As a genuine scientist (though not the only nor most intelligent and knowledgeable scientist in every specialized field of science), I have not only discovered the existence of The HOLY BIBLE, but have also NON-closed-mindedly open-mindedly READ it rather thoroughly in various English translations - rather than prejudicially and foolishly ignoring it like hide-their-heads-in-the-sand, mythically-make-believe-and-pretend, dogmatic evolutionists and atheists have done.

Within that Scripture, I have come across a "New-Testament" book called: Revelation which - in the assemblage of the 66 "canonical" books of The HOLY BIBLE - has generally been placed as the last book in most English-translation Bibles.

The book of Revelation is a bizarre and spectacular conglomeration of apocalyptic predictions which can be regarded as a Divinely-inspired vision comprised of what appears to be both literal and symbolic semantical representations, and most readers of the book want and try to apply and compare what is written in Revelation to actual global events nowadays, the past, and to the future.

One might question why the wording of Revelation is such a strange combination of what seems literal terminology at times mixed in with, if not silly or childish, at least quite weird references to animals with diadems and horns acting in kooky physical-occurrence scenarios, causing one to wonder if John the human author was hallucinating or drunk or both.

If we were living during the somewhat-primative-technology time of John, and were seeing a vision of futuristic things we did not really understand and would have a very difficult time explaining, what would we have written instead?

For example, consider the following passage:

Rev 9:10 They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and their power of hurting men for five months lies in their tails.
Rev 9:19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents, with heads, and by means of them they wound.

Was there any better way for Saint John to describe a rather-indescribable-to-him convoy or fleet of advancing army tanks with large-caliber guns in front and missiles in back with armor-piercing nuclear shells?

How would we describe the color green with mere linguistics - or oxygen, or gravity, or radioactivity - if we could not compare them to something else or show their effects on other things?

Indeed, we designate our mechanical cars with animal-type names, such as Ford Mustang and Falcon, Chevy Impala, Dodge Colt, Mercury Cougar and Lynx, and Plymouth Barracuda. Not to mention the Greyhound Bus and the Jaguar.

Some have asserted that "the voice of the people is the voice of God." I could add that "the voice of the President or the voice of the Governor who has to moderate between conservatives and liberals, republicans and democrats, islamic and christians and jews and buddhists - is the voice of God." Yet, I would prefer to do neither - theologically - so as to not insinuate that I was blaspheming against the real and bonafide Almighty Creator God of Heaven....even though His Word the Bible (allegedly conveying His voice and words expressed thereby) was penned by Divinely-inspired human authors who themselves appeared to perhaps be blaspheming:

Ps 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God. I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth!"

Isa 43:13 "I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?"
Isa 45:22 "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Isa 46:9 remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,

Hosea 11:9 I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come to destroy.

Jesus not only claimed to be "the Son of Man" but even part of The Holy Trinity Sacred-Name YHWH (or Trinitarian LORD as we say it in English) who appeared to Moses in the burning bush.

John 4:25 The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when He comes, He will show us all things."
John 4:26 Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He."

John 8:58 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."

John 14:9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

Now, different people have different ideas and applications of what Revelation states. It has been so in the past, and yet assuredly still is. There are even groups of people who basically concur on certain interpretations of the words of the book. Perhaps you the reader of this webpage will agree with my tentative and quickly-alterable ones.

Now, I do not want to be guilty of "rewriting history" nor of re-wording Revelation, because:

Rev 22:18 I warn every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if any one adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,
Rev 22:19 and if any one takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

Such a frightening declaration of Sacred Copyright from the Almighty is to be taken quite seriously, and if any of you readers question my particular translation in my quotations from Revelation or applications thereof, feel free to promptly correct me.

It seems that before every presidential election for United States president, the candidates and candidate selected, then made known to the general public by the network news media, is a "dark horse" who most people did not know anything about, or at least very little about. "Where did that guy come from? I never heard of him before!" is common thought and utterance. That has happened time and time again in both recent and distant history.

Presently, however, there is an unusually-eerie sense of imminence and coincidental applicability like never before relating some of what is described in Revelation, Second Thessalonians chapters 1 and especially 2, Daniel chapters 7-9 plus 11-12, etc......to current well-publicized and much-talked-about worldwide happenings.

As of this writing, the G-20 has replaced the G-8 during a conference in Pittsburgh, Iran's Dillinger-like Holocaust-questions-evading Ahmadinejad, Israel's homogays-tolerating? Netanyahu, and pro-homogay-inclusionary, take-charge and professionally-orating, adored-wonderboy Obama have spoken at the United Nations meeting via real-time satellite television broadcast to every part of the planet.....the United States is trillions of dollars in impossible-to-ever-pay-back debt.....unemployment and corruption is rampant and growing on a scale never before seen.....plus Young SuperNegroid's federal government has taken over the banks, the auto industry, and is in the process of taking over health care.

"So what else is new?" some might scoff:

Jude 1:18 ....."In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions."

