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Penelope
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| Posted 2/21/2002 9:12 PM (GMT -6) |   | Wondering if all of you fairy like Bible thinkers could help me out. I’m writing a paper on the end times and how various Christians at various times have thought about them. I’m especially interested in the topic after the Y2K and Sept. 11 seem to have given apocalyptic rhetoric a shot in the arm for a number of Christians today. Some of it may be okay, but some of it is down right silly if you ask me.
A number of years ago I heard a sermon on the end times and the preacher read a quote that went something as follows (I’m paraphrasing here):
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I have full assurance that our generation will be the last generation before Christ’s return.
The paster then gave us the source of the quote. It was from a monk during the reformation who took the protestant movement as a sign of the Antichrist’s arrive and the end of the world.
I wish I had the quote directly and I wish I had the source. For my paper I want to collect as many quotes like this as possible. Ideally I would like to collect any apocalyptic statement like this, or someone who is predicting the end of the world like Zostradomis or wackoid cult leaders as well as respectable types like Billy Graham who (I think) believes that we may be living in the end times.
The problem is I don’t know where to begin this search. Do any of you know of any quotes like this? Do you know of some source I could turn to? Would any of you like to make your own predictions about when the end will come? We could pool some money and take bets;)
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
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Vexen
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Kyle Essary
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| Posted 2/22/2002 9:27 AM (GMT -6) | | Vexen,
I was cruising around religioustolerance.org
That is a pretty cool website. I was flipping through their Doomsday Cult section and one of the two possibilities for a Destructive Doomsday Cult has its compound within about a mile of my apartment. It is the House of Yahweh in Abilene, TX. Since I am just a college student here in town and haven't lived here my whole life, I didn't know much about them. I knew that they were well armored. They have a compound of trailor homes, but it is surrounded by barbed wire fence and has guards at all the entrances and sometimes walking around the gates. You seem very knowledgable about different groups. Do you know anything more about these guys? I am scared to drive by them now. 
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Kyle Essary
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| Posted 2/22/2002 9:42 AM (GMT -6) | | Hey Penelope, I was looking at your profile and saw that your email was mtmgmlkj@juno.com
Is that for Ghandi and Dr. King?
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Penelope
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Vexen
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| Posted 2/22/2002 8:10 PM (GMT -6) | | No problem :-)
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Electra
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| Posted 3/12/2002 11:12 AM (GMT -6) | | If I were going to write a paper about the end times, I would spice it up by taking all my proof texts from the Song of Solomon.
Behold I stand at the door and knock!
Listen! my beloved is knocking.
"Open to me, my sister, my love,
my dove, my perfect one;
for my head is wet with dew,
my locks with the drops of the night…"
My beloved thrust his hand into the opening,
and my inmost being yearned for him. (5:22ff.)
Don’t be left behind!
I had put off my garment;
how could I put it on again?
I had bathed my feet;
how could I soil them?…
My soul failed me when he spoke.
I sought him, but did not find him;
I called him, but he gave no answer.
Making their rounds in the city
the sentinels found me;
they beat me, they wounded me,
they took away my mantle,
those sentinels of the walls. (5:22ff.)
Rapture!
I went down to the nut orchard,
to look at the blossoms of the valley,
to see whether the vines had budded,
whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
Before I was aware, my fancy set me
in a chariot beside my prince. (6:11–12)
Maranatha!
Make haste, my beloved,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
upon the mountains of spices! (8:14)
 Electra
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“The star truly is high in the sky, is just as high in the sky although, reflected in the sea, it seems to lie far under the earth.” § Søren Kierkegaard
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Orpheus42
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| Posted 3/12/2002 11:27 AM (GMT -6) | | I have a book at home that has some good content called Doomsday Delusions, it's published by InterVarsity Press. I don't agree with EVERYTHING they say, but it does contain a lot of good information about how people interpret certain passages to try and set end-of-the-world dates.
Peace, Love, and Jesus Christ,
Jason
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