Prophets In Context: June 2024

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Bibliography

Bibliography

•Achtimeier, Paul (ed.) - Harper's Bible Dictionary (1985)

•Apocrypha, New English Bible (1971)

•Apocrypha, Revised Standard Version (1952)

•Appian - The Syrian Wars

•Apuleius - The Metamorphosis (late 2nd century)

•Aristotle (attr.) - On the Cosmos

•Arnobius (4th century)

•Asimov, Isaac - Asimov's Guide to the Bible (1981)

•Augustine of Hippo - City of God (early 5th century)

•Baeck, Leo - Judaism & Christianity (1937)

•Berger, David - The Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages: A Critical Edition of the Nizzahon Vetus (1979)

•Betz, Hans (tr.) - The Greek Magical Papyri (1986)

•The Bhagavad Gita

•Bible (Tanakh), Jewish Publication Society (1917)

•Bible, King James Version (1611)

•Bible, Revised Standard Version (1952)

•New American Standard Bible (1971)

•New English Bible (1971)

•Brewer, Ebenezer - A Dictionary of Miracles: Imitative, Realistic, and Dogmatic (1884)

•Brown, Michael - Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus (2000)

•Budge, E. A. Wallis (tr.) - Egyptian Book of the Dead

•Clement of Rome - Letter to the Corinthians (late 1st century)

•Clement of Rome (attr.) - Homilies & Recognitions

•The Dead Sea Scrolls

•Ehrman, Bart - Forged (2011)

•Ibid. - How Jesus Became God (2014)

•Eusebius of Caesarea - Church History (4th century)

•Ibid. - Life of Constantine (4th century)

•Friedman, Richard - The Bible With Sources Revealed (2003)

•Galen of Pergamon - Galenic Corpus (late 2nd century)

•Geisler, Norman - Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics (1999)

•Herodotus - The Histories (5th century BCE)

•Hippocrates - The Sacred Disease (4th century BCE)

•Hippolytus of Rome - Refutation of All Heresies (early 3rd century)

•Hull, Moses - Our Bible, Who Wrote It?

•Hunt, John - The New Trial of the Witnesses (1823)

•Irenaeus of Lyon - Against Heresies (late 2nd century)

•Jerome - Life of Paulus (late 4th century)

•Justin Martyr - Dialogue With Trypho (late 2nd century)

•Ibid. - First Apology (late 2nd century)

•Kalisch, Isidor - A Guide for the Rational Enquiry Into the Biblical Writings (1857)

•Lewis, C.S. - Mere Christianity (1952)

•Livy - History of Rome

•Lucian of Samosata - Alexander the False Prophet (late 2nd century)

•Ibid. - The Death of Peregrinus

•Mackay, Charles - Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (1841)

•Marcus Aurelius - Meditations (late 2nd century)

•Nachmanides - Notes on the Barcelona Disputation (1263)

•Neubauer/Driver - The 53rd Chapter of Isaiah According to Jewish Interpreters (1876)

•Newton, Thomas - Dissertations on the Prophecies, Vol. II (1784)

•O'Donoghue, Alfred - Theology and Mythology; An Inquiry into the Claims of Biblical Inspiration (1880)

•Origen of Alexandria - Conta Celsum (3rd century)

•Pagels, Elaine - The Gnostic Gospels (1977)

•Paine, Thomas - The Age of Reason (1807)

•Philo of Alexandria - (1st century)

•Philostratus - The Life of Apollonius of Tyana (3rd century)

•Plato - Crito

•Pliny the Elder - The Natural History (late 1st century)

•Pliny the Younger - Letters (early 2nd century)

•Plutarch - Life of Romulus (early 2nd century)

•Polybius - Fragments

•Randi, James - The Faith Healers (1988)

•Reimarus, Hermann - Fragments (1879)

•Schaff, Philip (ed.) - The Ante-Nicene Fathers

•Ibid. - The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers

•Sherlock, Thomas - Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus (1729)

•Singer, Tovia - Let's Get Biblical (2014)

•Socrates Scholasticus - Historia Ecclesiastica (early 5th century)

•Somerville, Donald - Who's Who In The Old Testament (1971)

•Spence, Lewis - Encyclopedia of Occultism (1920)

•Strauss, David - The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (1836)

•Strobel, Lee - The Case For Christ (1998)

•Suetonius - The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (early 2nd century)

•Tacitus - The Annals (early 2nd century)

•Ibid. - The Histories (early 2nd century)

•The Talmud (5th century)

•Taylor, Thomas - Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian, Against the Christians (1830)

•Tertullian - De Baptismo (early 3rd century)

•Ibid. - De Spectaculis

•Wells, Steve - Skeptic's Annotated Bible (2013)

