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Post by watchmanjim on May 15, 2017 22:27:57 GMT -6
Is it any wonder that abortion is so prevalent? Satan hates babies! Why? Because of the profound meaning of the child. Now we see in Scripture that the child is representative of the Church, and the body of Christ!
Is it any wonder than moslems are so big on beheading? And especially the end-time beast of the Tribulation, is so big on beheading? Because it is symbolic of separating Christ from His body!
I have to think this goes all the way back to Napoleon, the French Rev, and the guillotine, too perhaps.
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Post by whatif on May 15, 2017 23:36:56 GMT -6
I have to think this goes all the way back to Napoleon, the French Rev, and the guillotine, too perhaps. Interesting that you mention that, watchmanjim! I have been studying French history--mainly 18th Century--for many years, and some time ago I made note of some connections I've seen between the French Revolution and the Tribulation period. I'm going to dig those notes out and prepare some posts.
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Post by watchmanjim on May 16, 2017 5:21:06 GMT -6
Well there's always that "what color was Napolean's white horse?" joke. I recently watched the old BBC miniseries of War and Peace-- it was a fascinating commentary on the times from the Russian perspective. They also tried to change times and seasons, a ten-day week, for instance.
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Post by whatif on May 16, 2017 10:36:03 GMT -6
Well there's always that "what color was Napolean's white horse?" joke. Yes, indeed! And did you know that one of his favorites was actually preserved and was in the process of being restored last year? Could this be prophetically-connected imagery possibly? Napoleon himself was a proud conqueror who rose out of the chaos of a horrific, chaotic Terror, which always makes me think of the rider on the white horse of Revelation 6.
Also, the horse's name is "Le Vizir," which means in English "The Vizier," which is a term referring to a high Muslim official, particularly in the Ottoman Empire. It was given to Napoleon by an Ottoman sultan. Certainly, we are seeing today a push by Turkey's Erdogan to restore the Ottoman Empire. I find it fascinating that the white horse is being restored in these days. Here is a link to an article about the horse with excellent photos and some of the artwork depicting Napoleon riding the horse.
hyperallergic.com/310371/taxidermists-restore-napoleons-beloved-white-horse/
(Source: Allison Meier, "Taxidermists Restore Napoleon's Beloved White Horse," Hyperallergic, 12 July 2016)
You see, the thing is, I've often wondered if there have been throughout history certain people and certain horrific events that give us a pre-visualization of the time of the Tribulation--as if Satan has tried over and over again through history to bring about his evil purpose, but it has always eventually been squashed because it has not been the time that the Lord has established for the end of the age. Hitler and the Holocaust are another example.
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Post by whatif on May 16, 2017 11:24:50 GMT -6
Right! Daniel 7:25 says of the antichrist, "He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time." Perhaps the changes in times has to do with calendar issues. If so, we have an interesting connection from the time of the Reign of Terror--that time being a horrific example of the coming Tribulation. The French Republican Calendar was a huge change in the traditional calendar system.
While I know Wikipedia has its ups and downs in terms of accuracy of information for research, their article on the French Republican Calendar is pretty nice. Here's a link. It has some great visuals. Notice that each day of the week was given a name for the celebration of agriculture--replacing the celebration of saints that the Catholic Church had established. The calendar itself is just one big example of the deChristianization of the nation that was occurring during the French Revolution. Does celebration of nature above God sound familiar in these modern days?
(Source: "French Republican Calendar," Wikipedia, 29 April 2017) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar The 10-day week was a major change to the 7-day week established by the Lord at the time of creation, and it was actually a very unpopular aspect of the new system. While the Lord established a day of rest on the 7th day, the day of rest on the new calendar was on the 10th day, which meant that hard-working folks had to work more days before resting. Not good... (Source: "The French Revolutionary Calendar," Calendars Through the Ages, 2008, www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-french.html)
Especially interesting to me is that the calendar actually has a fascinating connection to our September 2017 days for the Feast of Trumpets and the Revelation 12 sign. Here is a link to the 1793 "Decree on the Republican Calendar" which established the calendar as the new system. Article 1 says, "The era of the French is counted from the Republic, which took place September 22, 1792 of the vulgar era, the day when the sun reached the true autumn equinox for the Paris Observatory by entering into the sign of Libra, at 9:18:30 in the morning." Article 4 says, "The first year of the French Republic began at midnight September 22, 1792, and ended at midnight separating the 21 from the 22 September, 1793." (Source: "French Revolution 1793: Decree on the Republican Calendar," Marxists.org, translated by Mitchell Abidor, 2005)
www.marxists.org/history/france/revolution/1793/calendar.htm
C'est fascinant, non?
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Post by Gary on May 16, 2017 13:09:36 GMT -6
I've always thought that the most prevalent sins in a given era help to identify God's plans in a way. It's almost like satan is mocking what God is up to:
We see a cosmic baby (the Church) gestating in space all while abortion has been legalized throughout the land.
We see the body (the Church) about to be united with the Head (Christ) possibly in the same year the first human head transplant will occur.
We see transgenderism and the abolishment of genders occur in the same year(s) as Christ is coming for His Bride.
