7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
Revelation 20:7-9 (New King James Version)
This is New Testement, as you know, Christians on yahoo answers have taught us that we aren't under the Old Testement any more because of Jesus.
It clearly is stating here that the Earth has four corners. Why?
2006-07-20 07:41:29 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In the premodern cosmology of the authors and compilers of the NT, the earth was flat with a dome of sky over it. Our present cosmological model is a whole lot better at accounting for observed phenomena, isn't it?
But I still carry around a copy of the NT. I just don't think its authors intended it to be a textbook of cosmology. In terms of the purpose they *did* have in mind -- converying a revolutionary teaching about God and the world that came from the lips of a charismatic religious peasant-genius -- it's wildly important and successful, and the foundation of every movement for human enlightenment and emancipation that's occurred since.
2006-07-20 07:57:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
In the end the earth will be rolled out like a scroll which has four corners. This also is talking about the gathering of Israel, or the tribes which were scattered. It is a literal gathering. If you were to put a loud speaker over a pea it would hear you, but if the pea needed to see the loud speaker, the bottom of the pea wouldn't be able too. But, if you cut the pea in half and place it flat on both pieces it will be able to see. If the pea could see;) It will be necessary for this to happen for us all to experience the second coming at once. Our earth is like the pea due to its shape.
2006-07-20 07:49:49 · answer #2 · answered by Angel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see: Rev 7.1After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. Clearly you have no idea what this verse is talking about. You are focusing on an idiom that means very where. What about the fifth angel from the East? Find another book of the bible, maybe one you can belief.
2016-03-27 01:07:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now, you and I know that the earth was, indeed, originally flat. It stood on the back of a huge turtle. But then, one day, some silly people decided to try to "prove" that it was actually a globe. They planned to do this by sailing around it. As they got closer and closer to the edge, the turtle got nervous, and told God he didn't want the job of holding the earth any more, so God excused him and quickly turned the earth into a globe and hung it up upon nothing.
Now that you know, go to your corner and take a nap. You'll feel better.
2006-07-20 07:54:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth became round only after the Bible was written... didn't you know that?
Think that if there weren't people like Columbus unafraid to question the 'truth' of the Bible, there might still have been no contact between the new world and the old...
And what happened after the Americas were discovered in definace of the Bible? They started overrunning the place with missionaries and infecting the locals with the twin viruses of typhoid and organised religion...
2006-07-20 07:47:36 · answer #5 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No that is not what it is referring to, if you look at Revelations 7 it talks about the 4 Angels holding back the 4 winds in the corners of the earth so that it doesn't destroy us like a hurricane, a really bad one. Surely God created it He knows that it is round. When I read it, I didn't get that He was saying the earth was flat?!
2006-07-20 07:52:04 · answer #6 · answered by AlwaysLaughing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Four corners - not flat, the four directions n/s/e/w.
If you dont believe then dont read the bible and try to interpret it please.
And actually the bible speaks of the world being a globe or sphere.
And it also talks about the infinite number of stars, which at some point people did not know.
2006-07-20 07:46:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm Muslim, so I don't really know wut the Bible means, but I think it means the corners of the known world maps of the time. The Quran says they are behind a lead and iron wall, digging at day and sleeping at night. During Muhammad's time, he woke up one night and said that there was a small breach in the wall that had just been made. It may be the russians or the mongols. check wikipedia and type Ya'juj and Ma'juj as well as Gog and Magog.
2006-07-20 07:50:11 · answer #8 · answered by skatedrummer93 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BECAUSE it uses anthropomorphic language sometimes, today we say THE SUN ROSE AT 5:56 am as if the sun revolves around the earth, its a normal use of language
the Bible describes the earth as a cirle in Isaiah
and in Job says hands the earth on nothing
in reality a circular earth and a spherical earth is consistent with the bible
2006-07-20 07:47:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reading the passage without a literal interpretation. The phrase "the four corners of the earth" means all over the earth. Look at a map; it has four corners.
2006-07-20 07:47:20 · answer #10 · answered by dwaynej 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are taking the meaning of the Bible completely out of context. Even those of us know, still say the four corners of the earth to mean the entire earth. Don't ask me why, but we do it.
2006-07-20 07:47:08 · answer #11 · answered by stullerrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