In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Armageddon
Remember a few summers back when Armageddon just meant a bad movie? Now when people (and people with influence with those in power, like Mr. Graham (below)) mention Armageddon they are harking back to some anti-Roman empire rambling in the bible (Revelation). But they aren't talking about that in historical context, they are talking about it as something that will happen soon. Something to be promoted. When you hear about Armegeddon, its sounds so terrible, why would anyone want it. Well if you are a "true believer" you get to sit it out. And Graham and all are so filled with compassion for their fellow human beings they just feel they should warn you. I won't mention that "people in the know" have thought Armageddon was just around the corner pretty much every decade for the past two thousand years. Here's a typical site anxiously awaiting The Rapture.
As scholars like Dwight Pentecost, a Professor of Bible Exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary, and John F. Walvoord, author of “Armageddon, Oil, and Middle East”, interpret the Scriptures, here is what could be coming next:
1) First, a ten-nation peace keeping force would be formed to protect Israel and police oil.
2) Then a dictator who would be popularly known as the Antichrist would overrun this alliance. In time, he would impose a seven-year covenant on Israel, but would break it half way through, setting off the great battle and plague from God.
3) In the next three and a half years, three-quarters of the world's population would be wiped out, until finally Christ would physically return to earth in Jerusalem to punish the sinful, and reign in peace for the next one thousand years. Before the seven years of Tribulation, however, in an episode called the "Rapture", millions of Christians would be delivered to heaven to sit out the passing of these horrible events."
Okay, my opinion is this is a load of hooey. I'm really not into a God that sends you to hell simply because you did believe in him using a specific name "Christ." Really that seems pretty damn petty for an omnipotent being. But hey, who's to judge or even know God (I've never meant an omnipotent beign, so they may be pretty petty). That being said, if this is all true, doesn't it seem pretty likely the George W. Bush is the anti-christ that this is referring to? Or maybe we should all just let God be, believe him or not believe him, and try to move on, and make Earth a nice place to live and not just visit.
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