Prophecy The Books

Avante-garde style, spoken word poetry! The idea of the poetry written on matchbooks is an interesting read. Highly recommended!

After attending Maurice Cotterell's spell-binding lecture on the Mayans, I had to read his books. Once I began reading the Mayan Prophecy I had it read within 24 hours. Cotterell and Adrian Gilbert's research uncovered historical revelations about the Mayan ruins. Cottrell's interpretation of the Lid of Palenque reveals the genuis of the Mayans to unimaginable heights. It's an extraordinary journey reading about the Mayan' cities and viewing the rich photographs and powerful Mayan art in this book. I've read many great author's books on the Mayan's, however, Cotterells' research and interpretation disclosed a deeper understanding about the Mayan civilization and their legacy.

Tim LaHaye has succeeded in describing Bible prophecy in today's street language and identifying the relationship of our world today with historical Biblical prophecy and what it portends for our future at the end times. The book clearly explains the historical time line of numerous prophecies, shows how many have already been fulfilled, and what is left to be fulfilled between now and the end times.

We were so impressed by the book that we purchased several copies to give to our grown children, but kept one for our permanent library.

I had difficulty fitting into the writer's discussion style, but once I got used to it I found this book to be a valuable resource in studying Zechariah. There is a good mix of historical and eschatalogical (future end times) discussion.

Grant Jeffrey has become one of the more respected authors dealing with Christian religious prophecy, and with this work, it's easy to see why. Included in this volume are over 300 pages of fine details about the coming war in the Middle East and the road we must travel to Armageddon. It shows why Russia and the powers of the north are interested in Israel's land and resources, the coming of the final Anti-Christ, where Jesus can be found in the Quran (Koran), whether the land being fought over is really Israel's or Palestine's, more about Solomon;s Temple and the third attempt to rebuild it, and many former secrets of the Jews, including the "copper scrolls". If you've read any of Jeffrey's other works and enjoyed them, then I'd sugest reading this one too.

Karl Kemp provides a very balanced, thorough as well as scholarly presentation of a fascinating subject that everyone should be yearning to learn more about--biblical prophecy regarding the end of this age.

"The Mid-Week Rapture" opens your eyes to the fact that the rapture could most certainly occur in the middle of "Daniel's Seventieth Week" and why. Karl Kemp provides additional discussions of greek words used in scripture that is very helpful towards understanding better biblical interpretation.

I truly appreciate Mr. Kemp's respectful attitude and very serious desire to convey logically this complex and important subject.

...that is what the title of this book should be. Anyone interested in finding everything there is to know about prophecies and the like is better off searching another book.
What this book does is present to the reader Edgar Cayce's readings about the future, but that only covers about 20% percent of the book. The other 80% is spent on studying and interpreting Cayce's VIEW on the millennium and how that is what we should be concerned about. The author states that we should not only see the superficial (facts about the future) but also see and comprehend the reasons for the sudden changes that is about to immerge. Also, several psychological views on the world and the people in it are presented, which give way to a better understanding of what to expect in the coming years. A probable explanation of Cayce's mistakes concerning future events is also included along with several other sources for prophecies.
What gives this book its "lift" is the author's voice. Although this is my first book to read by this author, I must say with pure sincerity that this individual really knows what he's talking about. He doesn't just see but goes inside the topics and studies every aspects of it without disregarding other explanations that we now may not be aware of.
This book will not only present you with the facts but will also add a special perspective of the prophecies from intelligent sources. The only wrong thing about this book is its title, which is misleading. Aside from it, Millennium Prophecies is definitely worth your time, especially if you're looking for more than just the common interpretations found in most books dealing with the topic.

Wow... more information than I expected. Not only does this book give a different (and biblical) perspective on the rapture (which is only addressed in the first chapter), it teaches the basics of Islam and the Middle East Crisis and why you need to know about it. Politically incorrect (to put it mildly) don't read it unless you can take it!!!!