•Whiston, William (tr.) - Complete Works of Flavius Josephus

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Apparitions

Apparitions (Divine & Unearthly)

c.3980 BCE - God, angels & a talking serpent to Adam & Eve

c.3960 BCE - Voice of God to Cain

c.2500 BCE - Voice of God to Noah

c.2081 BCE - An angel to Hagar

c.2067 BCE - Angels to Lot & the Sodomites

c.2067 BCE - God to Abimelech (in a dream)

c.2054 BCE - An angel to Abraham

c.1906 BCE - God and an Angel to Jacob

c.1446 BCE - God to Moses

c.1407 BCE - Angel & a talking donkey to Balaam

c.1300 BCE - Poseidon to Pelops

c.1300 BCE - Cillas to Pelops

c.1200 BCE - Patroclus to Achilles

c.1200 BCE - Hermes to Ulysses

c.1169 BCE - An angel to Gideon

c.1090 BCE - An angel to Manoah

c.1010 BCE - Samuel to Saul

c.979 BCE - An angel to David

c.967 BCE - God to Solomon (in a dream)

c.800 BCE - Dead man to Israelites at Elisha's tomb

721 BCE - An angel (Raphael) to Tobit

c.717 BCE – Romulus (as the god Quirinus) to Proculus

c.701 BCE - An angel to the Assyrian army (185,000 soldiers killed)

c.700 BCE - Aristeas to the people of Proconnesus

c.600 BCE - Isis to Aesop

c.539 BCE - Angels to Daniel

c.500 BCE - Apollo & Athena to Pythagoras

496 BCE - Castor & Pollux to soldiers in the Latin War

490 BCE - Theseus at the Battle of Marathonc.

460 BCE - Aristeas to the people of Metapontum

c.443 BCE - Pindar to a grieving female relative

357 BCE - Zeus to Olympias (as a serpent)

354 BCE - A goddess (one of the Furies) to Dion of Syracuse

161 BCE - Jeremiah (in a dream) to Judas Maccabeus

c.150 BCE - Castor & Pollux to soldiers in Macedonian War

c.90 BCE - Ghosts at Marathon (from the battle 400 yrs prior)

78 BCE - A prophetic apparition to Cornelius Sulla

42 BCE - Minerva to Artorius

42 BCE - A spirit (traditionally Caesar's ghost) to Brutus

c.25 BCE - Ghost to Athenodorus

c.20 BCE - An angel to Anna & Joachim (Mary's parents)

9 BCE - Giant German woman to Drusus

c.5 BCE - Mysterious Star over Bethlehem (Matthew)

c.5 BCE - Angels to Joseph (in dreams) (Matthew)

c.6 CE - Angels to Mary, Zechariah, Shepherds (Luke)

15 CE - Proteus to Apollonius' Mother

19 CE - Pseudo-Anubis to Paulina

32 - An apparition (black, bearded giant) to Cassius Severus

32 - Holy Spirit (as a dove) to Jesus

32 - Satan to Jesus (Matthew/Luke)

32 - Angels to Jesus (Matthew/Luke)

33 - Moses, Elijah & God to Peter, Jesus, James & John (Synoptics)

33 - An angel to Jesus (in the garden) (Luke)

33 - Angels to Roman soldiers (at the tomb) (Matthew 28)

33 - Angels to Mary Magdalene (Matthew 28, John 20)

33 - Christ to Peter, Mary, James, the 12, the 500

33 - Two Angels to the 11 Apostles at the Mount of Olives (Acts 1:10 – 11)

33 - John the Baptist to some Galileans (as Jesus)

33 - Elijah to some Galileans (as Jesus)

33 - Jeremiah to some Galileans (as Jesus)

33 - Resurrected corpses to many in Jerusalem

33 - Jesus to Peter, Mary Magdalene & the Twelve

34 - Jesus to Stephen (at his stoning)

34 - Christ to Paul

34 - Christ to Ananias of Damascus

34 - A phoenix is seen in Egypt (Tacitus, Annals 6:28)

35 - An Angel to the 12 Apostles (prison break) (Acts 5:17-21)

35 - An Angel to Philip (Acts 8:26)

35 - God & Christ to Stephen (at his stoning)

36 - Christ to Paul

36 - Christ to Ananias of Damascus

40 - An Angel to Cornelius (Acts 10:3-7, 30-32)

44 - Mary (alive in Ephesus) to James barZebedee in Spain

45 - Angels to Peter (prison break) (Acts 12:1-10)

40s - God to Peter (vision of unclean animals)

c.40 - Giant prophetic woman to Quintus Curtius Rufus

40s - Caligula at the Lamean Gardens in Rome

c.45 - Zeus & Hermes to a crowd at Lystra (Acts 14:12)

51 - “Man of Macedonia” to Paul in a vision (Acts 16:9)

60 - An Angel to Paul in a dream (Acts 27:23-24)

60s - Christ & Angels to John on Patmos

60s - Christ to Peter (Acts of Peter)

60s - Talking dog to Peter (ibid)

60s - Christ to Peter (Acts of Peter)

c.60s - Achilles to Apollonius

64 - Christ & Angels to John (on Patmos)

66 - Heavenly voices in the Jewish Temple

66 - Armies in the Sky over Jerusalem

69 - A specter (Basilides, alive but distant) to Vespasian in the Temple of Serapis

69 – Serapis (in dreams) to the blind & withered Alexandrians healed by Vespasian

75 - Pseudo-Nero to a number of Parthians

84 - Christ, Mary Magdalene & angels to Martha (sister of Lazarus)

89 - Prophetic eagle in Rome (at statue of Domitian) on day Lucius Antonius died

96 – In Rome, a raven speaks months prior to Domitian's death (“All will be well”)

96 – Minerva to Domitian (in a dream)

100 – Apollonius to His Disciples

c. 100 – John “falls asleep” and is buried in Ephesus, where his grave stirs from his breathing.

