Revelation is entirely symbolic, individual, and internal . It describes no literal events, no mass events, no external events. It is entirely about the consciousness changes we make as we Remember the God and Home we never left. The dragon, serpent, Devil and Satan merely symbolize the ego. The earthquakes and other disasters merely symbolize the ego's feelings as we systematically shed it on our way home.
Revelation is a master treatise on human psychology.
It describes the nature and tactics of the various forms of the ego, along with tools and processes for releasing them. Revelation 12 briefly reviews the psychology of the entire Journey, from The Fall to the Ascension. Revelation also focuses on releasing materialism and carnality , the ego's attachments to things and bodies. Three of the seven Stages focus directly on materialism and carnality, but all of the Stages deal with them to some extent. Revelation's simple message has been clouded by time, symbols, and misunderstanding of the Aramaic idioms.