Even in the End, War is the way to go.

The plot of a Glorious Appearing follows the events of the book of Revelation step by step; including seven years of tribulation, the battle of Christ vs. Antichrist, and Lucifer’s 1000-year grace period before the final battle. What I found most interesting about how the book of Revelation is how the time just before the end is depicted. The world is at war and the end could come any day now. The book begins with the characters believing that the end will be the following day, but they carry on with their as any other day. Maybe it is because they keep waiting for the day to happen, and it’s better to go on as usual in case is does not come. (Rabbi Elezar says that he believes that the Messiah will arrive on time, but he doesn’t, it will not alter his faith. Time is on God’s hands, yet man is the one making the prediction, so technically time is on human hands. If a human is wrong about the time, then it goes back to God, He just decided to come back a different day.)
The fact that the characters continued the war until the very end made me think about the real world, if we knew the end is certain to be tomorrow, what would we do? Would world powers try to win one last war to prove their power? Or perhaps the government officials would go home and spent their last hours on Earth with their family? When I was younger my dad had moved to the United States and the rest of my family remained in Mexico. We were talking about the end of the world in my communion class and I remember thinking: if this happens, when we all go to heaven, will there be a New York section in heaven? Will I have to go look for my dad over there? All I thought of was family, yet McCullum takes one last assignment to go look for Buck. I can see that maybe he does not want Buck to be alone in the very, absolute end, but he decides to risk it and try to find his way into enemy territory. Why risk his life for an assignment that might not mean much in a matter of hours while facing the end?
I cannot wrap my mind around the fact that even hours away from the end of the world, humans are still fighting a war. They want God to come and save them as they kill one last person. Yes, they are fighting on the “good” side, but doesn’t every side to every war consider themselves to be on the “good” side?