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1. Beyond Ambiguity

Isaiah 42:1-9

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Larry Powell

... , purports to show that he predicted such specific events as the assassination of John F. Kennnedy, Hitler’s rise to power, the Blockade of Britain, the Common Market, and other far sweeping events. The writings of Nostradamus are, however, exceedingly ambiguous, requiring a great deal of imagination on the part of the reader to even remotely apply them to events claimed as "fulfillments." I personally place no stock in this ancient mystic’s poetic "prophecies." But there is no ambiguity in the ...

2. Eschatological Discourse: Prediction of the Temple’s Destruction

Matthew 24:1-35

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Jeannine K. Brown

... portrays Jesus announcing coming judgment on the Jerusalem temple and interprets the temple’s destruction as vindication of Jesus’ words and so his identity claims. History: Throughout history various “prophets” supposedly have predicted events hundreds of years in the future. For example, Nostradamus, born in the early sixteenth century, made various predictions, some of which his supporters have suggested presaged such events as the French Revolution and the creation of the atomic bomb. But ...

3. Satan’s Talking Points

Mark 13:1-31

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Leonard Sweet

... instead of sinking roots earthward. The poorest, the disenfranchised, those pushed to the edges and margins because of race, education, disabilities or just plain poverty, have always been rich soil for the germination of apocalyptic angst. From the ancient Mayans to Nostradamus to Y2K and now 2012, there has never been any shortage of end-of-the-world scenarios. The predictions of a “nuclear winter” have been replaced by global warming, and there is still a debate over whether the devastating climate ...

4. Living on Full Alert

Matthew 24: 36-44

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J. Howard Olds

... date for the end of the world as January 7, 1972. Remember the Y2K frenzy we went through two years ago when half the world decided that the end was here? On September 12th of this year, a false quote of the 16th century French astrologer, Nostradamus, spread across the Internet, saying, “Metal birds, striking twin brothers, will mark the end of the world." The Bible says, Our times are in God's hands. We think in minutes. God thinks in millenniums. Psalm 90:4 states, For a thousand years in your sight ...

5. The Kings of the South and the North

Daniel 11:2-35

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Ronald W. Pierce

... and with varying degrees of detail. Some have tried to describe in explicit detail events purportedly taking place years in the future (and failed), and still others have taken vague and general prophecies, like those of the French seer Nostradamus (1503–66), and retroactively attempted to interpret these predictions as applying to world events like the rise of Napoleon or the September 11, 2001,attacks. Though such attempts accrue popular interest, like internet conspiracies or television specials, these ...

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