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Covering all doomsday prophecies whether by fire or ice, bang or whimper, asteroid or alien, act of God or human folly!

Environmental disasters, ebola outbreaks, war in the Middle East, political riots and upheavals may all be signs that the end times are coming. The timeless notion that the end is near is once again exerting a powerful influence on politics, religion, and pop culture. Omens and prophecies, asteroid collisions and nuclear war, global warming and virus pandemics, alien intervention, act of God or human folly, doomsday prophecies abound within the pages of Armageddon Now: The End of the World A to Z as we speculate how we might soon greet the eve of destruction.

From alpha to omega and predictions from Nostradamus to the ancient Mayans, this tome is packed with 200 entries, 100 illustrations, and an extensive index. Satan, saints, survivalists, and evangelical preachers known for their views on biblical prophecies receive their due. The End has never been so thoroughly covered as in Armageddon Now. It’s the last word for the end user. So, don’t be left behind. Save yourself by buying this book.

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Prophecy

Eschatology

Body (disambiguation)

Biblical Studies

Spiritality

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Publié par	Visible Ink Press
Date de parution	01 septembre 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781578593002
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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A BOUT THE A UTHORS
J im and Barbara Willis bring varied backgrounds to this study of religious and scientific theories regarding the possibility of the end of life as we know it.
Jim has served as an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ for more than thirty years. He is an author, musician, college professor, and lecturer, teaching courses in comparative religion and cross-cultural studies. His study of the world’s religions, The Religion Book: Places, Prophets, Saints, and Seers, was published by Visible Ink Press in 2004. He has recorded and produced two albums of gospel music while serving as the writer, producer, and host of the Through the Bible series, a daily drive-time radio program. His hobby is long-distance bicycle riding, which he documents in Journey Home: The Inner Life of a Long-Distance Bicycle Rider, published in 2002.
Barbara was born on Guam in the Marianas Islands in the Pacific and lived on Saint Croix in the Caribbean and Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts. She has also lived in Italy and South America, as well as California, Arizona, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and various New England states. She has an extensive history in community theater and has worked in occupations as varied as real estate, newspaper advertising, the restaurant business, and library research.
While doing most of the background study for this book, they lived for a year and a half in a thirty-foot fifth-wheel RV trailer, traveling throughout the Southwest but calling Nogales, Arizona, home.
When not engaged in historical research, writing books, hiking, or singing folk concerts, Jim and Barbara do ministry together in Florida, where Jim is senior pastor of the Port Orange United Church of Christ.
A LSO FROM V ISIBLE I NK P RESS
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The Death and Afterlife Book: The Encyclopedia of Death, Near Death, and Life after Death
The Dream Encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena
The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying
The Handy Religion Answer Book
Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places
The Religion Book: Places, Prophets, Saints, and Seers
The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication
The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial
Unexplained!
Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena
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The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings
The Witch Book: The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, Wicca, and Neo-paganism
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Acknowledgments
A
Abomination of Desolation
Abraham and Monotheism
Abrahamic Covenant
Adam and Eve
Aliens
Alpha/Omega
America in Prophecy
Amillennialism
Ancient of Days
Angels
Anointed One
Antichrist
Apocalypse
Apocalyptic Writing
Apostasy
Apostles’ Creed
Ark of the Covenant
Armageddon
Armageddon, Battle of
Armstrong, Herbert W.
Asteroids
Astrology
Atomic Age
B
Babylon
Babylon Rising
Bakker, Jim
Barbour, Julian
Beasts, The
Beginning of the End
Bible Code
Bible Timelines
Big Bang
Big Crunch, Big Chill, and Big Rip
Book of Life
Books of the Bible and Their Relation to Prophecy
Branch Davidians
