Re: Revelations
James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 06 Jul 1999 22:06:57 -0400 (EDT)
>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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