The Apocalypse - Letter by Letter: Disordered Mobs - Or Are They
The Apocalypse - Letter by Letter
Blog to discuss the book "The Apocalypse - Letter by Letter: A Literary Analysis of the Book of Revelation" and current events that point to the events described therein.
If you read this story quickly, you might be led to the conclusion that this was a spontaneous demonstration. Ignoring for a moment that these people are calling for the "execution" of a teacher because a teddy bear was named Mohammad. Note that upon the conclusion of Friday "prayers" trucks outfitted with loudspeakers appeared and "thousands of people' broke into demonstration.
I wrote previously about the term okhloi that is used in the Apocalypse to describe disordered mobs.
A translation more accurate than "multitudes" for the odd noun [okhloi] is "disordered crowds" or "mobs." The Greek term refers to the bloody persecution in Asia and Africa, and, perhaps, to social turmoil in some places after the event of the 200 Million Horsemen earlier [9:15-19].
And now we see an increase in the activity of these mobs around the globe. Once again France is being set ablaze, this time the contrived excuse being the accidental death of two immigrant Muslims.
In Lebanon the picture is a large protest against the peace conference in Virginia. Protesting against peace is a concept foreign to a lot of westerners. We're more familiar with the peace protests that turn violent. At least they've learned to misspell some of their slogans in English to give the "grassroots" look to their banners.
Who or what is really behind these "spontaneous" riots? Are they connected? Is there a leader? Probably not a single one. But if one were to link these seemingly separate incidents, if a leaders were to emerge, he would wield considerable influence on the world stage, would he not?
