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Part 1:
At some time in the late 1990s a friend of mine, John Bewick, sent my wife and I a copy of a Mr. Reg Priestley's guide to The Revelation of St. John the Divine. I had taken prophecy quite seriously in my youth, at least from the age of about sixteen, in 1960, until perhaps the early 1970s partly because in those years in the Baha’i community I had joined there was a special interest in the subject of prophecy.
After about a dozen years of interest and study I found that I had run into three groups of people in the wider world insofar as prophecy was concerned. One group had absolutely no interest in the subject, and this was by far the largest group. A second group had a great deal of interest. Their views were as fixed as the rock of Gibraltar and such a thing as dialogue with them was fruitless. A third group expressed a mild interest and this group was so small that it seemed to be pointless to continue investing time in a subject for which there was little 'payoff' so to speak.
After nearly thirty years of general lack of pursuit of this field, 1970 to 2000, an interest began to slowly reawaken. By then I had retired from my professional work as a teacher. The interest, though, was not a bright spark of enthusiasm. Rather it was a slow kindling based on this work of Mr. Priestley, on the work of several Baha’is who had by the 1990s begun to write extensively on the subject and on several books on prophecy which had been on my book shelves. There was, too, the introduction into my life, slowly but surely, of a few people with an interest in the subject who were keen to discuss the subject and I with them, but only on occasion since I had developed a wide-ranging interest in much else, academic and popular. The ones I did discuss prophecy with were all on the internet.
Part 2:
I began to collect notes as the millennium turned its corner. The notes were for the most part ones off the internet. I opened a file in 2001 as a gathering place for these notes. Time would tell how much time and interest I would invest in this subject which I began to examine over fifty years ago. After nine years, 2001-2010, this file is filled to overflowing, but I do not take a serious interest in the subject.-Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 11 December 2010.
There is much information one rarely
or never uses in life: prophecy and a
particular form: Biblical prophecy is
in such a category. I used to know a
great deal about this subject when I
was young and all those old ladies &
men filled the spaces of the group of
Baha’is in that little town by the lake
where I was a youth so very long ago.
Daniel and the Book of Revelation verse
by verse and line by line as well as that
book Thief-in-the-Night filled my brain
with dates, with time-of-the-end stuff, &
eschatology, millennialism, but I’ve rarely
used it in the last half-century except with
Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses and those
occasional evangelic Christians who were
in my path in the years of young, middle
and late adulthood. And so now all these
pages lie dormant on my book shelves to be
brought out rarely when someone talks to me
about the Return of Christ, the Messiah, 1844
and all that jazz, and then returned to its place
until the next and rare time when the subject
comes into my life in these evening years!!!
Ron Price
11 December 2010
At some time in the late 1990s a friend of mine, John Bewick, sent my wife and I a copy of a Mr. Reg Priestley's guide to The Revelation of St. John the Divine. I had taken prophecy quite seriously in my youth, at least from the age of about sixteen, in 1960, until perhaps the early 1970s partly because in those years in the Baha’i community I had joined there was a special interest in the subject of prophecy.
After about a dozen years of interest and study I found that I had run into three groups of people in the wider world insofar as prophecy was concerned. One group had absolutely no interest in the subject, and this was by far the largest group. A second group had a great deal of interest. Their views were as fixed as the rock of Gibraltar and such a thing as dialogue with them was fruitless. A third group expressed a mild interest and this group was so small that it seemed to be pointless to continue investing time in a subject for which there was little 'payoff' so to speak.
After nearly thirty years of general lack of pursuit of this field, 1970 to 2000, an interest began to slowly reawaken. By then I had retired from my professional work as a teacher. The interest, though, was not a bright spark of enthusiasm. Rather it was a slow kindling based on this work of Mr. Priestley, on the work of several Baha’is who had by the 1990s begun to write extensively on the subject and on several books on prophecy which had been on my book shelves. There was, too, the introduction into my life, slowly but surely, of a few people with an interest in the subject who were keen to discuss the subject and I with them, but only on occasion since I had developed a wide-ranging interest in much else, academic and popular. The ones I did discuss prophecy with were all on the internet.
Part 2:
I began to collect notes as the millennium turned its corner. The notes were for the most part ones off the internet. I opened a file in 2001 as a gathering place for these notes. Time would tell how much time and interest I would invest in this subject which I began to examine over fifty years ago. After nine years, 2001-2010, this file is filled to overflowing, but I do not take a serious interest in the subject.-Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 11 December 2010.
There is much information one rarely
or never uses in life: prophecy and a
particular form: Biblical prophecy is
in such a category. I used to know a
great deal about this subject when I
was young and all those old ladies &
men filled the spaces of the group of
Baha’is in that little town by the lake
where I was a youth so very long ago.
Daniel and the Book of Revelation verse
by verse and line by line as well as that
book Thief-in-the-Night filled my brain
with dates, with time-of-the-end stuff, &
eschatology, millennialism, but I’ve rarely
used it in the last half-century except with
Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses and those
occasional evangelic Christians who were
in my path in the years of young, middle
and late adulthood. And so now all these
pages lie dormant on my book shelves to be
brought out rarely when someone talks to me
about the Return of Christ, the Messiah, 1844
and all that jazz, and then returned to its place
until the next and rare time when the subject
comes into my life in these evening years!!!
Ron Price
11 December 2010
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