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Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

Rollie Hawk writes "More than a month before the premiere of Revenge of the Sith, fans are already lining up. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, eleven diehard Star Wars fans (i.e. lifelong virgins) are waiting for tickets to go on sale. Unfortunately, it appears that the guys with girlfriends will have the last laugh as the Chinese Theater isn't even premiering the film."

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  1. Too bad by Jauz · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sounds like someone needs a life.

  2. Re:Not virgins... by teshuvah · · Score: 1, Troll
    There is nothing in the text to indicate it is a "foreshadowing" of the messiah. Ahaz was told that he would receive a sign, and Isaiah 7:14 was that sign. That was what this section was about, not a future messiah. What does a guy born 600 years later have to do with Ahaz? Nothing.

    And as usual, christians ignore the context. Just look at verse 16:

    For, when the lad does not yet know to reject bad "and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread, shall be abandoned."

    Did this happened in JC's lifetime? Nope.

    If you actually study the history of Ahaz (the King Isaiah made the prophecy FOR), you'll learn that the two kings were Rezin and Pekah.

    Israel had been invaded by Assyria. Ahaz was king of Judah, at this crisis refused to co-operate with the kings of Israel and Syria in opposition to the Assyrians. He was attacked and defeated by Rezin of Damascus and Pekah of Samaria (2 Kings 16:5; 2 Chr. 28:5, 6).

    THIS is what Ahaz was worried about and THIS is what Isaiah's prophecy was about -- the two kings -- Rezin and Pekah.

    Not virgin births.

    Read of II Kings (16:9) and you'll see that Isaiah's prophecy in 7 is fulfilled:

    "And seized it and exiled its inhabitants to Kir, and he slew Rezin," and in that very year (ibid. 15: 30), "Hoshea the son of Elah revolted against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and he struck him and slew him... in the twentieth year of Jotham,"