Why am I always told that when reading the book of Revelation, it is absolutely critical do so through the lens of the language and culture of the fist century, especially considering that it will be completely different people, living millennia apart, who will go through those things? Why not possibly consider things through the lens of the languages and cultures of end-times people, as well? So, why not from the view of the end-times, rather than from the view of the beginning times of the church age?