"The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth."
-- Revelation 9:7-8
I guarantee you: You read Revelation and you will be convinced it was written by an ancestor of Kat Kerr.
I am so grateful you are doing this. As a child who was forced into revelation haunted houses every year where I faced my eternal hell after the rapture came terrifying for a little child terrified my whole life of that tribulation houses That's how they really scare people to death So I'm so grateful that you're doing this and I have so many thoughts as a Christian raised child This is great
Martin Luther thought that Revelation should not have the same status or authority as the gospels or epistles. I grew up in a moderate Lutheran Church. Revelation was never discussed, preached on, or the subject of Sunday School or confirmation lessons.
I never really paid attention to it until someone gave me a copy of Hal Lindsey's "The Late, Great Planet Earth" when I was in high school. I was shocked by the bat shit crazy theories he was spinning. The realization that "fellow Christians" believed such far fetched bullshit was one of the first cogs in the wheel that eventually spun me to Hement.
Ooo, this sounds exciting! If I had money I'd help, but I can give clicks and thumbs. I enjoy your bible videos and have a lot of questions of Revelation. Like what kind of drugs was he on and where can I get some. I looove a scary trip. ;)
Apparently, we are already underway for the end times. In church, one elderly gent informed us that it would all kick off in 1988. His math was based of one verse about the lifespan of an olive tree being 40 years - I think a verse (I forget which one) about jesus returning before the a generation of olive trees would pass - and Israel being set up in 1948. 1948+40=1988, when Bush Sr. was elected. Some events had already come to pass during the Kennedy presidency which was, apparently exactly 3.5 years of peace and prosperity (under a democrat????), or something like that.
He did enjoy some congregation-wide celebrity for his accurate calculations. So while we didn't know, in accordance with scripture, the "exact date," we at least knew the final year it would all have to kick off by. 2,000 years of "any day now" has finally come to an end. So, only another 1,000+ years until it's all over. I think that's the bit where (all hail) Satan is bound for 1,000 years by an archangel then unleashed for Armageddon. The Good Omens documentary covers this in a much more exciting way than my boring description.
Once it's finally all done, god will establish his kingdom on earth and (to the tune of Handel's Messiah) he shall reign forever and ever, and he shall reign forever and eevvvveerrrr. Aaaaaameeeeeen. Then we (but not me now), will live in a golden city 1,500 miles by 1,500 miles by 1,500 miles (that's right! A giant gold cube sticking off the side of the earth - that has got to affect the orbital mechanics in some fashion). Everything will be made of the most precious metals and gemstones, streetlamps of diamonds, streets of gold, yada, yada, yada... Gravity won't mean anything because you'll travel up or down by thought alone, like in Minecraft, only not controller. And to top it all off, if I remember correctly, we (but not me now) will all be served by kings and princes. Basically, what republicans promise every election cycle. ;)
I recommend you dig up a copy of C. Dennis McKinsey's book "The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy". It didn't have a very wide print run to begin with, and there haven't been any re-releases, so it's only available used, for a hefty price. But McKinsey was REALLY thoro, and it's a must-have for anyone seriously interested in all the extremely fucked-up things in The Greatest Story [sic] Ever Told.
The Revelation of John is a slog. I don’t know why anyone outside of Christianity would subject themselves to a detailed study of it, when even most lay Christians who try and grapple with it come away completely flummoxed.
If you’re going to actually try and tackle it, which I don’t recommend except as a means to force unconstitutional confessions out of prisoners, then you will have to take on the whole genre of Jewish apocalyptic literature out which it came. Anyone who tries to understand this work outside of that genre is just going to make a cock up of it. Which is exactly what most Christians do.
Cool. While I'm vaguely aware that much of the symbolism was slams of the current regime(s) and political figures of the time, I'd love to read an "answer key" of which symbol goes with which figure/government.
I hope Hemant includes various interpretations of scripture and not just the fundamentalist view. It would be quite interesting to compare the "liberal" view with that of that fundamentalist view.
SPOILER.......it's all bullshit.
"The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth."
-- Revelation 9:7-8
I guarantee you: You read Revelation and you will be convinced it was written by an ancestor of Kat Kerr.
