There are 4 views of Revelation at the highest level. Preterist- it already happened; Historicist- It is church history. A-millennial or Idealist -it is all symbolic;

Finally literal futurist- pre/post-millennials;

Then one can further sub-divide into pre/post/mid/no-rapture.

I personally was pre-trib rapture but now following what the early Christians believed after a deep study of scripture.

The early Christians searched for signs of His return during an exceptionally evil, end times generation. A Fig tree generation. As in the Days of Noah, the people were corrupted and violent.

Keep the oil in your lamps full and be ready at all times, my friends.

Read a book called The Days of Vengeance by David Chilton. The notes in that book will lead you to other good books as well. The Scofield Futurists (backed by the Rothschilds of course) have done a very good job confusing what the Book of Revelation is about. It was written to the First Century Church, that was being severely persecuted, to explain the Good News and hope that the New Covenant had completely replaced the Old Covenant and this fact would be dramatically established with the incredible destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD. The Holy Spirit, through John, used the same imagery He always uses when describing the destruction of an empire. The early Christians (who knew the Old Testament very well) were very familiar with this imagery and knew exactly what to expect.

The main goal for the financial backing of Scofield/Darby and the Futurist movement in the late 17th, early 18th Century's was to laden the Church with a defeatist mindset. Dispensationalism teaches that one world government is predicted in the Bible and there's nothing the Church can do to stop it...of course ignoring the fact that whenever this has been tried, God takes very disliking to this goal of satan and puts and end to it promptly (i.e.-Tower of Babel). They also teach the false doctrine of the Rapture. Both of these doctrines are false and designed to create inaction and a sense of apathy in the Church. It has succeeded in spades and is the primary reason we are in the mess we are in.

The good news however is that there will never be a New World Order and Christianity will continue to flourish and eventually the wonderful Gospel of Jesus Christ will win over the entire planet. This Dominion Theology (which was the main teaching on this topic before the Rothschilds threw a wrench in the gears) is why America exists and why (as the Church wakes back up) Christianity will revive and ultimately the "Gates of Hell will not prevail against her!"