re: Are the Seven Years of Tribulation Almost Up?

At one time I thought all that was going to happen per Revelation etc. But then I learned the reason it was written in the that style was to keep the Romans unawares. at the time it was written, being a Christian was a death penalty. so anyone caught carrying a Christian writing was killed. And I realized the author was writing to Hebrews and not about the future and using a lot of numerology (which the local Hebrews were big in). For example the people he was writing to knew that anytime they saw 666 it referred to the Roman emperor, not the Antichrist as most believe. And the three stories were much like Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in that they actually told the same story from three different viewpoints - progressive parallelism. Anyways, with this different perspective it really brought the book of Revelation into the bible for me personally. It was always there, just difficult to read.