Saylor's Roma sub-Rosa series is excellent, and this book does not disappoint. I am not sure why I'm the first to review this book. These books should be flying off the shelves of the bookstores. They are truly excellent. Saylor's writing is quite wonderful, and his attention to detail and his historical allusions are all right on. This book is extremely interesting as it profiles seven of the most powerful women in Rome during the time that Caesar was fighting against Pompey for supremacy in Rome. We get to meet Caesar's intelligent wife Calpurnia,as well as a reintroduction to some women we have meet in previous volumes, such as Sulla's daughter Fausta and the infamous Clodia who Gordianus has always admired. We also get to see Gordianus fall in love, and it's believably handled by Saylor. We feel his pain when the woman he loves is poisoned. Gordianus sets out to find who the killer was and uncovers a hornet's nest of intrigue and betrayal. All of these books are excellent, but I really did enjoy this one. I heartily recommend this series.

Innovations in science by individuals like Galileo, Francis Bacon, and William Harvey amounted to an attack on the European intellectual establishment in the early decades of the seventeenth century. Tension centered on the relation between knowledge and religious faith. In terms of political power, some, like Thomas Hobbes, were developing theories of government based on concepts of "natural law". At the same time, there were older forms of knowledge competing with the new ones: occult, philosophy, alchemy, and astrology. All of these intellectual and religious strands combined to produce a rather volatile period. It is within the upper echelons of the political and religious circles of this period that the life and times of Orazio Morandi took place. His story, eloquently re-told and interpreted by Brendan Dooley in his book, "Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics" (2002), attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory vicissitudes of a complicated era. Indeed, one of Dooley's primary goals is to explain why a figure like Galileo, a one-time friend of the pope, quickly fell out of favor and found himself condemned to house arrest.

Dooley's book opens like a crime novel in the tradition of Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", wherein the reader witnesses the crime at the outset and the remainder of the narrative focuses on attempts by the authorities at solving the case. In our story, the crime is the astrological prediction of Pope Urban VIII's death in 1630. Although the prediction is released anonymously, many individuals in astrological circles and elsewhere were aware that it was issued by Orazio Morandi, abbot of the Santa Prassede monastery in Rome. At this point in his career, Morandi was considered an authority on many astrological subjects and his word held considerable weight. In response, Spain and Germany sent delegations of Cardinals to Rome in anticipation of an upcoming conclave. However, the predetermined date passed and the pope remained alive and well. Clearly upset, the pope ordered the arrest of Morandi and a trial was launched. When Morandi was found dead in his cell in November of that year, the trial was immediately halted. In the following April, the pope issued the harshest papal bull against astrology ever put forth, thus setting the stage for Galileo's subsequent reception.

The incident damaged the discipline of astrology on several fronts. The increasing view of astrology as an "entrepreneurial" science began to affect its credibility with regard to other disciplines (the reader is reminded here of Anthony Grafton's comparison of astrology with economics). Additionally, the stringency of Urban's 1631 bull served to push astrology further from mainstream practice, in effect securing Morandi's place as one of the last great Roman astrologers.

The power of the bull was soon tested on a new case: the trial of Galileo. Galileo had held favor with Urban VIII, as an acquaintance and quite possibly his friend. Upon publication of Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", the pope "exploded into great anger" (p. 183). Dooley argues that Urban's reaction should be seen in light of the Morandi affair. Most scholarly treatments of the Galileo case have been "examined largely from the point of view of the history of philosophy" (p. 185). If the Galileo case is "examined from the point of view of the history of elites within the culture and society of Baroque Italy," the many "facts of the case begin to make sense for the first time" (p. 186). In this light, the different personalities involved become fleshed out and we finally begin to "discern the true contours of the complex cultural world in which new ideas were explored" (p. 186). The relationship between practitioners of natural philosophy and officials of the Church has always been a tenuous one. With Galileo's book arriving on the heels of Morandi's excessive behavior, Dooley argues that "in the heat of conflict between the philosophers and their accusers, the various strands within Renaissance culture that had been bound together by a thread began to come undone" (p. 186). In the early 1630s, religion proved to be "an easily controllable terrain for carrying on the struggle" to rein the philosophers in. Subsequent events have shown, however, that the "philosophers were not going to go away" (p. 186).