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The History Channel presents Revelation: The End of Days.
Two-Night Event Premieres Dec. 29 at 9/8c
http://www.history.com/shows/revelation-the-end-of-days
Q: What is REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS about?
A: Almost 2,000 years ago, the final book of the Bible, Revelation, predicted that Christ would return, but only after a period of chaos and torment inflicted on the world to test the faith of mankind. REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS is a gripping, dramatic interpretation of how those ancient predictions could unfold in our modern world.
REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS merges drama with re-purposed news archives to thrust a group of fictional characters into an imagining of the End of Days events.
REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS has news and documentary elements, it is enlightening and shocking, yet it is also about redemption and faith. Overall, it is a drama about biblical prophecy that is set in the future with a real world feel. The news reports shown in this program have been fictionalized.
Q: What is REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS based on?
A: Assuming the visions described in Revelation are indeed prophecies, many of them, as well as those in the other scriptures, are difficult to fathom. They appear as metaphors and cryptic clues that scholars and devotees have tried to decode for over 2,000 years. There are countless interpretations of what the prophecies truly mean and there is much debate about how they might play out in the real world. REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS is just one such fictional interpretation, an imagining of what it would be like if the prophecies were born of the conflicts and difficulties we recognize today in the modern world. This is a real world imagining of The End of Days, not a literal depiction of the prophecies as they are described.
Q: What is REVELATION and its meaning from a biblical point of view?
A: The Book of Revelation is the final and perhaps most controversial book of the Bible, and one that has been the subject of fierce debate ever since it was written nearly 2,000 years ago. Even the author of the book is disputedmost Evangelicals believe it was written by Jesus disciple John the Apostle, while historians claim it was written by a man they call John of Patmos around 90 AD.
The book contains a series of enigmatic and haunting visions and descriptions that have been interpreted in different ways through the ages. Historians see Revelation in the context of the time it was writtenwhen the Romans had leveled Jerusalem, destroyed the city and scattered the Jews, and were beginning to persecute the Christians. Such historians believe that Johns visions were actually part of a propaganda tract written against the Roman authorities, describing not future events, but things the Jews and Christians were facing at the time.
The most popular interpretation among the Evangelical community however, and the one we focus on in REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS, is that the visions are prophecies that tell the story of the Tribulation, a period of chaos and hardship that precedes the return of Christ at an unspecified time in the future. According to many Evangelicals, The Book of Revelation describes how God will unleash seven years of torment on the worldtaking the form of three escalating sequences of catastrophes or judgments that are designed to test the faith of mankind.
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I'm just posting this as a service to others. I have no intention of watching it. I am interested in its impact on American society. Kind of like when Orson Welles did his War of the Worlds radio show.
longship
(40,416 posts)The most popular interpretation among the Evangelical community however, and the one we focus on in REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS, is that the visions are prophecies that tell the story of the Tribulation, a period of chaos and hardship that precedes the return of Christ at an unspecified time in the future. According to many Evangelicals, The Book of Revelation describes how God will unleash seven years of torment on the worldtaking the form of three escalating sequences of catastrophes or judgments that are designed to test the faith of mankind.
(Bold is my emphasis.)
In other words, they are going to ignore the historians and tell only the barking mad evangelical "literal" and made up version.
Get a bowl, some milk, and a spoon. Those evangelical people are cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. And the Histrionic Channel uses them.
Thankfully, there is no cable TV here.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)of which there are many in other religions as well - ragnarok for example.
longship
(40,416 posts)Götterdämmerung!
I love it!
rug
(82,333 posts)Half the sentences in the scripts end in question marks.
"Could the pyramids have been constructed as a beacon for an unimaginally ancient extraterrestrial civilization?
And, if so, are there signs they are about to return?
Some say, 'Perhaps!'
"
The end days shows are worse.
But I'll be watching!
okasha
(11,573 posts)Hoppy
(3,595 posts)okasha
(11,573 posts)to people who go about with dead Mustelidae on their heads. I am not.
We do need a pearl-clutching smiley.
rug
(82,333 posts)okasha
(11,573 posts)EvilAL
(1,437 posts)hahaha
My friend is hooked on that show, I like debunking the shit and pissing him off.
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)Then it went through a period of being the Hitlery Channel before now settling into ancient astronauts and Left Behind knock-offs.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)I recently had the opportunity to have cable TV for a few days. Most of it was in spanish, but what was in english was hideous.