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23 Jun 2006 11:00:02 PM |
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'End Times' Religious Groups Want Apocalypse Soon
'End times' religious groups want apocalypse sooner than later, and
they're relying on high tech -- and red heifers -- to hasten its
arrival.
By Louis Sahagun, Times Staff Writer
June 22, 2006
For thousands of years, prophets have predicted the end of the world.
Today, various religious groups, using the latest technology, are
trying to hasten it.
Their endgame is to speed the promised arrival of a messiah.
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For some Christians this means laying the groundwork for Armageddon.
With that goal in mind, mega-church pastors recently met in Inglewood
to polish strategies for using global communications and aircraft to
transport missionaries to fulfill the Great Commission: to make every
person on Earth aware of Jesus' message. Doing so, they believe, will
bring about the end, perhaps within two decades.
In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a far different vision. As
mayor of Tehran in 2004, he spent millions on improvements to make the
city more welcoming for the return of a Muslim messiah known as the
Mahdi, according to a recent report by the American Foreign Policy
Center, a nonpartisan think tank.
To the majority of Shiites, the Mahdi was the last of the prophet
Muhammad's true heirs, his 12 righteous descendants chosen by God to
lead the faithful.
Ahmadinejad hopes to welcome the Mahdi to Tehran within two years.
Conversely, some Jewish groups in Jerusalem hope to clear the path for
their own messiah by rebuilding a temple on a site now occupied by one
of Islam's holiest shrines.
Artisans have re-created priestly robes of white linen, gem-studded
breastplates, silver trumpets and solid-gold menorahs to be used in the
Holy Temple =E2=80=94 along with two 6=C2=BD-ton marble cornerstones for the
building's foundation.
Then there is Clyde Lott, a Mississippi revivalist preacher and cattle
rancher. He is trying to raise a unique herd of red heifers to satisfy
an obscure injunction in the Book of Numbers: the sacrifice of a
blemish-free red heifer for purification rituals needed to pave the way
for the messiah.
So far, only one of his cows has been verified by rabbis as worthy,
meaning they failed to turn up even three white or black hairs on the
animal's body.
Linking these efforts is a belief that modern technologies and global
communications have made it possible to induce completion of God's plan
within this generation.
Though there are myriad interpretations of how it will play out, the
basic Christian apocalyptic countdown =E2=80=94 as described by the Book of
Revelation in the New Testament =E2=80=94 is as follows:
Jews return to Israel after 2,000 years, the Holy Temple is rebuilt,
billions of people perish during seven years of natural disasters and
plagues, the antichrist arises and rules the world, the battle of
Armageddon erupts in the vicinity of Israel, Jesus returns to defeat
Satan's armies and preside over Judgment Day.
Generations of Christians have hoped for the Second Coming of Jesus,
said UCLA historian Eugen Weber, author of the 1999 book "Apocalypses:
Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages."
"And it's always been an ultimately bloody hope, a slaughterhouse
hope," he added with a sigh. "What we have now in this global age is a
vaster and bloodier-than-ever Wagnerian version. But, then, we are a
very imaginative race."
Apocalyptic movements are nothing new; even Christopher Columbus hoped
to assist in the Great Commission by evangelizing New World
inhabitants.
Some religious scholars saw apocalyptic fever rise as the year 2000
approached, and they expected it to subside after the millennium
arrived without a hitch.
It didn't. According to various polls, an estimated 40% of Americans
believe that a sequence of events presaging the end times is already
underway. Among the believers are pastors of some of the largest
evangelical churches in America, who converged at Faith Central Bible
Church in Inglewood in February to finalize plans to start 5 million
new churches worldwide in 10 years.
"Jesus Christ commissioned his disciples to go to the ends of the Earth
and tell everyone how they could achieve eternal life," said James
Davis, president of the Global Pastors Network's "Billion Souls
Initiative," one of an estimated 2,000 initiatives worldwide designed
to boost the Christian population.
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