I saw Hal Lindsey himself when I was a young teenager in 1971. I had never heard of this (was roped into it by a couple of evangelical friends) and was quite impressed. There was some discussion afterwards, with the more metaphorical interpreting the cavalry rushing on Israel as Soviet tanks and the locusts as helicopter gunships, while the more literal-minded pointed out the number of horses in the Red Army- useful after the oilfields were destroyed early in the war- and referred darkly to articles about Russian experiments with giant insects.
All agreed that the coming expansion of the original EEC Six to ten members was a very clear reference to the Beast with Ten Horns in Revelation. Alas, while Britain, Ireland, and Denmark joined, the people of Norway rejected membership, so the poor old Beast had to struggle along with only nine horns; that point in prophecy was quickly dropped.
I think the issue was not Arabic writing but what was written: the Shahada.
What would Muslims say to having their children write
"I believe in God the father Almighty and in Jesus Christ His only Son, Our Lord" to teach them Greek script?
I saw Hal Lindsey himself when I was a young teenager in 1971. I had never heard of this (was roped into it by a couple of evangelical friends) and was quite impressed. There was some discussion afterwards, with the more metaphorical interpreting the cavalry rushing on Israel as Soviet tanks and the locusts as helicopter gunships, while the more literal-minded pointed out the number of horses in the Red Army- useful after the oilfields were destroyed early in the war- and referred darkly to articles about Russian experiments with giant insects.
All agreed that the coming expansion of the original EEC Six to ten members was a very clear reference to the Beast with Ten Horns in Revelation. Alas, while Britain, Ireland, and Denmark joined, the people of Norway rejected membership, so the poor old Beast had to struggle along with only nine horns; that point in prophecy was quickly dropped.
I think the issue was not Arabic writing but what was written: the Shahada.
What would Muslims say to having their children write
"I believe in God the father Almighty and in Jesus Christ His only Son, Our Lord" to teach them Greek script?