Why is the book of Revelation so weird?

Because we are living in the end times

This post is woke as fuck, bow to the lion, join the winning side.

>>2467637

because it's an undistinguished apocalypse (a common genre) written by a literal nobody, that got accidentally elevated into the biblical canon because the early church thought john of patmos and john the evangelist were the same john

by the time they realized their mistake it was too late

>>2467651
>apocalypse
Did people in antiquity read apocalypses like people today read thrillers? What are some distinguished ones?

>>2467637
Cuz when Johnny boy was shipwrecked on the island the only thing to eat was wild mushrooms.

you can guess the rest.

>>2467637
Are you really interested? Here are some videos you can watch that deconstruct Revelation and what it means

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nvVVcYD-0w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aBrXam36JE

Don't fall into the trap of trying to decipher it like a prophecy, it was written to convey a specific message, like all the other books of the New Testament, your ob is to understand the message, not unravel a mysterious code that tells you when the world is going to end.

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>>2467651
>tfw your fanfic becomes cannon lore

>>2467661

Apocalypse literally means "revelation", ie any prophetic text, hence how we get "Revelation" from the literal "Apocalypse of John". It doesn't necessarily have the catastrophic connotations that the word does now

Daniel is the most authentic apocalypse in the canon and there are literally dozens of others ones that didn't make it into the bible, including apocryphal apocalypses of Peter and Paul

>>2467637
It's basically about Jesus coming down and destroying the Roman Empire, they had to write it in code to not piss them off.

>>2467637
It was written by a hermit on shrooms.

>>2467651
Seems like a reasonable theory. Revelation doesn't mesh with the rest of the New Testament at all, the idea that the people who defined the canon mistakenly thought it was the actual John who wrote might be the only way to justify why this psychedelic book managed to make it in

Just more evidence the Bible is a clusterfuck composed by clueless idiots and that stuff like the Dead sea scrolls and the Gnostic gospels is just as valid