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admonition ! This clause contains spoilers for American Jesus : Revelation # 3American Jesusis a serial publication that brings the Bible ’s Book of Revelation to the modern geological era , depicting the unknown , metaphoric coming of armageddon in a more literal sense . In little , it ’s a story about the end of the universe . At least , it should have been . And that ’s whythe ending to this Chosen One storyis absolutely perfect , as it rejects the cynicism that normally comes with these types of stories for serious-mindedness .
American Jesuscould be described as areimagining ofThe OmenorRosemary ’s Baby , though followed through to its closing . A secret demonic society that consists of and control the find category of the entire satellite direct the birth of the Antichrist in gild to bring about the terminal of the populace . More accurately , bring about an era of Godlessness in the world and take the planet for Satan . However , with the birth of one must come that of the other , and not long after the Antichrist was born , so too was the Returned Christ . As prophesied in the Book of Revelation , the Child of God would fall to guess humanity , and would land those who were worthy to heaven in an event known as the Rapture . The Earth would then fall under the perfect ascendence of Satan , and it would be like a hell on Earth for all eternity . That ’s a passably heroic remnant of the world story in and of itself , andAmerican Jesushad every opportunity to tell that variation of it . But instead , the book decided to dig into the very nature of the idea of Jesus Christ : forgiveness .
American Jesus’ Returned Christ Forgives The World Rather Than Ending It
In the final part of theAmerican Jesustrilogy ( American Jesus : Revelation#3 by Mark Miller , Peter Gross , and Tomm Coker ) , the Antichrist named Jodie - who had risen in political baron to become the President of the United States - is face off against the Returned Christ named Catalina . Before anything unequivocal happens , however , Jodie asks Catalina for forgiveness , and for the forgiveness of the integral human slipstream . He was entail to represent the ruination of humanity , and the things he ’d done in the name of his dark father were atrocious to say the least . However , in good order on the precipice of armageddon , the Antichrist himself require the Returned Christ to forgive the world for its toleration of the evilness he made evident .
Not only did Jodie ask for forgiveness from Catalina , but his message and sentiment extended beyond his deathly body , and was , in fact , a plea from Satan to God . The book ended with Satan back in heaven sitting at God ’s left side as the holy person Lucifer once more , with Catalina sitting at God ’s right . Jodie renounced the evil he had been raise into and decide to spend the ease of his lifetime in the loving embrace of his family and friends . The human race as humans acknowledge it had ended , and a new age of love had begun . This ending flipped the original story on its head , as humans were n’t take up to heaven only to lead the most wicked behind to endure underworld on Earth . Instead , the love of God and heaven was feel by everyone on the major planet without the mean filter of the devil ’s front , and it was all part of God ’s plan all along .
The whole head of Jesus in the Bible was as a trope of forgiveness , which is why it was always unusual that His fib would stop by select to leave jillion of people behind on an Earth that was destined to - quite literally - go to hell . Rather than limn that version of the Returned Christ in his story , Mark Miller opt to portray the original purpose of Jesus Christ in Catalina , which translated to a much more optimistic view of the biblical end of day inAmerican Jesus , where even Satan finds redemption in God ’s lighter - and it ’s utterly perfect .
American Jesus : Revelation # 3published by Image Comics is uncommitted now .
