the century approaching the apocalypse transcript

But one way of settling this matter was to kill them, and there would be no unconverted Jews left. Montanus had interpreted an outbreak of plague as a clear sign that the thousand-year reign of Christ was at hand. FRONTLINE reports from Iraq on the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. READER: And he cried out mightily with a strong voice, saying "Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen. It allows us to turn the mind around in such a way that our behaviors follow along with what our hearts believe about justice and human flourishing. The author simply says he was on Patmos on account of preaching the word of the Lord. Sign up for our newsletter.]. For a VHS copy of Apocalypse!, please call PBS Home Video at 1-800-PLAY-PBS. Prof. PAUL BOYER: Luther's decision to translate the Bible into German is to make it accessible to the people. We become what we agree to. He gained weight. The more people they convinced of the new date, the less their earlier disappointment seemed to matter. Wendell Berry defines the kingdom of God as the “Great Economy.” “Eco” comes from the Greek oikos, which means “house.” In Psalm 23, in which God is imagined as a shepherd who looks after material needs, the psalmist imagines dwelling in the house (the oikos) of God forever. Closer to our time, we might think of the Emancipation Proclamation, the release of Nelson Mandela in South Africa and, for many, the day the Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage. The Anthropocene Epoch is an unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth's history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet's climate and ecosystems. the century: america's time 1971 1975: approaching the apocalypse transcript. To pay for it, the church sold indulgences, certificates that offered the buyer a better afterlife. The Jews will return. A one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient all-knowing computer lead the lunar population in a revolution against Earth's colonial rule Modern Israeli Jews come here to mourn the destruction of the first temple and the exile in Babylon. Joshua Himes in Boston, for example, was also involved in the abolitionist movement. NARRATOR: Only 20 years after the sack of Jerusalem, the author of Revelation refuses to make sacrifice for emperors who had crucified Jesus and ´MDNMªdestroyed the temple. All will be peace.". At the monastery in Casamari, south of Rome, Joachim would change the course of Christian apocalyptic thinking. ISIS' growing foothold in Afghanistan is captured on film. . NARRATOR: This East German monument remains testimony to the enduring legacy of Thomas Muentzer. Prof. L. MICHAEL WHITE: Darby's prophetic system retains Miller's basic expectation that the coming of Christ is going to be soon, and then the thousand-year kingdom will commence. When it comes to learning how to write better, is that company. But the Scrolls do show their visions of the end time had much in common. This book's premise is that humanity is at the beginning of a technological revolution that is evolving at a much faster pace than earlier ones--a revolution is so far-reaching it is destined to generate transformations we can only begin to ... The actual word itself, when you say apocalypse, it literally means to reveal. NARRATOR: The most striking example of apocalyptic art from the Middle Ages are Signorelli's frescoes in the cathedral at Orvieto, Italy. Each victory and then defeat only added to the sense that this was a battle of cosmic proportions, that this was really about the antichrist. Prof. L. MICHAEL WHITE: If you think about the imagery of demons and dragons and beasts that we find so commonly in apocalyptic literature, some of it comes from this very experience of seeing the powerful images of the enemy, Babylon. Rev. Many of them were involved in other reform movements. The way we in America have ordered our system of work, health care, housing and all the other fundamentals of human existence is in danger of collapsing in on itself. Prof. PAUL BOYER, Univ. Prof. STEPHEN O'LEARY, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison: Hildegard of Bingen is one of the most interesting figures in the whole history of apocalypticism- very brilliant, a very talented, multi-talented woman, and a deep believer in Bible prophecy. Prof. L. MICHAEL WHITE: The Roman empire will actually be destroyed in three and a half years, and God will reign in a new, triumphant kingdom immediately thereafter. But instead of patenting it and reaping the