Word: armageddon
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...Christian bookstores these days, the war in the Persian Gulf is not about anything so mundane as liberating Kuwait or neutralizing the Butcher of Baghdad. Rather, the "mother of battles" (as Saddam Hussein likes to call it) is about the fulfillment of biblical prophecies regarding the imminence of Armageddon...
Consider the evidence. Zondervan, a leading U.S. publisher of Fundamentalist and Evangelical literature, has issued an updated version of John F. Walvoord's 1974 best seller, Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis, with an initial print order of -- get this -- 1 million copies. (Nine were reportedly ordered by the White House, whose previous occupant was a confessed believer in Armageddon theology.) Walvoord is chancellor of Dallas Theological Seminary, where Charles H. Dyer is associate professor of Bible exposition. Dyer's new book, The Rise of Babylon, which argues that Saddam's announced plan to build a replica of that...
...Armageddon is a serious game that any number can play. The electronic bulletin boards offered by such computer networks as CompuServe and Genie are stuffed with doomsday speculations. And one need not be born again to experience a frisson of apocalyptic concern. Also enjoying a new spasm of popularity is the 16th century astrologer Nostradamus, one of whose gnomic utterances predicts the arrival in 1999 of the "Great King of Terror" -- easily identifiable as Saddam, to those with vivid imaginations...
...shortwave radios and small portable TVs. Bookstores were jammed, their customers snapping up almost anything about Saddam and the Middle East. In Arlington, Va., Roy's Hobby & Craft Shop was selling the new $16 board game, Kuwait War. Superstitious types were buying crystals and such books as Nostradamus and Armageddon, Oil and the Mideast Crisis...
...employed 50 African occultists to advise him on war strategy, according to a Kuwaiti newspaper-in-exile now publishing in Saudi Arabia. Televangelist Pat Robertson has cited the fantastical tale on his Christian TV network. He has long believed that a Middle East war would be a prelude to Armageddon...