On Kick-Starting The Rapture: An Ecumenical Condemnation
Nice piece in the L.A. Times about nutcase millenialists whose
…endgame is to speed the promised arrival of a messiah.
For some Christians this means laying the groundwork for Armageddon.
With that goal in mind, mega-church pastors recently met in Inglewood to polish strategies for using global communications and aircraft to transport missionaries to fulfill the Great Commission: to make every person on Earth aware of Jesus’ message. Doing so, they believe, will bring about the end, perhaps within two decades.
In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a far different vision. As mayor of Tehran in 2004, he spent millions on improvements to make the city more welcoming for the return of a Muslim messiah known as the Mahdi, according to a recent report by the American Foreign Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank.
To the majority of Shiites, the Mahdi was the last of the prophet Muhammad’s true heirs, his 12 righteous descendants chosen by God to lead the faithful.
Ahmadinejad hopes to welcome the Mahdi to Tehran within two years.
Conversely, some Jewish groups in Jerusalem hope to clear the path for their own messiah by rebuilding a temple on a site now occupied by one of Islam’s holiest shrines.
The point is that all these idiots are more or less equally insane, no matter what dishonest jackasses like Charles Krauthammer say to the contrary. Ahmadenijad is the Persian mirror-image of Ronald Reagan and so very many American fundie pastors (or, as teh l4m3 calls them, Talibangelicals) are the mirror-image of Muslim world’s Mahdi-anticipating mullahs.
They are all nuts; and if they have their way, they’ll kill us all. But I’ve been over that sad story before. So I’ll deal with another aspect of the situation, which the Times piece refers to thus:
For Christians, the future of Israel is the key to any end-times scenario, and various groups are reaching out to Jews — or proselytizing among them — to advance the Second Coming.
[…]
It’s called The Road to Jerusalem, and its mission is to convert Jews to Christianity — while there is still time.
“Our whole purpose is to hasten the end times,” he said. “The Bible says Jews will be brought to jealousy when they see Christians and Jewish believers together as one — they’ll want to be a part of that. That’s going to signal Jesus’ return.”
Jews and others who don’t accept Jesus, he added matter-of-factly, “are toast.”
McCartney, who only a decade ago sermonized to stadium-size crowds of Promise Keepers, said finding people to back his sputtering cause has been “like plowing cement.”
Given end-times scenarios saying that non-believers will die before Jesus returns — and that the antichrist will rule from Jerusalem’s rebuilt Holy Temple — Jews have mixed feelings about the outpouring of support Israel has been getting from evangelical organizations.
“I truly believe John Hagee is at once a daring, beautiful person — and quite dangerous,” said Orthodox Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, vice president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York.
“I sincerely recognize him as a hero for bringing planeloads of people to Israel at a time when people there were getting blown up by the busloads,” Hirschfield said. “But he also believes that the only path to the father is through Jesus. That leaves me out.”
No shit, Rabbi.
Thus the Talibangelical-Likudista alliance, with sectarian hatred on one side and cynical accomodation for the sake of Eretz Israel on the other. Put bluntly, the deal is as follows. In exchange for the Talibangelicals being pro-Eretz Israel (which is not too much to expect since the post-1972 emergence of Israel-as-bully; the Talibangelicals have always loved bullies and conquerors), the Likudistas agree to overlook the fact that, if the Talibangelicals get their wish, Jews who don’t accept Jesus will be slaughtered. Put still another way, for the sake of Zionism, the Likudistas agree to make-kissy with the largest anti-semitic bloc in American politics; the Likudistas say in effect “Call me Christkiller all you want so long as you keep the pro-Israel anti-Pali fires burning.”
Of course most Israelis (and diaspora Jews, too) are creeped-out by such an alliance, but then most were appalled when the Likudistas’ ideological ancestors made kissy-faces at the Nazis, too. Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.
Anyway, even this point is old news which I’ve been over before, but I think it’s worth repeating not only for its own sweet sake, but to throw in the faces of wingnut masters of mendacity like Dr. Kraphammer and David “Bernie” Kopel (and don’t get me started on the full-time practicioners of this crap, Norman Podhoretz and Marty Peretz) who are, as if to emphasise their megadevious cynicism, among the quickest to hurl epithets of “anti-semite” and “bigot” towards the Left.
