The problem with Christianity today is the way it’s being taught. Growing up in the south, in the land of Baptists, Methodists and Catholics, you were taught their version of right and wrong. More than that, society as a whole was expected to act a certain way. In Texas even today they have what they call Blue laws. Legislation designed to honor what the church believes. One of these laws forbids sales of automobiles on Sundays. Another forbids the sale of alcohol before noon on what they believe is the Lord’s day. Talk about a blue Sunday.

“Don’t drink, don’t dance and don’t chew. And don’t date girls that do.” This was and still is a common phrase thrown around today. Back in my college days I played basketball for a little private Free Will Baptist College in Oklahoma. Their brand of Christian slavery involved forced attendance at the church of your choice where someone from that church had to sign a paper that said you attended that Sunday. They were strictly against going to the movies and they didn’t mind telling you about it. And this was in the 90s.

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Revelation isn’t so complicated if you know history. Respected theologians have been creating non-sense from what they read in this book for centuries. History has always validated the bible but clearly Revelation isn’t something they teach when pastors get their degrees. Unfortunately, people will run with whatever they hear. I have been studying this book, and the entire end times topic for years. One topic. More years in fact, than it takes for a pastor to get a degree. It is my hope that you will consider this view point when you decide for yourself what you think the truth is.

Before you can understand my comments on this book, you need to start with the posts on Josephus. You can read both his actual writings and my notes about them. The  notes are shorter and in better English. Read those first and then come back.

Book of Revelation Explained – This is the final act from a very long story of the Jews that began with Adam and Eve and then Abraham. A story that repeatedly had God making conditional promises to the Jews, only to see them not be able to live up to their end of the agreement, then suffer because of it. Each time, God withdrew his protection and the Jews were killed and enslaved. Revelation is part of that cycle.  This book is the promised punishment described in the last book of the Old Testament, Malachi written 400 years BC:

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