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Eschatology 101. The study of the final events of history and the ultimate destiny of the human race. The 10-week theology course was supposed to be an easy elective to fulfill my degree requirements at the university. Suddenly the Apocalypse, the End of Days, no longer seemed like a far-off fairy tale. Jim Morrison once opined, "No one here gets out alive." Except us. We will endure.

A thousand eyes were watching me. Nobody in the room was talking, and the only sound was a muffled cough from the darkness in the back of the auditorium. Why wasn’t everyone whispering to their neighbors? Shouldn’t they be playing on their cell phones or even sleeping—like normal teenagers? I quickly thought back to high school when I was sitting where they were today. I couldn’t tell you the name of one person that came to speak, nor could I recall one subject matter that he or she would have even talked about.