As a story about salvation, "Revelation" is also a story about divine judgment in the form of Mary Grace's attack and delivery of a revelatory message that Mrs. Turpin is "going to hell". The story includes a scene in the protagonist's bedroom where "Occasionally she [Ruby Turpin] raised her fist and made small stabbing motions over her chest as if she were defending her innocence to invisible guests who were like the comforters of Job, reasonable-seeming but wrong." Scholars have identified parallels in plot and themes between the work and the Book of Job since the 1970s, and Jordan Cofer, in particular, concluded Mrs. Turpin starts to "equate herself to Job" after Mary Grace's attack. With respect to plot events, the parallels appear to cover the entire breath of the Book of Job with many of them occurring in the same order they appear in the Bible. However, the actual plot lines are different, since the protagonist has been taught the story of Job earlier in life and, unlike Job, Ruby Turpin is a sinner. Furthermore, "Revelation" is written with both Old and New Testament perspectives, while the Book of Job is an Old Testament story. Within the story, the parallels are also discovered by the protagonist through her memory and imagination that causes her to recall the multiple lessons from the Bible story each at different moments to dramatic and comedic effect.
