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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You are more than welcome dear Bro/Sis.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHEN. I'll pray for a special blessing and cheer and celebrate with you. Never any time like the present for that--even if only in a Bathtub. But, hey--it's summer--plenty of swimming pools!
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Oh, Lord. My spirit is willing; my flesh weak
Me in a nutshell.
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You and many tens of millions of the rest of us!
King's Kids in process.
Oh, I didn't have to accuse him. I informed him because it was so blatantly obvious.
I wasn't joking. I believe that I am the Messiah.
Got it?
LOL, what are you 12? That was such a lame come back it could only have come from a pre-teen.
Uhhhhhh, OK. I guess.
But . . . what would one expect in a forum full of Evangelical Christians on a thread about END TIMES/END OF THE WORLD???
How would one expect a major percentage of the forum to comment on the topic WITHOUT bringing in their primary values and reference system?
Or are we to construe it that such threads are really not meant to include us at all?
Or that we have to self-censor while y'all are free to comment out of your values and priorities on the topic but we must be careful not to???
Shessh.
I bet he couldn't care less.
Memo to OnRightOnLeftCoast:
Start a dreary thread of your own if you don't like ours.
He probably doesn't, but he should. The entire Arab world and the West would then be united to wipe Iran clean.
Thanks.
Glad I'm not the only one to see the obvious on such scores. Has always been a pet peeve of mine hereon. Why on earth would any educated person even imagine to keep such seperate from what--60+ percent of us hereon? Just because too many are too wimpy to stand up to the naysayers and say so! LOL.
And bodies, not so optional, for millions upon millions.
I remember that screen name. Rather liked the bloke. Is he still around?
Travis McGee. Don't remember much about him but that I kind of liked him.
And I think he was above average in pluck.
LOL! OK, so underwire's are out --- how about Wonder or sports bras?
BTW,
WHY
on a thread that is as free wheeling and all over the place as this one
should it matter what the Evangelical End Timers say? If one isn't interested, scroll on by. I don't read every silly post--just those that look interesting and amusing. Is that so hard?
Heavy role.
Will check your link out later.
Oh I definitely thing sports. We'll be laughing so hard we'll need the extra support.
I'll be in the shower.
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With or without moose?
With or without cheese?
With or without Hugh?
Series-ly, or not?
Enjoy it . . . might be the last of the tolerably hot water, for a while.
Though I doubt it.
I see you had an adventure in babysitting today...lol.
Oh, of course. The Guardian's definition of Conservative Christians.
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That's a rich one.
LOL.
Thanks.
Amen! Bet they're gonna be real party animals on the 22nd ;(
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