[Redbook2:158-160][19791123:1850a]{Religious Prophecy
[continued]}[23rd
November 1979]
19791123.1850
[continued]
Jesus'
own prophecies are mostly of the second kind* – public – as they
are generally understood today: he tells the World what signs to look
for at the particularly important time to which he refers. Those
signs seem, of course, particularly familiar to many now, as never
before (cf. The last prophecies he made to his disciples before his
crucifixion): false prophets, worldwide communication and disruption,
persecution of the Church, nuclear activity and the threat of nuclear
War. As Tippet** says, the Age of the Fish (the Christian Church's
symbol) closes, to be replaced by the Age of the Water Carrier,
perhaps of Peace; the real or mythical Irish Bishop who gave us our
Pope 'de labore solis' gives us only two (?) more; Nostradamus, after
correctly forecasting the duration of the British Empire (when there
was none), seems to warn us of war at the turn of the Century; both
Daniel and Revelations (the latter with great ambiguity, the former
perhaps a little more precisely) may be read as referring to events
in our time; and the same Muslim tradition*** states that the Mahdi
will go on to Jerusalem and be united with the Prophet Issa (or
Jesus), to defeat the false Mahdi from Persia.
The
most significant event or sign (although one may argue that it has
occurred before) is the cultural 'return' of the Jews to their
historic homeland; and it seems doubtful whether those responsible
the decisions involved, for example in Britain, can have been unaware
of the religious or prophetic significance of what they were doing.
All
this, of course, is to prove nothing in an area where proof of that
kind is probably impossible. Things rarely turn out exactly as
expected.
*[See
last previous entry]
**prob.
Michael Tippett, 'Moving into Aquarius', 1959 & 1974 <921020>
***(i.e.
referred to [in
the last previous entry]
above) <870811>
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