It doesn't matter what I think. What matters is those people who want to demonstrate Jesus, Lord of War.
You can claim symbolism, spiritual warfare, analogy or whatever nuance you want. But literally, and without nuance, it says what it says. And while you expect me to read Muslim scripture literally and without nuance, it is only right to read Christian scripture the same way.
I don't expect you to read anything. I don't read the Quran, never have. And I certainly would not try to interpret it even if I read it. Most religious books take years of study to understand and even then without good dictionaries of the original language/s used one is still going to mess things up, sometimes.
Yes, it says what it says.
Dreams and visions are rather obscure, good luck with that. Every word is literal but what does it literally mean?
Rev 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men's faces.
Rev 9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
I fail to see how Revelation is relevant to how Christ lived and what He taught the Apostles to teach us about how to live our lives. That is what we are talking about you know. Real life, here and now, people dying by terrorism, here and now. That is what Senator King was talking about.
For me it is rather simple when I compare Jesus/Christianity to Muhammad/Islam.
Jesus' life vs Mohammad's life.
Christ-like vs Mohammad-like.
One does not even have to
interpret any scriptures from the Bible or the Quran.
Maybe the answer is that Muhammad taught his followers, "Do as I say, not as I do." Is that it?