Revelation spends chapters on cascading cycles of judgment - three separate seven-part sequences - that deliberately echo the flood, the plagues on Egypt, and the exile to Babylon: moments when human violence grows so total that God essentially hands the world over to the self-destruction it has chosen, a kind of reversal of Genesis 1 back into darkness and disorder. "A new heaven and a new earth" is the other side of that pattern, not a break from it. Genesis 1 begins with God overcoming chaos with light and ordered life; Revelation ends the same way, except this time creation isn't just restored to its starting point - heaven and earth are permanently reunited, and God's people finally take up the rule over creation they were given in Genesis 1 and never fully lived into. What reads as the end of the world is, on the book's own terms, the actual beginning of the world it was always heading toward.