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shall awake, some to everlasting life , and some to shame
and everlasting contempt.
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand
three hundred and five and thirty days.
"This prophecy of Daniel could very well be meant for
these times. Remember that Israel is now a nation and
the purification could be the sufferings that they un
derwent under Hitler's Germany, or maybe some more
yet to come. Remember our conversation about the
an tichris t ?"
"Uhuh. Another mass murder attempt."
"Now read Luke 21:24 and 25."
And they shall fa ll by the edge of the sword, and shall be
led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be
trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the
Gentiles be fulfilled.
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon,
and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity; and the sea and the waves roaring ....
"What could this mean in plain twentieth century
language, Chacho ?"
"Maybe Israel is going to be the fuse to ignite the
dynamite stick. The heat is on all over Palestine. Maybe
the Gentiles he referred to meant all the goyem who are
constantly fighting to get to Jerusalem, or the ones who
had it.
"And if Jerusalem is now more in the hands of the
Israelis, it symbolizes that the gentile period already
took place, which will leave you only the rest of the
prophecies to the end of the 2000 years since Christ.
Every time a millenium comes, people get uneasy
because they think something extraordinary will hap-