Reminded of Derek Binghams introduction to Daniel when he observed that God does not give prophesy simply to satisfy our intellectual curiosity about the future, but with prophetic revelation God has moral and spiritual goals in mind. 

1 John 3:1ff : '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 purifiers himself even as he is pure' 

2 Peter 3:11 -  Edward Blum, 'Peter…