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Originally posted by defcon5
I do not hate Catholics, and I have explained the reasons why Rome is mentioned in Prophecy. If you have nothing of use to add to the thread, or not even going to read the posts then troll on elsewhere. I left you a three page response to your post on page two, if nothing else read that.
[edit on 3/13/2007 by defcon5]
Originally posted by thehumbleone
I can see by your disingenuous comments that you really don't even care to hear the Catholic side of things.
Originally posted by defcon5
Incorrect…
I suppose next you’ll try to tell me that the cannon was selected by the Roman Catholic Church during the Council of Nicaea. The gospel books of the bible had already been in use before this council, and there was already an accepted cannon in use by the early Christian Church. The Muratorian fragment is so far the oldest know copy of the New Testament, and it is dated around 142-157 AD. Irenaeus was the person who should receive most of the credit for choosing the standard set of New Testament books that now comprise the New Testament Cannon. The Catholic Church did exist at this point, but the Church had not become intermingled with the Roman Empire yet. Rome was still persecuting Christians under Marcus Aurelius, during Irenaeus lifetime. The Old Testament was based on the Latin Compilation of Hebrew works known as the Septuagint.
I am sorry if this is not what you consider politically correct, but not being politically correct does not make it incorrect either. Not everything has to be politically correct in an imperfect world.
Originally posted by thehumbleone
Originally posted by defcon5
I do not hate Catholics, and I have explained the reasons why Rome is mentioned in Prophecy. If you have nothing of use to add to the thread, or not even going to read the posts then troll on elsewhere. I left you a three page response to your post on page two, if nothing else read that.
[edit on 3/13/2007 by defcon5]
I can see by your disingenuous comments that you really don't even care to hear the Catholic side of things.
It still doesn't change the fact that the Roman Catholic Church chose the new testament canon.
Ignorance gets you nowhere.
Originally posted by Ashley_T
As most of you have probably heard Revelation 17 states and I quote:
"So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns."
Is it possible that this woman could be Hillary Clinton sitting upon a scarlet colored beast being the United States?
A quick Google search brought up theories that point in the direction of the beast being either Europe or the EU. I myself have always thought it to be a woman president of the US. This was before Hillary's bid to run.
Originally posted by Sun Matrix
I can assure you I know the Catholic side of things far better than you.
Can you please explain what what Lent is?
In Western Christianity, Lent is the forty-day period (or season) preceding Easter lasting from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (Easter Even).[1]
Easter always falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25, roughly corresponding to early spring in the Northern Hemisphere. A simple formula to know the exact date is that Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon of the Spring Equinox. Ash Wednesday, which may fall anywhere between February 4 and March 10, occurs forty-six days before Easter, but Lent is nevertheless considered to be forty days long, due to the fact that Sundays in this season are not counted among the days of Lent. The traditional reason for this is that fasting was considered inappropriate on Sunday, the day commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus.
Easter celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, while Lent is a time of preparation for Holy Week. Holy Week recalls the events preceding and during the crucifixion, which occurred in Jerusalem of the Roman province Judea, circa AD 30.
Originally posted by queenannie38
Originally posted by LoneGunMan
Isn't that some kind of kinky thing? Like where the women wear a riding outfit and the men...get...rode...like a pony?
You must be speaking of Lady God-Iva… who rode through Coven-Tree in full and glorious natural splendor mounted horseback in protest of her husband’s unfair taxation!
Yes! In DEED. No riding outfit, though!
And it wasn't kinky! It was public service!
It's all the same...only the names have been changed...to protect the guilty from the innocent!
[edit on 3/12/2007 by queenannie38]
Originally posted by RWPBR
Does anybody have a link to an online Hippe Chick Femminist Wiccan translator for those of us who live in the real world ?
Originally posted by defcon5
No its:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
Love is the law, love under will
Even though everyone is supposed to interpret what this means for themselves, it generally means that you love yourself first, not your neighbor, and not God. Do what you want, do what you love; love what you want to do.
Besides that fact, I was not judging you anyway, I was asking a simple question…
After talking to Cug about the OTO he stated that it was not something a Christian would wish to join, not that they couldn’t do it, but rather that they are not compatible theologies. But maybe you just really don’t even understand enough about either groups theology to know any better.
