Yes it is. If you understand biblical eschatology and look at what was historically happening at that time the book of Revelation was about the impending destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
It was a localized judgment.
God wins. All the world is restored by the power of the gospel and the enemy is defeated by Christ.
The only people that are about to be swept away are the wicked just like in the days of Noah.
If you understood Biblical eschatology, you'd know there's the concept of Type and Antitype.
“In typology the interpreter finds a correspondence in one or more respects between a person, event, or things in the Old Testament and a person, event, or thing closer to or contemporaneous with a New Testament writer. It is this correspondence that determines the meaning in the Old Testament narrative that is stressed by a later writer or speaker. The correspondence is present because God controls history, and this control of God over history is axiomatic with the New Testament writers. It is God who causes earlier individuals, groups, experiences, institutions, etc., to embody characteristics which later he will cause to reappear” (Mickelsen/237).
“We may say that a type is an event, a series of circumstances, or an aspect of the life of an individual or of the nation, which finds a parallel and a deeper realization in the incarnate life of our Lord, in His provision for the needs of men, or in His judgments and future reign. A type thus presents a pattern of the dealings of God with men that is followed in the antitype, when, in the coming of Jesus Christ and the setting up of His kingdom, those dealings of God are repeated, though with a fulfillment and finality that they did not exhibit before” (Foulkes/35).
The destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD is the type for the destruction of the world by fire at the second coming of Christ.
Or are you saying Christ already returned after His ascension into heaven and has already destroyed the world by fire? Last I checked, spiritual Babylon has not been destroyed and is busy attempting an overthrow of the United States and the entire world as we speak.
No, it's not.
Yes it is. If you understand biblical eschatology and look at what was historically happening at that time the book of Revelation was about the impending destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. It was a localized judgment.
God wins. All the world is restored by the power of the gospel and the enemy is defeated by Christ.
The only people that are about to be swept away are the wicked just like in the days of Noah.
If you understood Biblical eschatology, you'd know there's the concept of Type and Antitype.
“In typology the interpreter finds a correspondence in one or more respects between a person, event, or things in the Old Testament and a person, event, or thing closer to or contemporaneous with a New Testament writer. It is this correspondence that determines the meaning in the Old Testament narrative that is stressed by a later writer or speaker. The correspondence is present because God controls history, and this control of God over history is axiomatic with the New Testament writers. It is God who causes earlier individuals, groups, experiences, institutions, etc., to embody characteristics which later he will cause to reappear” (Mickelsen/237).
“We may say that a type is an event, a series of circumstances, or an aspect of the life of an individual or of the nation, which finds a parallel and a deeper realization in the incarnate life of our Lord, in His provision for the needs of men, or in His judgments and future reign. A type thus presents a pattern of the dealings of God with men that is followed in the antitype, when, in the coming of Jesus Christ and the setting up of His kingdom, those dealings of God are repeated, though with a fulfillment and finality that they did not exhibit before” (Foulkes/35).
https://www.samstorms.org/all-articles/post/the-hermeneutics-of-eschatology---part-i/
The destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD is the type for the destruction of the world by fire at the second coming of Christ.
Or are you saying Christ already returned after His ascension into heaven and has already destroyed the world by fire? Last I checked, spiritual Babylon has not been destroyed and is busy attempting an overthrow of the United States and the entire world as we speak.
He returned in judgment and it was a localized judgement.
Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father while He makes all His enemies His footstool.