Armageddon is not just a movie from the '90's with unbelievable loudness that looks like it was edited by a chimpanzee on Red Bull. It is another name for the end of the world (or the world as we know it). Ragnarok, Apocalypse, Judgement Day. As we speak there is a wave going around that this will be happening on Saturday, and will continue for the next five months. All of this is based on numerology using info from various Bible passages.
Ok, first, you'd think Evangelicals would remember the same book says that only "The Chief" will know the time and day of the big blowout. Apparently Jesus will be just as shocked as the rest of us.
I was raised Methodist. What that means is that I look at the Bible as metaphorical. Maybe these events happened, maybe they didn't. And if they did they probable were very different then described. What matters is the moral of the story, what it is trying to say.(this is based on Jesus' method of using fables in his teaching) Meaning, that it ain't a history book people. And when you look at historical texts on the era in which the various books were written, Revelations can be viewed as a metaphorical chronicle of the first 100 years of Christianity as well as a dyer Doomsday prediction. You make the call!
Then there's the whole Mayan 2012 thing, which any of the Mayan people still around will tell you is being misread. And the guy who wrote the Left Behind books says it won't be this weekend. All and all, I doubt they'll be zombies, earthquakes, or anything of the like tomorrow.
See ya Sunday!
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