Flashback: listened to Barry Smith in the late ’90s. So the rabbit hole began. Mainly on the book of Revelation.
Every generation thinks it has decoded the last chapter. Most of them have a chart, a villain, and a date that has the good manners to fail.
Read Revelation the way it was written: a letter to churches under pressure, a vision soaked in the Old Testament, a promise that the Lamb wins. If your system needs a newspaper more than Isaiah, it is not a system. It is a hobby.
The book is not there to make you clever about tomorrow. It is there to make you faithful tonight.