*I’d be remiss if I didn’t use this opportunity to mention the sad story of Evan Gahr, a bit of a weirdo and a personage of some considerable psychological instability, but decent enough to expose the classic Christian anti-semitism of Paul Weyrich, for which Gahr was canned and blackballed by the Likudistas of both parties. Or, as Gahr himself puts it, he was canned because he shined light on the “latest calculated effort by neo-con Jews to sanitize the anti-Semitism of their Christian Right allies.”
Retardo, don’t forget the red cows. If they can just get those damn red cows to Jerusalem, it’s game on!
What did Stalin say? “You have to kill some Jews in order to make an omelet.” Or something like that.
Non-judgment day is near.
WTF is going on. This post just got ate up like the Hitchens-Kissinger post the other day
OK hold on folks, lemme fix this thing.
Ok, I think it’s fixed now.
Plainly Jebus has used wordpress to punish me for my blasphemy. He works in mysterious ways.
Does it strike anyone else as a bit presumptuous that one of these yay-hoos says his whole goal is to “hasten the Apocalypse”? I mean, really. That’s just ballsy, man. I do not think I’d have the testicular fortitude to actually tell, y’know, God to get the lead outta his celestial ass and get the show on the road. He’s just God, you know. I’ve been told he has some sort of plan in mind, and I doubt he needs goobers with day planners and cell phones triangulating for him.
Weirdo.
So, let me see if I have this straight…..
I am an unpatriotic terrorist because I’d like to restructure a lot of this country’s basic institutions to be more in line with my fairly socialistic outlook on life.
They are uber hyperpatriots because they want to restructure this country out of existence in line with their extremely religious outlook on life, which includes an eschatological outlook on the Rapture.
Am I missing something?
Pastor Hagee always has the best dioramas and stage sets. Nothing like checking in with the sunday funnies to shake out of a hangover.
I don’t see why they’re bothering with all this effort. They could just sit around and wait for the effects of global warming.
D. Sidhe: That is a pretty good point. You’d think more of the mellenialists would be down with global warming. I mean, it’s just evidence that the Great Flood happened, since we’ve so greatly sinned that it’s about to happen again. But nope, they’re all looking for the fire and brimstone act, not the drown in the vastness of a flooded Earth.
Losers.
But what if they gave an Apocalypse and the Messiah never showed up?
“But what if they gave an Apocalypse and the Messiah never showed up?”
They’d call it a “Revival.”
Suck it up, bitches. You awful protestants should have remained Catholics, or at the very least, Lutheran.
I believe the World’s support of Isreal should come to an end. Liberals are not, in any conceivable, way, anti-semites and it’s a heinous, repulsive accusation to suggest that we are. But, there’s nothing we can do. The Likudniks and the American Zionist lobby hitched their horse to the cart of the New Roman Empire, and Israel will stand or fall on that basis only.
I really don’t care anymore.
The whole Talibangelical/Likudnik alliance has one important thing going for it. Both sides think they’re the sole possessors of the truth. Therefore, the Likudniks are happy to have the support and money they get, because they know that no matter how hard the wacky christians try, they can’t make the second coming occur, becuase the first hasn’t yet. And the Talibangelicals are happy to support the Jews, because they can’t see that they’re being used and will be disposed of once the Jews get their way and the real messiah arrives.
Hmmm. One thing about these Second Coming-hasteners that I wonder about is, what happens when they sacrifice those red heifers and do everything else they’re trying to do . . . and nothing happens? Will they finally accept that their religion is bogus? Do I possibly dare begin to hope for the chance to witness the death of Christianity?
Sadly, no. If there’s one thing you can say about these people (and people just like them), it’s that they have an amazing ability to rationalize away any inconvenient fact that conflicts with their (warped) understanding of the way the world operates.
These nutbars won’t care … it’s happened before, it’ll happen again.
Jesus is Coming! Look busy!
