Like Bernard Shaw, I regard Revelations as 'the ravings of a drug addict', or at least as an anti-imperialist diatribe in a code to which to which we lack the clues. The tribal myths were included only to convince Jews by the (not very convincing) 'prophecies'.To understand the new testament and especially Revelation,you need to know the old testament.To many Christians think the Old Testament is for Jews,the New for Christians.
You couldn't be more wrong