There are four books in the Bible that you better be right about now or you will be wrong for all eternity.
- Genesis: How it all began (divine creation, not evolution)
- John: Who Jesus Christ is (the Son of God) and what He came to do (die for our sins)
- Romans: How salvation is offered (by grace through faith in the finished work of Christ)
- Revelation; How it all ends.
Because the Book of Revelation is heavy with symbolism, many Christians seem content to leave it to the self-appointed experts, believing they could never understand it.
Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand.
This book extols and exalts the greatness and grace and government and glory of Jesus Christ.
Those who claim that Revelation is all symbolic and beyond our understanding, are wrong. This book is to be taken literally. When a symbol is used, it will be so stated. John uses symbols to describe reality.
Ask God to reveal Revelation as you read it and be blessed.