If you consider the limitations of language, it is possible for Revelations to be both literal and figurative at the same time. There were no words to describe modern (or even unknown futuristic things) seen by the author. I would assume they would make their best possible descriptions using the words they had, while also lacking knowledge of what they observed.
Yes, 100%, but John and other authors are very specific about whether something is literal or not. When John says he saw something "like unto" something else, then that was his best guess as to how to describe it, but you can't take that to an extreme and say oh well then John didn't actually mean what he said and it's to be interpreted any way we want.
If you consider the limitations of language, it is possible for Revelations to be both literal and figurative at the same time. There were no words to describe modern (or even unknown futuristic things) seen by the author. I would assume they would make their best possible descriptions using the words they had, while also lacking knowledge of what they observed.
Yes, 100%, but John and other authors are very specific about whether something is literal or not. When John says he saw something "like unto" something else, then that was his best guess as to how to describe it, but you can't take that to an extreme and say oh well then John didn't actually mean what he said and it's to be interpreted any way we want.