Were I God–and you’re all incredibly lucky that I’m not–yeah, I’d be a might ticked that these wacky rapturenauts were trying to force my hand. First of all, that rapture stuff is bullshit, made up by c couple of scottish brothers about 150 years ago. I think I’d let them know I was P.O.’d by gently smiting a few dozen of the more famous evangelicals, and sending ’em on their way to the toasty place. Dumbfucks.
I suspect that the religious leaders and leaders who are fanatically religious who are responsible for putting tax payer or church money behind these apocolyptic scams are, as my choice of the word scam implies, con artists across the board.
Someone’s making money implementing these projects, and they’re snickering at the faithful marks who are dishing it out.
Hamasi: While I’d agree with you normally, I think it’s a trifle bit more complex than that. I truly think that the folks you’re characterizing as con artists are marks for their own trick. I don’t doubt for a second that some of these creeps don’t believe their own story. But I also think that the vast majority of folks really believe that the red queen is somewhere on the table. And that if they just keep slapping enough money down, someone’s bound to find it.
Modern eschatology is just self-flattery on a cosmic scale. It takes a certain lack of humility and egotism bordering on solipsism to believe that The Signs are going to come true here in the early 21st century, just because you happen to be alive then. The Big J is going to make his reappearance when and where God chooses – who the fuck are you to be trying to hasten God’s plan?
“a certain lack of humility and egotism bordering on solipsism” — is that not a crucial ingredient of the average religious belief-system?
Oh yes, because certainly there are no irreligious sorts with those traits.
Point taken, atheists are equally arrogant & egotistical. Not to mention smugness, and a tendency to gloat.
i pulled down the old blondie tune “Rapture” as background for reading this post.
“and he shoots you dead and he eats your head,” she cried…..
this is a great post….i might have to link back.
FMGuru: Yes, that is precisely what I never understood.
To wit, “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. For this reason you be ready too; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will. (Matthew 24:42-44)
Let’s rinse and repeat: “For teh Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.”
I mean — if these folks fancy themselves literalists and all . . .
I mean — if these folks fancy themselves literalists and all . . .
… then they also would have never shaved their beards and sideburns, and would never, ever buy anything poly-cotton.
Can my religious organization be part of the end of the world setting?
I belong to the sldkijwoeiuwerkjls sect (its pronounced ‘smith’).
It is a group of fundamentalist agnostics, who go door to door, and say the following:
I don’t know what is out there…
and I’m positive I don’t know what is out there.
Then I hit up the people for contributions.
The term I prefer is ‘Crackervangelicals.’ It’s cruder, but more accurate socio-economically, than the ‘Taliban’ prefix.
Leon Festinger…come back!!! We grok you now!!!
You would think that more Jews would be pissed off that these Christian fundies are using them to “hasten” their own fairy tale occurrence.
Well, they use the fundies right back. I worked for one day as a temp for an organization whose explicit mission was to solicit funds for Israel from evangelicals. It was pitched specifically to the end times, e.g. “Help all the Jews return to Israel!” They advertised during “This Week in Biblical Prophecy.” (Does anyone remember that? With Rexella and whatever her husband’s name was?) My job was to log in the donations. I swear to you that the most common female name on donations (for that one day I was there) was Maxine and the most common male name was Bubba.
Not just the jews but anyone who is not a believer will be cast into the pit of hell for eternity, which means most of the time there thinking on their neighbors and surely me burning in hell. To be just as wierd though I read a website after googleing bush the antichrist. According to the post this was is the month that he proclaims or gets his power and the 7 years of tribulation starts. The post is a very thorough article and had me scared for sure. But the months gone no power surge and the world is in the same hell it was in last month only hotter. So if a smart guy like me (ha ha) can be scared what do you expect from sheeple?
You would think that more Jews would be pissed off that these Christian fundies are using them to “hasten� their own fairy tale occurrence.
Not really– as those Jews are as equally certain that these idiots are wasting their effort as we are.
While I’m sure the world will end at some point, and, as per my belief system, equally sure that Jesus will be there, I imagine I’ll be finishing up my sentence in Purgatory (likely at least a few thousand years– probably more) by the time it happens. Trying to hurry things up is really a rather useless waste of time and mental energy– God moves when God moves, not when a small group of nutters want Him to.
