Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, I'm Paul Vogelze, and today's show is brought to you by Better Help and Sunday.

As part of our Art of Living Author Interview series, we have an excellent program about Armageddon,

with returning biblical scholar and New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Bart Airman.

Thank you so much for listening. I will reintroduce Dr. Bart Airman to our Not Old Better Show audience in just a moment,

quickly if you missed any episodes. Last week was our 705th episode when I spoke to award-winning American television producer,

filmmaker and journalist, Natasha Lance Rogoff, who was author of the new book, Muppets in Moscow.

Two weeks ago, as part of our series on Women's History Month, I spoke with Smithsonian Associate,

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Sarah Lookinson about the magnificent Barbara Streisand excellent subjects.

For our Not Old Better Show audience, especially during Women's History Month, if you missed those shows,

along with any others you can go back and check them out, along with my entire back catalog of shows,

all free for you there on our website, notold-better.com.

Our guest today, and returning audience favorite, Dr. Bart Airman, has written or edited over 30 books,

including six New York Times bestsellers.

Dr. Airman's newest book, Armageddon, what the Bible really says about the end, is already a New York Times bestseller.

Dr. Airman will reveal, as a biblical scholar, why our popular understanding of the apocalypse is all wrong and why that matters.

Dr. Bart Airman says we will find nearly everything the Bible has to say about the end in the book of Revelation.

Dr. Airman tells us today why the book of Revelation is a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery, mangled syntax, confounding contradictions,

and very firm ideas about the horrors that await us all.

But whether you understand the book as a literal description of what will soon come to pass, or you interpret it as a metaphorical expression of hope,

that's definitely where I come down.

In any event, all of us will recognize in our conversation with Dr. Airman the highlights that come from pop culture,

what you think the book of Revelation reveals, and what you think is almost certainly wrong.

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