-- yup, this was against the interpretation that all of what John said The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass -- the things DID come to pass -- Christ does not tease the 1st century Christians persecuted by Nero Caesar.
Do you consider Daniel a Christian? He and all that passed through this flesh age that returned to the Maker that sent them were offered 'salvation' while Christ was in the tomb. At least that is what Peter 'bound' in his writings. AND IF we are to read Daniel's words as Divinely inspired then the ONE who had him (Daniel) pen those words, surely knew that what He had Daniel write down would be 'happening' and when. The mere fact that Daniel was told to go his way because what Daniel had written down would NOT take place until the end. The end is not yet here and not all of what Daniel penned has taken place.
I think it boils down to the object of what is worshiped, and then interpretations get dreamed up plumbing Scriptures to build a doctrine. Christ Himself when asked what would be the *sign* of His return listed out in specifics what would take place. What John does is while taken in Spirit yet forward describe what had taken place, what would take place and declares the Victor.
So even on the 'first' day of the Day of the Lord there are 7 churches, NOT one, and each church is warned as to their doctrinal standing and opportunity as time passes to get in 'good' standing before that 'DAY' of the Lord.
The so called OLD Testament is filled with the same warnings, by the usage of the phrase of things like 'in that day' all describing what the children would be doing leading up to the LORD's return.
How one knows this without question is by what Paul was inspired to write in ICorinthians 10 in particular verse 11 Now *all* these things happened unto them for ensamples (examples): and they are written for our admonition, (warning) upon whom the ends of the world (age) are come. This by necessity would mean actual literal events not shelved off into being allegories. There are of course allegories, such as the Tree of Life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil found in Genesis, but the majority of things recorded in the so called OLD did in fact take place.
The so call OLD is our script for what are those 'signs' that Christ elaborated when asked what would be the sign of His return, and Daniel's words are part of that 'warning' as to what would be again before and to the last day of this FLESH age. How many times was Nero Caesar mentioned in the 'WORD'?