profits (as many other labs have done) -- they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on. Dr. MARK EDWARDS, Jr.: As the princes load their cannons and the cavalry gets ready to charge, the peasants are singing, "Come, Holy Spirit," believing this battle is the final battle of Armageddon, and that God was going to break in and stop it right there. Prof. PAULA FREDRIKSEN: Rome had been identified with the church and therefore, if Rome fell, that meant that it's the beginning of the period of the antichrist. It is the Book of Revelation. READER: We shall find that the God of Israel is among us when he shall make us a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, "The lord make it like that of New England." Whereas Eastern religions see time as a cycle of birth and rebirth, apocalyptic thinking assumes time has a beginning, a middle and an end. The earliest apocalyptic belief is Zoroastrian. NARRATOR: The golden head represented Babylon, silver Persia. 1971-1975: Approaching the Apocalypse: Directed by Roger Goodman. Prof. PAUL BOYER, Univ. READER: The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. The author John is viewed as the prophet who sat and saw the future. The Century approaches renewal. The church, as the institutional church, saw him instead as a great threat to their income and a heretic. Each metal corresponded to an empire. I choose to learn from the best. Prof. NORMAN COHN: The idea that of the world as the battleground for the two great forces, the divine force and the devil, is of Zoroastrian origin. This economic vision is of a piece with what Jesus teaches his followers to pray for (“Thy kingdom come”) and what Isaiah describes as a great feast: an economy in which everybody has what they need to live. The second approach suggests that Joseph and his associates first studied the ancient papyri, producing documents [Page 100] as they puzzled over the meaning of the characters on the papyri. NARRATOR: The origins of the Book of Revelation lie in war, defeat and despair. Prof. L. MICHAEL WHITE: "The Rapture" is the term that he coins. An apocalypse occurs when we are suddenly made to see what is going on. In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Prof. PAUL BOYER: When the Crusades were getting underway and Christians were going off to Jerusalem to redeem the city of Jerusalem from the heretics, at the same time we see horrible, horrendous antisemitic persecutions breaking out in some of the cities of Germany. Now, normally, that's God's job, but when God doesn't do it- OK, so it is possible that there would be violence. In about 250 B.C.E., an anonymous Jew writing under the name of Enoch borrowed images from Greek mythology which were to resonate through apocalyptic literature, down to the Book of Revelation. Prof. L. MICHAEL WHITE: Adolf Hitler begins to use an enormous amount of highly apocalyptic rhetoric. READER: Then I saw the Beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war. It's going to raise the specter of what happens when we get to the year 1000. The Bible and the always-open question of what it says is alive and signaling across the country. NARRATOR: The next great impact on the apocalyptic tradition came in 333 B.C.E., when Alexander the Great's army swept across the Middle East and crushed the Persian empire. [www.pbs.org: Examine Koresh's apocalyptic beliefs]. New Year's of 1844 comes along, and the sense of expectation is great. . Religion, human beings' relation to that which they regard as holy, sacred, absolute, spiritual, divine, or worthy of especial reverence. It didn't seem to fit any prophesies of the Bible that he had expounded. Prof. STEPHEN O'LEARY: When David Koresh interpreted the Bible for the FBI negotiators, they could only see this as what they called "Bible babble." Prof. BERNARD McGINN: He believed that Saladin was the current persecutor, and that right around the corner would be the seventh head, who would be the final historical antichrist. 