While all Scripture was written FOR us, it wasn’t written TO us. There was an original audience: The biblical texts were originally addressed to specific people in specific historical and cultural contexts (e.g., the Apostle Paul writing to the church in Corinth, or John writing to the seven churches in Asia Minor). Exegetical Eschatology matters: Understand what the original authors meant to communicate to their contemporaries, rather than reading modern, 21st-century events