[OBW]

I happened to read some of the beginnings of this thread and they were quite interesting. According to the first post, Israel was prophecied (by the Arab world) to be blotted from the earth (my words, not theirs) by 2022.

And here we are in 2024.

What are the prophecies of the end times? I seem to recall that there was something about events that would indicate the end within that generation.

Yet the event keeps getting restated. First, it was the (re)creation of Israel as a nation. Then it was this war or that war.

Question. What was the relevance of Revelation for the past 2,000 years if it is really only about the end times? (Ignoring the first 3 chapters.) Are we looking for the wrong thing(s) in it? Is there current value if it turns out that the end still hasn't happened by 2095? If so, how do we read it apart from dispensational rapture theology?