The first page of the Rev says the events are quick, shortly, at hand etc. That is the usual view of the apostles. In fact, Paul did not think there would be any delay after the destruction of Jerusalem (DofJ)--that the worldwide day of judgement would happen 'right after.' His chronicler Luke does not allow for it, and everything Paul says about the day of judgement is quite near.
So, as historian Lattourrette says, the greatest issue the remaining apostles needed to resolve after the DofJ and Masada etc was 'what do we do now that there actually is a delay between the DofJ and the worldwide day of judgement?' Vol 1, p43. They just continued to spread the message of the Gospel, to this day.
No one took the idea of a re-enactment or replication of events in Israel all over again until Irenaeus about 75 years later. You might call him the first futurist. Pop futurism today (Lindsay, LaHaye, D'ists, etc) are wildly out of control in their hermeneutics. They have trampled the most important principle: that the NT determines what the OT meant. Since there are 2500 uses of the OT, it is a huge science.
You can't build doctrine on a few soundbyte verses from people in the 1800s hoping to stop contention between Protestants and Catholics in the UK, even though their intention was honorable.
Ask away; what I've just said needs lots of unpacking. You have to know church history very well.
