walker@noscvax.UUCP (Janet M. Walker) (12/07/84)
From: jnelson@trwrba.UUCP (John T. Nelson) >>The priests and pharrasies thought they had everything sewn up in >>the law and the "One God." Yet the Messiah came in a form totally >>contrary to their conception of God. Who's to say it couldn't >>happen again? Another's reply: >> That same Messiah But wasn't it 'that same Messiah' who said "Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." Matthew 24:12 "Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is." Mark 13:33 "Watch ye therefore...Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping." Mark 13:33 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night..." Peter 2:10 "And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched...Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh are an hour when ye think not." Luke 12:39-40 "And thou shalt be called by a new name." Isiah 62:2 "The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of." Matthew 24:50 "I go away and come again unto you." John 14:28 It sure sounds like it might happen in a WAY and TIME that people do not expect. Other religions than Christianity have writings which give credence to John Nelson's speculation. From the Bhagavad Gita of Krishna: "Know thou, O Prince, that whenever the world declineth in virtue and righteousness; and vice and injustice mount the throne, then come I, the Lord, and revisit My world in visible form, and mingle as a man with men, and by my influence and teachings do I destroy the evil and injustice, and re-establish virtue and righteousness. Many times have I thus appeared; many times hereafter shall I come again." And from Buddha: "I am not the first Buddha Who came upon earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time another Buddha will arise in the world, a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One...an imcomparable Leader of men... He will reveal to you the same eternal truths which I have taught you." As a matter of fact, every major religion has writings to this effect. Makes you wonder, huh? -- Janet M. Walker MILNET/ARPANET: walker@nosc UUCP: [ihnp4,akgua,decvax,dcdwest,ucbvax]!sdcsvax!noscvax!walker ---------- "O Friend! In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love." ---------------------------------------------------------------------