He uses lots of symbols to show us what they are and what they mean... How does someone in his line of work do what he does without showing his audience what he is explaining? Use your head. Everything we're doing here is about understanding symbolism...

If it suits you, there's a version of this prophecy that doesn't have Trey's commentary. God always says test what He says. So, test it. Does it match up with where we're at right now? Indeed it does. Can we take info/clues/perspective from it? Yes, definitely. Does God use imperfect people and imperfect situations? Yes. We are way past high and mighty now.

Passed it on because people keep super-dooming, and this info re-focuses us on what's ahead/at hand.