105 – Nero to Fannius

107 – Ignatius to His Disciples

c.110 – Pliny's mother-in-law to Pliny

165 – Peregrinus to An Old Man

203 – Dinocrates to Perpetua

c.240 – Mary & John to Gregory Thaumaturgus

275 – Apollonius to Aurelian (in a dream)

305 – St. Januarius to His Disciples

311 – Satan speaks through the daughter of Emperor Gallerius (misattributed to Gallienus)

334 – St. Rheticus, being entombed, speaks to his dead wife, who also briefly revives

341 – The heaven-bound soul of Paul the Hermit seen by St. Anthony

388 – St. Injurieux leaves his grave to join his wife in hers

392 – Anthony, Pachomius & other saints to St. Macarius

392 – Soul of St. Macarius ascending to Heaven, disputing with demons, witnessed by St. Babnuda

c.400 – Torquatus to St. Paul of Trois-Chateaux (T. was his late predecessor)

411 – St. Melor, beheaded, speaks to Cerialtan (his killer)

478 – Barnabas (in a dream) to Anthemios, Archbishop of Constantia

c.500 – Basil (a dead monk) to St. Theodosius

c.540 – Two undead nuns in a Benedictine convent

541 – Relics sing to St. Gregory of Langres
610 - Gabriel to Muhammed

687 – Peter & Paul seen carrying the soul of St. Siviard to Heaven

766 - St. Cecilia and St. Lucia to St. Opportuna

948 – Christ, Mary, Michael, angels, Peter, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Stephen, Gregory, Augustine & Ambrose to St. Konrad

c.1040 – Martin (a dead monk) after visiting Hell & meeting Archangel Michael, rises for 3 days & appears to St. Guido

1098 – Peter of Bartholomew has a vision showing the location of the Holy Lance.

c.1250 – Satan (as a black horse) to St. Peter of Verona & his congregation (at the sign of the cross, it “vanished like smoke”)

1212 – St. Isodore to Alfonzo VIII of Castille

c.1410 – Elijah to Moses Botarel

1400s – St. Angela's Sister to St. Angela

1450 – St. George to Skanderbeg

1463 – St. Catherine of Bologna (dead 19 days) to Leonora (age 11)

1492 – Ghosts at Florence Cathedral (at the moment of Lorenzo de Medici's death)

1492 – Lorenzo de Medici to Cardiere

1500 – Christ & Saints to St. Columba

1531 – Mary to St. Juan Diego

1535 - Christ to St. Angela of Brescia

1536 – Vulcan & 20 Cyclops to a Spanish merchant in Sicily

1539 – A spirit (young boy), angels, Mary & Christ (crucified) to Benvenuto Cellini

c.1548 – A demon (genius) to Jerome Cardan (appeared over 28-year period)

1559 – Christ to St. Teresa of Avila

c.1560 – A demon called Hilcho (as a mouse) in the ear of William Trayford

c.1580 – Demons (as beasts) plus angels, Mary, St. Francis & stigmata to St. Pascal Baylon

1586 – Elves (including the Queen of the Elfland) to Alison Pearson (killed for witchcraft)

1594 – Mary to Mariana de Jesus Torres

1600s – Mary to Maria de Jesus de Agreda

1607 – Maria Madelena di Pazzi (dead) turns her head

c.1610 – Giant prophetic woman to young Oliver Cromwell

c.1617 – Ghost of George Villiers I to George Villiers II (1st Duke of Buckingham)

c.1625 – Satan to Mother Franciose de Bermond

1631 – An angel (Michael) to Diego de San Lazaro

c.1632 – Ghost of a murdered woman to James Graham

1647 – Ghosts (5 beautiful women) to Richard Bovet

1652 – Ghost (white sheet) to Philip, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (and, simultaneously to Lady Chesterfield, 40 miles away)

c.1660 – Satan to St. Benedicta

c.1660 – Guardian angel to St. Benedicta

1661 – Poltergeist in the home of John Monpesson of Tedworth

1662 – A large red-eyed demon to John Monpesson

1662 – Ghost of her mother to Sir Charles Lee's daughter

1663 – Seven or eight ghosts or demons (in the shape of men) to John Monpesson

1664 – Mary to Benoîte Rencurel (first visit)

1669 – Satan to some witches in Sweden

1669 – An angel to some children in Sweden

1673 – Christ to St. Marguerite Marie Alacoque

c.1680 – Ghost of Italian woman to Cassio Burroughs

1687 – Ghost of murdered brother to Joseph Beacon. “About 5 o'clock in the morning, as he lay – whether waking or sleeping he could not say, but judged the latter of them.”

1691 – Ghost of Mary Goffe to Widow Alexander

1692 – Ghost of murdered man to Ann Sewal in Salem

1695 – Six fairies to Ann Jefferies

c.1700 – A brownie to Norman MacLeod's butler

1707 – Catherine (a dead woman) to St. Francis Hieronimus (reporting that her soul was in Hell)

1717 – John Gairdner awakens 2 days after appearing to die (describes Heaven & Hell)

1718 – Mary to Benoîte Rencurel (last visit)

1734 – St. John-Joseph of the Cross to Diego Pignatelli and several others over several days

1752 – A spirit to the sergeant of Jedburgh

1752 – A were-cat (a witch) to Capt. Archibald Douglass of Jedburgh (he shot the cat's ear off)

c.1780s – Angels “of light and darkness” to Cagliostro

c.1784 – Spirit of his wife to J.F. Oberlin

1785 – Ghost of Wynyard's brother to Gen. George Wynyard & Sir John Sherbroke

1791 – Ghost (dead man) to Nicolai (also hallucinated various people, living & dead, dogs, birds, etc.)