Originally posted by Ashley_T
Is it possible that this woman could be Hillary Clinton sitting upon a scarlet colored beast being the United States?
A quick Google search brought up theories that point in the direction of the beast being either Europe or the EU.
I myself have always thought it to be a woman president of the US.
This was before Hillary's bid to run.
[edit on 10-3-2007 by Ashley_T]
Originally posted by Cug
I am curious where you got that idea?
What it means to us that follow it is, find your true purpose in life and then do it. Pretty simple really.
Originally posted by St Udio
Now try & rectify all these people being so certainly 100% sure
of the conventional wisdom interpetation of 'Revelation'
and the Biblical Admonishment- - -
The Book Is To Be Sealed...
(so nobody can decipher it, until the final 70th week!)
how is it that these (3 pages) posters actually know what the books of Daniel & Revelation are revealing....???
End Time Insights
1. The entire prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 covers a period of “seventy weeks,” or 490 years. Logic requires that “seventy weeks” refers to one consecutive block of time, in other words, to seventy straight sequential weeks. There is no example in Scripture (or anywhere else!) of a stated time period starting, stopping, and then starting again. All biblical references to time are consecutive: 40 days and 40 nights (see Genesis 7:4), 400 years in Egypt (see Genesis 15:13), 70 years of captivity (see Daniel 9:2), etc. In Daniel’s prophecy, the “seventy weeks” were to begin during the reign of Persia and continue to the time of the Messiah.
2. Logic also requires that the 70th week follow immediately after the 69th week. If it doesn’t, then it cannot properly be called the 70th week!
3. It is illogical to insert a 2,000-year gap between the 69th and 70th week. No hint of a gap is found in the prophecy itself. There is no gap between the first seven weeks and the following sixty-two weeks, so why insert one between the 69th and 70th week?
Note: If you told your child to be in bed in 70 minutes, you obviously would mean 70 consecutive minutes. What if five hours later your fully awake son said, “But dad, I know 69 minutes have passed, but the 70th minute hasn’t started yet!”? After receiving an appropriate punishment, he would be swiftly sent to bed.
4. Daniel 9:27 says nothing about a seven-year period of “tribulation,” a “rebuilt” Jewish temple, or any “antichrist.”
5. The stated focus of this prophecy is the Messiah, not the antichrist. After the Messiah is “cut off” (referring to Christ’s death), the text says, “And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.” I n the past, this has been consistently applied to the destruction of Jerusalem and the second temple by Roman armies led by Prince Titus in A.D. 70. 11
6. “He shall confirm the covenant.” Paul said “the covenant” was “confirmed before by God in Christ” (Galatians 3:17). Jesus Christ came “to confirm the promises made to the fathers” (Romans 15:8, emphasis added). In the King James Version, Daniel 9:27 doesn’t say “ a covenant” or peace treaty, but “ the covenant,” which applies to the New Covenant. Nowhere in the Bible does the antichrist make, confirm, or break a covenant with anyone. The word “covenant” is Messianic, and always applies to the Messiah, not the antichrist.
7. “He shall confirm the covenant with many. ” Jesus Christ said, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many… ” (Matthew 26:28). Behold a perfect fit! Jesus was quoting Daniel 9:27 specifically.
8. “In the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.” After exactly three and a half years of holy ministry, Jesus Christ died on the cross, “in the midst of the week [in the middle of the seven years].” At the exact moment of His death, “the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom…” (Matthew 27:51). This act of God signified that all animal sacrifices at that moment ceased to be of value. Why? Because the Perfect Sacrifice had been offered!
9. “For the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate.” “The abomination of desolation” (see Matthew 24:15) is not a simple subject, yet we know that Jesus clearly applied this event to the time when His followers were to flee from Jerusalem before the destruction of the second temple in A.D. 70. In a parallel text to Matthew 24:15, Jesus told His disciples, “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies [Roman armies led by Prince Titus], then know that its desolation is near ” (Luke 21:20, emphasis added). The disciples did “see” those very events. Because of the “abominations” of the Pharisees, Jesus told them, “See! Your house is left to you desolate” (Matthew 23:38). Thus Gabriel’s statement in Daniel 9:27 about Jerusalem becoming “desolate” was perfectly fulfilled in A.D. 70.