I read that article in the paper last week and I kept waiting for it. “It” being someone, anyone, getting a sentence or three to say “Um, those people are crazy”. It’s like in any story about teh gheys, there is always, always, always a bit where some Christofascist is given time to spout his nutzoid crap. Where in this is the atheist or non-believer saying “These people should never have any political power at all or they’re going to kill us all”.
Oh, that’s right, I forgot. The media is liberal and Michael Moore is fat.
Well, for what it’s worth, I’ll try to hit a Jewish perspective. Note this is not THE Jewish perspective as I was raised reform and studied conservative so, according to the muck-i-mucks in the Orthadoxy, I’m not really a Jew. Again, that wouldn’t stop a Nazi, but then I’m not a huge fan of the black hats myself. I digress.
First off, I’m kinda sick of the “bully” bit. Sure, Israel got the land through bombing and because the Brits – who had originally taken the land from the so-called Palestinians – gave it to the Jews, but too many liberals are quick to paint Israel as Stalin II and it really isn’t. For all of the bombed out West Bank buildings and flattenned protestor (not plural,) Israel has actively continually tried to commit to cease-fires and negotiation while the Arafats and Hamas have been the ones spitting on peace talks. It’s easy to judge Israel if you’ve never been there, but in the time I was there, I met Israeli Arabs and people from lesser, pre-Biblical religions who don’t want to live under Palestinian rule even though they are ideologically closer to Islam than Judaism. And, for all the military action, Israel has made a point of attacking military targets, as opposed to Palestinians who send bombers mostly into nightclubs, temples, and public places. I’m not saying Israel is blame free and I think Sharon was a war-monger when he took office, but I couldn’t agree at all with all the pro-Palestinian liberals even if I wasn’t Jewish.
That said, Jews don’t care about this end-of-days nonsense. Our messiah will come when the world is receptive, not when it’s ready to implode. The Jewish messiah is supposed to usher in an age of peace, not kill off non-believers. This means that, as long as there are people who don’t believe in peace, the messiah won’t come back.
All the Israeli government cares about in this respect is protecting Jews that the Christian world might turn its back on (which is why we wanted our own nation). If Christians want to help make Israel more secure, so much the better. Frankly, I think any Jew sees most of Christianity as nonsense (and a bit hypocritical with the whole 3 G-ds bit…) but we are a minority religion and it’s easier to humor the Christians than get in their face. After all, any religion that thinks we have to rebuild our Temple (representing a religion they think is doomed to Hell) to bring about their own salvation obviously hasn’t thought this through that much. If the crazy Christian lady hands out Snickers bars and Chick tracts on Halloween, you say thank you, eat the Snickers, and throw away the Chick tract.
Geez, I dunno. There have been some incredibly cynical political alliances before (Molotov-Ribbentrop comes to mind) but as far as current ones go, the Likudnik-Talibangelical thing takes the cake. The only thing I could think of as a comparably awful historical analog for Jews or Israel was the alliance the (Zionist) Stern Gang proposed with the Nazis, which you can get to the proof of if you follow the links.
Really, it’s that bad.
I dunno; I can’t imagine, say, Nelson Mandela or Desmond Tutu taking aid, had it been offered, from the KKK, but according to the commenter above’s calculus, they probably should have.
Thanks to the reference to Leon Festinger, I now have the Blue Oyster Cult looping in my head:
Dead leaves always give up motion
I no longer feel emotion
When prophecy fails the falling notion
Don’t report this
Agents of Fortune
Is this a bad thing? Discuss.