1794 - Charlemagne to St. Simon

1806 – Ghosts of landslide victims in the valley near Mt. Rossberg, Swizerland

1806 – A “star” of good omen to Napoleon

1806 – Prophetic Hens to Mary Bateman (eggs proclaimed “Christ is coming”)

c.1810 – A haloed “radiant child” to Lord Londonderry

c.1813 – Christ to Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824)

1820 – God & Christ to Joseph Smith

1820 – Ghost (Gaspar, a Spaniard) to a family in France

c.1822 – A “radiant child” to Lord Castlereagh

1823 – An angel (Moroni) to Joseph Smith

1826 – Cross in the sky over Migne

c.1826 – Ghost (elderly man, one hour dead) to Anna Marie Porter

1829 – John the Baptist to Joseph Smith & Oliver Cowdery

1829 – An angel to Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer & Martin Harris

1830 – Mary to St. Catherine Labouré

1830 – St. Vincent de Paul to St. Catherine Labouré

1831 – Satan to W.W. Phelps (heard by Joseph Smith & 9 others)

1832 – God & Christ to Joseph Smith & Sidney Rigdon

1836 – God & Elijah to Joseph Smith & Oliver Cowdery

1843 – Christ & Mary to Sister Marie of St. Peter

1844 – Christ to Ellen Gould Harmon

1846 – Mary to 2 children in France

1856 – A woman (several years dead) to her daughter (Mrs. S.)

1857 – Two ghosts (Anne & Richard Children) to residents & visitors of Ramhurst Manor, Kent

1858 – Mary to St. Bernadette Soubirous

1866 – Christ to Marie Martha Chambon

c.1870 – Willie Lincoln to Grant's White House staff

1871 – Mary to some children in France

1877 – Founding Fathers, Wesley, Columbus, etc., to Wilfred Woodruff

1879 – Mary, Joseph, Lamb, cross, angels to 15 people in Ireland

1881 – The Flying Dutchman to (future) King George V

c.1890 – Brownies to Arthur Stilwell

1899 – Christ, Mary, Saints and a guardian angel to St. Gemma Galgani

1910 – Christ to Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

c.1913 – Lincoln to Grace Coolidge

1914 – Angels (assisting the British) at the Battle of Mons

1914 – A “little green man” to Pagits, a Ute medicine man

1916 – Christ to Claire Ferchaud

1916 – Christ and an angel to Maria Consolata Betrone

1917 – Fairies in Cottingley

1917 – Mary to 3 children in Portugal

c.1919 – Satan to Padre Pio

1921-23 – Akakura Daigongen (in dreams, as a dragon or a human) to Kawai Mariko

1923 – Amaterasu (as a “streak of gold in the sky”) to Kawai Mariko and Erita Emiko

1931 – Christ to St. Faustina Kowalska

1932 – Mary to 5 children in Belgium

1932 – Aliens (Jupiterians) to Howard Menger (first visit)

1933 – Mary to Mariette Beco

c.1933 – Lincoln to Mary Eben

1936 – Christ to Sun Myung Moon

1936 – Christ to Maria Pierina De Micheli

1941 – Lincoln to Winston Churchill

1942 – Lincoln to Queen Whilhelmina of Holland

1944 – Christ to Maria Valtorta

1944 – Ghosts (WWII soldiers) to Helen Duncan

1946 – Aliens (Jupiterians) to Howard Menger (second visit)

c.1949 – Akakura Daigongen to Takeda Kimiko (daughter of Kawai Mariko)

1950 – Alien (A-Lan, a Martian) to Daniel Fry

1951 – Mysterious lights over Lubbock, Texas

1952 – Alien (Orthon, a Venusian) to George Adamski

1952 – Alien (Neptune) to Ofreo Angelucci

1952 – Alien (Aura Rhanes) to Truman Bethurum

1952 – Mysterious lights over D.C.

1955 – Alien (Nur El, a Martian) to Ernest Norman

1955 – Alien (Diane, a Venusian) to Dana Howard

1955 – Goblins seen in Kelly-Hopkinsville, TN

1956 – Aliens (Jupiterians) to Howard Menger (last visit)

1957 – Aliens to Reinhold Schmidt

1957 – Aliens to Antônio Vilas-Boas

1961 – An angel (Michael) & Mary to 4 children in Spain (first visit)

1961 – Aliens (surgeons from Zeta Reticuli) to Betty & Barney Hill

c.1963 – Willie Lincoln to Lynda Bird Johnson

1965 – An angel (Michael) & Mary to 4 children in Spain (last visit)

1968 – Mary to thousands in Zeitoun, Egypt

1972 – Christ to Madeleine Aumont (first visit)

1973 – Aliens to Charles Hickson

1973 – Mary to Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa

1973 – Aliens to Claude Vorhilon (“Rael”)

1974 – Violent Ghosts to Doris Bither

1975 – Aliens to Travis Walton

1976 – Ghosts in Amityville, NY

1977 – Elvis Presley to grieving fans

1978 – Christ to Madeleine Aumont (last visit)

