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deb1
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Wow! That was cool!
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Peter_DiMitri
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666 is Nero.
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deb1
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I’m just passing along something that I read that interested me. It probably isn’t true and I certainly am not trying to offend anyone.
Because of this verse in Daniel, I’ve heard some people claim that the AntiChrist will be homosexual.
Daniel 11:37: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all
Not being a biblical scholar, I have no idea. I just thought that it was an interesting theory.
Because of this verse in Daniel, I’ve heard some people claim that the AntiChrist will be homosexual.
Daniel 11:37: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all
Not being a biblical scholar, I have no idea. I just thought that it was an interesting theory.
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NotWorthy
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Because there is no form of showing something is greater or greatest in Hebrew.
If someone is holy, they are holy.
If someone is holier, they are holy, holy.
If someone is the holiest (like, say, God), they are holy, holy, holy.
BTW, There is also no means of conveying “liking someone less than someone else”. For this reason, when God says, “I liked Jacob and hated Esau”, it doesn’t come over into English very well.
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777 = God’s number per se, Hebrews and other Semite peoples since the dawn of time said the number 7 represented perfection and holiness.
plus,
the old 666 is now 491
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Old_US_666_New_US_491.JPG
(my apologies to whatever website i found this at long ago)
- Samson’s seven locks of consecration. (Judges 16:13-19)
- The seven pillars of wisdom’s house. (Proverbs 9:1)
- The sevenfold sign of total commitment and dependence (2 Chron. 29: 20-21)
- The seven lambs to attest the conclusion of a peace treaty. (Genesis 21:28-30)
- The seven fold sprinkling of blood before cleansing was complete. (Lev:16:19)
- The seven week count to Pentecost, the seven year count to the sabbatical year and the seven times seven year count to the Jubilee year. (Lev. 23:15, Lev.25:1-9)
- The seven candlesticks, seven churches, seven stars, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven thunders, and seven plagues mentioned in the book of Revelation etc.
- the seventh day is Holy, the Sabbath.
- forgive 7x70 was God’s command.
plus,
the old 666 is now 491
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Old_US_666_New_US_491.JPG
(my apologies to whatever website i found this at long ago)
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GregoryPalamas
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I see what you mean. As that pick up reverses past the 666 sign it is rusting. Look at the cab which seems clean enough. Now look at the bed. See how rusty it is.
Lord, have mercy and protect us from the 666. + + +
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Lord, have mercy and protect us from the 666. + + +
CDL
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NotWorthy
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So… Ziebart will save us from the anti-christ?!? Now I’m really confused!
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seremina
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Thank you very much. I appreciate having Catholic answers to my question. All I’m really familiar with is the fanciful theories and number stuffs, all of which I just ignore. I mean, so much of it seems like superstition. So it helps to have the Bible and the Catechism ground you.
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Church_Militant
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Retreatants Hear of Guises of the Antichrist
Preacher Draws On Work of V.S. Solovyov
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The Antichrist is the reduction of Christianity to an ideology, instead of a personal encounter with the Savior, says the cardinal directing the retreat which Benedict XVI is attending.
Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, retired archbishop of Bologna, delivered that message during a meditation Tuesday, drawing on the work of Russian philosopher Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov.
The cardinal’s meditation came during the weeklong Spiritual Exercises being attended by the Pope and members of the Roman Curia. The retreat ends this Saturday. The Holy Father suspended his usual meetings, including the general audience, in these days.
According to Vatican Radio’s summary of his preaching, the cardinal explained that “the teaching that the great Russian philosopher left us is that Christianity cannot be reduced to a set of values. At the center of being a Christian is, in fact, the personal encounter with Jesus Christ.”
Quoting the work “Three Dialogues on War, Progress and the End of History,” Cardinal Biffi told his listeners that “the Antichrist presents himself as pacifist, ecologist and ecumenist.”
“He will convoke an ecumenical council and will seek the consensus of all the Christian confessions, granting something to each one. The masses will follow him, with the exception of small groups of Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants,” he said.
The cardinal added that Solovyov says in that work: “Days will come in Christianity in which they will try to reduce the salvific event to a mere series of values.”
