Revelation.

It is really interesting the approach to Revelation that we had in our class.  We approached simply and looked at it for what it was.  I remember my church had a sermon series a couple of years ago, and the way we approached Revelation made it almost impossible to understand, at least in the way I thought about it.  The way we looked at in this class was far simpler.  It is very possible that is because I wasn't paying attention during the sermons, but still.  In church, which is also a different type of learning environment than our classroom. we dug deeper into the symbolistic meaning of things, almost to the point where we were lost in the meaning of things, rather than actually reading the book.  We would read a passage, and then break down what every section of that passage was.  It was almost as if "the" was actually a metaphor for some great prophet in the old testament if you cross reference with three other passages.  The way we approached in class seemed to make more sense, at least to me.  There are some great symbols and references in the book, but to dig to deep means you can't see the whole anymore, which I think a lot of people end up ding, especially with revelation because of the symbols that pervade the majority of the book.  At least that is a problem that I think I see in studies of Revelation.  

-Jacob Millay