[Dr. Thorne]

Revelation contains Christ's appearing to John, His Letters to the seven churches and John's vision of Heaven. These things happened while John lived. The prophetic occurances that John saw (The Beast, the trumpets, the bowls, etc.) are in the future, not in 70 A.D.

I have no regard for Catholic teaching as IMO Catholicism is heretical and denies Christ as the only source of salvation, deifying humans and teaching us to pray to them. But, trusting your salvation to a priest instead of accepting your responsibility to work out your salvation with fear and trembling sure is easy.

[RobbyS]

The Catholic Church teaches no such.