Do you really understand the Apocalypse?

Answer 1

What is there to understand??? It was written by an old man in his 90s living in a dark cave out in the middle of nowhere (you should visit the island of Patmos) suffering from thirst and starvation. You should try that and see if you don't have revelations. I have read horror stories with a better plot.

Answer 2

Prophecy is always easier to understand after the event has come and gone. Before the event we are left guessing as to what it all really means.

The Apocalypse is predicted in Islam, Judaism and Christianity because this is the showdown to see which of these three faiths is really of God.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse

Mohammad and Jesus are cousins through Abraham. Mohammad wants that throne, but it has been promised to Jesus. See Genesis 16:12, 21:13
http://www.creationapologetics.org/editorials/islamsmohammed.html

The Apocalypse will indeed take place and nobody is going to stop it. Even the secular world recognizes this and has implemented a warning known as a doomsday clock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_clock

The whole point of Revelation is to REVEAL Christ as the King of the earth and all creation and the rightful heir to the throne of David in Jerusalem.

The whole point of the Apocalypse is to cleanse the earth for the 2nd coming of Christ.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/revelation.html

When Jesus comes back in authority, you didn’t think the governments of the world were just going to hand him the keys did you?

By the time that Jesus comes back to claim the earth, the antichrist will have raised the false prophet and will have sat on the new throne in Jerusalem thereby defiling that throne for all eternity.
http://goodnewschristianministry.org/babylonchapter21.htm

In spite of many Christian claims that Rome is the Great Prostitute of Revelation, the bible is very clear that the world can only be ruled from one “Great” city and Rome is not it. The Jews were brought out of Babylon and remain there spiritually. The LORD symbolically married Jerusalem, which refers to the giving of the Mosaic Law.
http://www.biblenews1.com/babylon/babylon3.html

Jerusalem will be the destination point of the antichrist. He will claim that he is God and that he sent his messiah and the Jews missed him. He will claim that he did not send Jesus. Mohammad will be the prophet that the antichrist claims. The Jews will fall for this deception and worship Mohammad and the antichrist who sits on the new temple in Jerusalem. The Jews will thereby be prostituting themselves as was done many times through out the bible.

God must cleanse this throne and this land and this is why there will be a New Jerusalem coming down from Heaven. God tells us repeatedly that the water judgment is over; it will be fire next time.

The two witnesses are not Moses and Elijah. Moses died and Elijah was raptured so you can’t kill them. See Heb 9:27

The two witnesses will turn out to be two guys who were born hundreds of years before Jesus. They have been alive on earth ever since. They will be actual living men, not spirits, who have been kept alive by God to witness all that God has done regarding Christ. See Zechariah 3:9-10 and Matthew 16:28
http://www.wcg.org/lit/bible/Rev/2witnesses.htm

The Gog – Magog incident will certainly occur after the millennium according to Rev 20, however a Russian Arab federation against Israel is something that looks plausible today.

Answer 3

All I know is that the concept that all Christians will not have to endure it is a joke. Explain to me someone in detail where it states that Christians will not have to go through the tribulation or apocalypse???? I think I remember somewhere in the bible saying that Christians will be tested will be tested by fire, so that they refined as gold. (i'm paraphrasing, I know) but honestly you think that because you said a prayer you ultimately get out of having your faith tested???? I cannot wait until the first of the trials and tribulations come about and all the Christians are freaking out, because they thought they had it made. Oh and for the proof, please do not give me any vague references, I want it spelled out for me.

Answer 4

No. A person can not really understand something that is yet to happen. The warning is filtered trough a man that could not imagine or conceive of the time and things he saw. We must try to decipher what he saw of a time not fer from ours in the context of what he was familiar with that we no longer are. We can all grasp the larger meaning of it but the detail is in the proper interpretation which we can not truly know until we wittiness the things spoken of.

Answer 5

Yes, I do. The word apocalypse in Greek means "unveiling". In John's apocalypse, the book of Revelation, he refers to the "unveiling" or "revelation" of Jesus Christ as Messiah. This term has been downgraded in common usage to refer to the end of the world. But it is more accurate to interpret the term "end of the world", as we see in the King James Version of the Bible, as the "end of the age". The word translated as "world" is actually the Greek word "eon" or "age".

Answer 6

I don;t pretend to understand, because in my belief, I know it will be be.
If you look on the Discovery channel lately, you will see quite a few shows discussing the apocalypse, and not one in the last few years has ever said anything about religion being involved, through purpose or reasoning.

If there is an apocalypse, I know for a fact I will nto be alive the day it arrives, and 100% that it will be because of Human negligence, nothing to do with god.

Answer 7

Its supposed to be bad right? Then learn to swim because I am praying for tidal waves. Some say the end is near. Plus, the idea of seeing millions of dumbfounded dip-Shiites fascinates me. Is that the apocalypse you are talking about?

Answer 8

Well---as Christ taught that the Kingdom of God is within you--& will never come with "signs"(Luke 17:20,21)--it seems that any talk about "signs" & "Apocalypse" is just pure church propaganda bullshit designed to keep the sheep in line--& in fear .

Answer 9

I understand that the possibility of a world war is real but not inevitable.

Answer 10

I believe I do. Mostly. There are a number of points that I consider moot, but for the big picture, I think I see it.