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Subgenius Digest Tue, 28 Sep 93 Volume 4 : Issue 184
Today's Topics:
Apocalypse now? Scholars debate
Fax God; get published
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 10:53:24 -0400
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
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Subject: Apocalypse now? Scholars debate
The Ithaca Journal (9/25/93) keeps putting these weird things on page 1.
Definitely check out the last paragraph:
Apocalypse now? Scholars debate
The Associated Press
If war is hell, can peace lead to the Apocalypse?
In the Middle East, where every major event is seen as holding a clue to the
end times, the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord is sending some prophecy
interpreters back to the Bible to see whether the step toward peace is also a
step closer to Armageddon.
Two of the primary books apocalyptic forecasters refer to - Daniel and
Revelation - speak of false peaces and duplicitous alliances prior to a period
of destruction before they believe Christ will return to rule over a world that
has the lion lying down with the lamb and swords beaten into plowshares.
Charles Dyer of Dallas Theological Seminary said the accord between the
Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel does not fulfill any particular
biblical passage but, "My personal feeling is that it could be part of the
setting of the endstage events."
Other interpreters are more cautious, particularly since some would-be prophets
had seen the Persian Gulf War as the "war to end all wars."
"I don't care what anyone thinks of Yasser Arafat, he is not the Antichrist,"
said Paige Patterson, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Wake Forest, N.C.
Fifteen percent of Americans in a Gallup poll said the Gulf War was Armageddon,
and there is little doubt attempts will be made to fit the new peace accord
into biblical prophecy, some scholars said.
- Eric Haines (157th Incarnation of the Inexorable World Egg to my friends)
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Subject: Fax God; get published
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 20:20:14 -0400
From: Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu>
[Forward removed]
HEAVENLY HOT LINE GETTING SECOND NUMBER. "BEST-OF-BOOK"
By: Arieh O'Sullivan, Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Faxing notes to God has been such a hit that the Israeli
phone company has opened another line to the divine and plans to publish a
book of the best prayers and messages.
In January, the national phone company, Bezek, decided to make a
business of the hundreds of notes stuffed each day into the crannies of
Jerusalem's Wailing Wall.
It opened a fax line to receive the messages, which are copied and
sent by messenger to the wall, Jerusalem's holiest shrine of Judaism.
On Tuesday, Bezek set up another line for those seeking divine
intervention but unable to get to the wall personally to plant a note.
Author Joyce Shira Starr will use the best of the messages from the
new second line in a book she'll start writing next spring.
But for those who want their innermost desires to remain between
them and God, the first line set up in January will continue to be
confidential.
About 70 faxes are sent daily from around the world, mainly
originating in the United States and Europe. While God presumably
understands any language, only faxes sent in English will be considered for
publication in Starr's forthcoming book. Starr and Bezek will share jointly
in the profits from book sales.
<end quoted story>
The number of the original (and still confidential) fax line in
Isreal is +972 2 612222, while the new line for publishable faxes to the
Wailing Wall is +972 2 235555. Calls to both numbers are chargeable to the
orginating party at international telephone rates as applicable to a call to
Israel.
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