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25/09/17
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Originally posted by darkroom
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A few too many sci-fi and horror movies perhaps, Ophir. One thing that can't be said about fundamentalist Christians is that they lack imagination.
What if Rev 12 meant something a little more like this rather than the end of the world that Christians long for?
Rev: 12 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth.
A woman - this is the symbol for the Law of God, also called the New Jerusalem, the Holy City. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
. . . clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. - The sun and moon are Persia whose emblem is the sun and the Ottoman Empire whose symbol is the crescent moon. The twelve crowns are the 12 Imáms who were the rightful promoters of Islam. The 12th Imám is missing though claims have been made. He is considered to be the return of Jesus.
She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. This is always the case with the birth of a new religion. The pain is the turmoil, misunderstandings and brutal clashes against the new religion by the orthodox beliefs of the day. In the case of Islam a third of Muhammad's complete extended family were killed.
Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. The Umayyads represent the red dragon. They perverted Islam. The red is the enormous amount of death they inflicted as they devoured all before them. The seven heads and seven crowns represent seven dominions ruled by the despotic Umayyads or red dragon. Tunis, Morocco, Algeria; the dominion of Andalusia or Spain, the dominion of Transoxania, Syria and the Persian, Arabian and Egyptian dominion.
The ten horns are the ten names of these Umayyad rulers.
Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The Umayyad in their lust for power and dominance of Islam murdered a third of the family of Muhammad.
And so on and so forth. It's a very different story when it's seen in the light of what has actually happened.
By all means feel free to imagine the end of the world and untold misery to be inflicted on humanity, but you must be aware that this can only happen because Christians have utterly failed in their duty.
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You may have some snip bits here BUT, Don't associate the numbers 12 & 7 with evil - will not fit.
For years most have pointed the finger at the revival of the Roman Empire, then America, they will fit somewhere but where?
However, on God's map, Israel is the center stage and the surrounds, the Mid-East.
When Babylon has fallen, their throwing sand over their heads, do Romans or Yanks do that?
Are Romans and Yanks in a desert?
It maybe good to keep an eye on Mecca and speaking of Persia/Iran, perhaps one of their Nukes goes astray and whoopsie, Mecca no more, becomes desolate, inhabitable, tar and oil etc, OH no, our holy site, sand over their heads, they are in turmoil.
RRRRR, you didn't take your eye off Turkey in all this did you??? haha
Wooooooo, we need a new holy site,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ummmmm, got it,,,,,, Israel.
The Qatar mystery ATM???????
Turkey Erdogan ??????
Rise of the Medes (Kurds) at some point???