JLB my most honest answer at this time is I don't know.
Reba
"And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree fastest her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heavens departed as a scroll when it is rolled together, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of
His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" Revelation 6:13-17
If verses 13 and 14 are taken "literally" then there would be no earth, or rocks to hide in.
Could this scripture refer to "taking refuge" in Christ?
This scripture is also quoting Isa.2 "enter into the Rock....
The seals have been opened, Jesus opened the new covenant and the revelation of Christ for us 2000 years ago!
The little book is the new covenant-the revelation of Jesus Christ......the seals have been opened by the death of the Lamb and the kingdom of God has come!
Imagine believing that the stars of heaven actually fall to the earth, and yet there are still people living and hiding in mountains on the earth?
Some stars are thousands if not millions of times larger than earth......
To read the Revelation "totally literal" is to enter into total biblical confusion.
I like you do not pretend yo understand all of the book of Revelation because it is a "spiritual book" which can only be spiritually discerned.
I think why the futuristic dispensational interpretation of it is so popular is because it's a literal natural understanding, by the letter, and not by the Spirit and it is easily understood by the carnal mind. People like to be able to say "that's it, we have it figured out". Anyone and I mean anyone can understand the revelation from a literal futuristic
perspective....there is no Spirit in that!
It is a spiritual high symbolic book.....the revelation of Jesus Christ, not the revelation of Antichrist, the false prophet and whatever else......it's the revelation of Christ (and Christ is both head and body)!
Blessings Reba!
Blessings