Re: Revelations

Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Fri, 09 Jul 1999 09:31:28 -0700 (PDT) 

  I
>think Matthew 24 needs to be read before anything else.  Christ was asked
>for signs indicating his return, and he gave some very specific ones.
>
>Wars, rumors of wars, earthquakes, and famines will increase in frequency
>and intensity.  These things have always happened, they will just happen
>more and more violently than ever before.
>

Yes, but most importantly, he said that those listening would still be alive 
when he returned.  He was speaking of his return post-crucifiction, not some 
post-apocalyptic return.  Those stories started after he died.


>Jesus said when you see this happen, I'm right around the corner, THEN
>you can head for the hills :)

He was talking about Jerusalem being rebuilt.  In other words, he was 
rallying the Jews to try to recapture Jerusalem from the jews.  He never 
talked about nuclear was, just provoking anti-Roman sentiment.  He was a 
political leader, a revolutionary.  That's the only crime that you could be 
crucified for; being an enemy of the state.  Hung between 2 thieves?  Romans 
didn't cruucify thieves, it's a mistranslation.  Actually they, were 
radicals.

>He also said his return would be visible
>to all, like standing outside and watching lightning flash across the
>sky.

Surely a metaphore.


>
>Anyways, people living at the time all these signs have been fulfilled
>would probably be able to piece everything together.  We're not quite to
>that point yet, tho.

Or, we already got there & it's just a bad or wrong prophecy.

>
>Christ specifically said, at the beginning of the book of Acts (ch. 1),
>that times and dates are NOT our business :)  The two words in Greek
>refer to both a specific point in time and extended eras, etc.  So we
>can't even say, Sometime in 1995. Or before the year 2000.

Yeah, but this is Acts, where the disciples take off on their own, 
distinctly non-Jesus paths.

Thor


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