Reply #131: Your post caused me to get out [View All]

[FlaGranny]

my bible and re-read Revelation. Interesting. I think a lot of people get Revelation wrong. Those 144,000 folks who disappear (leaving their clothing in a puddle, according to the popular series) are NOT Christians, they are 12,000 people from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. Every single one of these 144,000 people not only are jews, but every single one of them is a virgin. And,I can't understand why they would go to God's side naked - especially since a few paragraphs previous to them being swept away, an angel warns against nakedness. The angels wreak their havoc and a dragon's tail knocks 1/3 of the stars out of the sky to planet earth, 1/3 of the trees burn, all the grass burns, blood in the oceans and rivers, etc., etc. - THEN the beasts show up. After 1/3 of the heaven's stars fall to earth, I don't believe there would be any earth left for the beasts to visit. Even more angels wreak more havoc and people still won't accept God. I guess finally some do accept God, because then the walled city of Jerusalem comes down out of Heaven, made out of precious stones and metals, and all the good people get to live there and worship all day and all night in the presence of God, who will come to live with them there. The good people get about 1500 miles of city, where they worship and are protected from the evil ones. All the bad people, it seems, are left to fend for themselves outside this wonderful city - all of this on earth, NOT heaven. There is no mention made of why the walls of the city are necessary, as seemingly, all the bad folks should have been sent to burn in hell. And why should the city be made of precious stones and metals? Will we still covet those things after Armageddon?

It seems that those folks who go knocking on doors and handing pamphlets - Jehovah's Witnesses - are the only ones who are correct about Armageddon, if you believe literally in the Bible. But, most of them seem to advocate verdant green meadows and flowers in their pamphlets, and not jewels and precious metals. So, ??? maybe they don't have it 100% right either. Does anyone?