Revelation 6:13

"And the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale." (NRSV)

I really thought we'd be further along the apocalyptic timeline by now. I mean, yes, the scholarly belief is that final book of the Christian Bible is a exploration of the eschatological fever that seem to have struck the Jewish people around the time of the first Jewish-Roman war. Personally, I suspect the entire Jesus story bears the markings of being at least partially a personification of the destruction of the second temple at around the same time for reasons that I'm not going to go into at this time.* The writings of Paul from before the temple suggest that at least there may have been a human rabbi named Jesus that was crucified, though I've heard compelling arguments that this figure was actually a mushroom.

But back to the end of the world. What if the mushrooms that John of Patmos ate while going on his vision trip actually gave him the power of divine insight across time? What if the mark of the beast, thought to be a reference to Nero based upon the gematria of the more ancient reading of the number (616), was actually a reference to whatever current leader happens to be around at the time the third of the seas and sky burn up and big helicopters fly around? What if Jesus was real and he's the reason for climate change?

I'm just spitballing here. I hope that it doesn't become the total delusional religious belief of at least one person and leads to them ruining not only their own life but that of the people around them, thus giving me some pretty bad karma. That would explain the bad luck I've been working off through this lifetime, but karma being both real and a present punishment for future actions would be about as amazing as the events in the Book of Revelations being actual prophecies. Anything's possible, I guess.

*But will at this time: the correlation of both the temple's destruction and Jesus' destruction occurring around Passover; the first stories of the life of Jesus being after the fall of the second temple; the earliest reference to the life of Jesus, the Gospel of Mark, having a poetic plot structure common in Jewish poetry and fiction of the time; the inconsistency of details not in Mark, such as the birth of Jesus, suggesting the later gospels are essentially fanfiction of the first gospel with some added anarchocommunist rhetoric; the clear cribbing of many of the plot points in the Jesus narrative from earlier Greco-Roman mythologies after said groups occupied Jerusalem, the fact that the story more or less relies upon literal belief in an ancient poem about talking animals, etc.