Is Revelations the goofiest book of the Bible?
Yes, it is pretty odd.. However, you have to remember that it was written in the time period when death and horror was an everyday, second-nature, common thing. It was written before A.D. 200. There are many sybolisms used, that’s what makes it pretty odd to us modern people. The passages cannot be taken literal. The New American Bible Saint Joseph Edition says in the book’s intro: “The Apocalypse, or Revelation to John, the last book of the Bible, is one of the most difficult to understand because it abounds in unfamiliar and extravagant symbolism, which at best appears unusual to the modern reader. Symbolic language, however, is one of the chief characteristics of apocalyptic literature, of which this book is an outstanding example… …One would find it difficult and repulsive to visualize a lamb with seven horns and seven eyes; yet Jesus Christ is described in precisely such words. The author used these images to suggest Christ’s universal (seven) power (horns) and knowledge (eyes
