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Novelist Joel Rosenberg has the ear of Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, and the Heritage Foundation. He thinks conflict in Syria was foretold by the Old Testament.
In early 2012, bestselling novelist Joel Rosenberg came to Capitol Hill for a meeting with an unidentified member of Congress to discuss the end of the world. "I thought the topic was going to be the possible coming war between Israel and Iran," Rosenberg explained on his website. "Instead, the official asked, 'What are your thoughts on Isaiah 17?'"
For the better part of an hour, Rosenberg says, the writer and the congressman went back forth on something called the "burden of Damascus," an Old Testament prophecy that posits that a war in the Middle East will leave Syria's capital city in ruinsand bring the world one step closer to Armageddon. As Rosenberg put it, "The innocent blood shed by the Assad regime is reprehensible, and heart-breaking and is setting the stage for a terrible judgment."
But Rosenberg and his anonymous congressman aren't alone in viewing Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's actions through a Biblical lens. With Congress set to vote next week on the authorization to use military force in Syria, the Damascus prophecy has taken on a new significance among the nation's End Times industrywriters and pastors who believe the world is hurtling toward the return of Christ as forecasted in the Book of Revelationand its adherents in the pews and in public life. On Saturday, Rosenberg will travel to Topeka, Kansas, at the invitation of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, to discuss the situation in the Middle East.
The idea behind the prophecy is a fairly straightforward one. In Isaiah 17, the prophet explains that, in the run-up to Armageddon, "Damascus is about to be removed from being a city, and will become a fallen ruin." The implication is that it will be leveled by God on behalf of Israel as part of the last great struggle for mankind.
How exactly that will happen is a bit less clear
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/syria-joel-rosenberg-damascus-countdown-magog
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)They'd be willing to go that far!
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Not mine.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)According to U.S. media reports, in the prelude to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac that biblical prophecies were being fulfilled there and that "Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East." Bush said Gog and Magog would come from modern-day Iraq, and it was important to try and stop tha
http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/08/agog_over_bushs_comments_on_go.html
devils chaplain
(602 posts)... Have been predicting that the end is nigh since the concept took hold. Personally I agree with T.S. Eliot -- it won't be with a bang, but with a whimper.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)A slow, insidious creep.....while we're all looking the other way.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)When has have these mouth-breathers ever not been hyperventilating over the End Of The World (TM) and the appearance of Pro-Wrestling Jeezus (R) hovering in the air above the Mount of Morons?
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)She is making herself physically ill about this deal with Syria and has been asking my opinion. Well, I've been giving her data and comments on how I feel and why I feel that way. She has been pacing in circles over what is ahead. Obviously, the last group of comments I gave her didn't satisfy her or po'd her, as she quit emailing about Syria altogether.
She was one of those who stressed herself out over the Iraq war and how it would be the end of the world. I'd forgotten all about that until I saw your post. She's back into THAT again? She won't have to worry about the end of the world, as she's put herself under so much stress, a stroke will take her out.
These people are cruel.