22:5]. But some Jews viewed Herod and the Romans as oppressors. This is the story of the Apocalypse, all what happened before during and after the end. Password reset instructions will be sent to your registered email address. But as then the Crusades themselves began to grow in popular imagination, and as the holy war rhetoric became more prominent, it starts to take on these much more apocalyptic tones. In the period between roughly 75 and 100 C.E., we have a proliferation of new Apocalypses. Prof. L. MICHAEL WHITE: You must be a part of the empire. CLYDE LOTT: There is a certain shade of red that the red heifer has to be, and it's basically taken from the word aduma, which means red coloring of the earth in the Middle East. ACTOR: [as news reporter] ["Apocalypse"] The United States of America is officially at war. They reigned with Christ a thousand years. Their celebrations are pregnant with symbols from the apocalyptic tradition, from Babylon the longing for a new Jerusalem. We should be ready. Apocalyptic language has been used in the service of even the most anti-religious movements. NARRATOR: Richman's Temple Institute is dedicated to seeing the temple rebuilt. We will have gone up in the Rapture. ANNOUNCER: Explore FRONTLINE's Apocalypse! NICHOLAS CAMPION, Author, "The Great Year": Joachim put himself effectively in opposition to the Catholic hierarchy. What is the proper approach? Others sold all their earthly possessions in anticipation of the end. And when it doesn't happen, it's really an existential crisis, I think, for many thousands of Americans. The traditional apocalyptic reading has to be wrong because now the empire is Christian. We are the generation that has the information highway. Prof. JAMES TABOR, Univ. In the age of Trump, can Mr. Rogers help us manage our anger? [Rev. We get popular heresy, apostolic movements. . Prof. PAUL BOYER: Thomas Muentzer is an example of what can happen when apocalyptic scriptures become widely accessible. NARRATOR: God told Lott he could help by raising the sacred red heifer. NARRATOR: Hitler found his antichrist in the Jews. The beloved artist died Sept. 23. It's a lot less 100 than it is zero. Found inside – Page 12discard the use of all cognates of apocalypse . ... The Intention of the Present Study Little by little we are approaching the object of the present study . NARRATOR: Among the fastest-growing church groups to embrace end-time beliefs is the Pentecostal movement. JOHN (Anthroposophical Publishing Co., 1958), lecture 3, GA 104. In fact, I think a clock has ticked in the history of the three Abrahamic monotheisms, and that clock says that in the 15th century of an Abrahamic monotheism violence explodes in the form of religious civil war. One stream led to the 19th century ideals of social reform, but for many in the early 1800s a bleaker view took hold. And he sat down and wrote his famous translation of the New Testament. If you were a member of the group and maybe you doubted Koresh's teaching, when the tanks appear outside and the black helicopters appear overhead, how could you doubt anymore? READER: I looked and there before me was a pale horse. Found inside – Page 137... an approaching period should suffer greatly from a scarcity of provisions . ... an exact transcript of that which is proposed Lectures on the Apocalypse ... The abundant symbolism has yielded, through commentary and interpretation, such major themes as the Christ in Majesty (Majestas Domini ) and the Adoration of the Lamb, in addition to . NARRATOR: Through the ages, the dualism of Apocalypse - light and dark, good and evil - has fueled hatred and violence. of North Carolina at Charlotte: The Book of Revelation, if taken literally, assumes what might be called a final fling of evil, that is a tremendous and vast control of the earth by this final evil ruler, sometimes called the antichrist. 21:2]. To pull back the curtain. To my shame, I was really not aware that people who work at Whole Foods/Amazon, Kroger, McDonald’s or Walmart do not get paid sick leave. NARRATOR: Before the temple can be built, the grounds must be purified by the ritual sacrifice of a perfect red heifer. “I found it sad that the pope has to defend himself,” Gerard O’Connell said this week on Inside the Vatican. Finally we get to March of 1844, the end of what he thinks of as the window of the Second Coming. Prof. PAUL BOYER: Doomsday cults are very significant. Prof. PAUL BOYER, Univ. Prof. PAULA FREDRIKSEN: Jerusalem holds a central place. CLYDE LOTT: I was out checking cattle, and I just happened to stop and sit on a tree that had fallen. It is for real and it is promised, but it is also a righteously mobile metaphor. Dr. MARK EDWARDS, Jr.: The Catholic church, in effect, put out an arrest warrant on Luther. Found inside – Page 7727a ) , the Virgin is off - center and turned to the approaching Magi.33 She is part ... as in the manuscripts of Beatus on the Apocalypse ( which include ... Prof. BERNARD McGINN: Joachim was a real apocalypticist, in the original sense of the prophet John, because he believed the current events that he saw around him were signs of the times, signs that had been predicted in the Book of the Apocalypse and now