I’M ON a plane to Sweden as I ponder this week’s subject matter.
I’m thumbing through the in-flight mags desperately in search of inspiration and I spot an article about our former Prime Minister, currently working as a Middle East peace envoy trying to broker a lasting peace between Israel and Palestine and now set to become the new president of Europe!
Who knew inspiration would find me at 30,000ft!
The other day I was surfing satellite TV and chanced upon the God channel.
One barnstormer of a show caught my attention in particular – Apocalypse and the End Times. Catchy title eh?
The presenters – a husband and wife from Down Under – prophesied the fall of man, the rise of the evil one and the return of JC to kick some Luciferian ass.
And they were casually discussing the impending Armageddon and the second coming of Christ as if they were chewing the fat about the quality of tap water in large cities versus that of the countryside.
I was hooked from then on and dutifully tuned in as often as possible to receive more of their prophetic wisdom.
I was interested to learn a bit more about Biblical lore and Christianity, a faith to which I openly belong and yet admittedly don’t know enough about.
My inside knowledge is decidedly lacking beyond the firm belief that, when the Reaper pops by unannounced and busts up my dinner party for the last time with a dodgy salmon mousse, I’ll end up jamming with JC in the clouds for eternity.
It’s been a while since my indoctrination at Sunday school purportedly revealed all that the good book contains.
In the interests of PG-rated Sunday fun I reckon they skipped over the wacky fire and brimstone ending and stuck to the good stuff involving Samaritans and Sermons from the Mount.
Anyway, the focus of this show was all about the book of Revelation.
It seems scholars of biblical prophecy have interpreted key passages in Revelation like so.
In a nutshell.
The Anti-Christ is among us now.
He will arrive as a peacemaker during a period of instability and chaos when the world is crying out for peace. Sounds relevant right?
He will rise to power with great support and become the leader of a united group of nations. Ringing any bells?
He will broker a seven-year peace deal between Israel and her enemies, succeeding where all others have failed, seducing the world with his talents as a statesman.
After that, it goes a bit pear-shaped.
This seven-year peace plan runs concurrently with the final seven years of mankind’s rule on earth – The Tribulation period.
This euro leader will be assassinated then Satanically resurrected, proclaiming himself a god and then break the peace deal and lay waste to Jewish temples, slaughtering Jews and Christians alike.
Then! He gathers the armies of the world unto him and takes on Christ in the war to end all wars. Pretty hardcore stuff eh! Can someone please check the next president of European Union’s scalp for the Mark of the Beast before we’re annihilated!