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Post by whatif on May 16, 2017 13:25:30 GMT -6
I heard a fascinating theory recently about why David cut off the head of Goliath in 1 Samuel 17:51. I don't remember for sure who put the theory forward, but I think it might have been Steve Quayle and Timothy Alberino. The theory is that the giants may have had the capability of reviving from fatal wounds unless their heads were cut off and disconnected from their bodies. If this is true, it would certainly align with the idea that Satan would desperately want to sever the Head from the Body (Christ and the Church).
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 15:51:53 GMT -6
That's a most interesting theory. I wonder if there is any connection to all the zombie movies and TV shows coming out over the last few years. You have to sever the head or shoot the head of the undead to really kill them.
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Post by watchmanjim on May 16, 2017 18:05:17 GMT -6
Well severed heads are certainly nothing new. The ancient Celts had a cult of the severed head and used it as a motif on many of their articles. The people of Nineveh, like Isis today, were particularly known for beheadings. Saul was beheaded by his enemies.
Beheading is the quickest, surest way to know that anything has been killed.
Beheading has been a theme for many tribal peoples, including "head-hunters" in many of the worlds' tropical areas.
Frank L. Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz, wrote many books in which people lived magically on in spite of being beheaded, in fact many of these people were magically healed. The Tin Woodman is one such example-- he kept accidentally cutting off parts of himself and being replaced with tin, until his body itself was cut in three pieces, and he had his body replaced with tin. This was published in 1900, when it was generally understood to be whimsical and facetious in nature. Baum's second book, The Land of Oz, introduced at least two new characters who were capable of losing their heads-- stick-man "Jack Pumkinhead" and the Gump, a magical creature made in ersatz fashion by tying furniture together and bringing it to life to use as an escape vehicle. The main character of this book, a boy named Tip, used the wall-mounted stuffed head of a "gump" (a fictitious creature much like a moose) to allow the contraption to see and take instructions. Afterwards, the Gump was disassembled and the head was put back on the wall, where it would occasionally talk to people who passed by it in the palace. Many jokes were cracked in these books about losing one's head, figuratively and literally.
The books also introduced transgenderism (aided by magic) when the boy Tip was revealed to actually be Princess Ozma in disguise (and without her knowledge). The Sorceress Glinda insisted on turning him back into a girl, which he protested against fearfully, but once the magic transformation took place, (she) decided it was all right. This was in the second book, which also took a nod from the suffragettes of that time period, and saw the Emerald City besieged, captured, and ransacked by the women of Oz who demanded equality and other concessions from the men, whom they forced to wash the dishes and mind the babies. This was shown to be a bad arrangement in the end.
The third book, Ozma of Oz, featured a "mechanical man" named Tik-Tok, who, though it was insisted that he was not alive and had no feelings or consciousness, nevertheless demonstrated human-like characteristics of intelligence, kindness, and loyalty. One of the most frightening features of this book was Princess Genveve, a reclusive vain Princess who had a collection of 30 heads in cabinets. She would interchange them as matter-of-factly as many people change hats or shoes.
The Oz books (Baum wrote 14 before he died, ca. 1920) had blatant and even utilitarian usage of magic, and delved deeply into theoretical ethical dilemmas. People were unable to die in Oz, so wounding them could leave them disfigured forever. Though eating people and animals was illegal, some evil creatures in Oz still tried to do it. There was a law against turning people or animals into inanimate objects (which law was broken multiple times). There were also many mixed-species animals, such as a hippogiraffe, Kalidahs (cross between a bear and a tiger), and others.
I read all 14 books at the ages of 6-7 years old. (My mom taught me to read when I was 3, and I started reading chapter books before I turned 6). I found them incredibly entertaining at a young age, but in my maturity, I find it frightening how many demonic ideas were brought up in these books written specifically for young children, 100 years ago. Part of the weirdness of it is how easy it was for him to publish those books at the time (they were seen as harmless, since the subject matter was considered so outrageously impossible). Today, however, beheadings, immortality, brain transplants (for the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz), genetic modification, magical signs, transgenderism, etc. are things we now face.
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Post by whatif on May 16, 2017 18:35:47 GMT -6
I read all 14 books at the ages of 6-7 years old. (My mom taught me to read when I was 3, and I started reading chapter books before I turned 6). I found them incredibly entertaining at a young age, but in my maturity, I find it frightening how many demonic ideas were brought up in these books written specifically for young children, 100 years ago. We had similar experiences, watchmanjim! My parents also taught me to read at a very early age, so by the time I was in 1st Grade I was reading bigger, more advanced books than any of the other kids in my class. I am so grateful to them for having taught me to read. Unfortunately, though I didn't read the Oz books that I can recall, I was given lots and lots of Disney material, which certainly has its own issues where magic is concerned.
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Post by watchmanjim on May 16, 2017 18:55:41 GMT -6
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Post by watchmanjim on May 17, 2017 19:42:18 GMT -6
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Post by whatif on May 18, 2017 15:15:48 GMT -6
I just read the Daily Crow article that Gary posted a link for in the Shoutbox, and now I'm quite amazed by the connection of Napoleon's white horse being restored, seeing all that was detailed in the Daily Crow article about Macron.
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