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Apocalypse When?
Ive been wondering if the rapture, where good Christians are
brought up to Heaven in the end times, hasnt already happened -
only the reason we dont know it is that God is really, really
picky and he only raptured up like about a dozen people and
nobody much noticed it. All those other people who expected to
be raptured up, well, he didnt like them so much because they
were too arrogant. They just expected that God should go out of
his way to fetch them and he didnt like being told what he had
to do.
Anyways, thats just a thought.
Please read the following sentence: I plan to go to the Mall of
Neverland ChronicleMichael Jackson is one of the most recognized persons on the planet today. Even though ..... America, in Minneapolis, and buy socks.
After reading that did you believe that I meant that I, after
dying and going to Heaven, plan to be resurrected and return in
two thousand years to a Mall that had in those two thousand
'They' Value The MenstruumThe Templar flag Columbus and da Gama traveled under was the dominant economic and therefore (if for no other reason) force in the ..... years been destroyed which does not exist in two thousand years
but must be rebuilt in a place called Minneapolis, that also
will not exist and must also be rebuilt? Or, on the other hand,
did you think that I (more reasonably) meant that I was going to
buy socks sometime during my present lifetime, most likely
pretty soon?
Aha. So ... you selected the second option. Didnt you? Then why
if you didnt automatically assume that I was talking about
aeons in the future would you assume that in the book of
Revelations that St. John the Divine did.
This one occurred to me at a time when I had both insomnia and
no cable and the only thing on TV was a show called the World
Tomorrow which of course, I had to watch. (What? Turn off the
TV? Im sorry, thats just not an option). I remember this one
show in Texas called the 3 to 5 AM Solution that featured a
married couple in their sixties. She had too much make-up and a
blonde bouffant, and he had the most remarkable comb-over Id
ever seen with ever single hair remaining on his head grown long
and shellacked over the bald parts, which was most of it. I
rather admired him for that spectacular comb-over. About then
Id started to get a little bit thinner on top myself and I paid
very careful attention to how he did it - just in case.
The World Tomorrow was set up like a news show with the star
Jack Van Impe reporting. He had his wife, too, I think, doing
her special commentary. Jack Van I. Was giving his
The Pendant Of PheniceFIRST LOVE RECOVERY MINISTRIES THE PENDANT OF PHENICE There was a young man who had a very strange dream on a very cold and dark night. ..... interpretation of Revelations and I followed along in the Bible
I had at that time, which had belonged to an ex-room-mate named
Al who still owes me two hundred and thirty dollars for long
distance calls to Washington State, where he became a big, fancy
engineer for Boeing. (Al, pay up. I need that money). This
particular Bible started each chapter with a little summary of
the book, including who wrote it, where and more importantly
when.
It said Revelations had been written between 66 and 69 A.D. By
In Divers PlacesIn Divers Places.
Isaiah 65:17-65:25
In Divers Places. A Look at prophecy and today's headlines. How many here today know what the ..... this time I knew a little bit about the history of this era. At
this time Israel was in revolt and Rome was experiencing a civil
war as the reign of the emperor Nero was coming to a close. 69
A.D. was called the year of the four Caesars, who were
successively: Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian. In 70
A.D. Vespasians son (and future emperor) Titus destroyedthe
temple in Jerusalem.
Well, this just made sense. Of course, St. John the Divine would
be talking about a temple that existed when he was writing. Just
like he was talking about a Rome that existed when he wrote
about it and not some future Rome-like entity like the Common
Market or the European union. Just like he would be talking
about an Israel that existed at the time and not some future new
Israel.
Revelationists usually have a problem in explaining why the
United States does not show up in any form in their great
prophecy, like Hal Lindsay, who wrote The Late Great Planet
Earth and excuses this omission by saying that the United States
Arab Business CultureHaving done my fair share of business with Arab Businessmen and Muslim Folks and thinking ..... must have declined so much by the End of the World that it
didnt even bear mentioning.
Maybe. Or maybe it was that nobody in the first century Roman
era had any idea that there were a couple of extra continents
across the Atlantic. And thats why it isnt mentioned. In
general I have a bone to pick with Lindsay and other authors of
his ilk. He uses basic fortune tellers tricks, taking very vague
references out of context and then bending them to his own uses.
When I got wise to him, I went through his book and then read
the verses before and after the ones he cited. In context, it
looks entirely different from what he says. Heres one that
sticks in my mind: he says that the quotation from Revelations
that a great noise will come from the North (or something like
that) actually means that Russian troops will invade Israel
because the word or noise in Hebrew is Ra-ash (true enough)
which sounds like Russia (kind of. Okay) so obviously that means
Russian troops.
But why would the author, writing in Greek, switch to Aramaic to
indicate foreign troops from a specific area when in all other
places he specifically names the countries - in Greek -and when
he talks about troops, he says so? Russia just becomes noise
and were supposed to accept that? OR maybe he really did mean a
literal noise. You think?
One more thing. Theres a lot of talk about in these circles
about the increased number of natural disasters indicating the
approach of the end times - like birth pangs for the end of the
world. Are there really more natural disasters or is it just
that there are more people on the Earth and so more people are
going to be affected by them and it seems like more, but it
isnt? Ninety percent of the Worlds population lives within a
hundred miles of a major coastline which if you look at a world
map is the area occupied by the line that shows you where the
coastlines are. When a natural disaster hits a coastal area,
like the Tsunami, or hurricanes or typhoons or Earth quakes,
then a lot of people are going to feel it.
It all comes down to this question: How obtuse is God, anyways?
If he really has something he wants to tell us, why is he only
sending us cataclysmic hints and not getting to the point. If he
wanted to, for example, he could write on the moon whats on his
mind, like maybe stop fornicating and then wed all know for
sure that hes really serious about us not fornicating.
About the author:
Steve Sommers is the author of Breakfast with the Antichrist.
Visit his Website at http://www.breakfastwiththeantichrist.com
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