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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI never put much stock into the ideas contained in the Book of Revelation
HOWEVER, the election of Trump into power is starting to convince me that we may be seeing the Apocalypse beginning right before our eyes. Phew, please let me be wrong!
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I never put much stock into the ideas contained in the Book of Revelation (Original Post)
BigBearJohn
Dec 2016
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Skidmore
(37,364 posts)1. Zealots will take words written
for a different struggle in another epoch and make them happen in this one.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)2. Martin Luther didn't put much stock in the Book of Revelation either
http://www.bible-researcher.com/antilegomena.html
It is a very late addition to the canon and of very uncertain authorship.
It is a very late addition to the canon and of very uncertain authorship.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)3. I dont put much stock in mother goose fairy tales either but would trust one of those more then the
bible.
Lilyhoney
(1,985 posts)4. Recent joke
John (while writing Revelations): "So Lord, the end will be signaled by trumpets?"
God: "No... I said Trump/Pence."
John: Yeah, trumpets.
God: "Never mind. They'll know."
bigtree
(85,986 posts)6. before I'd reference one of the versions of the bible
...I'd look to the words and warnings of our nation's founders and subsequent public servants who have upheld and defended vital principles of our democracy.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)7. He isn't the Antichrist
anymore than Obama was.
He is just a big fool that is easily manipulated.