Nirvana,

I did not think you were the Revelation of John kind of guy. Afterall, the Book starts by addressing a rather limited 7 Churches of Asia Minor, of which John was functioning as Bishop. This indicates that the Book was not to have Universal but only local significance. He was writing for what we would now recognize as the land mass of modern Turkey. Then we can examine the subsequent History of this area and find that the Roman Campaigns of 70 to 72 A.D and then those a generation later were sufficient to destory the Messianic Churches in the Area. Indeed, today we have no Messianic Churchs. The Success of the Churches of Paul testify to the elimination of the Actual Messianic Churches of Christ and His True Apostles. This was the End which John was speaking about. It came. It went. The Book of Revelation is a closed document. He had been right about these events soon coming to pass. And you, Nirvana, should be smart enough to have figured all of this out. I thought protestants were the only 'Faithfuls' able to successfully suspend the functions of their higher thinking sufficiently to go much into detail about Revelation without it occurring to them that they are wasting their time rather elaborately.

There is one useful verse in Revelation. Rev 2:2 or 2:3 in which John congratulates the Church of Ephesus for having rejected some certain False Apostle. We can compare this to Paul's statement in his Letter to Timothy in which he complains of having been thrown out of Ephesus. This gives us direct evidence that Paul was considered by the True Messianic Apostles as being a Pretender, a False and Self Proclaimed Apostle. It clearly separates the Gentile Churches of Paul away from what must have been the Only True Churches of Christ. And regarding these Only True Churches, the Judgement came and while many in the area fell under the Curse of Christ's Judgment, those of the True Messianic Churches received their Reward and were lifted up. But in either case, that was the end of it.

The next 2000 years would have nothing to do with that Finished Dispensation. The Book of Revelation chronicles the End to the Abrahamic Dispensation. The Promise to the Jews is resolved, not very favorably it seems since the Contract had been broken with the Messiah having been rejected. But the Messiah comes with Judgment and so ends that entire Dispensation. Book closed.

But what followed? We now live in the Age of Mary. Over the last 2000 years the great bulk of Religious Revelation has centered around Visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and in the other Higher Religions there has been a preponderance of Goddess Visions or Visions of Great Female Oracles, which are in substance Marian.