Much of the Book of Revelation is lost on us because we do not know certain scientific facts regarding the structure of the earth, especially in the land where Israel is located. Can you imagine how all of the green grass is to be burned up and a third of the trees burned in a mighty holocaust? God is to judge the earth by fire. Are you limited to thinking that lightening will do it. How about the brimstone. And what about the hail the size of a talent? Those will be frightful days during the tribulation of Revelation.

When Daniel (Daniel 12:4) tells us that God sealed up His book until the time of the end we understand this to mean that the Book of Daniel was not open to understanding until the end-time. Either God was not willing to grant spiritual discernment until the end-time, or there was not the general knowledge of certain facts which would allow men to comprehend the things said in the Book. It seems clear that the learning of this day in which we live has opened to the possibility for grasping many of the things in the Book of Revelation too.

Men could always accept the language for what it says, but now it is possible to comprehend just how some of the things mentioned can possibly be true. Faith does not restrict God from doing anything He says He will do, but as we learn from the fulfillment of end-time signs just what He was saying, we more readily grasp the significance.

Do you say that you just cannot understand the Book of Revelation? This is understandable. None of us is as clear on it as we desire to be, but we must not assume the defeatist attitude that we cannot learn; and we dare not give up with the statement: "I don't believe God intended for it to be understood."

God would not have given the Bible had He not intended for all of it to be understood But you may have to wait for the time when it will be made plain.