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If you're really a spektic then explain this:
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If you're really a spektic then explain this:
The book of Revleation predicts in end times there will be a 200 million man army from the East. Now recently China has said it can produce a 200 million man army. How do you explain this coincidence? Is it prophecy? Is it real?
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RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
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RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
(January 8, 2024 at 5:04 pm)jasonstackhouse Wrote: The book of Revleation predicts in end times there will be a 200 million man army from the East. Now recently China has said it can produce a 200 million man army. How do you explain this coincidence? Is it prophecy? Is it real?

That passage also says that the army were mounted on lion-headed horses that breathed fire, smoke, and sulphur. When China supplies its troops with such mounts, I’ll consider the prophecy explanation.

There’s also no possible way for China to field 200 million soldiers.

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RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
(January 8, 2024 at 5:04 pm)jasonstackhouse Wrote: The book of Revleation predicts in end times there will be a 200 million man army from the East. Now recently China has said it can produce a 200 million man army. How do you explain this coincidence? Is it prophecy? Is it real?

For me (or anyone) to consider it anything even close to valid the rest of the prophecy must be occurring.

https://skepticsannotatedbible.com/rev/9.html

It's very thinly veiled coincidence at best. Some people see what they want to see.
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RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
(January 8, 2024 at 5:04 pm)jasonstackhouse Wrote: The book of Revleation predicts in end times there will be a 200 million man army from the East. Now recently China has said it can produce a 200 million man army. How do you explain this coincidence? Is it prophecy? Is it real?

1) Source for this alleged Chinese claim, please? Include a link. Make it a credible source.

2) PLA right now is around 2,000,000 active-duty. That means it would have to expand one hundred times current size in order to flesh out this alleged claim. If you know anything about military matters, you'd know that that's essentially impossible within a reasonable time-frame. Remember, you're gonna have to build 100 times more tanks, 100 times more guns, etc, more ships, more airplanes, more missiles.

It follows that Revelation ain't happening anytime soon. I'm very skeptical of horses with dragon heads or whatever LSD-vision was jotted down in that shitty book.

Also, I think China is much more likely to attack Taiwan than Israel -- and I think anyone who thinks otherwise needs to read more real news and do less Christian shitposting.

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RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
(January 8, 2024 at 5:04 pm)jasonstackhouse Wrote: The book of Revleation predicts in end times there will be a 200 million man army from the East. Now recently China has said it can produce a 200 million man army. How do you explain this coincidence? Is it prophecy? Is it real?

Is it prophecy?


Is it coincidence?


No, it's bullshit.
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RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
Instead of jumping right into the deep end...how about a little intro thread?
  
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RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
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Imagine all the food and fuel.  Unless they're flinstoning it and eating each other...I can't see the entire globe competently fielding an army that large but just the thought of it makes it worth a try!  Then, if we ever do run into the aliens from magic book, we'll be fuckin ready.
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RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
Did you guys forget to pay the pest exterminator?
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RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
(January 8, 2024 at 5:04 pm)jasonstackhouse Wrote: The book of Revleation predicts in end times there will be a 200 million man army from the East. Now recently China has said it can produce a 200 million man army. How do you explain this coincidence? Is it prophecy? Is it real?

What you wrote is total bullshit. Point out to me where a) the magic mushroom induced fever dream of John of Patmos talks about a 200 million army and b) where China states it has 1/6 of its population under arms.
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