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To: CyberAnt

God didn't use purely modern concepts in the Scriptures, since they were address to all of humanity down the ages. Certainly not references to a fashion for numbering "world wars". Nor does He any where write "Russia" or "China", these are your readings. I am certain God knows when all future wars will take place, and on which one we humans will stick the name WW III and have it catch on. That's not the same as saying any particular conflict foretold in the Scriptures will get that name, which is what you are insisting.

Most misreadings of Scripture these days, seem to me, to be the result of cultural and temporal arrogance: the assumption that God addressed the Scriptures primarily to post-'Enlightenment' rationalists.


15 posted on 09/16/2006 6:40:55 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David

You obviously have not studied. Even "Desert Storm" was labeled in the Bible - the words were "a violent wind will come from the north, like a whirlwind" .. the word "whirlwind" is translated "desert storm".

So .. actually .. God does know what He's talking about. WWIII will actually be a war of Gog (Russia) and Magog (China), against Israel. But .. God will be there to defeat them.

I don't give a rip if you believe anything I say .. I have studied this since 1985 .. and I can tell you I've heard more than one prophecy scholar translate the scriptures in Ezekiel and Daniel the very same way.

It's you, sir, that are ignorant of the scriptures - and God's ability to see far, far into the future and reveal that to us by HIS scriptures. God sees the beginning and the end .. and he told us .. as born again believers, "you have been given the mysteries and secrets of the kingdom".

So please don't try to tell me you believe you have more authority or knowledge of the scriptures than God - and you are able to determine whether I have translated the scriptures correctly.


16 posted on 09/16/2006 12:34:03 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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