"You Rang?"
Posted on 08/09/2006 9:02:18 AM PDT by presidio9
Better cancel those holidays. We now have a date for Armageddon, and it's a week on Tuesday - August 22.
This information comes from no lesser source than the Wall Street Journal, where Bernard Lewis, President Bush's favourite historian, provides the details.
"In Islam, as in Judaism and Christianity," the professor writes, "there are certain beliefs concerning the cosmic struggle at the end of time - Gog and Magog, anti-Christ, Armageddon, and for Shiite Muslims, the long-awaited return of the Hidden Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil, however these may be defined.
"Mr Ahmadinejad [the Iranian president] and his followers clearly believe that this time is now, and that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well advanced. It may even have a date, indicated by several references by the Iranian president to giving his final answer to the US about nuclear development by August 22. This was at first reported as 'by the end of August', but Mr Ahmadinejad's statement was more precise."
Lewis continues: "What is the significance of August 22? This year, August 22 corresponds, in the Islamic calendar, to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to 'the farthest mosque', usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back (cf, Koran XVII.1). This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and, if necessary, of the world."
This sort of quasi-religious scaremongering always finds a receptive audience in the United States, especially among Christians of the jihadist
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Hmmmm,not sure what this means. Other than you may need to start the Official *I Told Ya' So* thread.
Uhhhhh . . . since about 1960, for me.
There should be plenty of chance to get the weiners good and toasty.
And I doubt folks would notice the resulting flatulance all that much.
"You Rang?"
NO. Not at all.
I think all of us in this era have their own unique roles to fill. Some are more prepared, alert and cooperative toward such and others less so.
I think alert, prepared, ready, committed to God and His Will is better than other options.
I've also been watching the 700 Club 'cause Pat Robertson is in Israel right in the middle of the war and he's been reporting live what's taking place...
Well, perhaps it's because you are exhibiting your lack of understanding of the End Times. If you were a Christian, as you claim to be, you'd know that Jesus will come from the clouds, not from the depth of a well underground. So, why is it you are so serious about this Imam coming from a well? Are you Shiia?
Guess I should check out CBN more often.
Nope. Beer brats, s'mores, and a bottle of whiskey.
I can't imagine having said anything to lead one logically to such a conclusion! WOW.
HOTW!!! [How Off The Wall]
The Islamoidiot heading Iran may well think he can bring the 12th Imam sooner on the scene by starting world chaos and destruction. God may or may not let him get away with 1/100th; 1/10th or 1% of such. I don't know.
But the whole possibility merely highlights for some of us that this is a very dramatic era in history as we've known it--unlike any before in a list of ways. We expect to be alive to see it all unfold . . . unless our ticket out is sooner by whatever means.
"In here, every day is ......."
Should I cancel the housecleaner on Monday, or is it best to have a clean house for the end of the world?
Then why don't you take your concerns to a thread about Christina End Times instead of attempting to turn a humorous thread about a nut job attempting to con God into something to be taken seriously?
Go right ahead, but for the life of me and in me, I do not know why you don't start a serious thread. I, for one, have no interest in a serious thread.
That depends - do you have teenage girls?
I always watch at least the first part of the 700 club cause that's when they report the news...lots of times they report what NO other news organization will report. They've also got their own reporters throughout the world. You can pick up those reports at their web site too.
Indeed ! :)
The Hal Lindsey Report is pretty good too. TBN dumped his show, and I was glad Daystar was added to DISH Network because that's his new TV home now.
I gotta agree with Onyx on this one. This is going to be billed as a Freep-over, not a Freep-vival.
LOL...........are we running "to" or "from" something?
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