Far-fetched Revelation?

But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. Matthew 24:37-39

Is the Revelation given by Jesus to John so far-fetched and far out there as we might think at first? Looking into the teaching given by our Lord in Matthew 24, we tend to go look in the Revelation after that. And, yes in some chapters it is quite far out there, fantastic, and strange. But in other cases not so much. The four horsemen in Chapter 6 are quite similar in prophecy to Jeremiah 15, and false prophets are common in the preceding chapter too. The martyrs revealed by the fifth seal are foretold by Jesus in Matthew 24. The first two woes on the other hand are quite unique to the Revelation with detailed descriptions of demon armies causing pain and death. The time of the Apocalypse though? Much like we see today, as we can read in our scripture passage. It also fits any of several hundreds of years before us, so maybe it will be today and maybe not.

We have but to keep watch and look up, for our redemption draws near!

Bucky