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Silent3

(15,909 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 09:19 AM Mar 2015

How screwed is Israel in right wing Armageddon fantasies?

It's sad/funny how so many wingnuts are cheering on Netanyahu's speech where he goes on and on with the standard boilerplate about the safety and security of Israel, about peace, when what many of them are eager for is the monumental bloodshed of Armageddon, so they get to float up to heaven, leaving empty piles of clothes in their driverless cars which crash into unbelievers who don't deserve better.

I suppose there is some concern -- concern that Israelis are safe and secure until the right moment comes for most of them to die horrendously for their benefit.

Does anyone offhand know any more specifics about some of the more popular Left Behind-ish interpretations of Revelations? I'll wade into the muck myself later if I have to, but when I tried to google up some more details I was just finding a lot of off-putting True Believer sites that I wasn't up to dealing with just yet.

I'm pretty sure I remember that Jews who don't convert to Christianity are toast.

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How screwed is Israel in right wing Armageddon fantasies? (Original Post) Silent3 Mar 2015 OP
IIRC, only 144,000 Jews who convert will survive. Archae Mar 2015 #1
How can you leave out Rexella - Jack's co-Ig Nobel Astrophysics Laureate? xocet Mar 2015 #3
Oh Hell, yeah! libodem Mar 2015 #2
When Israelis accept support from Christian Zionists... LeftishBrit Mar 2015 #4

Archae

(46,895 posts)
1. IIRC, only 144,000 Jews who convert will survive.
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 09:30 AM
Mar 2015

These "endtimes" preachers can be hilarious, like Jack Impe, or nasty like Rick Wiles.

xocet

(3,988 posts)
3. How can you leave out Rexella - Jack's co-Ig Nobel Astrophysics Laureate?
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 01:03 AM
Mar 2015

Time Index 1:12:02 for the presentation and for Prof. Walter Lewin's acceptance on 'their behalf':

Black holes fulfill all technical requirements for the location of Hell.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
2. Oh Hell, yeah!
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 10:21 AM
Mar 2015

The Jews will all need to convert at the time of the 2nd coming of Christ. All the Christians are lifted up into heaven. The Jews convert and the rest of us are fried in a lake of fire. The end.

Nice God, Christians.

LeftishBrit

(41,307 posts)
4. When Israelis accept support from Christian Zionists...
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 03:56 PM
Mar 2015

it always makes me think of the Trojan Horse.

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