Obama has given the credit of alleged "economic recovery" not to The HOLY BIBLE and those saints who point out its sound financial principles for prudent economic recuperation and well-being, but instead to the G-20 conference and his huge-amounts-of-incurred-debt "stimulus" spending, much of is not "transparently" accounted for:

Jer 6:14 They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.
Jer 8:11 They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.

Babyboomers have seen photographic records of, and older people yet living have experienced first-hand, how Adolf Hitler rose to power during the 30s and 40s of the 20th century. His presence and popularity grew over a period of time, and did not occur completely all of a sudden "out of the blue." People watched the slow but decisive progression of him leading his political nazi gang against the communist gang in post-WW1 Germany, being temporarily imprisoned in country-club confinement, ascending to the Reichstag, holding charismatic rallies among the German masses, and then launching his war-machines Blitzkrieg into Czechoslovakia and Poland, France and England and Norway, Russia and Africa, etc.

Indeed, if it had not been for the Jew Albert Einstein and non-racist scientists who Hitler caused to be flee to the safe haven of somewhat-Christian America, the Fuehrer's antisemites would have perfected rocket and nuclear technology, and we would all be wearing red swastikas on our arms while upraising "Sieg Heil!" arms of allegiance to "the anointed one" (as Sean Hannity terms Obama).

One could speculate on comparisons in the Old-Testament book of Daniel as follows:

Daniel 11:3 Then a mighty king [of the Holy Roman Empire?] shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do according to his will.
4 And when he has arisen, his [Roman-Empire?] kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others [Huns? British? Cossacks? etc.] besides these.

15 Then the king of the north [the Czar?] shall come and throw up siegeworks, and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his picked troops, for there shall be no strength to stand.
16 But he who comes against him [Hitler?] shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the glorious land, and all of it shall be in his power.
18 Afterward he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall take many of them; but a commander [FDR? Patton? Truman?] shall put an end to his insolence; indeed he shall turn his insolence back upon him.
19 Then he shall turn his face back toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found [where is Hitler's body?].

20 "Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exactor of tribute through the glory of the kingdom; but within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle [but by democratic election? resignation or impeachment? fatal disease?].

21 In his place shall arise a contemptible person [Barack Hussein Obama?] to whom royal majesty has not been given [what country was Obama born in, and is he thus qualified by the Constitution to be President if he was foreign-born?]; he shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
22 Armies shall be utterly swept away before him and broken, and the prince of the covenant also.
23 And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully; and he shall become strong with a small people [pro-Obama demoncrats with pro-abortion-choice Obama cabinet women and similar-immentality morality-subversive activists?].
24 Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province; and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers' fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time.
31 Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
32 He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant; but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.
33 And those among the people who are wise shall make many understand, though they shall fall by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder, for some days.
34 When they fall, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery;
35 and some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine and to cleanse them and to make them white, until the time of the end, for it is yet for the time appointed.
36 "And the king shall do according to his will; he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is determined shall be done.
37 He shall give no heed to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women; he shall not give heed to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.

Let me suggest a timely interpretation of a portion of Revelation, suggesting what could be and become the ultimate fulfilment of parts of such passages as Revelation chapter 12 through 20:

Rev 12:1 And a great portent appeared in heaven, a [virgin-Mary?] woman clothed with the [power of the conceiving Holy Spirit?] sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve [sons of Jacob Jewish?] stars;
2 she was with [baby Jesus?] child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.

4 His [Satan's?] tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon [Satan?] stood before the [virgin Mary?] woman who was about to bear a [baby Jesus?] child, that he might devour her child [using the baby-murdering decree of jealous Herod?] when she brought him forth;
5 she brought forth a male child [Jesus Christ?], one [One?] who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child [Child?] was caught up to God and to his throne,
6 and the woman [Mary?] fled into the [Joseph-in-a-dream-directed?] wilderness [out of Egypt have I called My Son?], where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days [until the death of Herod and perhaps shortly thereafter?].

Rev 12:9 And the dragon [great Satan?] was thrown down [because and when the Lord died on a cross as the Anointed Universal Atoner and Redeemer and then overcame death by resurrection?], that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world - he was thrown down to the earth [again as when he became the tempting serpent in the Garden of Eden?], and his [demonic?] angels were thrown down with him.

[Eph 6:12 For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.]

Rev 12:14 But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place [in Egypt?] where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
15 The serpent poured water like a river [the Nile River in Egypt and related Egyptians?] out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood.
16 But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon had poured from his mouth.
17 Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring [using the ACLU, PAW, and the AUSCS?], on those [right-wing Christian fundamentalists?] who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.

