Upcoming TV series [View all]

[Cartoonist]

The History Channel presents Revelation: The End of Days.
Two-Night Event Premieres Dec. 29 at 9/8c
http://www.history.com/shows/revelation-the-end-of-days

Q: What is REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS about?
A: Almost 2,000 years ago, the final book of the Bible, Revelation, predicted that Christ would return, but only after a period of chaos and torment inflicted on the world to test the faith of mankind. REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS is a gripping, dramatic interpretation of how those ancient predictions could unfold in our modern world.

REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS merges drama with re-purposed news archives to thrust a group of fictional characters into an imagining of the “End of Days” events.

REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS has news and documentary elements, it is enlightening and shocking, yet it is also about redemption and faith. Overall, it is a drama about biblical prophecy that is set in the future with a real world feel. The news reports shown in this program have been fictionalized.

Q: What is REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS based on?
A: Assuming the visions described in Revelation are indeed prophecies, many of them, as well as those in the other scriptures, are difficult to fathom. They appear as metaphors and cryptic clues that scholars and devotees have tried to decode for over 2,000 years. There are countless interpretations of what the prophecies truly mean and there is much debate about how they might play out in the real world. REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS is just one such fictional interpretation, an imagining of what it would be like if the prophecies were born of the conflicts and difficulties we recognize today in the modern world. This is a “real world imagining” of The End of Days, not a literal depiction of the prophecies as they are described.

Q: What is REVELATION and its meaning from a biblical point of view?
A: The Book of Revelation is the final and perhaps most controversial book of the Bible, and one that has been the subject of fierce debate ever since it was written nearly 2,000 years ago. Even the author of the book is disputed–most Evangelicals believe it was written by Jesus’ disciple John the Apostle, while historians claim it was written by a man they call “John of Patmos” around 90 AD.

The book contains a series of enigmatic and haunting visions and descriptions that have been interpreted in different ways through the ages. Historians see Revelation in the context of the time it was written–when the Romans had leveled Jerusalem, destroyed the city and scattered the Jews, and were beginning to persecute the Christians. Such historians believe that John’s “visions” were actually part of a propaganda tract written against the Roman authorities, describing not future events, but things the Jews and Christians were facing at the time.

The most popular interpretation among the Evangelical community however, and the one we focus on in REVELATION: THE END OF DAYS, is that the visions are prophecies that tell the story of the “Tribulation,” a period of chaos and hardship that precedes the return of Christ at an unspecified time in the future. According to many Evangelicals, The Book of Revelation describes how God will unleash seven years of torment on the world–taking the form of three escalating sequences of catastrophes or “judgments” that are designed to test the faith of mankind.
-

I'm just posting this as a service to others. I have no intention of watching it. I am interested in its impact on American society. Kind of like when Orson Welles did his War of the Worlds radio show.