Robert Lowery

The cover story of the May 4, 2009 edition of Newsweek, “To Boldly Go…How ‘Star Trek’ Taught Us to Dream Big” has a fascinating article entitled “We’re All Trekkies Now.” I confess to you that I did not see the TV series when it first aired. I was too busy as a college student. A few years later when Star Trek went into syndication, I saw it on late night TV because Marilyn worked the 11-7 shift, and I stayed up all night studying and took a break by watching Captain Kirk and the gang explore the universe. I have never seen the other TV series associated with Star Trek and only three of four of the theatrical films.

But I do know the catchphrases and the characters.

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On Wednesday, April 29, I was teaching a class entitled “Biblical Interpretation for Ministry.” Gary Hall, my colleague who teaches Old Testament, and I developed the class more than a decade ago. One of its goals is to equip our students with proper principles for interpreting the various genres of the Bible (e.g., legal material, narratives, etc.). This week’s focus was on how to interpret the prophetic and apocalyptic materials in the Old and New Testament.

When it came time for me to lecture, I introduced the material on Revelation by remarking that I had no doubt that if I were “to google” and do a search on “Swine Flu and Biblical Prophecy,” I would get numerous hits. After the class I returned to my office to have a bit of lunch and grade papers. But I decided to sit at the computer and do the search. I typed in “Swine Flu and Biblical Prophecy.” Read more…