Yeah, the lack of a consistent interpretive hermeneutic for biblical texts is a big cause of this kind of confusion. Incidentally, there is a lot of scholarly

Yeah, the lack of a consistent interpretive hermeneutic for biblical texts is a big cause of this kind of confusion. Incidentally, there is a lot of scholarly support for the hypothesis that, in context, the forward-looking statements in the book of Revelation (and other New Testament texts) are largely or completely about first-century events (see topics such as preterism, covenant eschatology, full preterism, etc.). Understanding documents that were written thousands of years ago, in a cultural and linguistic milieu far different than that of western civilization, is difficult for modern westerners. People ought to study more before jumping to outlandish conclusions about the meaning of such texts.