The Revelation of Jesus Christ: The ancient Greek word translated Revelation is apokalupsis (apocalypse). The word simply means “a revealing, an unveiling.”
Merryam-Webster Dictionary gives 2 meanings to the word
The expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom
A great disaster
(Collins) A cataclysmic event, the sudden and violent end of the world.This said the meaning of this word has 2 opposites. For Christians is a great thing, for the world is a catastrophe.
History can be divided into "ages" (aeons), which are time periods each with certain commonalities. One age comes to an end and a new age or world to come begins. The Apocalypse does not deal with the "end of time" but rather with the end of a certain period, the end of life as it is now, and the beginning of a new period. So we can say for certain that we are living “Apocalyptic times”.
CNET (Article March 16, 2020): Need a playlist for a coronavirus outbreak that would've seemed inconceivable just a month ago? Alternative rock band R.E.M.'s 1987 hit, It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), might just be on that soundtrack. The buzzy hit has shown up in the top songs list on iTunes.
Today a Google search under "Covid-19" comes up with 13 billion hits. People have been in isolation and quarantine for weeks. The economic impact of this coronavirus outbreak is just incalculable. No shopping, limited production, little or no travelling (business or pleasure), workplaces shutting down, possibly for ever, markets crashing, profit margins destroyed, health facilities strained to breaking point. Of course, the way we live our lives, cramped together in open offices, trains, buses, factories, planes, classrooms, favours the spread of the virus enormously.
The virus is not out to get us as such – we are merely a convenient part of its life cycle. A handy link in its chain, because we frequently touch the same public surfaces, and then touch our faces.
Pretty soon, there is unlikely to be any country in the world that remains unaffected. Disruption on this global type of scale has never happened before for more than a day or two. This looks set to carry on for weeks, if not months. The world economy could go into a tailspin. We just don't know.
So what do we do? Stay calm. Panic won't help anyone.
Is this related to the Bible book of Revelation. Is it described there as a percursor to the end-times? The answer is yes and I will show you how.
