Coronavirus Pandemic 재앙 예언이 2008년도에 이미 예언가,Sylvia가 정확히 지적했었다.

우리는 성경에서, Prophet들의 예언을 많이, Pastor들의 설교를 통해서 들었고, 또 읽어서 많은 예언가들이 오래전부터 존재 했었다는것을  알고 있다.  그리고 그예언들은 거의 적중했었다고 적고있다.  성경의 "계시록"에 대해서도 이의를 달고 다른 의견을 내는 학자들도 많이 있는것으로 알고 있다.

이번 Covid-19 Pandemic에 대해서도 너무도 많은 예언들을 거기에 대입해서 해석하고, 사람들을 혼돈에 빠지게 하는 근거없는 얘기들이, 그렇치 않아도 혼란한 요즘의 새태에 더  사람들에게 곤혹함을 더한다.

그런데 이번 Coronavirus Pandemic에 대한 예언을, 2008년도에 쓴 그녀의 책에서 분명히 밝히고 있어, 시사하는바가 크다는 CNN의 뉴스가 눈을 번쩍 뜨게 하고 있다.

작자는 Sylvia Browne으로, 그녀가 집필하여 2008년도에 발간했을때는 이미 늙은, 별로 알려지지 않은 신들린 사람쯤으로 알려져, 그녀가 주장한 예언에 따르면, 그녀는 그녀가 5세가 됐을때, 지금 전세계인들을 벌벌 떨게하는 전염병이 창궐할 것이라는 불길한 영감을 얻었었다고 주장하고 있다.  이미 그녀는 2013년도에 천수를 다하고, 지금은 이세상에 존재치 않는다.

"2020년경에 매우 무서운 폐렴같은 질병이 전지구촌에 전염될것이며, 이병원균은 허파와 기관지기관을 공격하고, 인류가 갖고있는 의료기술로서는 이를 방어할 치료법이 무용지물이 될것이다. 그결과로 전염병 그자체의 고통보다는 더 모든면에서 황당하게 뒤흔들 것이지만, 어느날 갑자기 흔적도 없이, 마치 갑자기 전세계를 덮친것과 같이, 우리주변에서 사라질 것이다.  그랬다가 10년쯤 후에 다시 나타나 인류를 괴롭히다가 다시 완전히 사라질 것이다"라고 그녀의 책에서 밝히고 있다.

너무도 황당한 내용 같지만, 현시점에서 그녀의 책내용을 살펴 보면서, 그녀가 예언한데로 상황이 돌아가고 있는것을 보면, 그냥 황당한 예언이라고만 치부하기에는 너무도 소름이 끼친다.

당시 그녀의 책이 출간됐을때는 세간의 주목을 받지 못하고 사람들의 기억속에서 사라져 버렸었다. 그러나 지금 이렇게 무서운 Coronavirus Pandemic과 싸우면서 그녀의 저서 "세상의 마지막날들: 이세상의 종말에 대한 예언과 예측"이 다시 세간의 주목을 받고 있다는 점이다.  지금 이책은 현재 Amazon에서 논픽션 소설부문에서 No. 2 on Amazon's nonfiction chart,의 판매율을 보이고 있으며, 직접 한권의 책을 구입하는데, 그값이 무려 수백달러씩에 팔리고있다.

"세상의 마지막 날들"에서, 그녀는 과감하게 선명하게, 슬기로움,그러면서도 침착함을 보여준다.
그녀는 주저함없이, 인류에게 어떤일이  닥칠것인가에 대해 겁없이, 어려운 예측을 한것이다.

 아래의 CNN기사를 읽어 보자, 차분하게...

모든이들이 무사히  이재앙의 어려움을 극복하시기를 기원 드리면서....

(CNN)In the summer of 2008, an elderly psychic who claimed she started receiving premonitions at age 5 published a book that contained an ominous prediction.

"In around 2020, a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments," it said. "Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely."

The prediction faded from public memory and the book's author, Sylvia Browne, died in 2013. But the coronavirus pandemic has brought new attention to Browne's book, "End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World." It's shot up to No. 2 on Amazon's nonfiction chart, and physical copies are now selling for hundreds of dollars. 

 

 

 

Government and public health officials have issued all sorts of guidelines to help people protect themselves against the spread of Covid-19. But there's another contagion that experts seem helpless to stop: The plague of prophets warning that the coronavirus is a sign we're at the "end of days."

There is something about pandemics that cause panicked people to empty their minds along with supermarket shelves. Countless doomsday warnings like Browne's prediction are spreading online, blending coronavirus fears with everything from political paranoia about a #oneworld gov controlled by the UN" to Australian wildfires and swarms of locusts in Africa.

What drives these doomsday 'prophets'

Many include wildly inaccurate readings of the Book of Revelation. Often these pandemic prophets end their predictions with sign-offs such as "IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BIBLE, BUY ONE!"

 

 

 

Maybe it's no wonder some people are stocking up on guns and ammo.

But some who study religion and prophecies for a living say it's time for these social media prophets and psychics to take a self-enforced quarantine. Doomsayers are harming peoples' spiritual and psychological health, they say.

