If you and I don't understand the "last days" according to Jesus and His original Apostles of the Lamb then we will not fully understand Christ's Kingdom or how it works today as Christ the King deals with Kings and nations!

According to the Gospel writers, Jesus began the last week of His earthly ministry by cleansing the Temple in Jerusalem. In this dramatic and controversial action, He prophetically foreshadowed the destruction of the temple by the Romans which took place in 70 AD. This cleansing was followed by a series of amazing end-time parables in which Jesus declared to the Chief Priests and rulers of Israel that the promised Messianic Kingdom would be taken from them (the parable of the Wicked Tenants in Matthew 21:43) and be given to another nation (the Church) and in which He prophetically outlined the order of events (the parable of the Wedding Feast in Matthew 22:1-14) that would take place to bring an end to the Old Covenant Administration of the Kingdom of Heaven and establish the New Covenant Administration, the Administration of God's Son, Jesus the Christ.

According to Jesus, the Book of Revelation is a prophecy given by Him to John to warn the seven churches of Asia Minor (today's Turkey) that these eschatological (end-time) events were about to take place in their day (Revelation 1:1-3). In Revelation 17-18 Jesus shows John the terrible judgment of the great harlot, no, not Rome or the Roman Catholic Church, but Old Covenant Jerusalem. This judgment prophesied by Moses and all the prophets of Israel had to take place to fulfill the mystery of God and the New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Messiah,  could finally enter into the Wedding Feast and receive Messiah's Kingdom.

Contrary to popular belief the powerful judgments envisioned in the Book of Revelation are not ahead of the Church, but behind us. However, if we do not understand the Book of Revelation and the last days according to Jesus and His apostles, we will be tempted to create our own doctrine of the last days and postpone to the future what has already taken place in the past!