I got in an argument over the weekend with my father and my brother. Not a very spirited one but we each felt that we were right. No one out of the three of us has read the entire Bible, but we disagreed on the definition of an important word from the Bible that does not come out of everyday speech (except for my brother,) and that word is Apocalypse.
I believe it is "an unveiling to the masses, by the devine, of the world as it truly is; not how they perceive it to be."
My father says "it is the end of all things living on the Earth." (To me more like Armageddon or Judgement Day, But before Dr. Sexson elightened me, or unveiled to me the truth, I used Armageddon and Apocalypse interchangeably.)
Finally, my brother looked it up on his Ipod because he was tired of my father and I arguing and presented the option that it means "The final conflict in which the forces of good vanquish evil from the Earth."
The word comes from the prefix apo- (which means away, off, or apart) -calypso (to cover or conceal) Therefore apocalypse is the departure of the cover, or the unveiling. But the unveiling of what?
"I guess we're just gonna have to wait and see."
-Marge Simpson, The Treehouse of Horror V
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