Posted on 01/25/2006 10:10:11 PM PST by jb6
Moscow, January 24, Interfax - Some five thousand pilgrims from various countries became witnesses to a sign that appeared on the holy River of Jordan on the Epiphany Day.
Immediately after Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem performed the rite of the blessing of water, the Jordan boiled up and began to flow back, just as it happened after the baptism of Christ, the Zhizn (Life) daily writes.
Right after silver crosses were thrown into its calm waters after the prayer, the river boiled up. A maelstrom developed and the current flowed back for a several minutes.
An ecstatic cry of five thousand people resounded over the Jewish desert. People refused to believe their own eyes, just as they did two thousand years when the Jordan turned its current after Jesus Christ entered its waters, the newspaper writes.
This at a time where the EU is demanding Gay Parades!
Where is it recorded that the Jordan boiled after the Baptism of Jesus?
What!?? The Jordan only parted 3 times in the Bible. It happened with Joshua, Elijah, and Elisha, but never with Jesus.
It is recorded that the heavens opened up, and a dove decended.
I think the translation has changed things a bit using maelstrom and boiled.
Either way however this is clearly a miracle.
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