I am so grateful you are doing this. As a child who was forced into revelation haunted houses every year where I faced my eternal hell after the rapture came terrifying for a little child terrified my whole life of that tribulation houses That's how they really scare people to death So I'm so grateful that you're doing this and I have so many thoughts as a Christian raised child This is great
Revelation reveals that the only humans who occupy heaven are 144.000 virgin Jewish males from the 12 tribes of Israel. Not a Gentile in sight.
Christians seem a bit oblivious to this little detail.
Martin Luther thought that Revelation should not have the same status or authority as the gospels or epistles. I grew up in a moderate Lutheran Church. Revelation was never discussed, preached on, or the subject of Sunday School or confirmation lessons.
I never really paid attention to it until someone gave me a copy of Hal Lindsey's "The Late, Great Planet Earth" when I was in high school. I was shocked by the bat shit crazy theories he was spinning. The realization that "fellow Christians" believed such far fetched bullshit was one of the first cogs in the wheel that eventually spun me to Hement.
How Murika Christianity works: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a04adbbcae1362530c04007b71e263e4d97e10e5fc89c1b1080acee74acb983d.jpg
Ooo, this sounds exciting! If I had money I'd help, but I can give clicks and thumbs. I enjoy your bible videos and have a lot of questions of Revelation. Like what kind of drugs was he on and where can I get some. I looove a scary trip. ;)
Revelation. Let's see...
*The vivid remembrance of a mere dream?
*Written while ill and suffering from hallucinations due to malnutrition?
*One or more anonymous authors putting people on and laughing at anyone gullible enough to buy it?
You be the judge.
Apparently, we are already underway for the end times. In church, one elderly gent informed us that it would all kick off in 1988. His math was based of one verse about the lifespan of an olive tree being 40 years - I think a verse (I forget which one) about jesus returning before the a generation of olive trees would pass - and Israel being set up in 1948. 1948+40=1988, when Bush Sr. was elected. Some events had already come to pass during the Kennedy presidency which was, apparently exactly 3.5 years of peace and prosperity (under a democrat????), or something like that.
He did enjoy some congregation-wide celebrity for his accurate calculations. So while we didn't know, in accordance with scripture, the "exact date," we at least knew the final year it would all have to kick off by. 2,000 years of "any day now" has finally come to an end. So, only another 1,000+ years until it's all over. I think that's the bit where (all hail) Satan is bound for 1,000 years by an archangel then unleashed for Armageddon. The Good Omens documentary covers this in a much more exciting way than my boring description.
Once it's finally all done, god will establish his kingdom on earth and (to the tune of Handel's Messiah) he shall reign forever and ever, and he shall reign forever and eevvvveerrrr. Aaaaaameeeeeen. Then we (but not me now), will live in a golden city 1,500 miles by 1,500 miles by 1,500 miles (that's right! A giant gold cube sticking off the side of the earth - that has got to affect the orbital mechanics in some fashion). Everything will be made of the most precious metals and gemstones, streetlamps of diamonds, streets of gold, yada, yada, yada... Gravity won't mean anything because you'll travel up or down by thought alone, like in Minecraft, only not controller. And to top it all off, if I remember correctly, we (but not me now) will all be served by kings and princes. Basically, what republicans promise every election cycle. ;)
I recommend you dig up a copy of C. Dennis McKinsey's book "The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy". It didn't have a very wide print run to begin with, and there haven't been any re-releases, so it's only available used, for a hefty price. But McKinsey was REALLY thoro, and it's a must-have for anyone seriously interested in all the extremely fucked-up things in The Greatest Story [sic] Ever Told.
The Revelation of John is a slog. I don’t know why anyone outside of Christianity would subject themselves to a detailed study of it, when even most lay Christians who try and grapple with it come away completely flummoxed.
If you’re going to actually try and tackle it, which I don’t recommend except as a means to force unconstitutional confessions out of prisoners, then you will have to take on the whole genre of Jewish apocalyptic literature out which it came. Anyone who tries to understand this work outside of that genre is just going to make a cock up of it. Which is exactly what most Christians do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6q1J09oNw
Gold Jell-O, maybe?
Cool. While I'm vaguely aware that much of the symbolism was slams of the current regime(s) and political figures of the time, I'd love to read an "answer key" of which symbol goes with which figure/government.
I hope Hemant includes various interpretations of scripture and not just the fundamentalist view. It would be quite interesting to compare the "liberal" view with that of that fundamentalist view.
He's already there.
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Five books of the Christian bible. Yahweh was not responsible for most of the fairy tale.