Endtime Prophecy and the European Union

PaulK writes:Jesus was wrong.

jar writes:Well I take Christianity very seriously and the End Times Prophecy folk simply pervert all of the teachings. They are ignorant of what is actually in the Bible, and ignorant of the world we live in.

ArcherOpterix writes:Here it is at last, dear fundies: your chance to demonstrate real foreknowledge.Don't tell us what has already happened. Pick up your Bibles and tell us, based on that reading, what will happen. Tell us the headlines we'll be seeing 12 months from now. Give us something in advance that we can check against the real thing.

Wiki writes:A preterist view of the Mark of the Beast is the stamped image of the emperor's head on every coin of the Roman Empire: the stamp on the hand or in the mind of all, without which no one could buy or sell.[51] New Testament scholar Craig C. Hill says, "It is far more probable that the mark symbolizes the all-embracing economic power of Rome, whose very coinage bore the emperor's image and conveyed his claims to divinity (e.g., by including the sun's rays in the ruler's portrait). It had become increasingly difficult for Christians to function in a world in which public life, including the economic life of the trade guilds, required participation in idolatry."[52] A similar view is offered by Craig R. Koester. "As sales were made, people used coins that bore the images of Rome's gods and emperors. Thus each transaction that used such coins was a reminder that people were advancing themselves economically by relying on political powers that did not recognize the true God."[53](...)A futurist view of the mark of the Beast is the rise of a supranational currency could be a hallmark of the End Times and that the mark of the beast will be a sign on the forehead and/or upper side of the hand.[54]Religious difficulties with a supranational currency currently exist (see World currency - Political difficulties). According to the Futurist view, to overcome the extant difficulties the Antichrist will use forced religious syncretism[55] (i.e. in the name of counterterrorism and world economic stability) to enable the creation of the supranational currency. Some interpret the mark as a requirement for all commerce to mean that the mark might actually be an object with the function of a credit card, such as subdermal RFID tags.[56]

BibleGateway writes:Revelation 13:15-18--New International Version (NIV)15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[a] That number is 666.
Footnotes:Revelation 13:18 Or is humanity’s number

jar writes:The first thing is that all the foreign suppliers of the products on Safeway's shelves would stop selling to the US.The countries selling oil would stop selling to the US.There would be no food, no transportation to ship anything, no electric power and within 60 days the US would either be in total chaos or break up.

jar writes: Just who would this "war" be between? Just how would it help the US middle class?

Theodoric writes:I own a good bit of stock in corporations, primarily through 401K's and IRA's, so I am bad and need to be warred upon?

Theodoric writes:Why does what Josephus, a historian(and traitor to the jewish people)not a religious scholar, matter?

jar writes:End Time Prophecy has never ever been fulfilled.