No cross
In his “Tale of the Antichrist” Solovyov foresees that a small group of Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants will resist and will say to the Antichrist: “You give us everything, except what interests us, Jesus Christ.”
For Cardinal Biffi, this narrative is a warning: “Today, in fact, we run the risk of having a Christianity which puts aside Jesus with his cross and resurrection.”
The 78-year-old cardinal said that if Christians “limited themselves to speaking of shared values they would be more accepted on television programs and in social groups. But in this way, they will have renounced Jesus, the overwhelming reality of the resurrection.”
The cardinal said he believes that this is “the danger that Christians face in our days … the Son of God cannot be reduced to a series of good projects sanctioned by the prevailing worldly mentality.”
However, “this does not mean a condemnation of values, but their careful discernment. There are absolute values, such as goodness, truth, beauty,” Cardinal Biffi said. “Those who perceive and love them, also love Christ, even if they don’t know it, because he is Truth, Beauty and Justice.”
The preacher of the Spiritual Exercises added that “there are relative values, such as solidarity, love of peace and respect for nature. If these become absolute, uprooting or even opposing the proclamation of the event of salvation, then these values become an instigation to idolatry and obstacles on the way of salvation.”
Cardinal Biffi affirmed that “if Christianity – on opening itself to the world and dialoguing with all – dilutes the salvific event, it closes itself to a personal relationship with Jesus and places itself on the side of the Antichrist.”
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Preacher Draws On Work of V.S. Solovyov
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The Antichrist is the reduction of Christianity to an ideology, instead of a personal encounter with the Savior, says the cardinal directing the retreat which Benedict XVI is attending.
Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, retired archbishop of Bologna, delivered that message during a meditation Tuesday, drawing on the work of Russian philosopher Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov.
The cardinal’s meditation came during the weeklong Spiritual Exercises being attended by the Pope and members of the Roman Curia. The retreat ends this Saturday. The Holy Father suspended his usual meetings, including the general audience, in these days.
According to Vatican Radio’s summary of his preaching, the cardinal explained that “the teaching that the great Russian philosopher left us is that Christianity cannot be reduced to a set of values. At the center of being a Christian is, in fact, the personal encounter with Jesus Christ.”
Quoting the work “Three Dialogues on War, Progress and the End of History,” Cardinal Biffi told his listeners that “the Antichrist presents himself as pacifist, ecologist and ecumenist.”
“He will convoke an ecumenical council and will seek the consensus of all the Christian confessions, granting something to each one. The masses will follow him, with the exception of small groups of Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants,” he said.
The cardinal added that Solovyov says in that work: “Days will come in Christianity in which they will try to reduce the salvific event to a mere series of values.”
No cross
In his “Tale of the Antichrist” Solovyov foresees that a small group of Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants will resist and will say to the Antichrist: “You give us everything, except what interests us, Jesus Christ.”
For Cardinal Biffi, this narrative is a warning: “Today, in fact, we run the risk of having a Christianity which puts aside Jesus with his cross and resurrection.”
The 78-year-old cardinal said that if Christians “limited themselves to speaking of shared values they would be more accepted on television programs and in social groups. But in this way, they will have renounced Jesus, the overwhelming reality of the resurrection.”
The cardinal said he believes that this is “the danger that Christians face in our days … the Son of God cannot be reduced to a series of good projects sanctioned by the prevailing worldly mentality.”
However, “this does not mean a condemnation of values, but their careful discernment. There are absolute values, such as goodness, truth, beauty,” Cardinal Biffi said. “Those who perceive and love them, also love Christ, even if they don’t know it, because he is Truth, Beauty and Justice.”
The preacher of the Spiritual Exercises added that “there are relative values, such as solidarity, love of peace and respect for nature. If these become absolute, uprooting or even opposing the proclamation of the event of salvation, then these values become an instigation to idolatry and obstacles on the way of salvation.”
Cardinal Biffi affirmed that “if Christianity – on opening itself to the world and dialoguing with all – dilutes the salvific event, it closes itself to a personal relationship with Jesus and places itself on the side of the Antichrist.”
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