if you're curious, i actually think the apocalypse already happened in the seventh century.

anybody standing in the levant at any point between the appearance of the romans and the rise of the muslims would see, as clear as day, that there was going to be a massive battle between the romans (west) and the persians (east) and that it would end the world as they knew it. it's not a particularly deep prophesy.

would you call me a prophet a thousand years from now if i predicted a catastrophic war between america and russia and, in the end, it actually happens?

(and, recall that these texts are not as old as they claim to be)

it boggles my mind when americans try and argue that the biblical east is russia, because, standing in jerusalem, moscow is actually to the west.

the east was always persia...

....and the war already happened.

so, where is the messiah? did we go through 1000 years of hell? please...

but, it happened, and god didn't come back, so can we carry on, now?