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Israel, ISIS & The End Of Days
This article was written by Bob Livingston and originally published at Personal Liberty Digest / Alt-Market.com
Apocalypticism or apocalyptic thinking seems to dominate most discussions revolving around the rise of ISIS/ISIL and the United States’ policy toward the Middle East generally and Israel specifically.
According to Merriam-Webster, apocalypticism is a doctrine concerning an imminent end of the world and an ensuing general resurrection and final judgment. The old “American Heritage Dictionary” I have kept at my desk for dozens of years defines it as a general belief in the imminent destruction of the world.
Christian eschatology (prophetic interpretation concerning the last days) is associated with the Book of Revelation. The Book of Revelation and the apocalypse have come to have a synonymous meaning. Almost all Christians today believe that the “fulfillment” of the Book of Revelation is in the future, with emphasis on the near future, and the second coming of Christ. Most people, especially Americans, have over the entirety of our nations’ history been saturated with apocalyptic writings mostly based on biblical prophecies with futurist interpretations.
The rise of ISIS/ISIL in the Middle East has only served to increase such conversations. Fundamentalist Christians expecting the rise of an antichrist, the rapture and 1,000 years of Christ rule are looking at the Middle East and wondering whether ISIS and its proclaimed caliphate is it.
An apocalyptic conversation or discussion will draw blood in a few seconds. Somehow, people by nature are attracted to end time apocalypticism. They seem to love tragedy and horror and to be obsessed with predictions of the future.
Most all apocalyptic teaching is presented in biblical language as if it were the direct teaching of the Bible. In fact, there are religious cults that base their entire teaching on apocalypticism. Such false teaching has on numerous occasions prompted people by the hundreds to sell their possessions, don white robes, climb to a mountaintop and await Christ’s coming based on varying interpretations of symbolic Scripture, which sadly ignores a very obvious proclamation in I Thessalonians 5:1-3: “Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, ‘There is peace and security,’ then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.” (ESV) In other words, only the Father knows the day and time, and anyone telling you anything else is a false prophet.
Apocalypticism is a type of fatalism that neutralizes human action and resistance to tyranny. It is a syndrome of inevitability which prompts us to think that there is nothing that we can do about anything.
Governments, along with organized religion, have seized upon apocalypticism to promote wars, encourage false patriotism and regiment populations because of the “divine nature” of the crisis.
The American Civil War was considered by both sides as a divine cause, and both sides claimed to have God’s backing. George W. Bush couched the Iraq war in religious terms at an Israeli-Palestinian summit at Sharm el-Sheikh four months after the invasion of Iraq began in 2003. One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said, “President Bush said to all of us: ‘I am driven with a mission from God.’ God would tell me, ‘George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan.’ And I did. And then God would tell me ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq.’ And I did. And now, again, I feel God’s words coming to me, ‘Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East.’ And, by God, I’m gonna do it.”
Read more at Alt-Market.com:
http://alt-market.com/articles/2544-israel-isis-and-the-end-of-days
“The End Of Days”
It’s not “The End Of Days”, that would be Ragnarok, it’s the end of the age called a ‘time’. The next age, Aquarius, begins in about 300 years time.
If humanity vanished overnight it would not be “The End Of Days” either, days and nights would carry on perfectly fine without us.
The link article is wrong, Christians didn’t wipe out the Druid priests, the best 2 legions of the Roman empire did. They chased them out of Britain into Wales, then to the Isle of Anglesey where they slaughtered the lot. On their return trip to Britain they met and slaughtered the entire army of Queen Boudica where they were out numbered 100 to 1.
Wales is in Britain. And Scots are also Egyptians and in ‘Alba’ (‘Albion’ – first recorded 650 BC)
In legend, Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome, had come from the royal dynasty of Alba Longa, which in Virgil’s Aeneid had been the bloodline of Aeneas, a son of Venus.
Damine
Wales was a country in its own right, but yes, it’s part of Britain today. Scotland got it’s name via the Irish Scoti tribe that invaded East Scotland and slowly took it over. Alba Longer is in central Italy. Venus is the name of a small but prosperous kingdom on the south coast of present day Turkey. Also an ally of Troy. British history before the 1930′s was linked with Troy but they couldn’t find it at the time so ditched it as myth. Troy has since been found in north Turkey. They haven’t re-establish ancient British History, according to the party line Britains history starts with the Roman invasion.
Pix
With the Pontifex Maximus Caesar coming to the previously recorded Albion (even if he did call it Britain).
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On England’s pleasant pastures seen!
Damine
William Blake was in the know, a member of the in-crowd club and his art gave many clues. It’s about actual royal bloodlines, living gods, (gods being anything and everything that could and did affect their lives, mostly the whims of kings). Hence ‘the holy lamb of god’ would have been Caesarion, it was his by birth right, god gave it. It’s how they obtained the authority to rule. By the gods, or in modern speak, luck of birth. If the gods didn’t want him to rule, they would have made him the son of a peasant instead.
Pix
Well somebody certainly had it in for the Druids.
” the Apostles fled from the Holy Land with Joseph of Arimathaea and his niece the “Virgin Mary”, who was a member of the British royal family, to the British Isles, ”
Is a modern claim originating from peoples imaginative fantasies via Glastonbury Hippy drivel. Joseph of Arimathaea was an uncle of Caesarion. The only begotten son of god the Roman emperor Julius Caesar, a direct descendant of Venus, via the virgin mother and goddess, the Egyptian Pharaoh Cleopatra/Isis Meri.
Wrong.
Official historical records, both domestic and foreign, including at least four official Vatican documents*, confirm that Joseph of Arimathaea fled the Holy Land with Mary the mother of Jesus and others; came to England; settled and was eventually buried, along with Virgin Mary, in Glastonbury after the Crucifixion of Jesus the Nazarite (Num. 6), during the vicious persecution of the first followers of The New Way – Christ. * Council of Pisa (A.D. 1417); Council of Constance, also in A.D. 1417; Council at Sienna 1424; Council at Basle in 1434.
http://jahtruth.net/glaston.htm
Remo
Blake was talking about Caesarion, not Horus/Mithra/Dionysus/Dagon/Jesus. Caesarion was titled ‘son of god’, ‘lamb of god’, ‘in the image of god’. And it’s perfect timing.
There are no such documents or historical records. Joseph of Arimathea was a shipping merchant who travelled all over the place. It’s plausible he took Caesarion and his siblings into exile to protect them. They were being hunted by Octavian/Augustus to be killed because he was the only true heir of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, who should have inherited the Roman Empire and Egypt. Pretty much King of the known world at the time.
When Christians reached Britain, they met the mystery cults, Mithra and Dionysus, that had been established when Rome ruled Britain. Rome destroyed the Druids long before then, apart from in Pictland/Scotland, who were the only people to defeat/beat off the Roman empire.
Historical records show that Mary the mother of Jesus was a member of the British royal family, descended from David and also the priestly line of Levi – she was the cousin of Elisabeth. This Levitical connection is confirmed both in the Gospel of Luke and also in the Koran, which also confirms that Mary travelled to the East to give birth to Jesus in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. Mary’s Levitical and Davidic lineage meant that Jesus was therefore eligible to be both King and High-Priest, also in fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy.
No such documents or records exist. Your story originates from pulp fiction.
… called The Mists of Avalon.