Friday, April 10, 2020

Is The Epoch Times a Soothsayer Spoken of in Isaiah 2:6?

  Take the scripture, and see a likeness to how some in America may be being influenced by Russian misinformation fed into America's social media and into alternative news sources by Russia.
   If you are not Christian, or do not believe in scripture, consider it anyway, as you live in a world where many are Christians, and do look the Bible, and you want to be aware of what might be going on in their world.
  Not to say most of them -- or even a touch of them -- see this in this scripture. But, they could, if they looked. Take this scripture, found in the Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 12:6. The Book of Mormon is quoting from Isaiah, so it is also found in Isaiah 2:6. Quoting from the Book of Mormon version of the passage, we read:
  "Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and hearken unto soothsayers like the Philistines."
   Russia is to the east. Those in America who believe the falsehoods are replenished and their numbers are multiplied by the influence from the east, from Russia. We have been warned by the Mueller Report of the influence coming from such places as Russia, and of how this misinformation and propaganda rides the winds of our social media. It also influences alternate media, and you can see the arguments found in the memes also in the alternate media. These false tellers of information -- alternate media such as the The Epoch Times -- are like soothsayers. Soothsayers? That is someone who would tell us things unknown, isn't it? Even so, The Epoch Times pronounces itself as a source providing truths the main news are not privy to. You can only get it here, at The Epoch Times. Thus, the Epoch Times is a soothsayer of our times.The Book of Mormon says these soothsayers "are like the Philistines." What other word would prophets of old used? They did not have "Russians" back then for the writers of the scriptures to have used the word "Russians." However, just as the Philistines were the opponents of the Lord's house in those days, so are the Russians the opponents today. The word "Philistines" would be the right word to use.
   I do not say this interpretation of Isaiah 2:6 is what Isaiah was writing about. I am not in position to know what he was thinking of to know what he was referring to. It also occurs to me, that sometimes the words of a revelation can be given without their meaning at the time being given.
   Well, the passage might not be any revelation at all concerning the alternate media or Russia's influence. Still, there is a likeness that can be found. I only know you can look at what is happening today and see a likeness to what is written in Isaiah 2:6.

(Note added 4/11/20: Just saw an ad by The Epoch Times, of the Chinese breaking into their office and burning it. Made me wonder. Almost thought to erase mention of the Epoch Times from this blog, and just leave it referring to alternative media, in general. But, I have noticed The Epoch Times advertising stories which I judge to be false news, among them, the suggestion COVID-19 was purposefully brewed in Chinese laboratories.)

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