There have been many because, like everyone else, I was only taught the parts of Scripture my teachers were taught. So, of course, if they were not really "thinkers", how could they teach me anything else?
But, I guess the most striking was to be shown that, in writing Revelation, John went out of his way to show his readers/hearers that it was a contemporary letter, not a Crystal Ball of the future, way off 2,000 or more years into a world they would know nothing about. I was especially surprised to see how blissfully we had just glossed right over three separate times that John addressed the point that most of the things he was telling them to watch for were going to happen "very soon", in a time that they, themselves, would experience and live through.
