Countdown to Armageddon is a 2004 History Channel documentary film that reviews the history of apocalyptic literature (Armageddon). "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " History, formerly known as The History Channel, is a Satellite and Cable TV channel, with shows on historical events and persons&mdashoften Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality In Christian mythology Armageddon ( Greek Αρμαγεδδων; also spelled Har-Magedon in some modern English translations also known as The documentary is written and directed by David de Vries, produced by Craig Haffner and Glenn Kirschbaum, narrated by Edward Herrmann, and features archaeologist/historian Eric H. Cline, Orthodox Christian scholar John McGuckin, televangelist John Hagee, author Tim LaHaye, and author Gershom Gorenberg. Captain David Pietersz de Vries (c 1593, La Rochelle - probably 1662, Hoorn) was a Dutch navigator from Hoorn, Holland Edward Kirk Herrmann (born July 21, 1943) is an American Television and Film actor Eric H Cline (born September 1, 1960) is an Author, Historian, Archaeologist John Anthony McGuckin (born 1952 is an Orthodox Christian Scholar, Priest, and Poet. John Charles Hagee (born April 12 1940 is the founder and senior Pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a non-denominational Timothy F LaHaye (b April 27, 1926 in Detroit Michigan) is an American evangelical Christian minister, Author Gershom Gorenberg is an American -born Israeli historian journalist and blogger, specializing in the Middle Eastern politics and the interaction of religion
- "The End is Near" is a cry that has echoed throughout human history. Every religion has stories of the end of the world, and believers in every era have prophesized that the time was at hand. So far, these predictions have come to naught, but a rash of unusual events and the rise of fundamental faiths have led to a new golden era of doomsayers. Deadlands Hell on Earth is a genre-mixing alternate history Roleplaying game which combines the Post-apocalyptic and horror
- Asteroids on a collision course with Earth, super volcanoes, global warming, killer viruses--all are potential catastrophes that threaten to wipe out life on our planet. Asteroids, sometimes called Minor planets or planetoids', are bodies—primarily of the inner Solar System —that are smaller than planets but A supervolcano or super volcanic eruption is a Volcanic eruption which is Orders of magnitude greater than any volcano in historic times (generally accepted to be Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the A virus (from the Latin virus meaning Toxin or Poison) is a sub-microscopic infectious agent that is unable Are these simply natural disasters that have been occurring since time immemorial? Or are these threats terrifying prophesies from the Bible that are at last coming true? Are our fears overblown? Or are the infamous Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse riding among us in a countdown to Armageddon?
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Other subjects include: Millerites, the rapture, bird flu, etc. A natural disaster is the consequence of a Natural hazard (eg Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are the forces of man's destruction described in the Christian Bible in chapter six of the Book of Revelation. The Rapture is a prophesied event in Christian eschatology, in which Christians will be gathered together at the return of Christ; even Christians who have died
The documentary also appears in The History Channel's History Alive series.
Links
- Internet Movie Database: Countdown to Armageddon
- TV.com: History Alive: Countdown to Armageddon
- Countdown to Armageddon on Google Video
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