10. Gabriel said that the 70-week prophecy specifically applied to the Jewish people (see Daniel 9:24). During the period of Christ’s public ministry of 3 1 / 2 years, the Master’s focus was largely upon “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 10:6). After His resurrection and then for another 3 1/2 years, His disciples preached mostly to Jews (see Acts 1-6). After that second 3 1/2 -year period, in 34 A.D., the bold Stephen was stoned by the Jewish Sanhedrin (see Acts 7). This infamous deed marked the then-ruling Jewish leaders’ final, official rejection of the gospel of our Savior. Then the gospel went to the Gentiles. In Acts 9, Saul became Paul, the “apostle to the Gentiles” (Romans 11:13). In Acts 10, God gave Peter a vision revealing it was now time to preach to the Gentiles (see Acts 10:1-28). Read also Acts 13:46. Thus approximately 3 1/2 years after the crucifixion— and at the end of the 70-week prophecy given f or the Jewish people—the gospel shifted to the Gentiles exactly as predicted in Bible prophecy
Originally posted by defcon5
As a Christian, you are supposed to seek out and do what God’s will is for you and your life.
According to this philosophy, it’s for you to seek out and do what you love; it’s a more self-centric philosophy. Love yourself and do what you love.
Originally posted by Cug
Nope. What you love to do has nothing to do with your true Will. (Love under will) Following your Will will lead you to something your are best suited for, but you might not "love" it. Somebodies true will might be to live a life of hard manual labor doing something they don't like to do. But it pays the bills, they live a comfortable life, their children are not left wanting etc..
Originally posted by Cug
I too am puzzled by her connection to Crowley.. but to each their own.
Wiccan Rede
An it harm none, do as thou wilt
Do what you will, so long as it harms none
An it harm none, do what thou will
That it harm none, do as thou wilt
Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill, / An it harm none do what ye will.
The combination of Wicca with no harm to others and do what thou wilt made its first known appearance in The Old Laws by Gerald Gardner, 1953. A similar phrase, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, appears in Aleister Crowley's works by 1904, in The Book of the Law (though as used by Crowley it is half of a statement and response, the response being "Love is the Law, love under Will"). The rede in its best known form was used by Doreen Valiente in several writings.
· Lactational Amenorrhea Method, a contraceptive method
· LAM/MPI, an MPI programming environment and development system for heterogeneous computers on a network
· Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique - National airline of Mozambique
· Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a rare lung disease
· London After Midnight, an L.A. Band.
· LAM, an internet slang acronym meaning "leave a message"
· Lobe Attachment Module - a type of token ring connection.
· Loadable Authentication Modules, an authentication framework used by IBM AIX[1]
· Lightweight Attack Muniton, a weapon in the computer game Deus Ex
· Land-Air 'Mech, a variety of BattleMech in the BattleTech board game
Originally posted by defcon5
It still seems to me like it conflicts with the idea of the following the Will of God, but perhaps not.
Though if one looks at the life of Crowley as an example, he hardly lived a Christian lifestyle and again he lived a life of self indulgence and excesses.
Originally posted by Cug
If you are not a Christian there is no need to follow a Christian lifestyle.
Originally posted by defcon5
That is simply what I get out of the quote. What I am saying is not that far off from what you’re saying when you think about it. As a Christian, you are supposed to seek out and do what God’s will is for you and your life.
Romans 14:20-23
20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense.
21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.
22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemns not himself in that thing which he allows.
23 And he that doubts is damned if he eat, because he eats not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
1 Corinthians 10:29-30
29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
According to this philosophy, it’s for you to seek out and do what you love; it’s a more self-centric philosophy. Love yourself and do what you love.
Originally posted by queenannie38
Besides...Babalon's initials are L.A.M. see here.
L.A.M. will be drawn from the water at Ra's Well
Here is my scarlet 'beast' #1:
It IS the LAM's book of life
the pony boys have arrived!
Men, that is.
(pedal, boys!)