1978 – Aliens (or Demons) to William Herrmann

1979 – Aliens to Robert Taylor

1980 – Christ (900 ft. tall) to Oral Roberts

1981 – Mary to 6 children in Međugorje

c.1982 – Lincoln to Maureen Reagan & her husband

1985 – Voice of Elijah Muhammad to Farakkhan

1985 – Christ to Vassula Ryden

1985 – Aliens (“Blue Doctors”) to Whitley Streiber

1985 – Aliens to Louis Farakkhan (flew in spaceship)

1987 – Satan to Oral Roberts

1987 – Spirits, and a Chinese phantom, to Joseph Kony

1994 – Aliens to Meng Zhaoguo

1994-98 – Mary, Joseph & Christ to Edson Glauber

2001 – An angel (Emma) to Todd Bentley

2000s – Paul to Todd Bentley (during a visit to Heaven)

2009 – Michael Jackson to a grieving fan

2009 - Mary to thousands in Warraq, Egypt

2017 – Christ (in the sky) & Mary to children in India

2019 – Donald Trump (alive) in dreams to Bissa Krishna

2019 - God to Paula White (during a visit to Heaven)

Apparitions (Post-Mortem)

Ghost Of Caesar Appears Before Brutus (1881)

c.1300 BC - Cillas to Pelops

c.1200 BC - Patroclus to Achilles

c.1010 BC - Samuel to Saul

c.800 BC - Dead man to Israelites at Elisha's tomb

c.717 BC - Romulus to Proculus

c.700 BC - Aristeas to the people of Proconnesus

490 BC - Theseus at the Battle of Marathon

c.460 BC - Aristeas to the people of Metapontum

c.443 BC - Pindar to a grieving female relative

42 BC - A spirit (traditionally Caesar's ghost) to Brutus

c.25 BC - Ghost to Athenodorus

33 CE - John the Baptist to some Galileans (as Jesus)

33 - Elijah to some Galileans (as Jesus)

33 - Jeremiah to some Galileans (as Jesus)

33 - Resurrected corpses to many in Jerusalem

33 - Jesus to Peter, Mary Magdalene & the Twelve

34 - Jesus to Stephen (at his stoning)

34 - Christ to Paul

34 - Christ to Ananias of Damascus

40s - Caligula at the Lamean Gardens in Rome

60s - Christ to Peter (Acts of Peter)

64 - Christ & Angels to John (on Patmos)

c.60s - Achilles to Apollonius

69 - A specter (Basilides, alive but distant) to Vespasian in the Temple of Serapis

75 - Pseudo-Nero to a number of Parthians

100 – Apollonius to His Disciples

c. 100 – John “falls asleep” and is buried in Ephesus, where his grave stirs from his breathing.

105 – Nero to Fannius

107 – Ignatius to His Disciples

c.110 – Pliny's mother-in-law to Pliny

165 – Peregrinus to An Old Man

203 – Dinocrates to Perpetua

c.240 – Mary & John to Gregory Thaumaturgus

275 – Apollonius to Aurelian (in a dream)

305 – St. Januarius to His Disciples

334 – St. Rheticus, being entombed, speaks to his dead wife, who also briefly revives

341 – The heaven-bound soul of Paul the Hermit seen by St. Anthony

388 – St. Injurieux leaves his grave to join his wife in hers

392 – Anthony, Pachomius & other saints to St. Macarius

392 – Soul of St. Macarius ascending to Heaven, disputing with demons, witnessed by St. Babnuda

c.400 – Torquatus to St. Paul of Trois-Chateaux (T. was his late predecessor)

411 – St. Melor, beheaded, speaks to Cerialtan (his killer)

478 – Barnabas (in a dream) to Anthemios, Archbishop of Constantia

c.500 – Basil (a dead monk) to St. Theodosius

c.540 – Two undead nuns in a Benedictine convent

541 – Relics sing to St. Gregory of Langres

616 – St. John the Almsgiver revives to comfortably situate himself in his Alexandrian coffin

628 – St. Anastasius to St. Areta

600s - St Leocadia to St. Alfonso

687 – Peter & Paul seen carrying the soul of St. Siviard to Heaven

766 - St. Cecilia and St. Lucia to St. Opportuna

948 – Christ, Mary, Michael, angels, Peter, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Stephen, Gregory, Augustine & Ambrose to St. Konrad

c.1040 – Martin (a dead monk) after visiting Hell & meeting Archangel Michael, rises for 3 days & appears to St. Guido.

1212 – St. Isodore to Alfonzo VIII of Castille

c.1410 – Elijah to Moses Botarel

1400s – St. Angela's Sister to St. Angela

1450 – St. George to Skanderbeg

1463 – St. Catherine of Bologna (dead 19 days) to Leonora (age 11)

1492 – Ghosts at Florence Cathedral (at the moment of Lorenzo de Medici's death)

1492 – Lorenzo de Medici to Cardiere

1500 – Christ & Saints to St. Columba

c.1580 – Demons (as beasts, angels, Mary, St. Francis & stigmata) to St. Pascal Baylon

c.1617 – Ghost of George Villiers I to George Villiers II (1^st Duke of Buckingham)

c.1632 – Ghost of a murdered woman to James Graham

1647 – Ghosts (5 beautiful women) to Richard Bovet

1652 – Ghost (white sheet) to Philip, 2^nd Earl of Chesterfield (and, simultaneously to Lady Chesterfield, 40 miles away)

1662 – Ghost of her mother to Sir Charles Lee's daughter

1607 – Maria Madelena di Pazzi (dead) turns her head

c.1680 – Ghost of Italian woman to Cassio Burroughs

1687 – Ghost of murdered brother to Joseph Beacon. “About 5 o'clock in the morning, as he lay – whether waking or sleeping he could not say, but judged the latter of them.”

