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I just realized something. It's going to be many months and perhaps years until I can come to reasonable conclusion by habitually reading through articles using my left brain. So instead I'm just going to photo read through books in mere minutes and that should give my subconscious enough information to give me great insight on truth. why didn't I think of it before?
Rtardx
reply to post by Krazysh0t
Yeah, Another thing that's got me in the fritz is the rapture, Not to mention that alot of the biblical prophecies in the bible are coming true. It always seems like the world's coming to an end soon.
1. It’s about the end of the world
Anyone who has read the popular “Left Behind” novels or listened to pastors preaching about the “rapture” might see Revelation as a blow-by-blow preview of how the world will end.
Pagels, however, says the writer of Revelation was actually describing the way his own world ended.
She says the writer of Revelation may have been called John – the book is sometimes called “Book of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine” but he was not the disciple who accompanied Jesus. He was a devout Jew and mystic exiled on the island of Patmos, off the coast of present-day Greece.
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“He would have been a very simple man in his clothes and dress,” Pagels says. “He may have gone from church to church preaching his message. He seems more like a traveling preacher or a prophet.”
The author of Revelation had experienced a catastrophe. He wrote his book not long after 60,000 Roman soldiers had stormed Jerusalem in 70 A.D., burned down its great temple and left the city in ruins after putting down an armed Jewish revolt.
For some of the earliest Jewish followers of Jesus, the destruction of Jerusalem was incomprehensible. They had expected Jesus to return “with power” and conquer Rome before inaugurating a new age. But Rome had conquered Jesus’ homeland instead.
The author of Revelation was trying to encourage the followers of Jesus at a time when their world seemed doomed. Think of the Winston Churchill radio broadcasts delivered to the British during the darkest days of World War II.
Revelation was an anti-Roman tract and a piece of war propaganda wrapped in one. The message: God would return and destroy the Romans who had destroyed Jerusalem.
“His primary target is Rome,” Pagels says of the book’s author. “He really is deeply angry and grieved at the Jewish war and what happened to his people.”
SpeachM1litant
reply to post by Rtardx
I just realized something. It's going to be many months and perhaps years until I can come to reasonable conclusion by habitually reading through articles using my left brain. So instead I'm just going to photo read through books in mere minutes and that should give my subconscious enough information to give me great insight on truth. why didn't I think of it before?
Because that's not going to work.edit on 7-3-2014 by SpeachM1litant because: (no reason given)