{"id":888,"date":"2013-09-09T14:50:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=13902"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:50:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:50:38","slug":"crisis-in-syria-a-sign-of-the-end-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2013\/09\/crisis-in-syria-a-sign-of-the-end-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in Syria, A Sign of the End Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The Biblical book of Isaiah has been in the news, thanks to a verse that\u2019s leading some evangelical Christians to believe that the escalating violence in Syria is a sign of the end times. Syria and its cities are mentioned in the Bible several times, most notably the city of Damascus, where the apostle Paul converted to Christianity. Isaiah 17:1 reads, \u201cDamascus will no longer be a city, but will\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/2013\/09\/crisis-in-syria-a-sign-of-the-end-times\/\" class=\"more decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=V2k6yWzYmrA:pFgMWvIOcZo:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=V2k6yWzYmrA:pFgMWvIOcZo:qj6IDK7rITs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute\/~4\/V2k6yWzYmrA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biblical book of Isaiah has been in the news, thanks to a verse that&#8217;s leading some evangelical Christians to believe that the escalating violence in Syria is a sign of the end times. 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