[HANASHIR:1808] RE: the Millenium crazies

[Serle, Brian <BSerle...>]

Adrian, ANY place is warmer than FARGO!  Nashville must be BALMY by
comparison to ND!

Brian, shivering in Milwaukee.

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Adrian A. Durlester [SMTP:durleste (at) home(dot)com]
        Sent:   Thursday, November 19, 1998 4:37 PM
        To:     hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
        Subject:        [HANASHIR:1807]  RE: the Millenium crazies

        Off topic, scmoff topic. It's MY list, and as Mel Brooks said in
"History of the World Part I":
         
        "It's good to be da king."
         
        Adrian (who is in a really good mood because school is off until
after T-day, and because he is going to a nice warm place for a
while-and I don't mean Sheol.)

                -----Original Message-----
                From: owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Serle, Brian
                Sent: Thursday, November 19, 1998 2:55 PM
                To: 'hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org'
                Subject: [HANASHIR:1806] RE: the Millenium crazies
                
                

                Adrian, still off topic for the list, but you are right!
Even the State of Israel Tourism organization is promoting Armageddon
tours for next year in the plains of Megiddo, where the final wars
between Gog and Magog and civilization as we know it will take place. 
OY VEY!

                Brian 

                -----Original Message----- 
                From:   Adrian A. Durlester [SMTP:durleste (at) home(dot)com] 
                Sent:   Thursday, November 19, 1998 2:52 PM 
                To:     hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org 
                Subject:        [HANASHIR:1805]  RE: the spelling of
Millenium 

                Well, yes and no...immersed as I am currently studying
apocalyptic 
                literature in the Jewish tradition..... 

                While there's nothing special about millennial
milestones in Judaism, there 
                is certainly a substantial apocalyptic and
eschatological tradition. One the 
                Xtians may have borrowed and built on, but definitely of
Jewish origin. When 
                the exiles got back from Babylon and saw the promises of
the Prophets not 
                fulfilled, they had two choices: decide the prophets had
been false 
                prophets, or; invent apocalyptic literature and say "the
prophets were 
                really talking about a future a long time away, not just
a few decades." 

                And it is a Jewish problem because Xtians are using it
to justify their push 
                to convert the Jews so the rapture can come. 

                Also, I imagine that in there is probably some numerical
and gematriacal 
                significance to 5760 and 5761 as there could be with
just about any other 
                number. 

                Xtians have also co-opted the whole Jubilee Year of
Medinat Israel thing and 
                turned it into some crazed messianic concept. 

                The crazies are coming out of the woodwork at the new
millenium approaches. 

                Adrian 

                -----Original Message----- 
                From: owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org [
mailto:owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org <mailto:owner-hanashir (at) 
shamash(dot)org>
]On 
                Behalf Of QuelliPG (at) aol(dot)com 
                Sent: Thursday, November 19, 1998 11:26 AM 
                To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org 
                Subject: [HANASHIR:1801] RE: the spelling of Millenium 


                neither 5760 nor 5761 have any particular
significance...this whole 
                millennium 
                hype is the Christians' problem!