that sweeping mission? Second, how does Revelation invite and equip God’s people to get caught up in what God is doing? And third, how might that understanding of God’s mission and our par- ticipation in it speak to the church’s diverse, global settings today?” (pp. 9–10). Flemming does not discuss Revelation chapter-by-chapter but rather thematically explores various topics. He remarks that he uses the NRSV unless otherwise noted, but this is not always the case (p. 102), and it is not obvious what translation is be- ing used at some points. Reflection questions are provided for each chapter to facil- itate personal reflection and group conversations. Chapter 1 covers introductory matters such as genre, persuasive goals, and historical context. Flemming stresses the symbolic nature of the book and its focus on shaping faithful and missional communities. Chapter 2 focuses on God and his mission with attention to God’s role in creation, his sovereignty, his holiness, and his universal mission. Flemming’s description of God’s love (pp. 52–53) is not wrong within a canonical context, but it must be inferred from Christological mate- rial in Revelation since it is not an explicit feature of how Revelation presents God. Chapter 3 discusses the slaughtered Lamb as the interpretive key to God’s mission in Revelation (p. 58). The Lamb’s death is sacrificial, liberating, universal, and missional (p. 59). Flemming very helpfully outlines the way that Revelation crafts a shared identity between God and Jesus (p. 61). He takes the position that the blood on the rider’s robe (19:13) is the Lamb’s own blood. This conclusion is possible, but far from certain. Chapter 4 focuses on God’s people in the seven cities and in the visions where they are described as priests, rulers, sealed, redeemed, uncountable, multina- tional, holy, and blameless. Flemming takes the vision of the 144,000 and the two witnesses as symbolic descriptions of God’s people. He also critiques popular dis- pensationalist readings of Revelation that hold to a rapture of God’s people from the earth as an escapist eschatology that “breaks contact with the mission of God”