Buddhist Views of the End
C
Calvinism
Campus Crusade for Christ
Carter, Jimmy
Cayce, Edgar
Chafer, Lewis Sperry
Christ: Prophet, Priest, and King
Christian Reconstructionism
Christian Resurrection
Christian Views of the End
Church Fathers
Church, Role of
Clairvoyance
Comets
Concerned Christians
Conservative Christianity
Copernican Revolution
Cosmos, Fate of
Covenant
Creation Renewed
Cross, The
Culture
Cush
D
Daniel
David
Day of Judgment
Day of the Lord
Days of Noah
Devil
Dinosaurs, Extinction of
Dispensationalism
Doomsday Argument
Doomsday Cults
Dragon
Dreamtime
Druidic View of History
Dualism
E
Earth Shift
Earthquakes in Various Places
Ecological Exploitation
Egypt
Einstein, Albert
Endtimes
Eschatology, Comparative
Eschaton
Eternal Life
Eternity
Ethiopia
European Common Market and European Union
Evangelicalism
Exegesis
Ezekiel
F
Failed Prophecy
Fall, The
False Prophet
Famine
Final Judgment
Futurist School of Biblical Interpretaion
G
Ghost Dance
Global Warming
God
Gog and Magog
Graham, Billy
Great Tribulation
H
Hawking, Stephen
Heaven’s Gate
Hermeneutics
Hindu Views of the End
Hollywood Envisions THE END
I
Ice
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas-End of the World Beliefs
Isaiah
Israel
J
Jehovah’s Witnesses
K
Kabbalah
Kennedy, John F.
Kingdom
Kings from the East
L
Left Behind Books
Lindsey, Hal
Locusts
Lord of the Rings, The
M
Malachy, Saint (O’More)
Maranatha
Mark of the Beast
Messiah/Messiand Prophecy
Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites
Methuselah
Millennialism
Millerites
Moses and Elijah
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
N
New Age Views of the End
New Heaven, New Earth, and the New Jerusalem
Nicene Creed
Nordic Mythology of the Endtimes
Nostradamus
Nuclear Proliferation
Numerology
O
Olivet Discourse
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
P
Parables of the Kingdom
Paul, Apostle
Peak Oil
Petra
Pit
Plagues
Polar Shift
Population Clock
Pre-and Postmillennialism
Pre-, Post-, and Midtribulationalism
Preterist Theology
Q
Quantum Theory
Quetzalcoatl
R
Rapture
Rapture Index
Reagan, Ronald
Red Shift
Reformation, Protestant
Resurrection, The
Revelation
Revival
Roman Catholic View of History
Rosh
Ryrie, Charles C.
S
Sagan, Carl
Scientific “God” Language
Scientific Views of the End
Scofield, Cyrus Ingerson
Second Adam
Second Coming
Second Death
Seekers, The
Seventh-day Adventists
Seventy Sevens
666
Sun, Death of
Supernova Threat
T
Tecumseh
Temple at Jerusalem
Theonomic Postmillennialism
Theories of the End
Thousand-Year Reich
Togarmah
Toynbee, Arnold
Trilateral Commission
U
Unidentified Flying Objects
V
Visions and Dreams
W
Water
Whore of Babylon
Y
Y2K
Z
Zion and Zionism
Zoroastrianism
Bibliography
Index
I NTRODUCTION
S tarting in 542 CE, bubonic plague swept across Europe, stretching as far as the British Isles. The death rate reached proportions similar to what a nuclear holocaust might have produced. Whole cities were abandoned and simply disappeared. Anarchy ruled. Uneducated peasants, caught in a religious trough between the old way we now call Druidism and the new faith of Roman Christianity, sought relief in one or the other. Meanwhile, scholars began to predict, and perhaps even welcome, the end of the world. A groundswell of religious eschatological hope carried the yearning for a better tomorrow as payment for the suffering of today.
On October 5, 1813, at the battle of the Thames in Ontario, the great Shawnee war leader Tecumseh was killed while protecting a British retreat from American forces during the War of 1812. His body was never located, and rumors persisted that he not only had prophesied this very event but also had vowed to rise from death to lead his people in a victorious return to an almost mythical golden age before the coming of the whites.
In July of 1945, a mushroom-shaped cloud towered over Alamogordo, New Mexico, marking the beginning of the nuclear age. Never before had the human race unleashed such power—a power that owes its inception to the forces of war and destruction.
Beginning in 1957, British scientists began measuring the earth’s protective ozone layer over Antarctica. By 1984 it became apparent that something was wrong. A large seasonal hole had appeared. Arguments swirled around possible causes. Some insisted that the breach was a naturally occurring phenomenon. Others accumulated evidence suggesting it might foreshadow a human-induced ecological disaster.
Over the course of a few brilliant summer nights in 1994, scientists watched with awe as the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke apart and slammed into the planet Jupiter. Pictures that flashed around the world showing the July 16–22 event were both spectacular and unnerving. In cosmic terms, Jupiter isn’t that far away. What if Earth had been the target?
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