Is it my imagination or is it an accurate understanding of Revelation?

Question

Revelation is a historical document. It was never meant to be religious. Revelation is the minute entries and history of the war between Rome and Jerusalem. The entries are the actual words of testimony from eye witnesses concerning Jesus/Augustus. One chapter of Revelation tells about the cold-blooded murder of all the children of Jerusalem by Roman soldiers. It was a punishment for their parents for not worshipping Augustus. The children were herded outside the walls of Jerusalem. They were forced between thorny grapevines. They coulks not escape. The soldiers used torches to cause their horses to trample the children. Revelation say thier blood ran as high as the horses bridles.
The horses were controlled by mouth bits made with fire, sulpher and iron. It happened on a moonlite night in a grape orchard outside Jerusalem. The event came to be known as "the wrath of gods (Augustus/Jesus anger".
The Christian religion under Jesus is dead. A new Christ is born.

Answer 1

Yes, and No.
The three main schools of eschatlogical interpretation, yours being some version of Preterism, have different origins. Preterism goes back a long way, some beliveing the kingdom was to be immediately set up began to come up with alternate meaning to the original meaning and are tagged by Peter when he mentions those complaining that he delayed his coming. This is the source of the teachings of the church is the kingdom and other such error. In the past 150 years or so Futurism has been born through the writings of Jesuit priests and the gullible locking on to such error. The Catholics of late have been puching Preterism even stronger as well. Ribera, "Rabbi Ben Ezra", Alcazar, and more can be referenced to show the point. www.1335.com.

The third school, Historicism, teaches the Revelation if a series of historical events the last few of which are yet to be fulfilled. Rev. 16 is where we are at. Most believe we are in the sixth vial of prophetic fullfillment, some think the seventh has already started to manifest.

SO, I would say your imagination has gotten the best of you.

Answer 2

I'd say your imagination has the better of you. To assume the Book of Revelations to a an historical treatise on the First Jewish War one has to ignore too much stuff. The author of Revelations may have been inspired by the events of 66 through 73, but he would not be an historian because of all the crazy stuff he inserted between a few facts.

For example, suppose someone wrote this account of the D-Day invasion of Normandy:

"And lo, Eisenhower did command his angels to descend in flying saucers on the demons dwelling on the shore. And there was much blood. And the lieutenant of the demons moved not the great beasts upon the sands for he had no word from the Lord of the Broken Cross. And they beheld that the sun did smite them by day, so they moved only by night. And the Lord of the Broken Cross was wroth with the angels and did send a dragon against heaven. Yea another dragon came from heaven and broke the walls of the demons."

This is lunacy, don't you agree?

There were many people in Roman times writing good history that we can read and understand today. They didn't couch their histories in crazy imagery and symbolism that no one can plainly decipher because they wanted their readers to understand; they didn't want to confuse them or make them assume a religious meaning.

PS
To put it another way, the only way someone can view Revelations as a history of the Jewish War, is to know the history of that war in detail beforehand, so why bother to write the Book of Revelations in the first place?

Answer 3

Nobody knows. NOBODY knows the entire meaning behind Revelation. Please do not pretend that you know the meaning of Revelation. Scholars have tried to interpret Revelation for years, and absolutely no one knows the entire meaning of every word. There is much conjecture, but nobody knows when Jesus is coming again, and how arrogant those who think they know the exact day and hour and time are!

Christian religion is not dead, dear. God will enable us, as redeemed and forgiven children, evermore to rejoice in singing His praises. We pray that He will grant that what we say with our lips, we may believe in our hearts; and what we believe in our hearts, we may practice in our lives. So that by being doers of the Word, and not hearers only, we may received everlasting life.

Take comfort in knowing that God forgives you for your sinful way of insulting those who do not believe what you believe. Get a Life, a Life filled with Hope, Goodness and most of all, Mercy.

Answer 4

It is your imagination. Revelations is not a historical document. It's a prophetic document dealing with the future.