Posted on 02/17/2003 11:36:38 AM PST by vannrox
Michaelangelo, Schmichaelangelo.
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10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
11 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
The "false prophet" is a pseudo Moses, a great military commander ala Mohammed.
Revelation 13:11-14
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Two horns like a lamb:
The horns have elicited various interpretations. The likeliest explanation is that Michelangelo relied on Jerome's vulgate translation of the Old Testament. In this commonly available version, the "rays of light" that were seen around Moses' face after his meeting with God on Mt Sinai were expressed as horns. Some people believe that Jerome's intention was to express a metaphor for the glory of God reflected from Moses's face.
Acts 7:22-23 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
And in 762AD, the capital city of Baghdad was founded. In the eighth century, the Abbasid caliphate established its capital at Baghdad, which became an important commercial, cultural, and a famous center of learning in the Middle Ages, and was regarded in the tenth century, the intellectual center of the world. As capital of the caliphate, Baghdad was also to become the cultural capital of the Islamic world. Baghdad became a center of power in the world, where Arab and Persian cultures mingled to produce a blaze of philosophical, scientific, and literary glory. This era is remembered throughout the Arab world, and by the Iraqis in particular, as the pinnacle of the Islamic past.
http://home.achilles.net/~sal/iraq_history.html
Lawrence: Yes, you were great.
Feisal: ..nine centuries ago...
Lawrence: Time to be great again, my Lord
The Britishness of Jordan has always been a source of strength. The Army, which is the best trained in the Middle East, was the British lead Arab legion. When Major Lawrence was sent to Arabia, the choice was the Hashemite Prince Faisal- the King's great uncle and the Bedouin tribes, now making Jordan, to defeat the Turks and enter Damascus three days before general Alenby's well equipped British army reached it.
In fact it was during the filming of Lawrence of Arabia in the Jordanian desert in 1961 that King Hussein met Toni Gardiner - later princess Muna al-Hussein- who was working as a secretary on the set.
They moved it?
Freud? Always trying to gild the horns on that calf.
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