Quite true.
However, I'm very convinced that *almost* totally, where at all remotely reasonable,
PROPHECIES RE END TIMES will be rather literally fulfilled.
The one about the abomination that makes desolate--I believe will be a very literal event. The Bible seems to go to some extensive lengths to emphasize literal aspects of a concrete event.
I believe it will be literal too ... I also think there are literal abominations already. The switch of Biblical paradigm to Psuedo-Biblical paradigm (didactic to dialectic) is one blatant one. It is a usurpation of Sacred Scripture for that which is hollow.