Yet another reason to ignore WND.
The first problem with the WND report is that what they report as the Patriarch's words is actually only the original Italian article's lede:
The zeroth problem is that it's from WND.
Dang.
****The original World Net Daily story was a matter of bad translation and not even looking at datelines. ***
Perhaps they heard what they wanted to hear, not what was actually spoken.
The original press release was mis-translated ...
It was supposed to have read “the Ardvaark of the Covenant” ...
I said it was a Geraldo Rivera moment.
WND goes the way of API...
Ignore WND and don’t spend anymore time on anything they do. Hopefully the legitimate conservatives will leave writing for WND and bring their views and writings to another more legitimate outlet.
I try find another story to vertify it Monk couldn’t I do go on other news wires
As usual, FreeRepublic cracked a hole on this WND story hours before the others:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2279094/posts?page=107#107
And I’m taking full credit, darnit!!
Actually, that was me, who actually went looking through the Adnkronos website and did a search for "Arca," which turned up the original story and the follow-up story prominently tagged with last week's dates.
It's the old story of the lowly Freeper doing the go-back-to-the-original research that the press won't do anymore.
Feelin' underappreciated much Claud? The answer is yes. Yes I am.
No one nor event can "hasten" the second coming. Jesus Christ IS coming again some day, you will get no argument from me about that. But that day was chosen and chiseled in celestial stone before time itself was created, and nothing anyone can do or say will "hasten" it's arrival. No one knows when it will be, and Jesus said that no one can learn when it will be. If anyone predicts a date for Christ's return, that prediction itself is a guarantee that the predicted day will NOT be the day on which He returns.
I love my evangelical Christian brothers and sisters in Christ, but I wish they would stop jumping at every vague "sign" that they see or hear which in their minds indicates that the return of Jesus Christ to earth is only a few days, or weeks, or at most a few months, away. Jesus himself said that no man knows or will be allowed to learn the point in time at which He will return to earth to first destroy the armies of AntiChrist, and then to set up His global millennial Kingdom of perfect justice, peace, and plenty that he will rule over from His throne in Jerusalem.
I personally believe that the dearth of information in the New Testament concerning the time of His return is meant to persuade Christians to be ready to meet Him at any given moment without constantly searching for "signs" of His return. My current tagline is excerpted from the next to last verse in the New Testament. According to Dr. James Strong's Greek Dictionary, the Greek word in the original autograph that is translated "quickly" in most English versions of the Apocalypse can just as properly be translated "suddenly", or "by surprise". "Soon" doesn't normally refer to a 1900 year wait. Therefore if God the Father had intended for the Apostle John to say that His Son Jesus Christ would return "soon" instead of "suddenly" or "by surprise" when God the Holy Spirit dictated the book of the Revelation 19 centuries ago, Jesus would surely have returned long before now.
ping. After the WND story came out, a number of Ethiopians online got really, really angry. But the Patriarch had debunked the story a week before.
For those looking for the follow-up story.