So, Bush issued this statement last week:
"we recognize a divine plan that stands above all human plans and continue to seek His will."
The words were penned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower's establishment of "In God We Trust" as the national motto of the United States, but one can't help but, (knowing Dubya) feel a bit queasy reading those words.
The whole cultural idea of how the Book of Revelations is interpreted has been handed down from the biblical scholarship of one man, a British evangelical minister who lived in the nineteeth century.
This man's name was
John Nelson Darby.
He is the individual responsible for the doctrine of
Dispensationalism & for interpreting Revelations in such a way as to craft the common understanding of the Rapture & the Tribulation & Millenium that most Christians adhere to worldwide.
also see: http://users.frii.com/gosplow/disp2.html