Jews and particularly perecuted, subjugated and exodus Jews tended to write in ways that would be understood by other Jews but not by those persecuting them.
In that light all Revelations actually says is:
The seven headed dragon will be rode by the beast, a spawn of the whore of Babylon. Rome was always considered another Babylon by the Jews, ie another source of enslavement. Jews originated in the north of what was then Babylon.
The seven Palatine hills of Rome (the source of all Roman government and the proconsul and Republics places of meeting), would be rode by the Emperor, a spawn of Babylon.
At the time it was written Nero had basically extradited all Jews from Israel.
Hence when it says the beast will be struck down and killed by his own sword but will rise again, it was referring to the actual event of Nero trying to kill himself with his own sword.
When it says We shall meet at Geddon for a final bloody battle, it is referring to the Roman fort of Geddon a stronghold that would need to be taken to resecure Israel. Armageddon is literally the valley where so many Jews fought in history ofr the Kingdom of Israel and is clearly a very reliable way of providing a message, aka the valley of tears incidentally.
When it says, let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast for it is a human number and that number is 666 (actually it wasn't it was 616) that refers precisely to Neros Kaballah, and his number.
When it says I saw the seven keys and the seven locks, it means I saw Rome it's even locked government places and I saw hence the keys to it.
When it says I saw a pale rider on a pale horse, it means prepare for war and prepare for the privations of war. Famine riding death?
All of it is simply a coded message that resistance fighters would get, but the Romans would be bemused by. As for it being anything but that and the rest of the Bible wrapping paper.
1) get a clue
2) stop claiming you are an authority on religion when you clearly know abso fucking lutely nothing about it
3) get over yourself.
why the Nicene councill included it given that basically everyone said it should not be is perhaps the only mystery. Perhaps they were as clueless as Bob is?
I could go on for example the rebuilding of the temple and resumption of animal sacrifice happened already, but it is a very clear way of saying something without actually saying, let's retake the temples too and resume our religious practices after we did when we escaped captivity in Babylon and or Egypt.
Every single passage and phrase basically is saying we shall retake our home, and we shall do it like this.
As it happened it never happened until about 1946 but as it happens even the Jews are pretty reluctant to say they had fulfilled any sort of prophecy in Zionism.
St John the Divine was maybe not the Saint people think, what he in fact was a very clever man, exiled to Patmos, speaking like most terrorists and resistance fighters do, to other cells.
"Are you the the Judean Peoples Front?"
"Fuck off"
"We're the Peoples Front of Judea"
A children's matinee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrDVsprWRCQ
