the one person who puts it in is bishop athanasius, and he realized that he could take this imagery of the war of good against evil and turn it against his religious enemies. >> reporter: in that treasure trove of scrolls found in egypt in 1945 there was not just one book of revelation. there were several, altogether different than the book that got in the bible. >> most of them aren't about the end of the world, and they're not about judging the good and the evil. these other revelation texts have a different vision of the human race, that the same people could be both cruel and compassionate, that we are more complex than that. >> reporter: they would not have been as useful for bishop athanasius to consolidate the church. that's why he chose this particular one? >> i think that athanasius did choose this to consolidate the church and talk about you have to be, you know, orthodox to go up into heaven. otherwise you fall into the lake of fire. i mean, this had been terrifying images for thousands of years. >> reporter: those images, the four horsemen of the apocalypse and the whore of