were being fulfilled. FOR YOUR OWN DVD OF THE "ISLAM IN BIBLE PROPHECY - THE FOUR HORSEMEN," ABSOLUTE PROOF, CALL 1-800-ENDTIME OR GO TO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: HD Video Download- $14.99. America - a nation that claimed ever-increasing wealth as a birthright - was rudely awakened by the Great Depression, which caused 25 percent unemployment, the closing of 9,000 banks, and the loss of $2.5 billion in deposits. For the next 300 years, the Jewish people were ruled from Persepolis. Prof. PAUL BOYER: And at that point will be established the millennium, the thousand-year reign of justice, peace, harmony, culminating in one of the most glorious visions of all literature, the new heaven and the new earth, the new Jerusalem. Our connectedness has been unveiled, resulting in a deeper practice of solidarity and love among essential workers, customers and employers. DAVID KORESH: -that they saw seven angelic beings moving towards the earth. This is the time that God has set in motion. I sharpened my sickle because my thoughts are focused on the truth.". But that's exactly what Miller does and what he concludes. NARRATOR: Popular ministers like Jerry Falwell preach these events to an audience numbering in the tens of millions. Peter Jennings, anchor of ABC World News Tonight narrates the series.. Please visit our membership page to learn how you can invest in our work by subscribing to the magazine or making a donation. And it is indeed a monstrous birth. Prof. L. MICHAEL WHITE: What John is suggesting is that when the forces of the devil and the Roman empire is toppled, a new heaven and earth will be created, like a new beginning of the earth. They were well treated. What the Day of the Lord means to us depends on our particular values, our contexts, what we really think of as righteousness. DAVID KORESH: [FBI tape] You don't even know what Chapter 7 teaches when it shows the Lamb stands on Mt. And even then, it doesn't come. NARRATOR: They soon numbered more than a quarter million. At the level of popular Christianity, it's still thriving. READER: I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. As the fateful night approached, they prepared themselves. of Southern California: In 1839, Miller hooks up with Joshua Himes, who has a whole publicity machine. NARRATOR: The raw power of apocalyptic dualism was about to be unleashed again. Prof. JOHN COLLINS: In the Book of Ezekiel, there is a great vision where Ezekiel sees a valley full of dry bones. In fact, she may be the exact color. They're out here in this world. Prof. L. MICHAEL WHITE, Univ. It's not hard to imagine the chariot wars and the other kinds of battles that took place here. Egypt, Babylon and Rome tried to monetize and weaponize populations under their sway, and the communities that came to be called the people of God bore witness against their folly and anticipated their collapse. This is not intended to frighten saints. NARRATOR: Howell went to Jerusalem to see if it was physically possible during the Tribulation for 144,000 of God's faithful to gather on the Temple Mount to be saved. The author draws on ancient prophets and earlier apocalyptic writers, using words and images that hark back to the oppression by Babylon. All of a sudden, these dry bones are brought back to life and then raised again to living beings. And in the case of Jesus, it's also "The kingdom is at hand.". NARRATOR: On the site where Muentzer would lead his apocalyptic revolution, there now stands a monument to his effort. I just can't believe it. Already rife with religious tension, Jerusalem is now a focus of intense anxiety and anticipation. And that's, I think, something that everybody feels, whether they're particularly religious or not, whether they believe in prophecy or not. Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern ... NARRATOR: John and Jesus were not alone. It's not zero, but it's not 100. The book was too difficult. 