This is becoming my favorite book in the bible. its extremely eye-opening and powerful. i think i may do my own personal little translation of the chapters some time, cuz there's an array of insight into the person of God and who we are in Him. since i'm acquainted with and have studied occult, medieval jewish, and kaballistic texts, reading this chapter not only in the Shovelation but also in the Amplified Bible allows me to see the fulfillment of a great deal of things i've taken interest in outside of christ, and piece together various parts, or truths, that i've seen within multiple (religious/spiritual, what have you) writings. for example, when we read Paul's proclamation of how all things were made in Him, through Him, and FOR Him, this truth answers a great deal of jewish texts which all imply that God created the world out of chaos and disorder. now we know, in the Spirit, that God created the world to show the glory of Christ....in us, in it's creation. The world was created for US in Him. And not the previously-held to pattern of thought that implies that the creation is an uncontrollable and evil disaster that needs fixed, that's best to be avoided. it also alludes to the fact that the world-to-come is here already, fulfilled or rather, being lived out, by those who are alive in christ RIGHT NOW. in other words, my conclusion is that those who are connected-to-God in the Lord are the MEANING -- THE DEFINITION -- of creation. we in Christ are the reason that God created the heavens and the earth, the unification of Ein Soph (infinite nothingness) with its finite creation. The unending "Heaven" is here and it's being lived out by us. We live in the "happily-EVER-AFTER." Wow that's a lot to take in... sorry if my writing is all over the place, just woke up from a nap not too long ago.