No academic interpreter of Revelation understands the book as a roadmap for the future. Instead, Revelation originally spoke to the conditions of its own time and place.
If you are reading this on Sunday and the neighborhood seems strangely quiet, you've probably been left behind. Here are helpful hints to consider before heading to your post-Rapture picnic.
Whether it is the culmination of a process or an apocalyptic in-breaking, all religions have something to say about the end times. Religious scripture...
No religious idea has greater potential for shaping global politics in profoundly negative ways than "the new world order," which has gained fresh currency in the midst of today's revolutions.