Here is the verse I am referring to:
http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/dan/7.25?lang=eng#24
Now I am not saying that I think that the Pope is the anti-Christ, but someone will make a push to mess with the calendar and change it to some internationally accepted standard that (I believe) will be an attempt to make peace amongst the world religions that do not accept the birth of Christ as the beginning of a new chronological era.
It is the ultimate in this insane political correctness movement - which I have to say is what Spencer says is how we accept the mark of the beast. Think about it - all attempts at change from orthodoxy in the Church have been due to this PC thing. The latest being an attempt to mainstream homosexuality in the Church and break down our most sacred and crowning ordinance - marriage in God's house. And to think my wife was roommates with the most progressive person I have ever met in my life - her PC push on BYU's campus freaked me out and I was not even woken up at that point.... Here is the article that got me spun up on it. And one last thing: I believe the anti-Christ is from England's royal house. I have a ton of data that has me thinking this way - I am just waiting for the right thing to trigger the avalanche and then I will put it out there. There is some wild stuff on it!
Jesus was born years earlier than thought, claims Pope
The entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, the Pope has declared, as he claims in a new book that Jesus was born several years earlier than commonly believed.
The Pope also weighs in on the debate over Christ's birthplace Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPThe 'mistake' was made by a sixth century monk known as Dionysius Exiguus or in English Dennis the Small, the 85-year-old pontiff claims in the book 'Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives', published on Wednesday."The calculation of the beginning of our calendar – based on the birth of Jesus – was made by Dionysius Exiguus, who made a mistake in his calculations by several years," the Pope writes in the book, which went on sale around the world with an initial print run of a million copies."The actual date of Jesus's birth was several years before."The assertion that the Christian calendar is based on a false premise is not new – many historians believe that Christ was born sometime between 7BC and 2BC.But the fact that doubts over one of the keystones of Christian tradition have been raised by the leader of the world's one billion Catholics is striking.Dennis the Small, who was born in Eastern Europe, is credited with being the "inventor" of the modern calendar and the concept of the Anno Domini era.
He drew up the new system in part to distance it from the calendar in use at the time, which was based on the years since the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian.
The emperor had persecuted Christians, so there was good reason to expunge him from the new dating system in favour of one inspired by the birth of Christ.
The monk's calendar became widely accepted in Europe after it was adopted by the Venerable Bede, the historian-monk, to date the events that he recounted in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which he completed in AD 731.
But exactly how Dennis calculated the year of Christ's birth is not clear and the Pope's claim that he made a mistake is a view shared by many scholars.
The Bible does not specify a date for the birth of Christ. The monk instead appears to have based his calculations on vague references to Jesus's age at the start of his ministry and the fact that he was baptised in the reign of the emperor Tiberius.
Christ's birth date is not the only controversy raised by the Pope in his new book – he also said that contrary to the traditional Nativity scene, there were no oxen, donkeys or other animals at Jesus's birth.
He also weighs in on the debate over Christ's birthplace, rejecting arguments by some scholars that he was born in Nazareth rather than Bethlehem.
John Barton, Professor of the Interpretation of the Holy Scripture at Oriel College, Oxford University, said most academics agreed with the Pope that the Christian calendar was wrong and that Jesus was born several years earlier than commonly thought, probably between 6BC and 4BC.
"There is no reference to when he was born in the Bible - all we know is that he was born in the reign of Herod the Great, who died before 1AD," he told The Daily Telegraph. "It's been surmised for a very long time that Jesus was born before 1AD - no one knows for sure."
The idea that Christ was born on Dec 25 also has no basis in historical fact. "We don't even know which season he was born in. The whole idea of celebrating his birth during the darkest part of the year is probably linked to pagan traditions and the winter solstice."
I also think that changing the times and the seasons means this: that we have been gradually, yet ever so swiftly changing our own country from what our Father in Heaven set up through our Founding Forefathers of freedom and liberty through the U.S. Constitution and Bill or Rights to the social/communist/Marxist/Fascist type country we are becoming. We have a multitude of laws that violate our personal liberties, encroach upon our freedom and Gadianton Robbers who continue to seek to destroy and overthrow us little by little, through unconstitutional laws, unlawful searches, through our food and water, health care and big pharma, and the list goes on and on. Eventually, the people of this nation will one day awaken to their awful state. Hopefully, for them, (or all of us) it will not be to late.
ReplyDeleteDo not like this pope. He has always seemed evil to me, unlike John Paul.
ReplyDeleteWasn't it the dumbkopfs in Rome who originally said Jesus' birthday was in December?
ReplyDeleteI am not all that concerned with who the antichrist might be as most non Mormons seem to be fixated. Antichrists have always existed, some more than others, many around us everyday at work and some homes.
ReplyDeleteI am more worried about members of the LDS church who cannot recognize it. These are not red guys with horns. They speak our own language, they certainly fain sincere love and interest in making everything fair and perfect no matter how much pain and suffering they should inflict upon the rest of us - oops, did I give it away - Obama - Harry Reid - Nancy Polopskie et al - Dare I say even those of our own religion who, how ever naively support the progressive movement being deceived by so much sophistry that they do not recognize the silken noose around their necks.
I pray that the people can be awakened from their heavy sleep. Far too many of our church have no understanding or respect for the US Consitution. They blindly accept the popular interpretation of the Constitution being a living document to be endlessly manipulated.
The Constitution was an ideal recipe to deal with basic human nature, which protections from the inception have been nicked away a little at a time for more and more power. Even when that power was perceived as necessary to right a perceived wrong by force.