>The funny part is when he says that Russia invaded "I think it was > Afghanistan." >
>-John
That would be this sermon, from April 20, 1980, Toronto:
Actually I wanna tell you a story. We were playin' about four months
ago someplace that was a college or a campus. I forget exactly where.
Arizona I think it was.
Anyway, I read the Bible alot; it just happens
I do. It says things in the Bible that I didn't really learn until
recently, and I really mentioned these because there are higher learning
people there, preaching their philosophy. So people can study all the
different philosophies, of Plato and, uh, who else? Who?
Well, I
definitely recall reading Nietzsche and those people like that. Anyways,
in the Bible it tells a specific thing in the Book of Revelations that just
apply to these times, and it says that certain wars that soon -- I can't
say exactly when but soon anyway -- so that at that time it mentions a
country to the furthermost north, and has as its symbol the bear. And it's
also spelled R-O-S-H in the Bible.
This was written quite a few years
ago. So it can't but be applied to one country that I know. But do
you know another it can be applied to? Maybe you do. I don't know.
Then there's another country called ... can't remember what the name of
it is, but it's in the eastern partn of the world, and it's got an army of
two hundred million foot soldiers. Now there's only one country that
that can actually be.
So anyway, I was telling this story to these
people. I shouldn't have been telling it to them. I just got carried
away. I mentioned it to them and then I watched. And Russia was going
to come down and attack in the Middle East. It says this in the Bible.
And I had been reading all kinds of books my whole life: magazines, books,
whatever I could lay my hands on anyway, and I never found any truth in any
of it, if you wanna know the truth. But I said, This country is gonna come
down and attack. And all these people -- there must've been 50,000...maybe
it wasn't 50,000, 5000 maybe...I don't know maybe three -- 3000 -- they
all booed. Everybody just booed; and it was the whole auditorium of
people, I said, Russia's gonna come down and attack the Middle East. And
it was Oooh! They couldn't hear that. They didn't believe it.
And a month
later Russia moved her troops into, I think, Afghanistan. And the whole
situation changed, you know. I'm not saying this to tell you they were
wrong and I was right, or anything like that. These things that it mentions
in the Bible I'm gonna pay mightly close attention to....ben a lot of
previews of what Anti-Christ could be like. You had a preview: you got
Adolf Hitler. Well, a preview?
Anyway, the Anti-Christ is gonna be a
little different from that. But then he's gonna bring a little panic to
the world. But he will eventually be defeated too. But you're still
gonna have to be aware of these things.
You need something strong to
hang onto. It was manifested inthe flesh!
Testified in the Spirit!
Received by angels!
Preached out in the world!
from "Saved! The Gospel Speeces of Bob Dylan, Hanuman Books, Madras & New York, 1990.
Gary Dispoto