{Religious Prophecy [continued]}[23rd November 1979]

[Redbook2:158-160][19791123:1850a]{Religious Prophecy [continued]}[23rd November 1979]

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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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