I've been fascinated by Revelation since I was a kid.
When I grew up in the '70s, Hal Lindsey's "The Late Great Planet Earth" was a bestseller and when I read it I was filled with fear that I wasn't going to be Raptured and would live during the Tribulation.
Ironic, really, since I believe what you say about Revelation is true: it's supposed to be a hopeful (albeit trippy) testament of how God will ultimately prevail.
I still enjoy watching televangelists like Jack Van Impe hype gloom and doom and fear on their shows (mainly to hawk End Times videos...one of Van Impe's videos actually claimed that UFO were satanic "spirits of the air"
. There was one local End Times show back in '99 that was really hyping Y2K and how it was going to lead to the collapse of civilization...then they'd cut to one of their commercials selling dried food supplies that you could store in the basement or underground bunker.
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