They're also claiming knowledge that even the most revered figures in religion didn't dare assume. Whenever Ulrich Lehner, a Catholic theologian at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, comes across a social media preacher warning that Covid-19 means the end of the world is near, he's tempted to tweet back this response: "Matthew 24:36."

 

That's the passage when Jesus says about the end of the world: "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

"Jesus himself said, 'You don't know the hour,' yet some self-appointed prophets today seem to know more than the angels around God's throne," Lehner says.

Lehner says some of the doomsday prophets may be driven by another sin: pride.

"Perhaps in these guys who create mass panic there is also a certain pride, a bloated self-confidence that 'I have some special insight,''' says Lehner, author of "God is Not Nice: Rejecting Pop Culture Theology and Discovering the God Worth Living For."

"If that's not devilish, I don't know what is."

 

 

 

But one man who linked Covid-19 to biblical scriptures says he wasn't trying to spread fear.

Elisha Jones, a youth director at a church in southeast Texas, tweeted a screen grab of a Facebook post that cited 2 Chronicles 7: 13-15. That's where the Bible says God told Solomon, "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people ... I will heal the land" if people "turn from their wicked ways."

 

Someone wrote a caption above the biblical passage that read: "Australian wildfires -- the rain was held back. Africa - locust plague. World pandemic -- Covid-19."

Jones told CNN he was trying to warn people that "Jesus said these things will happen" and that the Earth is undergoing "birthing pains before Jesus' second coming."

"I absolutely think it could be a direct sign of something God said would happen, or even a precursor for things to come," Jones says about Covid-19 and other world events.

There's a long history of bad doomsday predictions

Whatever the motive, doomsday predictions don't have a good track record.

Remember Y2K? How about the recent "Mayan Apocalypse?"

Some people pointed to the end of the Maya Long Count calendar, on December 21, 2012, to conclude it also meant the end of the world. They warned of giant tidal waves and that the Earth would collide with another planet. Sales of survival kits soared, and there were reports that a man in China built a modern-day Noah's ark.

 

 

 

Historians say many Christians in 17th-century Europe predicted the world would end in 1666 because the numbers "666" represented the mark of the Beast mentioned in the Bible's Book of Revelation. When the Great London Fire, which lasted four days, erupted that year, many saw it as a fulfillment of the prophecy.

Browne, the author and psychic, was consistently criticized for the inaccuracy of her prophecies when she was alive. There are numerous accounts that she made mistaken claims about crimes that increased the suffering of victims' families. She even predicted she'd die of old age at 88 -- she died at 77.

Even Browne's most famous prediction, about a mysterious respiratory illness in 2020, looks different in a critical light.

Snopes, the fact-checking website, said, "lobbing vague claims about likely events does not a prediction make," when examining Browne's prophecy. It rated her prediction as not true or false but as a "mixture" containing significant elements of both truth and falsehood.

"It's unclear whether Browne's 'prediction' was more of a lucky guess, considering the book was written after the SARS outbreak," Snopes said.

Many repeat myths about Revelation

If there was a prize for the most misunderstood source for bad predictions, it would go to the Book of Revelation. It may be the Bible's ultimate crossover -- no other book's imagery and language has so penetrated popular culture.

Even people who have never read the Bible are familiar with its references: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Red Dragon, 666 and the seven bowls of plague.

Revelation is filled with such contagious imagery that one theologian who has studied its text calls it a "multimedia" book whose popular images operate like an infectious disease.

 

 

 

"It can lead to a call to inaction," Beal says about misinterpretations of Revelation. "That is to say, people will say this is all happening because of God's plan and it's going to get worse before it gets better so there's nothing we can do about it because it's God's will."

But that probably won't stop people from invoking Revelation when a pandemic hits. For centuries it's been the go-to book for doomsday prophets warning about the spread of "end-times plagues" and bizarre weather patterns.

One scholar questioned whether the Book of Revelation predicted the coronavirus in a recent column for the Christian Post, concluding, "the final shaking will be far more intense than this."

Many Biblical scholars, though, say the book of Revelation is not really about the end of the world. Rather, it was about the end of the world of its author, a devout Jew and earlier follower of Jesus. He was struggling to understand how the Roman empire had stormed Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and burned down its great temple after quashing a Jewish revolt.

The destruction of the temple of Jerusalem was incomprehensible for some earlier followers of Jesus. They had expected Jesus to return "with power" and conquer Rome before inaugurating the new age. But Rome had conquered Jesus' homeland instead.

 

The book of Revelation was the author's way of reminding early Christians that God and justice would ultimately prevail, says Lehner, the Notre Dame theologian.

"The book of Revelation is not a book about predictions but a book of consolation," Lehner says.

Consolation is what people should spread on social media right now -- not doomsday predictions, he says. Lehner says that in recent days he's seen beautiful prayers and even humorous messages on social media that have lifted his spirits, and he urges people to reach out to those who may be isolated.

Doing so may not be as thrilling as sharing predictions of doom. But before you decide to get in touch with your inner Nostradamus, share a kind word rather than a doomsday prediction, he says.

You'll feel better in the end -- and so will many of us who'll need all the help we can get in the tough days ahead.

 

 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/22/world/doomsday-prophets-coronavirus-blake/index.html