"We are wrong about everything else but we are right about the Gospel." It's a pretty good one liner and I have kind of been using it as the unofficial motto of our church. "We are wrong about everything else but we are right about the Gospel." What I mean to imply by that is that the Gospel is the only thing that matters. The Gospel, quite literally, justifies all of our other mistakes, errors, and failures. So, I don't know how far our little look into Revelation will get but the key that I intend to use is something like this. "I am wrong about eschatology. I am wrong about numerology. I am wrong about symbolism. But I intend to be right about what the Revelation says about Christ." Where it is necessary to try and interpret John's visions to tell my story, I don't intend to seek a coherent system of symbolism, I don't intend to offer any opinion on the chronology of the "End Times", not even in the most general of ways. Instead, I will shamelessly use all of the imagery and mysticism to try and illustrate the Christ of Revelation. If that is how John intended it to be used then it might work out pretty well. If it isn't, "Oh well.