You'll find nearly everything the Bible has to say about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery, mangled syntax, confounding contradictions, and very firm ideas about the horrors that await us all. And yet our popular understaning of the Apocalypse is all wrong. Armageddon delves into this most misunderstood-and possibly most dangerous-book of the Bible, on a tour through three millennia of Judeo-Christian thinking about how our world will end. By turns hilarious, moving, torubling, and provocative, the book explores the alarming social and politcal consequences of expecting an imminent apocalypse, considers whether the message of Revelation may be at odds with the teachings of Jesus, and offers inspiring insight into how to live in the face of a future that's anything but certain.