Re: Armageddon transformed into a grim fairy tale

On May 9, 3:30=A0am, "Precision" <precis...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The young boy plops into a large feather bed amongst a sea of teddy
bears.=

>
> "Read me a bedtime story!" he entreats he mom. "Keep reading the one we
le=
ft
> off last week about Armageddon!"
>
> "But you had nightmares dear" she cautiously says.
>
> "It was way cool!" he exclaims and like every good theocratic mom she
cave=
s
> in.
>
> "Why of course darling" she coos gently, taking a book off the young
boy's=

> shelf filled with Dr. Seuss and other delightful children's fairy tales.
>
> Turning to the end of the book, she sits next to him and slowly begins
> reading.
>
> "It was month two and bulldozers were shoveling bodies into mass graves
> around the clock..."
>
> This is an exaggerated dramatization of a typical bedtime scene that
> ex-Jehovah's Witnesses would have you believe is played out repeatedly
and=

> quite tragically in young children's bedrooms around the world.
>
> In fact, many individuals latched on to past deadlines for Armageddon
that=

> passed without even a storm cloud or lightning bolt in most cases. The
las=
t
> big date was 1975. Leading up to that year those who wanted a 'ticket to
> paradise' quit their jobs and 'pioneered on plastic' as one industrious
> sister called it. They maxed out credit cards and personal loans
believing=

> the debt would simply disappeared as the banking institutions crumbled
aft=
er
> a 'worldwide destruction' in 1975.
>
> As the late 1970's passed many of these Armageddon speculators declared
> bankruptcy, lost their homes and became embittered, many living
impoverish=
ed
> to this very day.
>
How imprecise of you!  The reality is that the scripture has never
been changed that the Society has repeated for over a hundred
years, ...that says, "no man knows the day or the hour, neither the
Son."  Calculating the cost has always been a prerequiste and anthem
cry for any Pioneer aspirant.  If any went over the 'deep end' as you
suggest, they would have done so on their own whipped up desires.  You
have done a great disservice and I suggest no one listen to your foul
ways and obvious ill-spirited vendetta, as demented as it may be.

CJ

> While transforming Armageddon into a grim fairy tale many Christians
faile=
d
> to read their own Bibles and particularly, a major precedent set by God
in=

> the book of Jonah.
>
> Reading the book of Jonah in the Bible's Old Testament reveals the
startli=
ng
> truth that God will gladly 'cancel' a planned extinction event for a
city,=
 a
> region or the entire world. God takes no pleasure in destroying a single
> person, let alone wiping out a region or entire planet's surface of the
li=
fe
> He created.
>
> If you do not believe me then reread the book of Jonah and ask yourself
if=

> the cancelled destruction is not a corollary of a future time, and that
ti=
me
> is now, when God would face a similar decision as the generation in 'the
> time of the end' became like the Biblical city of Nineveh that was
> absolutely prophesied to be DESTROYED and was not.
>
> Why not?
>
> God changed His mind, seeing no point to wiping out impoverished and
> pathetic people.
>
> Certainly after going through the trouble of sending Jesus Christ to
Earth=

> and allowing Jesus to die for the sins of mankind, He is not about to
comm=
it
> the petty act of cru****ng a civilization of people more fragile than a
> little girl's collection of ****celain dolls? His son just died for them.
>
> The book of Revelation if read in the context of Jonah, is a 'what if?'
> scenario as conveyed by its writer. An alternate timeline of a future to
> never come, a future misunderstood to be meted out by a vengeful God
will
> turn out just as the foretold prophecy of Nineveh's destruction in the
boo=
k
> of Jonah. That future as a result of Christ's death and proclaiming that
'=
it
> is finished' was transformed from darkness into light by God who so
loved
> the world. Always remember: God transformed Nineveh's destruction from
> certain prophecy to nothing more than a grim fairy tale.
>
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