The
U.S. government wrote a helpful blog post on Monday titled, "Scary Rumors
About the World Ending in 2012 Are Just Rumors." The post on USA.gov says
NASA scientists have received thousands of letters from people convinced that
the world will end on Dec. 21, based on a misunderstanding of the ancient Mayan
calendar that's been promulgated in doomsday message boards online. Some people
think a giant comet will strike Earth that day, others that we are about to
collide with another planet. A NASA scientist said he's received several
letters from young people contemplating suicide because they believe the
apocalypse is coming. "The world will not end on December 21, 2012, or any
day in 2012," the post says.
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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