The San Francisco Prophecy: Coming Soon or something to ignore ? ?

I picked the winning lotto numbers two days before the drawing.

Did I have a vision from the Lotto God? Or was I just (finally!) lucky as hell this time after having played the same numbers for 15 years?

 

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If you asked God what numbers to play and He gave them to you - maybe you should've asked when to play them.

On the other hand, that would mean you're a great man of faith to have kept playing them after so many years of seeing no results and (seemingly)wasting all that money.

Seriously though, I think these prophets of God's judgement are missing the point. The prophesy wouldn't be to express God's anger (it's been satisfied), but to warn those He loves of impending danger.

 

thanks for proving my point -- there was no prediction. total urban legend.

they started the church the sunday before the quake and then after-the-fact tried to turn that into a recuitment drive.

 

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eh, the times story wasn't so much about any predictions as it was a critical editorial about this "new crazy church".

i don't really take the story told by this woman to be any more credible that sds starting this thread and referencing predictions or even you saying that the la times recorded the prediction of the earthquake. she heard a story she believes and is repeating it. it's the essence of an urban legend -- people hear something and then accept it and spread it until enough people have heard it that they figure it must be true since so many people have said it.

there are plenty of official write-ups of the events surrounding the genesis of the azusa street revival and none of them make this claim about a predicted earthquake.

http://www.azusastreet.org/WilliamJSeymour.htm

err, no i think that is true. april 12 seymour is still preaching from a private residence. easter sunday was april 15. the quake was april 18. unless they hadn't actually made it into their new church (on azusa street) by easter, then i guess maybe they did it after the quake. i haven't actually seen a solid date for the first meeting at asuza street.

or you can take it from the actual azusa street organization itself:

here's more on bartleman:

http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0219_San_Francisco_Earthq.html

the believer will say he was doing the work of god and the unbeliever will say he was exploiting people's fear and ginning up support for this new movement in that exploitation.

 

Back in the early 70's I think, there was a guy called Dave Wilkerson (again I think that was his name) did a tape called "The Vision" Talked about people getting porn right into their homes, and so much disaster happening in the US it would bankrupt the insurance agencies....I wish I could find that tape as many of the things he saw, have or are coming true right before our eyes.

 

OH yeah found it...

In 1973, Wilkerson published a book called The Vision that detailed his prophetic visions regarding the future of the United States. Wilkerson believed that God had revealed to him a great calamity which was going to befall America due to increase in sins such as homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, and greed.

Some of the details of this 1973 vision were: There is a coming worldwide economic confusion. It will strike Europe, Japan and the US, then all other nations. There are lean years ahead. There will be a move toward a worldwide, unified monetary system. (This was years before the Euro -- every European nation had its own system).


Floods, hurricanes and tornadoes will increase in frequency.


There will be a fall in moral conduct. Topless women will appear on television, followed by full nudity (something that had never been done in 1973) Adult, X rated movies will be shown on cable television.


There will be an acceptance of homosexuality, and the church will even say that it is a God-given gift. (Homosexuality was still studied under "abnormal psychology" by psychologists of 1973).


There will be a new drug that will be popular with teenagers that will break down resistance and will encourage sexual activity.


Homosexual and lesbian ministers will be ordained and this will be heralded as a new breed of pioneer.


There will be a spiritual awakening behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains.

He also predicted a nuclear bomb going off in New York City.


34 years later, many of his prophecies in this book have come true.

 

Weird. I had always just assumed Boone's Farm had been around since before '73. If not, he was probably talking about Cisco.

 

well, if you don't give a timeframe, then sure, everything you predict is accurate -- or at least, has a potential for being accurate. it seems his basic prediction was that observance of christian morality would be in decline. but let's face it, this was 1973. christian morality had been in decline for years already. predicting that it would continue isn't exactly an earth-shattering prediction (no pun intended).

his economic predictions are right and wrong -- japan, europe and america have all had hard times and also had great times.

i think he's been kinda singing the same toon for like 30 years now -- that the shit's about to hit the fan and yet here we all are -- relatively shit-free.