Have you double sourced this with the 7th Day Adventists? They have always been way out in front with the end times predictions.
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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AFAIK, the early believers were convinced Jesus would return in their lifetimes. Since this was written for the early believers, and their lifetimes are clearly over, perhaps WE can expect that hour.
The Twelfth Imam will soon appear.
Have you double sourced this with the 7th Day Adventists? They have always been way out in front with the end times predictions.
If the Iranians think the world will end on Aug. 22, then why are they busting their guts in an effort to obtain the a-bomb?
It's ghetto lingo for "Yeah, man. I agree with what you said."
This is gonna wreak havoc with Al Gore's global warming prediction.
"Plaid flannel bathrobe, fuzzy slippers, large cup of coffee with rum."
What does one TAKE to the A-copy-lipse...err..Apocalypse?
Ann's new book, all of our loved ones, latest issue of Soap Opera Digest ((oopps...sorry)), what else?
I think you're right on that score.
However, we don't know what
festivities
are scheduled for the period of the
birth pangs.
You have a tent?
Man, I can retire NOW and have enough money to last me until the end of the world!
A dead thread?
Ahhh. Thanks.
Now, it won't niggle at me all day as an unclosed circle. LOL.
God's best to you and yours, BTW.
Aug.22, you and my little girl share the same birthday. Encase we're not here...Happy Birthday!
Nobody has the end of the world on a Teeewsday.
Just in case :)
Wiping out a few million of themselves just to take out Israel or us is something they wouldn't hesitate to do.
Duct tape? Bottle Water? Plastic Sheeting?
"Before" & "After" photos?
Man, this Apocalypse is going to be a sucky one.
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