Love in The Time of Apocalypse

Ever wonder where the frightful images and crazy numbers in The Book of Revelation came from? They sprang from the fevered imagination of an Englishman named John Nelson Darby, who died in 1882. Taking the faulty calculations of Bishop Usher before him, Darby got the idea that creation had occurred a mere six thousand years before. He divided the time from creation into six (six is the number of mankind) periods, each lasting one thousand years, which he called a dispensation. Creation would last seven (seven being the number of divine perfection) dispensations or millennia. We are in the last one before Jesus returns to establish his kingdom to rule for the final thousand years—bringing the earth to its apocalyptic end. No one asks about alternatives let alone what theologians thought about Revelation before Darby. Here is one view that makes complete sense of every major figure, number and scene. It was supposedly the interpretation and meaning of Revelation in the early Christian Churches of North Africa before the Council of Nicaea labelled it heresy. It's time to take another look at this enigmatic book through the lens of love instead of fear.