Ok... big question. I am taking a Faith and Franciscanism class at a University and the class is based upon the Catholic Religion. My professor was discussing with us the process scholars use to study the bible and I felt that I strongly disagreed with a few things that he had said (and I am actually Catholic). He said that scholars actually do not believe that Revelations is actually a prediciton of the future but that (very sorry if this part is confusing, as I didn't quite understand what he was saying myself) Revelations is a sort of look at what happened then, when Jesus died on the cross and so forth and is not a prophecy of the end of times in the future. This completely contradicts what I have believed and completely took me off guard (I always felt that it was a message of what is to come). I'm still very agitated and I'm hoping that someone will please clear this up for me. Excuse me for being ignorant about any facts here, I'm simply stating how I interpreted what he said. Thanks and God Bless.