You can understand Revelation just like the 1st century Christians did: not as a gloomy end-times guide but as a hopeful spiritual-war manual on how to overcome in crazy times.
People get confused by Revelation when they rush past the 33 interpretive keys in the first chapter to the "interesting" parts. Drawing from the best of every school of interpretation, Dr. Kayser starts this series with a 14-sermon crash course on biblical interpretation through Revelation 1, laying out every key so you can understand the book as John's original audience did — not as an end-times guide, but as a hope-filled practical manual on spiritual warfare, worship, prayer, perseverance in trial, resistance to tyranny, God's preservation of the church, and Jesus' victory over all His enemies.