The End is in the Future.  Revelation the last book of the New Testament gives a vivid description of what is to occur in the end of our future.  Some of the sayings and descriptions of what is to happen are so disturbing a few people like myself find the book of Revelation hard to read. Before taking this class, "Literature of the future,"  I had attempted to read it several times but could never bring myself to finish the scriptures.
    To further build on my story about the Apocalypse, I went to the Internet to find how someone else may feel about the subject.  At the web-site of, <http://www.charweb.org/culture/churches/spec/gj111697.html> I found a paper titled, Father Jones' Sermon.  St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Charlotte, N.C. wrote ". . . maybe the most common way of dealing with apocalyptic literature is to ignore it-, the most profitable way of dealing with apocalyptic literature is to write a book about it" (Jones 2 of 5).  I say ignore it as long as you can.  To further complete Jones' quote
        . . . maybe the most responsible way of dealing with these apocalyptic passages in scripture is to recognize that they are probably not saying just one thing, but many things.  The language of the apocalypse, in both the Old and New testaments, is rich in symbolism and metaphor, much like great literature, poetry, and art. . . , so that what it has to teach us may times be beyond mere reason and human understanding.  Even so, these passages about the end time have some important things to teach us.  First of all, and most simply, these passages remind us that just as the world had a beginning, so it will have an ending.  But in spite of the efforts of some best-selling authors, Jesus warned us not to conjecture about when the world would end: in fact, he said even he did not know.
        About all we can know, is that it is all in God's hands that, the God of love who created the world is the same God who will bring it all to a    close.
    After, finally completing the assigned reading The Revelation of St. John The Divine I am prompted to ask the question of no one in particular.  Is it now?  Are we living in the end?  Personally, I do not believe we are.  Each new day is our past, present, and future.  However, according to some films and literature we are living in the end and our future is now.  For as long as I can remember I have read or heard people say, we are living in the last days.  But according to how I understand the Bible, man cannot measure time in the same manner as God did at the time of creation, nor can he measure the number of years it will take to mark the end of time.