okay so stop me if you’ve heard this one
a rabbi a pastor
and an imam walk into a bar okay so it
must be barred with a diner to discuss
my show a story of god about apocalypse
so the rabbi says share with me a little
bit about how the Islamic tradition and
the Christian tradition understands the
apocalypse I think Christians should go
first on this one for the new kids on
the block jesus said no one knows a time
or the hour except the father we are
aware that something is coming but it is
not something to fear something to
motivate us to do our best now
preparation the narrative of the end of
days is really a collective story about
how human beings will come to an end the
mountains will become like wool and the
Seas will boil and there will be great
Wars and people will be scattered like
moms in general the term apocalypse
isn’t one that’s used often in Judaism
let me see a little bit about the end of
days in the Book of Daniel but I don’t
think that there is so much about the
signs of the end of days
one thing that’s interesting to note is
that there’s a passage in the Bible that
says to God a thousand years is a day
and so we may not be talking about
literal days and we look at some of
these huge events and then you take a
look at the global warming issue that’s
taking place and so it is possible that
a lot of these events are spread out
over years perhaps even decades so
here’s something to think about if you
knew that the end of days was coming
what would you do I would do something
that would probably fly in the face of
the whole notion of things coming to an
end and planted walnut tree it takes 80
years to grow
I would brace myself to meet God I can
see you with a with a packer the end of
days are coming that’s all I know it’s
Tuesday because there’s always someone
on my way to work with a sign saying
that a new phase is coming and I’m like
oh it last week a Tuesday I think for me
one of the things I do is I start eating
a lot of chocolate with my family it
wouldn’t just be chocolate the sake of
chocolate but I’d have some time with
them and really savor a sweet sweet
moment with them
so what is one thing about that
pocalypse that might be surprising for
someone to hear it’ll be the most
amazing experience you can imagine
that’s a moment you what you’re meeting
up yeah there’s not a lot of images or
stories in the Jewish tradition that
guide us to imagine that but the
imagination of meeting God is such a
holy endeavor one of the surprising
factoids about the end of days in Islam
is that although we have no idea when it
will be there is a tradition that says
it will be on a Friday so so not that
you tell Belson’s really
I was thinking oh he says about is that
guy holding the sign said well yourself
a few more days well at least why is it
that young people in particular are
intrigued by this idea of Apocalypse I
think it deals with all of the
uncertainties about life if you think
about the apocalypse and if you have a
perspective or or path to it there’s
probably a little bit of peace that you
get it seems almost oxymoronic that
young people are so focused and fixated
on the end of times because the whole
definition of what it means to be young
is to think that they’re going to live
forever and they don’t really aren’t
thinking about the long-term
consequences of their choices by
considering the idea that the world as
we know it is coming to an end
allows us to consider the personal
meaning that we put into our own lives
and the actions that we take in the
world so we can become accountable for
all that we do so when you’re gonna have
tomorrow Friday to stick
a rabbi a pastor
and an imam walk into a bar okay so it
must be barred with a diner to discuss
my show a story of god about apocalypse
so the rabbi says share with me a little
bit about how the Islamic tradition and
the Christian tradition understands the
apocalypse I think Christians should go
first on this one for the new kids on
the block jesus said no one knows a time
or the hour except the father we are
aware that something is coming but it is
not something to fear something to
motivate us to do our best now
preparation the narrative of the end of
days is really a collective story about
how human beings will come to an end the
mountains will become like wool and the
Seas will boil and there will be great
Wars and people will be scattered like
moms in general the term apocalypse
isn’t one that’s used often in Judaism
let me see a little bit about the end of
days in the Book of Daniel but I don’t
think that there is so much about the
signs of the end of days
one thing that’s interesting to note is
that there’s a passage in the Bible that
says to God a thousand years is a day
and so we may not be talking about
literal days and we look at some of
these huge events and then you take a
look at the global warming issue that’s
taking place and so it is possible that
a lot of these events are spread out
over years perhaps even decades so
here’s something to think about if you
knew that the end of days was coming
what would you do I would do something
that would probably fly in the face of
the whole notion of things coming to an
end and planted walnut tree it takes 80
years to grow
I would brace myself to meet God I can
see you with a with a packer the end of
days are coming that’s all I know it’s
Tuesday because there’s always someone
on my way to work with a sign saying
that a new phase is coming and I’m like
oh it last week a Tuesday I think for me
one of the things I do is I start eating
a lot of chocolate with my family it
wouldn’t just be chocolate the sake of
chocolate but I’d have some time with
them and really savor a sweet sweet
moment with them
so what is one thing about that
pocalypse that might be surprising for
someone to hear it’ll be the most
amazing experience you can imagine
that’s a moment you what you’re meeting
up yeah there’s not a lot of images or
stories in the Jewish tradition that
guide us to imagine that but the
imagination of meeting God is such a
holy endeavor one of the surprising
factoids about the end of days in Islam
is that although we have no idea when it
will be there is a tradition that says
it will be on a Friday so so not that
you tell Belson’s really
I was thinking oh he says about is that
guy holding the sign said well yourself
a few more days well at least why is it
that young people in particular are
intrigued by this idea of Apocalypse I
think it deals with all of the
uncertainties about life if you think
about the apocalypse and if you have a
perspective or or path to it there’s
probably a little bit of peace that you
get it seems almost oxymoronic that
young people are so focused and fixated
on the end of times because the whole
definition of what it means to be young
is to think that they’re going to live
forever and they don’t really aren’t
thinking about the long-term
consequences of their choices by
considering the idea that the world as
we know it is coming to an end
allows us to consider the personal
meaning that we put into our own lives
and the actions that we take in the
world so we can become accountable for
all that we do so when you’re gonna have
tomorrow Friday to stick
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