[what's up]

Agreed. I can't stand it when modern-day christians believe everything in Revelation is written for them. The communion of saints stretches back throughout the centuries.

When read with the intended 1st century readers in mind, and understanding the intended symbolism, Revelation is a wonderful book.

[My2Cents]

I read, and have studied Revelation as a record of things to come, and I consider it a wonderful book too! You should try that perspective. You might find yourself blessed.

[P-Marlowe]

Revelation describes itself as a book of PROPHECY. Not a book of history. The letters to the seven churches were written to the first century churches, but the rest of the book describes the events preceeding his glorious appearing.

Now exactly when in the first Century was it that Jesus visibly returned to earth so that every eye saw him. Edward Gibbon apparently left that minor event out of his history of the Roman Empire.