The worse mistake you can make is read a nice complex idea yesterday, make up your mind yesterday and try to apply that today. Times change and things change while big complex philosophies are so cumbersome that they do not change. I have decided to just ride the boat and see where it is going. One thing is certain, either I will die, or I will get there.
There is a blessing to reading Revelations, the book says so. So to decide to not read it is not wise. Obviously there is something to gain there. (the blessing thing is a big hint for the too dense to figure that out on their own).
Just for a mind game let me poke holes in one of your red herrings that you posted. You seem to like herring, but to me it is rather fishy...
In Vietnam we taught the Chinese that the human wave attack was not profitable against teenagers with machine guns. One of them told me about him and his partners praying that they all did not empty their clips at the same time or they would be over run. He also described walls of human bodies that halted the attack, because the attackers knew to climb over the bodies would slow them down too much.
So now jump 30 years later, dress the attackers in Kevlar and their horses. They do not need fuel supply lines as the horses eat grass, so instead of marching in columns, spread out and meet in a preordained place, like the valley of Megiddo. Now arm them with spears, remove all metal objects, no electronics, no nothing. Pit against them an F16 flying over at 350 miles an hour. Try to spot them on your Avionics package. They are very dispersed, they only have a muffled heat signature due to the Kevlar. They have nothing to detect. The Avionics package will filter them out as they are ground clutter, to the computer it is just another deer. You can not shoot them if the avionics does not identify them. You can not see them, and your buddy sitting in a foxhole can not stop them. Try stopping a kevlar covered horse with a souped up 22. Not gonna work, even in full auto. They are the 21st century human wave, and come at 40 miles an hour not 4. As they gallop by, you are shish kabob. Did you know spears and knives penetrate Kevlar but bullets don't? They are a special purpose tool, a anti-electronics warfare, trench line breaker, and great scout force. How many miles can you travel with one jeep cross country without support vs how many miles can you travel on a horse?
So, never make up your mind, for the enemy will use that to defeat you. Russia still has mounted cavalry to this day, and they are the best chess players in the world...
Quite an elitist statement. You assume that those who haven't drawn your conclusions about the book, haven't read it, or if they have, don't have the "proper" perception of its meaning --- yours, or one of the KOOK gurus in the religion racket like one finds on TBN.