Beloved Reader:—The following work, an exposition of the twentieth chapter of the Revelation to the Apostle John, was written by Peter Jan Twisk, a minister of the Baptizo-minded Church, who lived about the year A. D. 1600. It was written in the Holland or Dutch language, and later by a lover of the truth translated into German, and inasmuch as in our time the views concerning the Jewish kingdom are understood so differently, I have been prompted to interest myself in the matter, and believe that I am rendering an acceptable service to all who are seeking after the unadulterated truth, by re-publishing this work in the German language. May the kind reader prove all things with the word of God, retain that which is good, and give God the glory.

The first German edition that we have any knowledge of was published by Ulrich & Schultze, Odessa, Russia, in 1875.