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I studied the bible for years before I decided to be more of a conglomeration of all religions and what I think. For a while I completely renounced christianity, but I came to realize that it was specific people I was mad at, not the religion at all. I believe at the core, there are truths... but through the eyes of men 2000 years ago we didn't get a clear picture.
We know a lot more now than we did then. I mean, anything that was in the sky that wasn't a bird we would have called a cloud, but if we saw it now we might realize that it was nothing like water vapor masses.
What I'm getting at is that when it comes to the book of revelation, knowing what the original message from the divine represented or was supposed to tell us is like being at the end of a 2000 year old game of telephone. Is it really going to be the end of the world? What if the vision someone interpreted as "all the faithful being called into heaven" was really a large portion of enlightened people reaching their peak of brain activity and rising into a higher plane of energy? Anyone who wasn't dedicated to spiritual awakening would be "left behind" while people they knew simply vanished into the next realm, from which no proof can be provided in the material plane... would they go into mass hysteria and world war resulting in nuking the planet? When you think about "hell reigning on earth" nukes could do it.
That's one tangent, but can we ever really know what they saw? Not from the eyes of history, maybe from the eyes of a visionary, definately in the eyes of the present moment if/when it happens. We'll probably sit back and say "Oh man we were way off! THAT's what they meant was gonna happen" but that's my opinion. It's fun to try to guess what they might have seen... I definately think it couldn't be literal the way it's written, i think there's a depth there that ancient people couldn't have described in their limited knowledge.
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