then i am mistaken... i thought the V and W were kind of interchangeable
Posted on 10/29/2011 4:42:32 PM PDT by kindred
then i am mistaken... i thought the V and W were kind of interchangeable
maybe it’s the mole of the beast...
. I truly wonder how many - lost and saved today - fully comprehend the full magnitude, weight and depth of this exponential super abounding time called the Great Tribulation
Clearly the author of this article doesn't comprehend the passage at all and knows nothing of the Great Tribulation that took place in Judea around 70AD.
The author assumes many things that are in direct conflict with the text. For example, taking the passage that the author butchered by chopping off the last phrase of the sentence "but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.". There is a very good reason why the writer chopped off that phrase - because it refutes the wild claims of the writer. Who is the "elect" and why would the "elect" be on Earth during the Futurist's imaginative "Great Tribulation"? Aren't the "elect" enjoying a seven year party and rave in Heaven?
Then there are other clues to the fact that the author replaced the elect physical and spiritual children of Abraham with "the whole world" in the context to who was being warned. Our LORD said "take heed that no one deceives you" where the most natural context would be the people who He was talking to, not a generation of reprobates who already "rejected Christ" and are passed over and "left behind" from an alleged "rapture" thousands of years later.
Then there is the phrase "those who are in Judea flee to the mountains". Why is it that the Futurists who replace "Israel" with "the whole world" always delete this passage? Because it puts the scope of the warning to the people actually living in Judea who could escape the tribulation by "fleeing to the [nearby] mountains"
"Pray that you flight may not be in the winter..." Doesn't the author know that while one hemisphere enjoys a summer, the other is in the midst of a winter? Would Jesus, the Creator of Heaven and Earth forget this detail, or is it possible the scope of the warning was to those living in Judea?
"...or on the Sabbath" How is it that the Replacementarian Futurist misses this phrase? What religion actually observes the Law on the Sabbath regarding travel? Back in the first century, the people to who Jesus was speaking to, on the Sabbath not only kept indoors, but the gates of all the cities and towns were kept shut and barred. This statement would only make sense to the people of Judea up until 70AD, not to six billion plus people wandering around the Earth in the twenty-first century.
"Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house." How relevant is that warning to anyone today? But it was a helpful survival tip to those in Judea during the first century.
So the context is clearly of Judea in the first century. Flavius Josephus, Jewish Historian records in War of the Jews, book 5 chapter 10 the horror of women and children who perished by the famine, taking food from the mouths of their own children. In Book 6 chapter 3, we read of Mary, daughter of Eliezar who killed, boiled and half eaten her own suckling child until discovered. How do you think those historical facts correspond to the warning "And woe to unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days." (v19).
Never mind the lunacy of suggesting that a future generation of people who have rejected Christ are now going to escape the Tribulation by hiding in the hills of Judea - these warnings were given to the disciples and those of faith who were still in Jerusalem at the time the Roman armies encircled the city and began the siege.
The evidence is overwhelming that the author is either clueless or is deliberately reckless and deceiving concerning the Scriptures and through the vehicle of lies perversely thinks that people can be scared into the Kingdom.
I'm assuming that the author has given up on the Gospel and is now using terrorism to "win souls for Christ". I guess if you don't know the Gospel then you can't really use it to further the kingdom. Go with what you know - self-absorbtion and fear.
i have seen things similar to this and that is why i thought it was so... The Waw has a "w" sound (called the vav in modern Hebrew with a "v" sound) and is a picture of a peg or nail which is used to secure or add things together. This letter is used to mean "and" in the sense of adding. When this letter is prefixed to the word erets the word we'erets is formed meaning "and a land."
Nope, Avogadro’s number is not the mark of the beast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=selfqEH-JnY
Pretty cool (and eerie) song from the Aphrodite’s Child 666 album from a long time ago....
psychedelic man... kinda haunting though
Blog spam that, if anywhere, belongs in Religion, not News/Activism.
HAHA lol that was funny....
Weird, I’d always thought of that song as warning of the seductive power of evil.
Excellent.
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the cat is a beast.
Yes. When Heinlein was writing it, he made one of his annual calls soliciting blood donations at the WorldCon. I wasn't at home to take the call, so he chatted for a while with my younger son, then in high school. He mentioned some things about "a forthcoming story," which I recognized when I read it. I thought it was very gentelemanly of Heinlein to take the time to chat with a high school student, even though he had a lot of calls to make.
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