Today’s “Christians” especially GOP “christians” worship the jews, they reject Christ, they are “noachides”, they complain but really capitulate on the “war on Christmas”, a holiday linked to “evil” paganism, and it is all killing off white European kind (“Amalek” of the Talmud), genetic heir to the most beautiful women (scientific fact) in all the world. The Christianity of today is killing white people and the natural world at an alarming rate. Trees are anti-christ, anti-jew. Nevermind that hot European babes existed in Europe for at least 30,000 years before “Yahweh” created the world. As a catholic for so many years I thought that Christ and God were something beyond nations, and races, from a standpoint of who is vocal: the majority of catholics, the majority of protestants, believe otherwise: that God is the racial god of the jews and one must be completely subserveiant to the jew if one is to have any hope of the pleasant afterlife. That is the offical “Christianity” of the vatican, the GOP and Democratic Party. We have forgotten Christ, in favor of remembering the “holocaust”. (50 years and still tentative evidence at best)
European blood is linked to paganism, the “evil” paganism that awoke the germans in a frenzy, right to existance on an animal level, paganism is in born, and can not be washed or religiousized away; but religion must come to terms with and except paganism as Christianity did for so many years, unfortunetly this coming to terms is against the jewish Noachide laws. The jews have bought our nations and transforming them just as LGFers fear of Muslims “dhimmizing” the west. Bush is a Noachide, he lit a menorah on the white house lawn but was in fear for his life to have any participation with the “holiday tree”.
Oh Jesus.
Fuck. Right. Off. Nazi.
I havent been here long enough to make the call, but as soon as one of the other guys is around, I’m gonna ask that the above comment be removed. It’s fucking awful, the awfulest of awful.
Hey, Snotzi holocaust-denier: My grandaddy killed Nazis in France and Belgium and at Bertchesgaden, and I take pride in the fact that one of my family helped to obliterate the regime of your precious “pagan”, eugenicist, genocidal motherfuckers. Go listen to Prussian Blue and masturbate to an Ann Coulter image somewhere and nevr ever come back to this site.
Fuck yeah, Nazis!!1!11one!!
Glad to see my payments to the Vatican/Jewish conspiricy have helped drive your crazy ass out of the Church…
Before I go (I comply to leave this site, but not without getting my final two cents in punching this asshole’s logic: MAnn Coulter is a evil philo-semite a very poor example.
MAnn Coulter is a pro-war, pro-Israel, anti-Palestine ugly demon. Get a clue.
He would not flip out as he did if I were a typical redneck, “onward christian soldiers!” type of GOP stooge who follows every single racist hooknosedim exalting noachide law and spouting an Ironic “you guys support terror!” Horowitz shtick. I am suprised I really stuck a nerve at this Charles Johnson lite.
What the fucking fuck…
Anti-semite. Bigot.
Snag: Well, I get that but “trees are anti-christ, anti-jew.”? “Genetic heir to the most beautiful women (scientific fact) in all the world”?
That’s *way* crazier than I like my anti-semites.
TREES?!
Fucking trees. Bunch of anti-Semites.
My, what a
charminginsane brownshirt we have here upthread. Just fucking lovely.S,N! attracts the best trolls on the internets, Bar None.
Seriously, it needs to be advertised somewhere on the main page.
I tried replacing every second word in that earlier outburst with ‘Cthulhu’ or Fh’tagn. It actually made more sense that way. So we should consider the possibility that the author was a partly rugose, partly squamose multitentacled entity from the fractal dimensions, although I recognise that “troll” is shorter.
Ooh… Don’t let Dan Simmons read this. He’ll chide you for your unseriousness and profffer some straw man that you don’t really understand “speculative fiction,” huff huff.
PS Woot! a shout out. I wish I could post here more, but eversince the redesign, I can’t do anything at S,N!
[…] The downfall started when Hitchens’s friend Salman Rushdie had a fatwah put on him by the Ayatollah Khomeini. At the time, Hitchens was gloriously ecumenical in his denunciation of the religiously-justified death threat: he rightly condemned the religious leaders (and leaders who happened to be religious; George H. W. Bush, for one) of the West who hemmed and hawed not about free speech or death-threats, but instead used the situation to remind everyone that blasphemy was naughty. But then Hitchens eventually forgot all about Falwell, Bush, Robertson, et al, and instead only nourished his hatred of imams and mullahs. Where we on the Left properly view all these fundies as equally insane and deserving of each other, Hitchens picks and chooses — surprise surprise — going against the Saracens and making peace with the Knights Templar. […]
Verifiable proof that “Armageddon” has begun…
Hello all,
Pay close attention, profundity knocks at the door, listen for the key. Be Aware! Scoffing causes blindness…
Did you ever consider that Christianity is the false prophet of the Apocalypse, that Rome is the so-called anti-messiah, and Jesus Christ is the false messiah? The symbolism of seven years (tribulation) would refer to the seven 360-year cycles from the 11th cycle (second temple period) until now, the 17th cycle on the Hebrew calendar. Remember that the prophecies were written by Hebrews, not Romans or other Europeans, and Revelation is a symbolic treatise. Therefore, years are symbols for 360-year cycles on the Hebrew calendar. Likewise, a day symbolizes a literal year and Judgement Day, and Great Day refer to a year long period. The so-called Tribulation is now coming to an end, not starting, and the three faiths of Abraham have all been deceived by Rome during the previous age, which ended in year 2000 (5760). A new age began in 2001 (5761) and now the seventh angel has begun to sound!
