Word: walvoord
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...indeed. Just one day after the asteroid slammed into the media maelstron, the ripple effect was astonishing. John Walvoord, chancellor of the Dallas Theological Seminary, said the asteroid ?may be a foreshadowing of the second coming of Christ.? Dr. Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb, advocated planting a nuclear device on its rocky surface. And -- surprise, surprise -- Marsden himself smiled meekly from the front page of Friday?s New York Times. Which could go a long way toward answering Don Yeomans? question...
...Union would invade Israel and that, after millions of the righteous were gathered up in the eschatological event known as the "rapture," Jesus would descend from the heavens to preside over the real New World Order. In his 1974 book Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis, John F. Walvoord projected his vision: "Destruction on a formerly incomprehensible scale is clearly predicted for the end time in the book of Revelation and may be the result of nuclear war." Evangelist Pat Robertson has said that in the millennial age the saved will be empowered to control geologic faults spiritually...
Consider the evidence. Zondervan, a leading U.S. publisher of Fundamentalist and Evangelical literature, has issued an updated version of John F. Walvoord's 1974 best seller, Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis, with an initial print order of -- get this -- 1 million copies. (Nine were reportedly ordered by the White House, whose previous occupant was a confessed believer in Armageddon theology.) Walvoord is chancellor of Dallas Theological Seminary, where Charles H. Dyer is associate professor of Bible exposition. Dyer's new book, The Rise of Babylon, which argues that Saddam's announced plan to build a replica of that...
...nonbeliever, all such speculation is bootless. If God does not exist, there is no First Coming, much less a Second, and the end of the world is a - concept without meaning. Many mainstream Protestant and Roman Catholic theologians argue that millenarians like Walvoord and Dyer misuse scriptural prophecies about the final days. These are not detail-specific guides to beating some kind of celestial point spread but timeless alerts that humanity must be constantly vigilant against sin's allure. The temptation to seek clues to the Second Coming on CNN is easy to understand, since Saddam has proclaimed himself...
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