Hi Rodney,

Thank you for your question.

The Book of Revelation was a description, what the Prophet John saw in his visions. He himself like many other prophets did not understand completely what they saw. Which some of them admitted, “they couldn’t understand the High Works of God”. What is shown by many discrepancies, in scriptures and between all scriptures and ideologies. What is a clear fact, and we have proven this over and over again, in the answers on Quora concerning verses of scriptures. Feel free to have a look in this profile of Thomas Francisco Pelgero on Quora.
 

How do Prophets receive information of God or it’s angels or guides?
 

The messages of God, were sent by God or through an Angel, as a Godly Soul, to arrive as spiritual energy fields into John´s human Soul. John’s Soul created these messages as energy fields into form, into a reality, as a vision or a dream. Which John could Sense as a human being. As a vision, in which he himself as a human Soul, created the form or picture, of the Angel speaking to him.
 

What almost all prophets did and do Not Realize is, that they can Unaware Distort and Change this Message of Beyond in their created vision or dream in their human Soul. With their own subconscious thoughts of impressions of life, as Ego, Pride, Belief or Fantasy. Just, when you are sleeping and dreaming about a symbolical morphed experience, what is for example obstructing your growth in life. Still, Messages of beyond can be included into these dreams. Still, they morph all together as One dream, while you are asleep. Where your subconscious thoughts as impressions of life are expressed into your dreams with or without messages of Beyond. It is all the same. Only a vision you experience consciously and a dream you experience only at awakening into your consciousness. How ever your subconsciousness Observed many dreams as an expression of energy into form.
 

Do we really think, God speaks untruthful with discrepancies, mysterious or symbolical? No, we should know, God does Not. Your human Soul transforms the energetic Messages of God into a form, you are able to understand, into your language, into your knowledge and wisdom. Only you have to separate what is a real message of God or an Angel, and what is distorted and changed by impressions of life of your own subconscious thoughts. Only then you are able to see the clear Message of God, your Holy Spirit, Guides or Angels, etc.
 

Only a pure person with a purified human Soul, who has erased Ego from their human thoughts, memory and personality, and embraces only Loving, Good and Harmonious thoughts in good and bad situations, is able to hear messages of God and Angels correctly. Without unaware distorting subconscious thoughts. And all prophets of Man did Not have this required purified human Soul. Some came close, still they did Not Perfect the purification of their own human Soul. Still, Prophets had a task of God, to guide Man on Earth into Harmony. To guide Man into the direction of God's Will and Works.
 

Would God have sent a message as; “a Beast shall rise from the Sea.” No, God would not, it was based on John’s subconscious thoughts of fantasy connected to a message of God. Which entered, distorted and morphed into a Real message of God or an Angel, as a vision, a dream. This happened with all prophets, and therefor words of all Prophets are mostly figuratively, symbolic and were included in their interpretations. Because, they explained, what they saw in a vision or dream. Some parts are true and some are not. What defines, explains and proves that Scriptures are created by Man, and they do Not posses completely the HIGH TRUE WORKS AND WILL OF GOD.

Scriptures give a Direction unto the Truths of Life, as God’s Will and Works. If Man would have worked honestly, without ego and pride, together and thought together as One, they would have tried to erase the discrepancies between all Scriptures and Ideologies, then they could have found the Truths of Life. But, Ego and Pride prevented Man, to think, live and work together as One, by God’s True Ways.
 

How can you know prophets described their visions?
 

We know that prophets mostly wrote in figurative and symbolic meaning, because they were just describing their visions and dreams. From that experience, they made their own interpretations, just like many people do, based on Man’s subconscious and conscious thoughts. If you look at most Jewish Prophets for example, you can see clearly and find in the Messages of God, distorting impressions of life in the form of Ego and Pride of the prophets. Distorting and changing unaware messages of God. To support this with One Proof: ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL AND WE SHOULD LOVE ALL, Only Man’s choices of thoughts differ into good or bad choices. 
 

It is what it is, nothing more and nothing less. Now, you can answer these questions. Why are there so many different religions in the world and why do scriptures have so many discrepancies between each other or within them?
 

The Words of ALL Prophets in many different scriptures and some ideologies have certainly Great, Wonderful and Truthful information, and a lot of them are partly a real Guidance’s of God, without a shred of a doubt. But, None of them is Perfected and Complete. There are also verses in all scriptures of different religions and ideologies, which are Not correct. Because, Man was Not able to understand the High Will and True Works of God. What defines, explains and proves at the same time, that the Words of scriptures are Not Words of God, but words of Prophets. God’s Messages do Not have Discrepancies and are always Perfect, Man should have known. Some of the scriptures, when correctly interpreted, have True and Correct prophecy and reveals some information of the Messages of God, also in the Revelation of John. Which I like very much, because it reveals also the core of the Purpose of Human Life. Which Man are Not aware of.
 

The real purpose in life is to Purify your Human Soul, your thoughts, memory and personality in your human life, to become a Saint at the end of your human life. To be Ready, to enter the Kingdom of God what means Heaven, or to be Ready to enter the Kingdom of the Messiah in a new restored Earth.
 

Your question;
Why was the book of Revelation written in such a way as to be difficult to understand?
 

The Prophets did only describe, what they saw in a vision or dream and have changed and interpreted the REAL Messages of God or Angels, unaware with their own subconscious thoughts of impressions of life, as Ego, Pride, Belief or Fantasy. Hard to hear still true.

Only, when you put the words in simple words, that belongs to human reality AND a God’s and Soul’s Reality, then you’re able to see what it exactly means.
 

Life is all about thoughts and choices.

Choose well.