21:2]. : At the level of the elite - which is what historians can see because they're the only ones leaving texts - millennialism is gone. READER: And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. When we see a people repent, we have the surest sign that an apocalypse has been received. Found inside – Page 214... The English Bible and the Seventeenth Century Revolution (Harmondsworth: ... in the approaching act of resistance that puts them outside state law. To celebrate, the monks hammer on a wooden spar they believe comes from Noah's Ark. Found inside... end of the 14th century,28 or Speculum historiale by Vincent of Beauvais. ... speculate about the presence of direct transcripts of Joachim's writings ... If you can't see your way through, walk towards the sound of the speakers. Even today it offers only one approach. READER: She held a golden cup in her hand filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. You didn't have to read. It would be a purification of the world through the existence of the influence of a monastic order which would be totally spiritual, totally pure. Later generations, particularly in Germany, would look at him as a hero, as a proletarian rebel. But it's good to just know that's only one corner of the grid of how the whole Christian tradition has read and understood the book throughout time. ANNOUNCER: Correspondent Bill Moyers finds out whose contributing and what they get in return. Prof. PAUL BOYER: The Puritans see now the possibility of literally creating, in what they saw as a new and empty world, the millennial kingdom, the vision of a truly righteous nation. All over the earth, homes of believers will have the supper dishes on the table, the food will be on the stove, but the occupants are mysteriously and suddenly gone. An apocalypse gives us a chance to think through once again our social and economic arrangements. But combined with the fear is a sense of meaning. [Rev. Alright, here's the show. Transcript Mr. Kevin Allen: Welcome to Ancient Faith Today, Orthodox Media's live listener call-in program on contemporary issues, through the lens of the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church.I am very pleased you are with us this evening. [Rev. It's economic. Having an idol introduced into the temple was something that people couldn't live with. Muentzer interpreted the battles and riots of the farmers as a sign from God for the Last Battle. NARRATOR: Israeli police are keeping a close watch on Brother Solomon, whose flock is convinced they will live to see the end of time. Charlie! An inspiring look at the open-source future of medical research. Apocalypse can do that. Prof. PAUL BOYER: Miller creates the conditions then for an incredible letdown, an incredible sense of disappointment. An READER: Our fondest hopes and expectations were blasted, and such a spirit of weeping came over us as I never had experienced before. Wondering why we ask for your email, or having trouble registering. NARRATOR: What outrages the author of Revelation above all else is the imperial cult, which demanded submission to the deified emperor in Rome. Come and help us," which was probably the most foolish thing they ever did. This is impossible. (2) The futurist approach by way of contrast, takes virtually everything Rabbi CHAIM RICHMAN: One of the major focuses of our efforts is the restoration of the temple vessels. The Century: America's Time is a 15-part television series of documentaries produced by ABC News about the 20th century and the rise of the United States as a superpower.The documentary originally aired on The History Channel in 1999. NARRATOR: One fresco depicts the fate of true believers. [Explore all of America’s in-depth coverage of the coronavirus pandemic]. In nearly every age, there have been those who found signs in the Book of Revelation that the end time is close at hand. Prof. L. MICHAEL WHITE: One of Hildegard's most dramatic visions is the one where she describes the actual birth of the antichrist figure. In the late 2nd century, an apocalyptic prophet called Montanus inspired thousands to follow him to a remote hilltop. Their deaths were marked by the singing of the ancient prayer of grief over the destruction of the temple. On this day in 1096, Crusaders arrived in Trier on their way to Jerusalem. It's Darby's way of describing what will happen the first time that Jesus returns, when he snatches away the elect from the earth. The world had not ended. “The Day of the Lord,” described by the prophets Amos and Joel and the apostle Peter, is both one big day on which God makes everything right (the last are first and the first are last, oppression ceases, people get what they need to live, the reign of God comes on earth as it already is in heaven) and most any day when something like this happens for any group of people anywhere in the world. You see, the laser rays will destroy the humanity. Oh, looks like the lights are on. [www.pbs.org: More on history's antichrists]. Prof. ADELA YARBRO COLLINS, University of Chicago: The revolt began in Galilee, and then the Romans moved towards Jerusalem. NARRATOR: Babylon shook the Israelites' faith in their god to its core. 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