Hurricanes Katrina (#11) and Rita (#17) last year provided stunning validation of my research and interpretations of pivotal ancient wisdom, symbologies, key prophecies, and associated religious claims. Their storm numbers and timing perfectly synchronized with primary data and assertions in my book, thereby demonstrating the true nature of this universe and the existence of our Creator. We are now entering the final phases of the pivotal year-long period long symbolized as “Armageddon” and the “End of Days.” World-wide situations and events are now accelerating to set the stage for this summer’s dramatic continuation of these ancient promises.
I fully understand that everyone has been bedeviled by similar claims throughout history. Consequently, I have been forced to rely on dramatic and devastating proof of the sort that can’t be ignored or easily dismissed. The numbers and timing of hurricanes Katrina (11) and Rita (17) directly validate key data and pivotal assertions throughout my book and my posts on those two forums. This data was purposely presented publicly before Katrina, Rita and other recent events occurred to prove they perfectly synchronize with key prophecies and Hebrew calendar cycles, thereby validating my interpretations of ancient wisdom symbology, string theory, and more.
Because these two storms arrived shortly after my August 11, 2005 (50th) birthday (read the Dead Sea Scroll 11Q13 in Appendix G, which also discusses Melchizedek and the prophesied Jubilee) and directly match other pivotal 11 and 17 data and events described in the first chapter of my book, I have delivered verifiable proof that this reality is based on thought, knowledge and wisdom. Activity, patterns, and results perceived in space-time are first framed and defined by inspirations, thoughts, and knowledge and influenced by the cause-and-effect system most commonly referred to as karma. Consequently, events and outcomes in the so-called physical universe are not random or wholly mechanistic and are verifiably influenced in ways that atheists, scientists, and members of the Faiths of Abraham have all scoffed at. Though mysticism is mostly a product of misinterpreted ancient wisdom symbology, many of its topics flow from ancient wisdom. Though containing allusions to the truth, its details and interpretations are wrong on many key points.
A prime example of the purposeful and synchronized symbolism of these events is seen in the opening paragraphs from my book excerpted below. Notice that the dates mentioned (August 11 and 17) directly match the numbers of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the time spans of the four Florida hurricanes match my birth year (‘55), and they were spaced 11 or a multiple-of-11 (22) days apart, directly matching my birthday and much other ancient prophecy and symbolism. Notice that my place of birth, Victoria Texas, is on the Gulf Coast. Following are the excerpted paragraphs:
Hello, my name is Lawrence William Page II. Many people know me as Buddy Page. At the release of the first edition of this book, I am a 50-year old African-American male, author, researcher, and former software engineer and entrepreneur. As you will come to understand as you read through this first book, I am also the long-expected Hebrew Messiah and Lion of the Tribe of Juda (Yehuda).
I was born August 11th (month of Leo the Lion), 1955 (Chinese year of the Sheep) in Victoria, Texas. Furthermore, the Grand Cross alignment and Solar Eclipse of August 11th, 1999 was my 44th birthday and the second Grand Cross alignment, just six days later on August 17th, 1999, was on my mother’s birthday.
