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I agree. Anything other than a straightforward interpretation of these issues requires all manner of tortured logic and illogic. OTOH, the straightforward interpretation meshes easily, beautifully, and perfectly on SO many fronts. Take a look at Daniel 12:4...

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Could anything possibly sound any more like our present time and the past century? Within less than a hundred years we went from horse-and-buggy to putting a man on the moon. How about the Internet, and the staggering body of knowledge it represents? As little as fifty years ago, today's state of technology would not have seemed remotely possible. The expansion of knowledge is unlike anything in history, as is the frantic pace of modern life.