A Brief History of the End of Time

The Prophet Joseph Smith called the Book of Revelation "the plainest book God ever caused to be written." A funny statement, for obvious reasons. I suppose there could be many reasons why he would have said that--for one, he's a prophet, so he sees the things of God much more clearly than we do; for another, he could possibly be referring not to how easy it is to understand but how openly it describes (using complex words and symbols) the Lord's doings in the last days.

I like reading the Book of Revelation because I feel like it gives me a sort of insight into how God sees the world, the people in it, and the events that transpire among us. We know that for God, time doesn't work the same way it does for us. The scriptures tell us that all is as a single day to Him, and all things are continually before His face. So when he sees the history of the world, clearly He sees it from a very different perspective than we do.

I suppose it's just the same as the way a hypercube (a theoretical model of a 4-dimensional cube) looks strange and moves strangely from our three-dimensional viewpoint, and yet if we were able to see it in all four dimensions it would appear perfectly normal and simple.

If that’s too nerdy for you, I’m sorry, I used to be a physics major. It’s just how it makes sense in my head.