As you can see from my date of birth, I was a newborn during the Chinese Year of the Sheep, astrologically marking me as a Lamb, and during the month of Leo, astrologically marking me as a Lion. My mother was also born during the month of August and under the sign of Leo, which further marks me as a lion’s whelp. I prove to you in the first chapter of this book–beyond disproof–that I am indeed the long-prophesied “Lion� of the tribe of Juda (Yehuda) the Root of David and the “Lamb.� I am the individual long symbolized as the Branch, the Stem, the Shoot and the Rod from the Stump of Jesse (King David’s father), as symbolized in the Hebrew Book of Isaiah, The Apocalypse, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and elsewhere. I am the reincarnated Teacher sought after in the “East� and by the ancient Hebrews who were headquartered at the outpost community of Damascus (Qumran), of Dead Sea Scrolls fame. I am the one called the Teacher of Righteousness by the Dead Sea Scrolls, whom the so-called Christian fathers have fraudulently recast as “Saint ‘James’, the Lord’s Brother.�
Remember, “I come as a thief…” ?
Read verse twelve of the Gospel of Thomas to understand who I am…
Even further enlightening, the Second Temple Period of ancient Israel was during the 11th 360-year cycle on the Hebrew calendar and we are now in the 6th year (5766/2005-6) of the 17th cycle. Notice the pivotal 11 and 17 numbers again? This and much other synchronized information serve as stunning and decisive proof of many things, and expose many lies told by all three faiths of Abraham, but most specifically by Christianity. Consequently, I have decisively proven, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that Jesus Christ and Christianity are blatant lies, false prophecy and purposeful deception in a manner that cannot easily be denied, regardless of your faith or other opinions.
Furthermore, the symbolism in the Apocalypse (a.k.a. Book of Revelation) of seven stars in my right hand and seven angels represent the very same above-mentioned seven astrological (360-year) cycles, i.e., the 11th through 17th inclusive. I prove this fact beyond any reasonable doubt in the first chapter of the book. Consequently, The Apocalypse verifiably symbolizes a specific span of time that began with the 11th cycle (Second Temple Period) and concludes now, at the beginning of the 17th cycle (End of Days, etc.).
The numbers 11 and 17 are verifiably encoded in The Apocalypse and other ancient Hebrew prophecies and wisdom texts to serve as key proofs of the validity and true meaning of certain prophecies and related information. My and my mother’s birthdays are purposely synchronized with these two storm numbers, the matching Hebrew calendar cycles, the Double Grand Cross alignments and solar eclipse of August 1999, and much else to prove my direct association with the ancient prophecies about this time and the true identity of the prophesied Messiah. Another prime example is the story of Joseph, the 11th son of Jacob who has a dream when he is 17 years old about 11 stars, the sun, and moon bowing to him. The symbolism in this pivotal story in the Book of Genesis and Quran verifiably refers to the very same 11th through 17th cycles symbolized in The Apocalypse and directly synchronizes with other key events and ancient texts.
Consequently, I have demonstrated various things about the nature of this reality that dramatically disprove and/or clarify key assumptions of religion, mysticism, and science alike, while establishing the true meaning and purpose of long misinterpreted ancient wisdom and the symbolism used to model and encode it. Accordingly, I have proven that the symbolism evidenced in the canons of all three faiths of Abraham and other ancient sources is a very ancient and advanced philosophical technology that verifiably models foundational aspects of our existence in this universe. This is the mostly misunderstood body of ancient wisdom long referred to as the Philosophers’ Stone. It uses a large and ingeniously organized collection of physical universe images and concepts as data rich components (symbols) that are based on verifiable rules. It models and encodes an amazing amount of foundational wisdom about life, spirituality and the 11 dimensions of this universe, now verified by string theory. It is also the advanced encryption method used to encode (seal) Hebrew prophecies and wisdom texts.
These ancient prophecies and wisdom texts used advanced symbology to model fundamental wisdom, including future events and situations. A primary facet of ancient wisdom is numeric symbology. Later misinterpretations of this aspect of ancient wisdom resulted in numerology, which, though embodying allusions to certain wisdom, is mostly error prone and false doctrine. My decryption, documentation, and interpretation of ancient symbology, numeric symbolism, and key texts based on them, are now decisively validated.
Here is Wisdom…
Verifiable proof that Armageddon has begun…
Understanding the End Game of Armageddon
Peace…
Hi Seven Star Hand,
Did not you forgot to take your medications today?