1691 – Ghost of Mary Goffe to Widow Alexander

1692 – Ghost of murdered man to Ann Sewal in Salem

1707 – Catherine (a dead woman) to St. Francis Hieronimus (reporting that her soul was in Hell)

1717 – John Gairdner awakens 2 days after appearing to die (describes Heaven & Hell)

1734 – St. John-Joseph of the Cross to Diego Pignatelli and several others over several days

c.1784 – Spirit of his wife to J.F. Oberlin

1785 – Ghost of Wynyard's brother to Gen. George Wynyard & Sir John Sherbroke

1791 – Ghost (dead man) to Nicolai (also hallucinated various people, living & dead, dogs, birds, etc.)

1794 - Charlemagne to St. Simon

1806 – Ghosts of landslide victims in the valley near Mt. Rossberg, Swizerland

1820 – Ghost (Gaspar, a Spaniard) to a family in France

c.1826 – Ghost (elderly man, one hour dead) to Anna Marie Porter

1829 – John the Baptist to Joseph Smith & Oliver Cowdery

1830 – St. Vincent de Paul to St. Catherine Labouré

1836 – God & Elijah to Joseph Smith & Oliver Cowdrey

1856 – A woman (several years dead) to her daughter (Mrs. S.)

1857 – Two ghosts (Anne & Richard Children) to residents & visitors of Ramhurst Manor, Kent

c.1870 – Willie Lincoln to Grant's White House staff

1877 – Founding Fathers, Wesley, Columbus, etc., to Wilfred Woodruff

1879 – Mary, Joseph, Lamb, cross, angels to 15 people in Ireland

1899 – Christ, Mary, Saints and a guardian angel to St. Gemma Galgani

c.1913 – Lincoln to Grace Coolidge

c.1933 – Lincoln to Mary Eben

1941 – Lincoln to Winston Churchill

1942 – Lincoln to Queen Whilhelmina of Holland

1944 – Ghosts (WWII soldiers) to Helen Duncan

c.1963 – Willie Lincoln to Lynda Bird Johnson

1977 – Elvis Presley to grieving fans

c.1982 – Lincoln to Maureen Reagan & her husband

1985 – Voice of Elijah Muhammad to Farakkhan

1994-98 – Mary, Joseph & Christ to Edson Glauber

2009 – Michael Jackson to a grieving fan

Reanimations

A man is raised by the cross in the court of Emperor Constantine.

Recognition of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca (c.1466).

c.1100 BC - Hippolytus raised by Asclepius

c.1010 BC - Samuel conjured by the Witch of Endor

c.863 BC – Widow's son raised by Elijah

c.849 BC - Shunnamite woman's son raised by Elisha

c.820 BC - Armenian king raised by Semiramis (she produced a look-alike)

c.25 CE - Spirits raised by Apion; they tell him the names of Homer's parents & native country

32 - Jairus' Daughter, raised by Jesus (Mt 9, Mk 5, Lk 8)

32 - Widow's son, raised by Jesus (Lk 7:11)

33 - Lazarus, raised by Jesus (Jn 11:43)

34 - Tabitha, raised by Peter (Acts 9:40)

36 - Eutychus, raised by Paul (Acts 20:10)

c.70 – Achilles conjured by Apollonius

c.90 – Dead girl raised by Apollonius

117 – Son of Anastasius raised by St. Julian

117 – Jovian raised by St. Julian

c.303 – Dead man raised by St. George (witnessed by Diocletian)

327 – Dead man raised by Helena's cross

c.340 – Three children raised by St. Nicholas

c.350 – Dead man speaks to St. Macarius

c.350 – Son of Pruila Leguilla raised by St. Julian of Le Mans

c.359 – Three sons of a noblewoman raised by St. Hilarion

361 – Unbaptized infant raised by St. Hilary of Poitiers

c.362 – A dead woman (Euphrosina) conjured by St. Donatus of Arezzo

c.360s – Dead man raised by St. Martin

c.360s – Hanged man (suicide) raised by St. Martin

c.371 – Widow's son raised by St. Martin

c.380 – Dead man raised by Stephen's bones

407 – Five people raised by St. Zanobi

c.420 – Dead friend raised by St. James of Tarentaise

c.460 – Dead man raised by St. Germanus of Normandy

c.470 – Silvinus (a dead priest) conjured by St. Severin

482 – Dead woman raised by St. Severin

c.510 – Dead man raised by St. Melanius

c.520 – Dead man raised (for 7 days) by St. Severus

529 – Son of a nobleman raised by St. Benedict

530 – Dead disciple raised by St. Avitus

531 – Tournai governor's daughter raised by St. Eleutherius

c.540 – Handmaid raised by St. Galla

c.550 – Trifina, daughter of Guerech, raised by St. Gildas

619 – Hanged man raised by St. Valery

627 – One or two dead monks raised by St. Attalus

c.630 – Hanged man raised by St. Amandus

650 – King Brendin's son & daughter raised by St. Fursy

c.695 – Laban raised by his son, St. Sacerdos

c.1020 – Shepherd (wolf victim) raised by St. Poppo (was he dead? Poppo was only witness)

