written from the perspective of God. "I Will Always Be True" has a "jangly pop/rock style", while "Give Love" has influence from the folk music genre. "Ready" has a distinct energetic sound closer to past ballads made by Third Day, and "Take It All" is an adult contemporary song combining electric and acoustic guitar work with lyrics emphasizing spiritual surrender. Packaging The liner notes for Revelation state that the album art is "an artistic interpretation" of Salvation Mountain, a monument created by Leonard Knight as "a public art project designed to send the message that 'God Loves Everyone'". Located in Calipatria, California, the location is entered in the Congressional Record as a 'national treasure'. The album cover is of Salvation Mountain with the song titles of Revelation composed on it, "to send [Third Day's] own message of God's love to the world". According to bassist Tai Anderson, the idea to use Salvation Mountain as the album cover art was lead vocalist Mac Powell's idea. Anderson recalled that Third Day received critiques about the album art, with people claiming it ripped off the cover art of Radiohead's album Hail to the Thief (2003). Although he admits there "are similarities" between the two, Anderson denied that the band based the design off of "outside sources". Anderson also said he was more concerned with the album art's coloring, as "red-skewed" album covers had been used by bands such as U2 and Green Day. In hindsight, Anderson felt that the band "probably would have used one of the other images from the packaging on the cover just so we wouldn't have to read the one star critiques on iTunes which never reference the music, just the album cover". Reception Reception to Revelation was positive, with some critics regarding the album as one of Third Day's best albums to date. Andree Farias of Allmusic gave the album four out of five stars and commented that "Revelation finds Third Day trying new things, but not to the extent that they sound like a different band". He felt that the change of environment "intimidated [Third Day] for the better", making them not settle for "middle of the road" songs. He described the album's sound as "muscular" and "anthemic ... unquestionably populist, yet the closest Third Day has come to replicating the Southern-fried goodness of Time". He regarded Revelation as "the best album Third Day has released this