Those who interpret Revelations usually fall in to one of four groups:

• Idealistic Approach
• Idealists strip away the predictive value of the book and believe that the book is the timeless tale of good versus evil with good being triumphant. They do not believe it represents actual events.
• Historical Approach
• Historicists believe that Revelations describes and is fulfilled in the history of the church. Please go th "View points of the Seven Churches" page.
• The messenger is Paul, the Church Age is 53-170, and Revelation describes this age in the Letter to Ephesus.
• The messenger is Irenaeus, the Church Age is 170-312, and Revelation describes this age in the Letter to Smyrna.
• The messenger is Martin, the Church Age is 312-606, and Revelation describes this age in the Letter to Pergamos.
• The messenge is Columba, the Church Age is 606-1520, and Revelation describes this age in the Letter to Thyatira.
• The messenger is Martin Luther, the Church Age is 1520-1750, and Revelation describes this age in the Letter to Sardis.
• The messenger is John Wesley, the Church Age is 1750-1906, and Revelation describes this age in the Letter to Philadelphia.
• The messenger is William Branham, the Church Age is 1908-????, and Revelation describes this age in the Letter to Laodicea.
• Futuristic Approach
• Futurists believe the book relates end times. That it describes great tribulation which will be followed by Christ’s reign, the advent of God’s kingdom, the Last Judgment, and an eternal state. Futurists usually believe in one of the followin
•  Post-Tribulation in which the church remains on earth during the tribulation
•  Pre-Tribulation in which Christians are raptured before the tribulation.
•  Mid-Tribulation in which Christians are raptured in the middle of the tribulation.
• Preterists believe that the events have already taken place because the time period was the first century. (This interpretation seems to be incorrect because Jesus did not come back when Rome fell).

It is our belief that the events that are discribed in Revelation are future events and the reasons for this interpretation are explained as we progress with the study.