Rev 13:1 And I saw a [Ahmadinejad] beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads (UN Security Council?], with ten diadems [G-10?] upon its horns and a blasphemous name upon its heads.
2 And the [Holocaust-questions-evading Ahmadinejad?] beast that I saw was like a leopard [Germany and Italy and Africa?], its feet were like a bear's [Russia?], and its mouth was like a lion's [America and England and France and Scandinavia?] mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.
3 One of its heads seemed to have a [nuclear-weapons-plant/operations-decimated?] mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed the beast with wonder.
4 Men worshiped the [Great Satan] dragon, for he had given his authority to the [Ahmadinejad?] beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the [Ahmadinejad?] beast, and who can fight against it?"
5 And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months [a presidential term lasts 4 years, unless overruled by Constitutional Convention with Supreme-Court approval, and Act of Congress, and/or Executive Order of the President?];
6 it opened its mouth to utter [extinction-against-Israel and antisemitic] blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven.
7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and tongue and nation,
8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.
9 If any one has an ear, let him hear:
10 If any one is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if any one slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
11 Then I saw another [Barack Hussein Obama?] beast which rose out of the earth; it had two [United Nations and European Union?] horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.
13 It works great signs, even making [NASA-assisted SDI "nuclear-disarmament"?] fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men;
14 and by the signs which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the [Ahmadinejad] beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived;
15 and it was allowed to give breath [stem-cell and cloning research with humanoid prosthetic robotics, electronic visual and audio sensors, plastic skin, computerized voice-recognition and gigahertz-processor, medical-breakthrough technology?] to the image of the beast so that the [soul-less?] image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. 16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked [tattooed by implanted chip?] on the right hand or the forehead,
17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the [global-economic-recovery and international-monetary-regulation, anti-terrorism-identification?] mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18 This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six [already tattooed on outlaw motocyclist and street gang members?].

Rev 14:1 Then I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand [12,000 Jews out of each tribe of Israel described in Revelation 7:1-8?] who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
3 and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the [Jewish?] hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.
4 It is these [Jews?] who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,
5 and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are spotless.
9 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If any one worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
10 he also shall drink the wine of God's wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and he shall be tormented with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
11 And the smoke of their torment goes up for ever and ever; and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name."
12 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth." "Blessed indeed," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!"

Rev 16:12 The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great river Euphrates [the river that divides Babylon's Iraq and separates the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom spoken of in Daniel chapter 11?], and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the [North Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnam, Cambodian, Pakistani, and other asian?] kings from the east.
13 And I saw, issuing from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the [Ahmadinejad?] beast and from the mouth of the [Barack Hussein Obama?] false prophet, three foul spirits [?] like frogs [?];
14 for they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
15 ("Wow, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked [in mass nudism parades] and be seen exposed!")
16 And they assembled them at the place which is called in Hebrew Armageddon [Megiddo, located in the Middle East?].

Rev 17:6 And I saw the [worldwide-commercial-immodesty/immorality vices-and-religious-heresy-cults?] woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her I marveled greatly.
7 But the angel said to me, "Why marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to perdition; and the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will marvel to behold the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
9 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated;
10 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes he must remain only a little while.
11 As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to perdition.
12 And the ten horns that you saw are ten [G-10?] kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast.
13 These are of one mind and give over their power and authority to the beast;
14 they will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful [rather than being purported "terrorists" and non-inclusive-diversity-cooperating and politically-incorrect/biased "anti-patriotic criminal extremists"?].
15 And he said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the harlot is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
16 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the [commercial-immodesty/immorality-vices-and-religious-heresy-cults?] harlot; they will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire [as Hitler destroyed the increasingly-counterproductive homo nazi-thug brownshirts who helped get him into power and replaced them with the elite black-shirted Gestapo?],
17 for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and giving over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman that you saw is the great city which has dominion over the kings of the earth."

Rev 19:11 Then I saw heaven opened.....

[simultaneous with the Second-Coming Rapture spoken of in:

Second Thessalonians 2:1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling to meet him, we beg you, brethren,
2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter purporting to be from us, to the effect that the [post-42-month-Great-Tribulation?] day of the Lord has come.
3 Let no one deceive you in any way; for that [post-42-month-Great-Tribulation?] day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you this?
6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains it will do so until he [the increasing-being-quenched-by-godless-activists Holy Spirit, dying out previously-wealthier saints of the Lord, etc.?] is out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by his appearing and his coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders,
10 and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
11 Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false,
12 so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.]

.....and behold, a white horse! He [Jesus Christ?] who sat upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
Rev 19:12 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems; and he has a name inscribed which no one knows but himself.
13 He is clad in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. 14 And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, followed him on white horses.
15 From his mouth issues a sharp sword with which to smite the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron; he will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
16 On his robe and on his thigh he has a name inscribed, King of kings and Lord of lords.
17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly in midheaven, "Come, gather for the great supper of God,
18 to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great." 19 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who sits upon the horse and against his army.
20 And the [Ahmadinejad?] beast was captured, and with it the [Barack Hussein Obama?] false prophet who in its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.
21 And the rest were slain by the sword of him who sits upon the horse, the sword that issues from his mouth; and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

Now, it would probably be best if I now insert the Hollywood-movie-credits legally-protective disclaimer:

Any resemblance to any real live person is unintentional and merely a coincidence.

Perhaps, but perhaps not. I realize that things can change, and presently-prominent people can come and go, can appear then disappear into ancient and long-forgotten oblivion.

1Cor 13:9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect....

We wait, watch, and see - in all perceptive frank and forthright honesty.