Seeing how Indian numerals arrived in Europe from Arabic sources, chances are good.
Seen the fact that I’m blessed with the precious birthgift dyslexia chances are 1 to 4 that it happens that I have not.
1+1+1=1
to put calculating in Christian perspective.
To me it is 3 when I have a clear moment. Must be brother dyslex influencing.
Salaam. A
And in Japanese culture, the number 4 is considered as unlucky as the number 13 in American culture because it’s pronounced the same as their word for “death”. I find it highly unlikely that the culture which developed and named Algebra would not have the number, 4, and I’d like to see a cite for that.
Ephraim, you appear to delight in a God of destruction and evil and delight that this world which God created and called “Good” will soon end. That, to me is completely inconsistent with a Christ who spoke so often of feasting and joy. You say you are a friend of God, but the chaos, destruction and despair which you have spoken of seems to me to be far more the sort of thing His Adversary delights in. Is the only gospel you have to spread one of such things?
CJ
Well all doom-day prophets have yieled at the top of their lungs “The end is nigh!” for a long time, all of them thought they were right, all were proven wrong; what makes you so confident that you are right then.
It´s circular logic FYI
-The end is nigh!
-How do you know?
-Because the end is nigh!
In any case, it´s quite clear this in not a debate, just witnessing.
A person hears only what he wants to hear . I never said that the world was going to end. I said the end times spoken of by Jesus are here and now. The world is going to change. Christians will soon go home to be with the Lord. Those who chose not to be a member of Christs family will not have to be. They will stay hear on earth. Thinking God has come for them, instead it will be Satan. His mission to collect souls to bring with him to the furnace. He has already been sentenced to death and he does not want to go alone. It may be right that this thread has turned into a witnessing tool but it was origanally intended for a person to be aware. You only have one soul and I am fighting for the good guys. Knowlege is power and if you have knowledge you can have life. Remeber salvation is not earned it is received. Believe and be saved. Ephraim
You know, there are times that I really do wish the Rapture would come soon. Of course, wicked me wants it to happen so that I could watch the reactions of some of the Christians who are so sure they’ll be taken up when Jesus tells them there’s no room on that bus for them, but why quibble over motivations? 
ephraim, can you give us a “latest-date” estimate for the unequivocal Coming of the Lord? (I assume you believe that it will be an event which leaves nobody in any doubt, even atheists like myself).
If we are living in the End Times now, will some undeniably supernatural event occur in the next, say, year?
If this fails to occur, will you come back here and say that you were wrong?
I cannot give you the hour or the day. I know it is close though. Using the process of elimination. The bible declares that the beast, the false prophet and the dragon (Satan) are all present at the same time. Satan gets three and a half years once he is cast out. Arafat is the beast and will be with him. Arafat is already old. He cannot possibly have much more than 4 or 5 years. Therefore since we will not be present on earth while Satan is here it must be soon.So if Arafat dies before the Second Coming do you promise to post here that you were wrong?
And if you get cast out when everyone else gets raptured, will you promise to post here that you were wrong?
I’ll be here to read it 'coz I ain’t being raptured either.
Yes, absolutely.Interesting. Let us play a game of “Arafat dies next week”.
If he dies next week, you, ephraim, will admit you were wrong. However, you will have to admit rather more than this.
You have said that you were told this by God. Now you have several options here:[ul][li]God was lying.[]Satan, pretending to be God, told you.[]You made it up.[/ul][/li]
Now, considering all of the people in history who have been told things which did not come true, which of those three would you plump for, ephraim? Since God should not lie, it comes down to whether you can tell the difference between God, Satan, and stuff you make up.
So, it is possible that Arafat might die next week.
Do you admit, ephraim, that it is possible that you are making this up, and that the true interpretation of Revelation is based on 1st Century Rome?
Yes. I thought I wasn’t being Matrixed by aliens.
The OP has stated several times that Arafat is the “little eleventh horn” (not exactly the quote but the three words were used in the description)
My question is where in Revelations was this eleventh horn mentioned in the prophesy? Your own post listed only 10, the you added that Arafat is the eleventh.
Please clarify for the Infidel, Danke.
Daniel 7:8
For those who don’t have a Bible handy:
Daniel 7
(courtesy of Bible Gateway)
But the question was “where in Revelation was this eleventh horn mentioned.” Pointing to a verse in Daniel doesn’t seem to answer a question about Revelation.
This whole thing is General Custer’s fault.
Custer, known to the Indians as “Shining Hair” was defeated at the Battle of Little Big** Horn** by 11 distinct groups of Indians under the command of** 7** tribal chiefs, or “heads”.
This explains it all!
So, the Bible is foretelling Custer’s Last Stand, and we don’t have to worry about a thing, cause it’s all over.
<WHEW!> That’s a load off my mind, I can tell ya! 
You know none of this stuff is real, right?
Right?
Wow, this is fun! Take a verse from one book, link it to a book that mentions something like it elsewhere, and you can predict the future! Or define whatever version of right and wrong you choose to believe. Now I see why some people get so addicted to this stuff.
As a novice, I only have this verse to add, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 .
Peace and safety? In Palestine? In the middle east? In most places in the world?
Ephraim, you’d better brew up a thermos of coffee, if you’re going to stay up and keep an eye out for this thief. I think it’s going to be a long wait.
Revelation 13 and Daniel 7 are the same, but worded differantly. In Revelation 13 see what the beast does and compare that with Daniel 7. He speaks great words and blasphemies and continues for 42 months. He wars against the saints and both beasts have ten horns. Arafat is the little horn (king) whose head (nation) was wounded. His head wound is his nation which was taken in the 1967 war. It is being healed as it is being given back to the Palestinians. Remember seven heads are seven mountains and mountains are defined as nations… Ephraim