Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tom@dvnspc1.dev.unisys.com (Tom Albrecht) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Looking at prophecy (was Re: Iraq - Prophecy fulfilled?) Message-ID: Date: 7 Oct 90 01:07:41 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Unisys Corporation, Devon Engineering Offices Lines: 29 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article kamphau@oktext.sbc.com (Mark Kamphaus) writes: > >Claiming that certain events are fulfillment of prophecy >can be dangerous. It is not, however, nonsense. If >prophecy says that there will be a reestablishment of >a nation called Isreal ... If is says that, fine. But it doesn't. Political Isr*AE*l is long gone. History. The new Israel and the new Jerusalem are the established divine agency. It's called the Church (Gal. 6:16; Heb. 12:22; Rev. 21:2,9,10). >[I suspect the reference about not knowing times and seasons was to I >Thes 5:1, however Mat 24:36 is also relevant, since it indicates that >even Jesus didn't know. --clh] Date setting has always been popular. It's what got the Millerites, Jehovah's Witnesses, and others in trouble during the last century. More recently, it got a fellow named Edgar Whisenant in trouble. You may recall he wrote a little book called _88 Reasons Why the Rapture will occur in 1988_. The dispensationalists are still waiting for Edgar's rapture. Hal Lindsey suffers from the same affliction. He predicted that the Rapture would occur within 40 years (or so) of 1948, 'cause that's when Israel was restored as a nation to the land. He also wrote a book called _The 1980s; Countdown to Destiny_ or something close. I'll wonder what he'll come up with for the 1990s, and 2000s, and 2010s, ... -- Tom Albrecht