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The Book of Revelation is an ambiguous, dc-colonizing text that is normally read in Haiti, so as to re-colonize. The present study rejects the standard colonizing reading and proposes a postcolonial reading in the Haitian context. The proposed reading is intended to help the Christian churches in Haiti articulate a form ofpolitical-rcligious resistance to the pretensions to divinization that modern neo-colonial forces impose on the people. This new reading seeks to empower oppressed Haitians to read the text in a liberative way. This fragile sky has tcrrified you your whole life. Silence terrifies you more than the pounding of a million pieces of steel chopping away at your flesh. Sometimes, you dream of hearing only the beating ofyour own heart, but this has never been the case. You have never been able to escape the pounding of a thousand other hearts that have outlived yours by thousands of years. And over the years when you have needed us, you have always cried "Krik?" and we have answered "Krak!" and it has shown us that you have not forgotten us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]