Great Blog

I love the approach that Bob Lowery Takes on Revelation. This is a great thought on his blog about the link between those who use Revelation to predict the end of the world and those who use the stars to predict silly things.

Great job Bob, Read it below:4
The Link Between Dispensationalists and AstrologistsJune 9th, 2008
By the time you read this the United Astrology Conference will have met in Denver and will have offered their prediction on who will be the presidential winner in November. They were to have made their choice by Tuesday, May 20. I don’t know who they will pick nor do I care.*Â

It appears that an integral component to predicting who will be the next President is the candidates’ exact birth times. Hmmm. They "know" that Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at 7:11 p.m. (Yet other astrologers give other birth times for Obama.) As in the past when it comes to disclosing information in a timely fashion, Hillary Clinton is not sharing the exact time of her birth. And Senator McCain has changed his known birth time by at least two hours, wrecking havoc with predictions on his presidential aspirations. (Supposedly his birth time was embedded like a gold nugget in a Mother’s Day campaign ad where his mother mentioned that her son was born August 29, 1936, at 11 a.m.) I have read that birth data are rated for accuracy and shared among astrologers through a variety of Web sites.


Astrologist Shelley Ackerman and others insist their profession’s work is accurate, if not more so, than many polls. . . . Just about as accurate as dispensationalists like John Darby, C.I. Scofield, William E. Blackstone, Charles Ryrie, Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye, and John Hagee–which isn’t saying much! For these individuals have consistently been wrong. Let me take Lindsey as one example. According to the way he read the Bible (at least in the early 1970s), the rapture must take place before 1988, within forty years of the establishment of the nation Israel (May 16, 1948). Furthermore, ten nations would make up the European Common Market. With great certainty Lindsey said that these events were predicted in a variety of Scriptures. And yet he was wrong.

Why are the astrologists and the dispensationalists wrong? The former appeal to the rhythms of heaven and earth, specifically the cycle of nature between the sun and the moon and the planets and the stars, and the latter appeal to newspapers headlines, and when the headlines change new editions of books need to be published.

Both camps remind me of those individuals who read tea leaves for guidance. Ridiculous? Yes! But how many Christians do you know who read their horoscopes or listen to the latest self-styled prophecy experts?

*For the record, they predict an Obama victory — Ed.