Re: Revelations
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:56:28 -0700 (PDT)
I love getting your point of view, Jim.
Thor
> >OK, you're slipping through your own loophole. A text CAN be
> >misinterpreted, which is why your statement abou 1/3 of the world
> >isn't
> >right. Back then, the known world was a LOT smaller. To them, the
> >Persian
> >Gulf War would have been a world war. The destruction in biblical
> >prophecies are nothing compared to what we can imagine now, after The
> >Bomb.
> >They couln't conceive of such destruction.
>
>Ok, I generally like the idea of reading a text within its own historical
>context, but the battles described are of such a nature that human blood
>floods a large valley up to the shoulders of horses.
>
>And lets look at what else could be conceived:
>
>one hundred pound hailstones, and an earthquake so large every mountain
>and island ceased to exist (16:20,21)
>
>200 million mounted troops (9:16). This is inconceivable in John's time,
>but it's in the book.
>
>For that matter, it's pretty hard to imagine in OUR time :)
>
>So when we make comments like those below...
>
> We're reading it with eyes
> >of a
> >2,000 year older society. These prophecies need to be read interms of
> >their
> >contemporaries, or we just end up reading it & predicting the end of
> >the
> >world in 1979.
> >Thor
> >
>
>we need to be careful about our speculations regarding what ancient
>authors were able to conceive :)
>
>Jim
>
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