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God and Adam looked exactly alike.
-- Kenneth Copeland, The Authority of the Believer IV; Tape #01-0304
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News: The Boom in Doom
Posted on Sunday, June 24 @ 18:11:44 PDT by Virgil |
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by Gary DeMar
Papers of Isaac Newton have surfaced that show that he predicted the end of the world would take place no earlier than the year 2060, exactly 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire.1 His calculation is based on passages that use “ 1260 days” ... “42 months” ... “time, times, half a time” (Dan. 7:5; 12:7; Rev. 11:2–3; 12:6; 12:14; 13:5). These periods of time are interpreted to mean 1,260 years.
Newton wasn’t alone in predicting when the end might come. The year 2000 preoccupied a number of revolutionaries and self-styled “prophets” long before our generation took an interest in the seemingly mystical number. Restif de la Bretonne, revolutionary and pornographer, wrote The Year 2000 in 1789. He was the first person to use the word “communism.” Other utopian novels focused on the year 2000. A German communist published a book for use in France at the beginning of the 1840s, Paris en l’an 2000 (Paris in the Year 2000). It “depicts a historian lecturing in that year in Notre Dame Cathedral to an incredulous audience about the horrors of the by-gone age of war and class conflict.”2 One of the most famous utopian fantasies is Edward Bellamy’s “more widely read Looking Backward, 2000–1887 of 1888.”3 Bellamy’s fiction became much of the world’s reality in twentieth-century communism. There was little diversity in Bellamy’s utopia. “The stores, the clothing, the residences, and the incomes were all the same, made uniform by the governance of bureaucrats.”4 Bellamy believed, in one of his many “sermons” that break in on the narrative, that “human nature is naturally good and people are ‘god-like in aspirations . . . with divinest impulses of tenderness and self-sacrifice.’ Therefore, once external conditions are made acceptable, the Ten Commandments become ‘well-nigh obsolete,’ bring us a ‘second birth of the human race.’”5 In this, Bellamy was a man before his time. He managed to mix the perversions of communism, secularism, and New Age philosophy into one impossible world.
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Re: The Boom in Doom (Score: 1)
 by EWMI on Sunday, June 24 @ 19:43:46 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | As always, Gary DeMar provides well written resources our Futurist friends find so comforting .... |
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Re: The Boom in Doom (Score: 1)
by ThomasS on Monday, June 25 @ 01:44:20 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Newton is especially good in demonstrating how wrong historicism is (e.g identity of the fourth kingdom, calculation, etc.).
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