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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Have you prayed on what your new role will be? Now's the time.
We will have turned into spirits or we'll be vaporized, either way there's nothing that we could wear. ;)
I can understand that and that's fine with me. Agreed.
But to have a free wheeling diverse thread that's mostly all over the place and then to start carping largely because of bias and taste that SOME free wheeling comments are beyond the pale
strikes me as EXCEEDINGLY SELFISH, ARBITRARY and arrogant.
This cretin may wish to play God, but He won't permit it.
Back to humor.
See, now here you are exhibiting that lack of judgement again.
Tried to get into Strong's once. Never managed it.
But I love the Bible sites like:
BIBLEGATEWAY.COM
THE MESSAGE is so good to put it in the earthy vernacular of the original languages as it was written.
Israel is the very best world-wide. Measured attacks is still what Israel is doing. I personally wish Israel would let it rip...they stand heads above others...in planning and fighting.....
It's been made clear that I've been born, conditioned, trained, fiery furnaced . . . . for such a time as this . . . and some broad parameters have been affirmed by diverse prophetic people across several continents.
I'll stop there.
Thus far, you are the only one shouting and using huge, colored font.
I guess like Adam, I've tended to be a nudist at heart.
But I think I have a white robe with my name on it somewhere.
Just as long as HE gives it to me! so to speak.
Sounds to me like lobbying that what's good for the goose is
NOT
good for the gander.
I guess I disagree.
I hate arbitrary, unfairly applied hokey standards that are duplicitous and hypocritical.
Yeah, yeah. I was on my knees in 1988 too. I'll sit this one out thanks.
I'll pray that's still true in all respects.
I think the carping side shows lack of fairness and lack of manners and taste.
I haven't carped at them about the levity. Feel free. Why do they need to carp at me about my spontaneous authentic responses to the topic? Both can have their merit; their share of the posts and the thread can continue on quite fine.
Folks will pay attention to their focus and ignore the rest.
What's wrong with that?
Pettiness doesn't ened to enter from either side.
Can we assune that weeners will be top choice on the menu that day?
If it's Tuesday, it must be doomsday.
ASSUME!!
I suppose so. Though I saw some large font earlier.
The double standard stuff really annoys me.
Duplicity with denial always has tended to annoy me.
And on this topic, it really does.
So, the other side can get annoyed and express it their way but I can't and express it my way?
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