(March 18, 2015 at 12:21 pm)professor Wrote: Tonus, the term apocalypse just means "revealing" or revelation, but has come somehow to indicate a terminal end, rather than the revealing of a sequence.Well, the book seems to be titled "revelation" because the writer is claiming that god revealed the future to him. As with the rest of the Bible, it's open to interpretation and you can make a case for it having a terminal end or just the disclosure of a sequence.
The birth pangs of the Millennium Age begin in earnest when the false messiah does his resurrection mimic and is totally possessed by Satan.
An event that, could (fittingly) be accomplished this Passover- mimicking (in a way) what Jesus did.
When that happens, the countdown begins.
That ambiguity is what leads to stuff like the rest of what you wrote above, which is vague and unspecific. Who is the false messiah (Obama?) and how does he mimic the resurrection? Something so lacking in specifics makes it easy to interpret any future events so that they fit the "prophetic word" or what have you.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
