Prophecy and Spirituality

The churches I visit normally keep their eschatology simple with a statement such as...

"We believe in the premillennial second coming of Jesus. First, to resurrect the righteous dead and to catch away the living saints to Him in the air. Second, to reign on the earth a thousand years."

And a chat on my views on eschatology with a preacher of that view will normally result in a simple, "Looking for Jesus" reply along with a smile. To get any heavier in Revelation is never fruitful so I rarely bring it up outside Christian web forums. Even on Christian forums the chats normally end up unproductive and one makes more enemies as it is rare to find Christians who have studied Revelation, church history and have arrived at the same conclusions. Folks will get angry at you for disagreeing with them and one creates more enemies than friends, To make a long story short a detailed view of Revelation often comes across as ego, as the Apostle says...

Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. - 1 Corinthians 8:1

Spirituality... But I believe that a key to true spirituality is in the looking for the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ...

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. - 1 John 3:2-3

11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; - Titus 2

1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. - Hebrews 12

A good man will continue to look unto Jesus and that hope to "see him as he is" is a sanctifying hope. A man heavily into eschatology seldom comes across as a charitable soul.

 

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. - Revelation 5:3-4

Eschatology and Soteriology... If I am unsure of who is recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life what profit is it to argue who is written therein?