Apocalypse Now: A Cascade of Disclosures

Every day I am seeing numerous signs that a true apocalypse is upon us. Because the “Apocalypse of John” was his vision of the end of the world, we often think of an apocalypse as something catastrophic or cataclysmic. In fact, the word comes from the Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein ‘uncover, reveal’, from apo– ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover’.

John had his Revelation after the Roman Emperor Domitian exiled him from his native Ephesus (now Izmir) to a small penal colony on the island of Patmos....