Well let me help you with the "etc"Originally Posted by delmbox
1. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. (from Zechariah 14:12)
2. The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter. (Revelation 8:10-11)
A prominent Russian writer recently produced a tattered old Bible and with a practiced hand turned to Revelations. ''Listen,'' he said, ''this is incredible: 'And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; and the name of the star is called wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.' '' / In a dictionary, he showed the Ukrainian word for wormwood, a bitter wild herb used as a tonic in rural Russia: chernobyl.
The writer, an atheist, was hardly alone in pointing out the apocalyptic reference to the star called chernobyl.
3. While you earnestly look for and await the coming of the day of God. For on this day the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the [material] elements will melt with intense heat! (2 Peter 3:12)
I've just chosen 3 examples from many where the Bible speaks of future events. Even 100 years ago in 1922, none of our ancestors would have understood HOW any of the above could happen, however in very recent times we can now have the understanding of all three.
So tell me this, how did (1) Zechariah (520BC), (2) John (96AD) or Peter (60AD) actually write about these things with words that only make sense to readers from the 1940's onwards?
Article > https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/26/w...-and-fear.html
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