Holy Land's 'oldest' Christian church found in jail

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10 Nov 2005, 1:11 am

Holy Land's 'oldest' Christian church found in jail
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Stephen Farrell, Armageddon
November 08, 2005

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10 Nov 2005, 4:21 am

aspergian_mutant wrote:

Holy Land's 'oldest' Christian church found in jail
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/co ... 17,00.html
Stephen Farrell, Armageddon

The find was at the most incongruous of sites -- inside a high-security Israeli prison holding Hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners near the biblical site of Armageddon, now Megiddo.

Its watchtowers lie beneath the hill where the Book of Revelation prophesies the final battle between good and evil.

"Armageddon" is a bad transliteration of "Har Meggido" (Mount Meggido), and there was already a battle there....

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10 Nov 2005, 7:54 pm

It doesn't surprise me. In the early church, all those who believed everything about Jesus were persecuted and many were thrown in jail. They had to form underground churches in the catacombs in order to worship the way they wanted to. That is, until Constatine came around...

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