]i[ AM that eYe am
Lady God-Iva
Coven-Tree
Thank you, Sun
in DEED
Ra's Well
eYe declare
There is also current interest in LAM today. The OTO has founded a Cult of Lam for their members who are drawn to this entity and want to use the egg as an astral space-capsule for traveling to LAM's domain and for tantric time traveling.
According to tradition, the Sirians who originally settled in Sumeria had cat or lion like bodies. How many hybrids and just plain humans were absorbed into the ancient culture is not exactly known. What is known is that at some time they settled into the area of Cairo and called it Babalon or Babylon which meant Baby Lyon. This city was designated as one of the Sacred Places of the Lion and it was decided that a large repository of knowledge should be constructed nearby so as to preserve their collective wisdom. This construction project turned out to be what we know today as the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx. The Great Pyramid and its satellite pyramids were designed to serve as ancient time clocks that were in synchronization with the entire cyclic nature of the universe. The Sphinx represented the goddess in the form of Bast who was also known as Babalon and eventually Isis. To reiterate what was said earlier, the names Isis and Osiris were derived from Sirius.
Originally posted by queenannie38
Why not love one's self?
Originally posted by defcon5
have you ever heard the saying “If you cannot dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with BS”. All these pithy little plays on words, and beating around the “direct assault” are starting to smell of an attempt to baffle for some reason...
Expecting folks to somehow decipher what the heck you’re talking about is obviously not working, if you are thinking that it makes what you’re saying sound deep, that is similarly not gaining the expected results.
Is what your eluding too so outrageous that you cannot just come right out and write it?
I have given a very serious attempt to try and make sense out of what you’re hinting at, but I guess I have to just call it quits.
2) Annie Lilly is someone that posts “New age” nonsense on the net, perhaps this is also you in some online persona.
4) Lam just happens to mean “Path” in Tibetan.
The title can be used as an honorific title confered on a monk, nun or (in the Nyingma, Kagyu and Sakya schools) advanced tantric practitioner to designate their level of spiritual attainment and authority to teach, or may be part of a title such as Dalai Lama or Panchen Lama applied to a lineage of reincarnate lamas (Tulkus).
7) You’re obviously into the “new age movement”, the “peace movement”, some form of witchcraft, UFO’s, Poetry, possibly scientology, and at some level Christianity.
Jeremiah 29:11-13
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of God and our Father
8) Your trying to mash all the above into some form of religion.
9) Judging by your avatar (the egg) this also seems to be related, again this is an OTO topic which you claim to not be member of:
There is also current interest in LAM today. The OTO has founded a Cult of Lam for their members who are drawn to this entity and want to use the egg as an astral space-capsule for traveling to LAM's domain and for tantric time traveling.
10) Babalon is only mentioned briefly in the text you listed above, and its about some legendary lion/human species that supposedly created the sphinx, built a library under it, and made contact with Crawley through Lam:
(..)
This is obviously not accurate information as they have excavated and done ground sonaregraphy/x-ray under the sphinx for this library repeatedly and it’s just not there…
11) For some strange reason you think that the Bible was written by lam, which is similarly a proven to be an incorrect assumption.
12) Maybe you're thinking that these things are related because of these plays on words, like a sort of double speak or reverse speak. I hope you realize that these words are all from different languages and just because you can fit them together a certain way in English does not make it that way in their original language.
For prime example we don’t actually know that RA had the name RA, as Egyptian is a Dead language its just a name that modern man has given to this entity.
So, I guess I don’t know where you are heading with this, I can make certain guesses but I would not want to ass-u-me too much.
I am Babalon. I am LAM. My name is Lucretia Ann Myers. That's not the whole story or even 1% of 1% of it. It would take 8 years to tell you all and you wouldn't accept any of it anyway. It doesn't matter anyway. God didn't seek to prove it to others but to me. There are other things to prove to the world. Such as God IS real...God IS good....God IS love...God is PERFECT.
Either way though, considering that God intended for man to be able to decipher prophecy when he reached the final stages of the End Times, is it more likely that he based the prophecy on known history, or a bunch of speculation, unproven theories, incorrect guesses, and channeled writings?