Is it just my perspective or are there a lot of people that expend a lot of time and energy on end time prophecy and is it worth putting any time and energy into such seemingly nonproductive endeavor?
Isa 41:21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
Isa 41:22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
Isa 41:23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
Isa 41:26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
Isa 41:28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
God said He identifies Himself as the one true God by showing us the end from the beginning and said that no other person or religion can do that.
Which God showed us the whole history of mankind on earth all the kingdoms on earth starting with Egypt to the 7th kingdom the 10 horn kingdom which is the world split in to 10 sections with a leader in each section which will continue for a short space which is three and one half years and the 8th king is the New Age Christ, antichrist, who will rule for three and one half years.
The 7th king is the next kingdom to come which the nations will come together as one to try to work for peace on earth.
1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1Ti 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1Ti 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1Ti 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1Ti 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
God warns the saints of the new age movement that interprets the Bible according to the occult and evolution, and people are still evolving to be spiritual and godlike, and Jesus is not Lord and Savior but a good teacher and love and evolved to be a an ascended master, and do not acknowledge a personal God but honor the God of forces or the power of nature as their higher power the evolutionary process, and the New Age Christ is the final teacher.
2Ti 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
When the New Age Christ starts working in the world he will be considered a great man of peace and the biggest player on the world scene and he will push the agenda of the new age movement until the world rebels against God and then He will end sin on earth.
When the New Age Christ is working in the world it will be the time the world will not want to hear the truth of the Bible but want to hear it according to the new age movement which all religions are interpreted by the new age movement and nothing can be preached contrary to the new age movement.
The book of Revelation is a warning to the world to get right with God to escape these things that shall come upon the earth and be with God.
Prophesy is a way to show that the God of Israel is the true God because He showed us what shall happen before it happened.
It is because of the new age movement that the world rebels against God and evolving to be spiritual and godlike and there is no personal God is the arrogance and self exaltation of them which they will say I am and there is no one else beside me.
So to understand prophesy is easy for it is the new age movement for it is the reason the world rebels against God causing what happens in Revelation.
A person does not have to understand in detail every thing that shall happen in order until the world rebels against God but just know not to follow them for there is a personal God and Jesus is Lord and Savior.
God will not give up on the world until the world gives up on Him so He is giving the world 7 years to have their way and go against the truth and then He will end sin on earth.
The 10 horn kingdom will rule for the first three and one half years but they will fail at providing peace on earth, and then the world accepts the New Age Christ as the solution to have peace on earth and when they follow the New Age Christ and take his mark then repentance and salvation are no longer available to them and God will end sin on earth.
During the 7 years period the world took away the hope of the world for they stopped the preaching of the Gospel and the truth of the Bible on a world wide level all nations governments supporting it.
The new age movement and the world will think they are prospering and winning against their enemies and that their kingdom shall prosper and flourish but they do not understand that God is allowing them to have their way for 7 years and go against the truth so He can end sin on earth.