The Apocalyptic Beheaders

I think it's a mistake to put to much emphasis on the method of execution. I don't see anything in Revelation 20:4 to suggest that beheading would be the "primary" method - it's just a method that happened to be mentioned.So it doesn't make much sense to try to link it to modern-day beheadings.

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Patience is my middle name. My point was that the beheading - i.e. the method of execution - is not necessarily significant. The writer mentioned a method that was known to his readers, but it could refer to any method of execution - hanging, firing squad, Zyklon B. I see no significance in beheading and certainly no reason to extrapolate it to the present.All in all, I have next to no interest in "the apocalypse" and I don't believe for a split second that we are currently in "the end times".Remember Hal Lindsey and The Late Great Planet Earth? He went to great lengths to show that the USSR was about to invade Israel "any minute now". William R. Goetz rehashed the same bunk in Apocalypse Next. That stuff went over big during the Cold War, but how likely does it seem today?Now the false prophets have set their sights on Islam. I suspect that in a few decades that will all change again. Plus a change, plus c’est la mme chose.

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Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

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Mat 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

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I googled "beheadings on increase" and got 556,000 hits.
Then I googled "Flintstone is God" and got 1,050,000 hits.Scientific research in action.

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