[JoeLo]

If you believe in the rapture (which I sort of do) then think about all the diasters. Hurricanes, tidal waves, earthquakes. Listen to this on June sixth the date will be 06\06\06 this is to signfy the coming of the anti-christ. If the rapture is real it will happen next year.

[Scuddie]

Dun dun dun...

[StratComm]

Because our current system of dates obviously predates the writing of Revelations.  Oh, wait...

[JoeLo]

Understood, but it could be symbolic. This wasn't a joke perse more a wandering thought.

[Ford Prefect]

[Scuddie]

No we don't.

[BlackDove]

Originally posted by JoeLo
If you believe in the rapture (which I sort of do) then think about all the diasters. Hurricanes, tidal waves, earthquakes. Listen to this on June sixth the date will be 06\06\06 this is to signfy the coming of the anti-christ. If the rapture is real it will happen next year.

God willing.

[Grey Wolf]

I doubt that St. John the Divine could have predicted both the Julian calendar and then the adjustment to that known as the Gregorian calendar.  Also, I'm honestly leaning toward the camp that states that Revelations is a veiled political treatise.

[Ford Prefect]

Originally posted by Scuddie
No we don't.

Just wait.

Originally posted by BlackDove
God willing.

Batum-CHING!

[StratComm]

I'm tempted to make an ID comment, but since Ford Prefect cannot, on principle, be right now that he's gone and posted an eBaumsworld (or whatever) caption I'm going to hold it back.

[Kamikaze]

Ramen.

[Grey Wolf]

You're not supposed to talk about ramen. That is entirely within the domain of undergraduate students, graduate students, and those just entering the workforce.

[Goober5000]

I'm of the tentative opinion that the prophetic calendar is actually centered around Christ's death, not his birth.  Thus we're actually in the mid-to-late 1970s.

At the same time, "no man knows the hour..." so date-setting is not only speculative, it's counterproductive.

Nevertheless, signs in the Earth and in the heavens are good things to keep track of.

[Ace]

Prophetic calendar? What the bleep is wrong with the normal Gregorian calendar?

Pfeh! Kids these days and their silly JRPG style prophecies and augury like attempts to find 'patterns of prophecy.'

But hey, let's not let things like reason stand in the way of a good conspiracy theory.

*Pulls out the popcorn*

[FireCrack]

Mabye we could convince all those ID whackos that if you made it to that date without denying christ then they get a free ticket to heaven and dont have to spew all their gospel anymore?

[Goober5000]

Jokes and relevant discussion are okay, but no flaming or this thread gets locked.

Ace: The "prophetic calendar" refers to God's timeline for prophesized events, which is independent of any calendar used by man.

My tentative opinion is that the 2000 year mark on that calendar may have something to do with Hosea 6:2 "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight" if you use the 1 day = 1000 years formula.  But it's only a thought experiment, so I'm not going to rely on it for any predictions.

[mikhael]

06/06/06? Please

That's not the number of the Beast. It was a mistranslation. Like half the stuff in the dusty old tome.

[MatthewPapa]

Yea, the calender is off at least 3 years. All the dudes that met to create it screwed up a little bit. Doesnt mean much now but nevertheless it happened.

[Grey Wolf]

The number of the Beast was 616, and is easily translated to Nero. Hence the veiled political treatise theory.

[Ace]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Jokes and relevant discussion are okay, but no flaming or this thread gets locked.

Ace: The "prophetic calendar" refers to God's timeline for prophesized events, which is independent of any calendar used by man.

My tentative opinion is that the 2000 year mark on that calendar may have something to do with Hosea 6:2 "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight" if you use the 1 day = 1000 years formula.  But it's only a thought experiment, so I'm not going to rely on it for any predictions.

Well if you're going to persist in being a shrub: 1 "day" equals 1.95714286 billion years. (since this universe is 13.7 billion years old) As obviously pointed out in the creation myth.

So you'll be revived in 3.91428572 billion years.

...and you'll be 'raised up' in 5.87142858 billion years.

Not that it'd matter to the extra-terrestrial (by definition) you worship. Seems like an awful lot of waiting and prostrating in the meantime. Glad I won't have to deal with it.

An awful lot 'o waiting... and these numbers are at least as legit as any of the other conspiracies floatin' about. Probably moreso

But yeah, Revelations refers to Nero and pretty much comes down to the "kingdom of god being right around the corner." Guess they were right, too bad these days we consider that kingdom of god to be a little thing called the dark ages... *tsk tsk*