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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI got this weird magazine in the mail today...
The strangest part is I never asked for, or ordered it.
Has all these "Biblical prophesies" in it about what the "Beast" will look like.
There's just one small problem with "Biblical prophesies."
They always FAIL.
The web site is here:
https://www.amazingfacts.org/
The covers says:
"America In Bible Prophesy"
Except America is NOT in any "Bible prophesy."
And like all others, they ask for donations.
Yonnie3
(17,431 posts)The magazine to your local recycling.
Archae
(46,318 posts)Ever actually read the book of Revelation?
It reads like an LSD trip, or what a guy who ate "magic mushrooms" would see.
yellowdogintexas
(22,250 posts)(all with PhDs from top notch seminaries) tell us that the whole thing was written as code for the Early Christians. I have a hard time imagining the code breakers.
Folks who take that thing literally absolutely scare me to death I prefer to think of it as Sci Fi or Fantasy myself
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,848 posts)until I was an adult. At least in my youth, we were absolutely not encouraged to read the Bible on our own. And at mass, I'm pretty sure all we ever got were limited readings from the New Testament. So when I finally got around to reading the Old Testament it was exactly like science fiction. And I've read lots and lots of s-f from the time I learned to read.
Hekate
(90,644 posts)I have one really intriguing factoid from a Lutheran minister I used to know, about the Book of Revelation. He said that at the time it was written, it was actually quite a popular literary genre around the Mediterranean Sea, and not a unique production.
Xavier Breath
(3,623 posts)on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
mahina
(17,646 posts)Bats!
/And I love Jesus, I truly do, I am not kidding
yonder
(9,663 posts)Yonnie3
(17,431 posts)Folks have quoted it to me as prediction of various happenings that I give little credibility.
Is the paper it was printed on suitable to roll with?
yellowdogintexas
(22,250 posts)I am in favor of the birdcage myself
Chainfire
(17,530 posts)Archae
(46,318 posts)7th-Day Adventists.
yellowdogintexas
(22,250 posts)they are big into The End Times.
multigraincracker
(32,673 posts)written for kids.
Crunchy Frog
(26,579 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)The Late Great Planet Earth.
Archae
(46,318 posts)During the Reagan years.
Had all these "predictions" about a nuclear war with the Soviet Union and China.
How come none of them "predicted" the Soviet Union falling apart, and China going capitalist? (And corrupt of course...)
Simple. Yet another "prophet" who FAILED.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 31, 2021, 09:24 PM - Edit history (1)
next to the prophesy about the beast?
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)It was really hard to get off their mailing list.
Demovictory9
(32,448 posts)viva la
(3,286 posts)Turned out everyone in town got it. It's a really expensive way to proselytize.
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multigraincracker
(32,673 posts)Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Happy 2,000 Birthday to someone.
canetoad
(17,152 posts)To a block of hardwood, roughly the same shape and weight as a small encyclopaedia. Package it up and post it to:
Amazing Facts
P.O. Box 1058
Roseville, CA 95678-8058
Don't use any stamps.