>>6032968 pb
Well you are partially right. Revelation does belong in the Bible, but one shoudl not try to read it literally. It is the most figurative book in the Bible.
It is like a Rosetta Stone, telling the same story of the cross as is hidden in the rest of the Bible called the 'mystery hidden from the beginning' by Paul. Today we call it the sensus plenior.
It talks about the cross in metaphor and riddle. So yeah, what you read shoudln't be read that way.
The riddle of the 7, 5 who were, one is and one is to come, is solved by the genealogies Genesis of Cain and Seth. After the riddle is solved it says "The Son of God as the Phophet (meaning fulfilling prophecy) takes away the sins of the (invisible) church. "
Hang in there. God wins because he never lost. He did not lose control to the devil. He is in complete control using all things for our good and his glory.