Pre-Introduction

OK. OK. OK. My memory isn't perfect and the joke goes further back than I remembered, but I'm going to completely forget that and hope those reading this, that would know better, will suspend disbelief until they forget. I'm also hoping that my mortgage company will trickle down a special deal for me so I get a piece of the pie and the Feds will forget.

I also recommend using several Bibles if indeed you're going to study Revelation; one that provides translation notes (NET is good), and another that you like.

A couple of other quick notes.

For some intro to the visual cues John uses it may be useful to read:

OT
Isaiah 62–66
Malachi 4
Daniel 12

NT
Matt 24–25
Acts 1:6-8

And if you're ready to dip your feet, try some non-canonical books like Enoch or Epistle of Barnabas, for examples. I wasn't going to go into the Quantum Physics yet, as I think people would liken me daft for jumping right into the possible extra-and-multi-dimensionalism of God just yet. It's not all blasphemous, I promise.