1038 – Dead men conjured by St. Godard

c.1076 – Piotr raised by St. Stanislaus

1191 – Dead man raised by St. Cyril

c.1220s – Roman matron's son raised by St. Dominic

c.1220s – Carpenter raised by St. Dominic

c.1220s – Neapolion (cardinal Stephen's nephew) raised by St. Dominic

c.1410 – Dead man raised by St. Vincent Ferrier

c.1410 – Abraham Ezija of Andalusia raised by St. Vincent Ferrier

c.1400-1440 - A nun, a buried child, four grandees & hundreds of stillborn babies raised by St. Coletta

c.1460 – Nicholas d'Alesso raised by his uncle, St. Francis of Paula

1589 – Paul Fabricus raised by St. Phillip of Neri

c.1640 – Two women raised by Mariana de Jesus de Paredes

c.1690 – Infant raised by St. Francis Hieronimus

c.1780s – Spirits raised by Cagliostro

1953 - V. Radhakrishna raised by Sathya Sai Baba

1971 - Walter Cowan raised by Sathya Sai Baba

c.1998 – Dead man raised by Benny Hinn

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Chronology

•David 1000 BCE

•Solomon 950 BCE

•Hezekiah 730 BCE

•Nebuchadnezzar 605 BCE

•Temple destroyed 587 BCE

•Cyrus 538 BCE

•Ezekiel written

•Isaiah completed

•Haggai & Zechariah pt. 1 520 BCE

•2nd Temple 516 BCE

•Malachi written by Ezra 444 BCE

•Job, Jonah,

•Alexander 336 BCE

•Antiochus IV 171 BCE

•Judas Maccabeus 166 BCE

•Hanukkuh 163 BCE

•2nd Maccabees written 134 BCE

•Daniel, Esther, Zechariah pt. 2 (2nd c. BCE)

•Enoch, Judith (1st c. BCE)

•Judas of Galilee 6 CE

•Jesus 33 CE

•Fire in Rome 64 CE

•Sayings Gospels c.64 CE

•Zealot war 65 CE

•Vespasian's miracles 69 CE

•Temple destroyed 70 CE

•Masada 74 CE

•Josephus Wars 74 CE

•Josephus Antiquities 94 CE

•Gospel of Mark c.100 CE

•Gospel of Matthew c.110 CE

•Acts / Gospel of Luke c.120 CE

•Gospel of John c.130 CE

•John letters c.135 CE

•Apocalypse of John 140 CE

•Justin Martyr 160 CE

•Lucian of Samosata 170 CE

•Celsus 177 CE

•Irenaeus 180 CE

The Last Prophets

1. Fatal Errors of Islam

Is it the infallible word of God?

THE CHRISTIAN TRINITY

The Koran's authors believed the Holy Trinity of the Catholic Church consisted of God, Jesus and his mother Mary.

CONTRADICTIONS

39:41 "Verily we revealed the book unto you for the good of people with the truth; whoever is guided aright, it is for his own good, and whosoever goes astray, he strays only to his own harm; you are not a custodian over them."

Do conservative Muslims not act as custodians over sinners?

39:45 "When God alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in the hereafter shrink, and when those besides Him are mentioned, they rejoice."

Do Muslims not rejoice at the mention of the prophet Muhammed?

4:82 "If [the Koran] had been from other than Allah, [the nonbelievers] would've found within it much contradiction."

Do nonbelievers not find much contradiction?

CONVENIENT PROPHECY

Like Joseph Smith, Muhammad received prophecies allowing him special sexual privileges with women. Other convenient prophecies: the so-called "Satanic verses" involving the Kaaba and the partial recognition of certain pagans, Christians, Zoroastrians & Jews, which helped the new faith to win friends and influence people.

CREATION

Allah created the Heavens & Earth in six days...or two...or eight.

CULT OF MUHAMMAD

The Koran claims that Allah is the only God. However, the Koran actually preaches three gods (Allah, Jesus and Muhammed) and the latter is exalted above all others.

IMAGES OF MUHAMMAD

Images of Muhammed are forbidden, lest he be erroneously worshipped as a god like Jesus. This raises the question: if images make something a god, why are images of Allah also forbidden? If the answer is that images are the same as pagan idols, why do the believers idolize the Koran or the ancient pagan temple known as the Kaaba? Why do they kiss the pagan black stone? Why do they circle the Kaaba once a year like the pagans used to? Why did they adopt the pagan holy month? Back to the first point: forbidding images of Muhammed only elevates him to godhood.

MARY

The Koran mistakes Miriam, sister of Moses, with Mary, mother of Jesus. Although the former was born more than 1,300 years before the latter. In the Koran, they are the same person.

METEORS

The Koran says meteors are stars thrown at demons to prevent their evesdropping on the conversation of angels in Heaven and relating divine secrets to soothsayers. If the latter is true, how do we know the angel Jibreel wasn't one of those demons?

MIRACLES OF JESUS

The Koran endorses the supposed miracle of Jesus healing the blind, though this was not a miracle; emperor Vespasian healed a blind man using the same method employed by Jesus.

