Do you know where that is? I hardly ever read Revelations. But, I'm thinking I should start reading it....
It is worse than Lisa's autopsy photos.
There's a special blessing promised to those who read the book of Revelations. You should do it.
And read Isaiah, Daniel and Ezekiel while you're at it.
End of Revelation...the battle of Armegeddon in the Valley of Megiddo...it has a history as one of the bloodiest valleys in history even now. Revelation can be a bit confusing -- a great deal of it is symoblism, while much else of it is John trying to describe things that didn't exist yet in his time, so it SOUNDS like symbolism but isn't (for instance, it is evident when he is describing nuclear attacks and even, I'm convinced, tanks and helicopters, but never having seen these things he resorts to saying things like, "I saw something that looked LIKE.... There are several different views of when the rapture will occur. My belief is pre-tribulationism, but it's an in-house debate (I was moderator on a very large Pre-trib board for several years). My recommendation is to buy anything by Hal Lindsey, who is the best known writer on pretribulationism if you'd like to learn more.
Whichever view point is correct...we are very, very close.
There's a book I'm reading now that has a lot of Revelations references in it. This book says that they've had code breakers examining the original Torah. They've run computer grids and found references to the assination of Prime Minister Rabin, World War11, the moon landing, Bill Clinton, Gulf War...etc
Some scientists had thought there might be a code in the Bible but was never able to break it until we had computers