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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It will not be "The End" but the Beginning...........
I'm supposed to go on vacation next week. Guess I'll extend that for a couple of days...
Reschedule for Monday, the 21st. And since time is of the essence, we will make the sacrifice and come to a freeper in need and help you demolish those bay crabs.
Make it an end of life smash event!
Tuesday actually.
Aug 22? Crap. I didn't want the world to end before I could get married and buy my dad's Corvette from him...
This thread is why Mike Savage says he's given up :).
seriously, we have no reason to believe this poon with the name nobody can spell is not telling the truth. He's been stone cold to the point about everything else. Just as with Bin Laden, ignore at your own peril.
Actually, the 22nd is on a Tuesday this month.
Great. I didn't want to go to the Sunday School teachers' meeting, anyway, or the Parish Festival committee on the 23rd.
Least we forget who the "intellectual" Left considers their true enemy. Certainly not the peace loving Iranians.
43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
It's a sick delusion - the Iranian Hitler will probably be removed from office one way or another by August 22nd by his own people.
I think I'll wait and place my bets on the Mayan calendar which has a drop-dead-end-of-the-world date of December 21st, 2012 AD.
What does one wear?
A hazmat suit?
I prefer Christ's robe of righteousness, humility, obedience to The Father. No better security available.
Sorry. I forgot my 3d glasses.
:0)
Plaid flannel bathrobe, fuzzy slippers, large cup of coffee with rum.
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