July 02, 2019 Tuesday
Bedtime Story
The American Prophesy that did Not Come True
It was the 2,300-day prophesy in Daniel
8:14 that Miller became fanatically consumed with and which today’s Adventists
are still obsessed about.
So fascinating and appealing Eschatology is
in general and the Book of Daniel in particular that even a personality as
sharp and legendary as Newton was taken in by it and read Daniel as a coded
future.
Obviously and rather expectedly that
foretold day October 22, 1844 came and went and no Jesus turned up either from
heavens or from earth.
Silly apes (obviously American silly apes)
have labeled this monumental day or rather an uneventful non-event when nothing
happened (and the day turned out to be as any other average day) as “The Great
Disappointment”.
It may sound highly ridiculous but see what
one among the tens of thousands of Adventists (Millerites as they are called
now since we have a new avatar of them in modern Adventists these days) had to
say about the so called “Great Disappointment” of October 22, 1844.
“I waited till Tuesday (October 22) and
dear Jesus did not come; - I waited all the afternoon of Wednesday, and was
well in body as I ever was, but after 12 o’ clock I began to feel faint, and
before dark I needed someone to help me up to my chamber, as my natural
strength was leaving me very fast, and I lay prostate for 2 days without any
pain – sick with disappointment.”
This Adventist neither lacked passion nor
faith and ended up hugely disappointed like all of them eventually do when they
realize that no help is coming from anywhere.
However as we all know faith runs strong in
human apes and no one can shake away their faith; in fact the more absurd the
claim the stronger the faith needed to hold on to it.
This is accompanied with a sense of deep
pride and comes with the idea that – “Look, here I am, holding on to my faith
against all odds and evidences which the idiotic rationalists are trying to put
in front of me; What do they know so as to comprehend the mysterious ways of
the Lord.”
True faith holders suffer from - or to not
to hurt their feelings – are gifted with True-believer Syndrome who will
continue to hold on to their faiths no matter how much evidence to the contrary
would be presented to them.
So when Jesus failed to show up it paved
the way for yet another set of True-Believers who are now known as Seventh-Day
Adventists.
This set of good Christians reconciled with
this Great Disappointment through an ingenious twist that only a devil’s
advocate is capable of conjuring by claiming that October 22, 1844 was not
marked as the day of Jesus’ return but the day of cleansing in the heavenly
sanctuary.
I do not even know what to make of that
phrase “cleansing in the heavenly sanctuary” because it makes it sound that
even the heavens need sweeping and dusting like my bedroom does.
Or maybe I lack the intelligence to grasp
its “true” meaning which the True-Believers possess.
Stay tuned to the voice of an
average story storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.com
Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is
Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:
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