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...Armageddon's Arrival...
...with a hard light of fanaticism in their eyes. These are the people who know they are right. One always wishes to press a copy of the Sermon on the Mount into the hands of a militant Reaganite Christian. Reagan also identified himself with those Christians who believe that Armageddon, the fiery consumption of the earth, is imminent, and it unsettled some voters to think of a President with the nuclear button close at hand who suspects the Apocalypse is inevitable...
...history will be marked by Christ's return to earth to establish a perfect kingdom. A number of Old and New Testament passages describe the prelude to this event in terms of angelic battle and earthly turmoil. One of these vivid prophecies, the only one that names Armageddon,* is Revelation 16. Most scholars believe that Revelation and other prophecies refer to such epochal events as Jesus' death and resurrection and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in A.D. 70. Others see them as symbolic depictions of the spiritual struggle between good and evil. Liberal theologians tend to discount...
Falwell's followers believe Christians will be swept or "raptured" into heaven before the great Tribulation. A common version of the end is that the Soviet Union (the evil northern empire of Ezekiel 38-39) will swoop down upon Israel but be defeated. After a later battle at Armageddon, God will inaugurate the millennium...
Trying to put the Armageddon issue into perspective, one moderate evangelical, New Testament Professor A. Berkeley Mickelsen of Minnesota's Bethel Theological Seminary, points out that the accounts of Christ's return are rich in symbolism. Says he: "If you're not careful, pretty soon it's Buck Rogers. To take apocalyptic language and make it scientific language is wrong." He is perturbed at the prophecy hunters' emphasis on global conflict. "Scripture teaches that great nations must treat compassionately the oppressed of the earth," says Mickelsen. "When Christ really does break into this scene, there...