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
(Excerpt) Read more at commentisfree.guardian.co.uk ...
Go back to post 200. It was there.
Damn! No 2006-07 NFL Season? that IS HELL!........
What is it about Tuesdays? They seem to be the dark days. Can't we have it on a day that I sleep in so I don't know about it...like Saturday.
*The Grampa Dave MSM Queer Agenda Outsearch (pat pending)"
Thanks for the publicity and for using my system to identify the hate filled gay maggot writers in the MSM.
" especially among Christians of the jihadist persuasion."
What!?!
Some prophecies are conditional and some are absolute. Is armageddon an absolute? We'll never know unless we try the 'sackcloth and ashes' first and take other steps to change the course of pre-cursive events.
Thirteen more days is not much time.
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Castro may already BE dead! He may be awaiting the 22nd for his RESURRECTION as THE BEAST!.........
Somebody better tell Hal Lindsay!
And just my luck, it figures that it was finally going to be the year The Detroit Lions win the Super Bowl.
And no World Series for my Tigers, either.
I have an article on that. That was during Clinton. It was a weather probe or something.
Almost three years in Iraq and then the world ends just before my home leave and before I can go home for good and reap the rewards of all of this fun?
Ha! I don't think so. ;-)
However, news reports out of the Middle East indicate the "Islamic Street" is taking Ahmadinejad's statement quite seriously, even if The Guardian is not: Many are looking foward to this date with bated breath....
I'd love to know where this author's assurance that Tehran doesn't have nukes yet comes from. What's his source on that? Unfortunately, he doesn't say....
Anyhoot, I wouldn't be at all surprised if some sort of "fireworks" -- not necessarily nuclear -- takes place on this date. Stay tuned.
FWIW. Thanks for this aggravating post, presidio9!
guess, I will stop cleaning house.. and shoot.. I mowed the lawn today..
need to get the EOE memos out earlier!
sigh
I agree . . . satan is one.
The AC is one.
His forerunner is one.
But the George Soros types and cohorts above them are what--a dozen or two?
Well, wear clean underwear in case the worst happens and you wind up in a hospital, so you won't be embarrassed.
My pleasure Gramps. I use it all the time ever since you taught it to me.
HELLARY WON'T EVER BE PRESIDENT!.........
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