THE NAME OF GOD

Allah is his name? Allah means "al eliah," "the god." In biblical Hebrew, the word is "el." But that's just a title, like lord, father, king, etc. The God of Moses was called YHVH. His name appears in the Koran embedded within Hebrew names: Elijah, Zechariah, Jesus & John.

NON-BELIEVERS

According to the Koran, nonbelievers are...

Close-minded 2:6

Diseased 2:10

Liars 2:10

Wrong-doers 2:254, 7:5

Apes & pigs 5:60

Ignorant 2:171, 6:111, 9:6

Stupid 7:176, 8:22, 8:65

Deaf & dumb 8:22

Like panting dogs 7:176

Evil 7:177, 8:23, 62:5

Worse than cattle 7:179

The worst of creatures 8:22, 8:55, 98:6

In league with Satan 23:55

Rebellious & wicked 24:55

Like cattle 25:44

Arrogant 38:2

Worse than demons 46:29-35

Deaf, blind 47:23

Cursed 47:23, 63:4

Like donkeys 62:5

Deluded 63:4

PLAGIARISM

Stories in the Koran about Jesus & Mary are derived from apocryphal Christian fan fiction: the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, The Protoevangelium of James, the Apocalypse of Peter & the Second Treatise of the Great Seth. The Apocalypse of Peter supplied the inspiration for Muhammed's journey to Heaven & his glimpse of the torments of sinners in Hell. All of this was plagiarized from 2nd century Christian writers who were, themselves, writing in the name of dead people (Peter, James, Thomas).

POLYGAMY

This didn't age well. The fact that Muhammad's youngest wife, Aisha, was only 6 when they married, and 9 when they consummated their union, didn't age well either. But since these marriages were chosen by God, it's blasphemous to question them.

RELIGION OF PEACE

624: 70 pagans killed at Badr

627: 600-900 Jews killed at Banu Quaryza

630: 400 pagans killed at Hunayn

SUBMISSION TO GOD

Islam means "submission to God." If so, the prophets of Islam are utter failures. Adam ate forbidden fruit. Noah was an immodest drunk. Jesus broke commandments, pleaded with God to remove his "cup," and complained that he had been forsaken by God. Muhammed bargained with God over the number of daily prayers required of Muslims. These aren't acts of submission.

THE SUN

According to the word of God, Alexander of Macedon (or Cyrus of Persia) saw the sun setting in a "black muddy pool." (Sura 18:86)

THE TORAH

The Koran endorses the Torah, seemingly unaware of the verses in Deuteronomy 13 & 18 warning the Israelites about false prophets.

WORD OF GOD

Islam claims that the word of God is incorruptable. Yet the Koran states that the Torah, Psalms & Gospels were corrupted by Jews & Christians, and in the Hadith we are told that one of the written sayings of Muhammed was eaten by a goat who wandered into Aisha's tent while she was mourning the death of the prophet.

2. Fatal Errors of Mormonism

CULT OF JOSEPH SMITH

"Every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith as a passport to their entrance into the mansion above where God and Christ are - I with you and you with me.

"I cannot go there without his consent. He holds the keys to rule in the spirit world and he rules their triumphantly, for he gained all power and a glorious victory over the power of Satan while he was getting the flesh." - Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses vol. 7, 1860

HORSES

In The Book of Mormon, horses are found in ancient America. No horses are known to have existed there before the arrival of the Spanish 2,000 years later.

INCONSISTENCY

Smith's apparition reports evolved over time. The appearance of Jesus and Elohim began as a vision angels, for example.

KJV

The Book of Mormon contains quotes from the Bible. These are taken directly from the King James Version, which, at the time the golden plates were ostensibly written, was still 1,200 years from being published in a language that didn't yet exist.

POLYGAMY & RACISM

Though polygamous and racist policies came directly from God, they didn't age well, so other prophecies were required to amend them.

SOLOMON SPAULDING

His unpublished novel Manuscript Found was a likely inspiration, via Sidney Rigdon (who had worked at the small publishing house to which the late Solomon Spaulding submitted his work), for the ancient transatlantic plot of the Book of Mormon. The LDS maintain that the similarities are merely coincidental.

3. Apocolyptic Cults

"I’ve been laying up here paying for your sins for 2,000 years. How many times have I gotta pay for your sins?" - Charles Manson, early 1970s

"Yeah, [Charlie] is God. That's why they're hanging him; that's why they're killing him. That's what they want to kill - is God." - Lynette Fromme, early 1970s

"I saved them. I saved them... I made my example. I made my expression. I made my manifestation and the world was...not ready for me. Paul said I was a man born out of due season." - Jim Jones, 1978

3) Apocalyptic Death Cults

"I'm ready to die for Charlie. He's ready to die for me. He has died for me... It feels good to be ready to face death - and love it!" - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Manson Family, early 1970s

"The girls...were willing to die as they took these peoples' lives... Everybody is afraid of death...nobody's content right now with the world they've created...their minds are all locked by fear of death... The Establishment won't let us live until we learn how to die." - Sandra Goode, Manson Family, early 1970s

"If we can't live in peace, we might as well die in peace...[there's] nothing to death; it's just stepping over into another plane...we didn't commit suicide. We committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world." - Jim Jones, 1978

"It’s time for this cloak to be thrown off and you're going to go through the fires. You’re going to see whether you believe this message. I’m ready to be delivered. I’m ready to go through the portals of darkness and death and you’re not!" - David Koresh, 1989

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