“Apocalyptic hyperbole” can be the fallback position of knaves and scoundrels and the lazy.
If something doesn’t fit just call it hyperbole, symbolism, metaphor, etc.
INDEED.
Apocalyptic hyperbole . . .
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—stretching their rubber Bibles to fit yet more outrageousness;
—stretching their rubber histories to try and fit their fantasies around things that never happened but are written up in the JOURNAL OF THE ALICE IN WONDERLAND SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AS THOUGH they happened;
—stretching their rubber logic books to vainly try and insist that up is down; down is up; black is white; coming is going; increasing war; evil; crime and demonized behavior is a sure sign of Christ’s growing millenial peace . . . etc.