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From what I have read, the book of revelations isn't written for the Christians at all, except for the letters to the seven churches. After that part, the Church isn't mentioned again. I checked it out. From what I was told by a really zealous Christian guy and his friends, Revelations is like a repeat of the book of Daniel from the jewish Old Testament, and it's written for the Jews, because the Believing Christians are all going to be lifted away into the clouds in a thing called the "Rapture" before the "Tribulation" which, I guess, is like the last seven year period on earth before Christ comes back and all hell is breaking loose.
From what these guys tell me, and they are pretty adamant about it and have the whole scenario figured out- The Jews sign some sort of peace treaty with the Anti-Christ, which is like the Devil, pretending to be a man, or inhabiting the body of a man or something, and then the Anti-Christ brings Peace to the middle east. Now all the Christians are gone-snatched away, so nobody can blow the whistle on this guy. But something happens and ther Jews realise that the Anti-Christ is the Devil, and then something else happens and they realize Christ is their Messiah and then they start preaching and then people start becoming Chiristians again and the Ant-Christ starts murdering them by the millions and then theres some big, giant war in the middle east and Russia and China and all the European and African and western countries get involved and the whole world is on the brink of annihilation, and Christ returns and stops it all and sets up shop and judges everybody and has his Kingdom for a Thousand years.
But they are adamant to the point of faces going red that the world does not end! it gets to the brink, but doesn't end.
So like, Revelations is Daniel and Ezekiel from the Old Testament and it's a Jewish book. Not meant for the Christians at all. That what I am told by the christians I meet that are really into this stuff.
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Thus endeth the lesson.
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