Lyric discussion by likeavirginbangingyourmom 

as Tom is a freemason, I'm sure he's aware of the esoteric meaning of "revelation". It's not about the end of the world as we've come to expect it, but the internal purification process of those who have become "joint heirs with christ" Truly, it is not the infinite other, but the god inside who declares "I AM the living one, I AM the first, (the archetypal man, the word of John 1) and last (the final incarnation that fulfills the souls purpose in the earth school)

My Interpretation