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The Book of Revelation and the End of the World: Are the Signs Now Being Fulfilled?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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The Characteristics of the Apocalypse Genre

The way the apocalypse genre works is they are usually written by somebody who's claiming to be someone famous that they're not. Usually they are a suit epigraphic and so whoever wrote Daniel actually was not somebody living in the sixth century BCE, but 400 years earlier. These apocalypse they often violate common sense. You might have a disaster disaster. The world gets destroyed and more disasters happen on the earth. It doesn't matter because the point is that these apocalypse are trying to emphasize a point they overemphasize it by going to extremes. Things end up well in the end.

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