AI Apocalypse, Prayer, Season of Creation

By the start of the 1990s, it wouldn't be inconceivable to think that the average person might not know who Johnny Cash was.

Despite being one of the absolute legends of country music, two decades of underachieving records had caused his star to fall, consigned to the history books, overshadowed by his more famous peers.

It took the attention of one of the key figures in the evolution of hip hop to open the door to an unlikely redemption.

Stephen Rainey tells the story.

of how producer rick rubin helped return johnny cash to his rightful position as one of the most important american voices of all time partly by returning to his gospel roots especially the book of revelation

so i looked and behold a pale horse And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him.

And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

In the final book of the New Testament, the book of Revelation is a complex and controversial work, with scholars debating to this very day the exact meaning of the words.

Credited to John the Revelator, even the identity of this figure remains uncertain.

Is he the apostle John, or some completely other separate figure?

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?

Regardless of authorship, throughout the years, the book has long been viewed in the context of giving us an insight into the end of the world.

when the seven seals are opened, the seven trumpets are sounded, and the seven bowls are poured upon the earth, unleashing the four horsemen of the apocalypse and all manner of plagues and disaster upon the world.

And after a battle upon the plains of Armageddon, and the last judgment casts the wicked into the lake of fire, the return of Christ results in the creation of a new heaven and a new earth, ending the curse of sin forever.

And behold, I am coming quickly, and my reward is with me, to give to everyone according to his work.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

I saw the light.

I wondered, so aimless, life filled with sin.

I wouldn't let my dear Savior in.

Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night.

Praise the Lord, I saw the light.

Rich with symbolism, it can be interpreted in many ways, but one way in which it's often misinterpreted is that it's a story about the end of things.

Despite the violence of the imagery, the book of Revelation is thought by many to actually be about beginnings, harking back to the very first book of the Christian Bible, the book of Genesis.

By the end of John's prophetic vision, mankind has returned to the Garden of Eden, the river of life and the tree of life restored after the fall of man.

Then like the blind man, God gave back his sight.

By the start of the 1990s, it wouldn't be inconceivable to think that the average person might not know who Johnny Cash was.

Despite being one of the absolute legends of country music, two decades of underachieving records had caused his star to fall, consigned to the history books, overshadowed by his more famous peers.

It took the attention of one of the key figures in the evolution of hip hop to open the door to an unlikely redemption.

Stephen Rainey tells the story.

of how producer rick rubin helped return johnny cash to his rightful position as one of the most important american voices of all time partly by returning to his gospel roots especially the book of revelation

so i looked and behold a pale horse And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him.

And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

In the final book of the New Testament, the book of Revelation is a complex and controversial work, with scholars debating to this very day the exact meaning of the words.

Credited to John the Revelator, even the identity of this figure remains uncertain.

Is he the apostle John, or some completely other separate figure?

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?

Regardless of authorship, throughout the years, the book has long been viewed in the context of giving us an insight into the end of the world.

when the seven seals are opened, the seven trumpets are sounded, and the seven bowls are poured upon the earth, unleashing the four horsemen of the apocalypse and all manner of plagues and disaster upon the world.

And after a battle upon the plains of Armageddon, and the last judgment casts the wicked into the lake of fire, the return of Christ results in the creation of a new heaven and a new earth, ending the curse of sin forever.

And behold, I am coming quickly, and my reward is with me, to give to everyone according to his work.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

I saw the light.

I wondered, so aimless, life filled with sin.

I wouldn't let my dear Savior in.

Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night.

Praise the Lord, I saw the light.

Rich with symbolism, it can be interpreted in many ways, but one way in which it's often misinterpreted is that it's a story about the end of things.

Despite the violence of the imagery, the book of Revelation is thought by many to actually be about beginnings, harking back to the very first book of the Christian Bible, the book of Genesis.

By the end of John's prophetic vision, mankind has returned to the Garden of Eden, the river of life and the tree of life restored after the fall of man.

Then like the blind man, God gave back his sight.