Some Evangelicals See Biblical Prophecy In Syrian Crises

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“See, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. Her towns will be deserted forever.”

That’s a prophetic passage from the Biblical book of Isaiah, chapter 17, and now some fundamentalist Christian blogs are buzzing with the belief that the escalating violence in Syria means the ancient text may soon be fulfilled. ”The long prophesied end days are here,” one blog announces. “With the terrorist groups that operate out of Damascus building up arms caches on the border of Israel in anticipation of another war in the near future, it may not be long before this prophecy from Isaiah 17 becomes history,” another group awaiting Jesus Christ’s return predicts.

Nearly all Biblical scholars, however, argue that such a literalist interpretation of the text is highly problematic. The passage was written more than 2,500 years ago, and it condemns Jerusalem’s enemies around the time of the Assyrian invasion. The prophetic oracles, as that section of Isaiah is called, name not just Syria but numerous ancient nations, including Moab, Babylon, Egypt, and Tyre, that threatened the Jewish people at the time.



Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/08/29/some-evangelicals-see-biblical-prophecy-in-syrian-crises/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. And if we look at all this crazy prophecy in the period, it was fullfilled

when babylon invaded.

Oy.

[riverbendviewgal]

4. Oy

is right...

[jwirr]

9. Exactly. That is where most end times interpretations run into trouble. They take past history as a

prophecy for today. This scares me - the rw idiots in Congress will be voting based on this idea. I think they have been voting like this since raygun was elected.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. ()o()

[Warpy]

3. Those screwballs see biblical prophecy in the

patterns their milk makes around their morning Grape Nuts and how short their broken shoelace is.

[Curmudgeoness]

7. You beat me to it.

Well, I was going to say that they see prophecies in their shit every morning, but the idea is the same.

[Ohio Joe]

8. ^^^ This ^^^

My thoughts almost exactly... Except I do not imagine them smart enough to enjoy Grape Nuts and are probably more likely to eat some sugar filled shit with a cartoon on the front.

[Jefferson23]

5. Isn't it the job of Evangelicals to make up stupid crap? n/t

[pscot]

6. Some evangelicals see Jesus on a cupcake

[Berlum]

10. ...Only Infidel Evangelicals. Tru Evangies know for a fact Jesus is on a pancake

[johnd83]

12. Jesus Toast!

http://www.amazon.com/Burnt-Impressions-The-Jesus-Toaster/dp/B0042QRYO8

[hrmjustin]

11. As a Christian I remind other Christians that Jesus himself said he did not know when

the end was coming. Moral of the story is do not make guesses to the end of the world.

[johnd83]

13. People have been claiming the end of the world for decades

In recent memory there was Y2K, the Mayan 2012 nonsense, that crazy preacher who claimed the end was coming a year or two ago, then said oops it is six months after he thought, and then he died of a stroke. I can't remember his name. It is really frustrating that our foreign policy is being directed by misreading of a 1800 or so year old book written by committee.

[meow2u3]

14. Some Evangelicals see biblical prophecy where it isn't there

These are the false prophets who read biblical prophecy to justify their thirst for blood in the Middle East.

[Ellipsis]

15. Some Evangelicals see biblical prophecy in cheetos and burnt toast.

[jmowreader]

16. You just knew this was coming