{"id":2675,"date":"2022-11-03T15:54:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T19:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:03:07","slug":"apocalypse-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the world&#8217;s religions, spiritual traditions and scriptures talk about a world-ending, an Armageddon, Final Judgement day, etc. But are these the end times? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some of the clues we&#8217;re supposed to see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pestilences and pandemics (but we&#8217;ve had these for centuries) True the first horse of the Apocalypse could have been COVID. 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