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"Nostradamus" (an article from the Christian Research Newsletter,
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Volume 1: Number 3, 1988) by Elliot Miller and Craig Hawkins.
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The editor of the Christian Research Newsletter is Ron
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Rhodes.
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From the RESEARCH NOTES column:
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In recent weeks, a French seer has become a very common name
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in American households. This is primarily a result of an
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earthquake that he supposedly predicted to occur in California
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during the month of May. But what is the story behind the man who
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is sending Californians running for cover?
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Michel Nostradamus was a sixteenth century French astrologer
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and physician. His Centuries (an assortment of brief rhymed
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prophecies call quatrains), have been interpreted as predictions
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of the French Revolution, the Second World War, and many other
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events ranging over half a millennium. Nostradamus is perhaps the
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most respected occult prophet of all time.
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In Italy, Nostradamus reportedly predicted that Felix Paretti,
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a young swine herder who had become a monk, would one day be
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Pope. Two years after Nostradamus's death Paretti became Pope
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Sixtus V. Many other accurate predictions of events in his own
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era are attributed to Nostradamus.
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Nostradamus's more astonishing prophecies, however, are those
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that seem to foretell major European events that occurred 200-400
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years after his death. It must be admitted that some of his
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predictions do seem to fit certain events well, such as the
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flight of Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette from Paris,
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their capture in Varennes, and their ultimate execution. However,
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most of his predictions are vague and open-ended. As it is
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observed in _Man, Myth and Magic - An Illustrated Encyclopedia of
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the Supernatural:_ "Generation after generation of Nostradamus
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enthusiasts have supposed that the quatrains, no mater how
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obscure their contents, must be regarded as genuine prophetic
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messages. It is conceivable, however, that Nostradamus composed
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them with tongue in cheek, and that he was well aware that there
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is an enduring market for prophecies and particularly for veiled
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ones." (Vol.15, p.2017).
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The prediction of a giant earthquake to occur in California
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actually gets its base from a film about Nostradamus. In the
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Orson Welles narrated film "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow," the
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details about the prediction are made.
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Nostradamus bases his predictions on the alignment of planets
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and constellations particularly Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter,
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Mercury in Taurus, Venus, Cancer, and Virgo. Unfortunately for
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his prognostitions, the planets are not lined up according to how
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they were predicted to be.
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The possibility of an earthquake occurring in California
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around the time of Nostradamus's prediction is likely. The
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primary reason though is that California is earthquake country.
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Particularly over the past several months, earthquakes have been
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happening on a regular basis.
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Nostradamus was a Roman Catholic of Jewish descent, but it is
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clear that he did not foretell events through the biblical gift
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of prophecy (I Cor. 12:10). He relied heavily upon horoscopes and
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other occult methods of divination and so we must say if any
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supernatural power was responsible for his accuracy, that power
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was not of God (Deut. 18:9-14).
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The Bible does not teach that Satan has a full knowledge of
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the future. However, it is conceivable that through his superior
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intelligence he could accurately predict certain events, or, for
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that matter, exert his power over man to cause previously
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predicted events to come to pass. This could serve Satan's
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purposes by leading some people to embrace occultism because it
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_appears_ to really "work."
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End of document, CRN0002A.TXT (original CRI file name),
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"Nostradamus"
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release A, March 9, 1993
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R. Poll, CRI
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(A special note of thanks to Bob and Pat Hunter for their help in
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the preparation of this ASCII file for BBS circulation.)
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