DR,
Speaking of books, do you remember this one - The Late Great Planet
Earth by Hal Lindsey (1970).
It was the first Christian prophecy book to be picked up by a secular
publisher
It sold around 28 million copies and had many people convinced the end
of the world was imminent.
Lindsey will be 87 years old next month and on his 4th wife.
73, RG
On 10/20/2016 2:32 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
The style of writing is only used in the books of Daniel and Revelation.
Wilfried Harrington in his 2008 book "Revelation " wrote:
History is rapidly moving to a showdown: the final, decisive battle of good and evil will be fought in the valley of Megiddo (Rev 16:16). Even if some dispensationalists interpret Ezekiel 38–39 as envisaging a world-wide nuclear holocaust, the climactic moment will still occur in the valley of Megiddo. A further refinement is the “rapture”; this time the single text 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 is pressed into service. Using vivid apocalyptic language, Paul had underlined the truth that all the faithful will live with the Lord forever. He spoke of all being “caught up” (“rapt up”) to meet the Lord of the parousia—hence the “rapture” of the dispensationalists. True believers will, at the end, be “raptured” from the earth and thus will escape the gruesome destruction of the rest of humankind.
73
DR
On Oct 18, 2016 3:07 PM, "John J. Miller" <seaspark@xxxxxxx <mailto:seaspark@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Greetings;
The book of Revelations is interesting and perhaps a little
frightening. Most of the natural disasters that have occurred can
be interpreted as pertaining to the scripture.(Floods,
earthquakes, the Atom bomb, etc.).
20 years ago I attended a week long bible study of Rev.
We were told that it is not a prophecy but just the writings of a
90 year old man, (John). His writing is not the word of G-- or
even an inspiration. There are a lot of thoughts that must be
interpenetrated: The whore of Babylon is actually the Roman
empire. I don't remember the rest, (Beast, etc.) 666 is just a
dramatic number . Armageddon is a big battle,etc.
Just something to think about. There are books about Rev., might
be an interesting subject to pursue. I belong to the Methodist
denomination, I am sure other churches have different feelings
about this.
73
J J Miller
