From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:21:55 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article <10c33dg$h5u$1@panix2.panix.com>,   
   >Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >>I did read Revelation.     
   >   
   >What I'm surprised doesn't get more mention is the City of   
   >God descending from Heaven. Talk about your megastructures,   
   >it is described as a cube the size of Alaska.   
      
   IIRC, we had a discussion on this a couple of years ago. And, yes,   
   "Borg cube" figured in it.   
      
   Complete with (again, IIRC) an image of a  LEGO version.   
      
   >One wonders about gravitational effects.   
      
   One of the many books my grandfather collected and read on Revelation   
   asserted that this means that Heaven and Earth are now one and the   
   same. Whatever /that/ was supposed to mean.   
      
   Figuring Revelation out is one thing. Figuring the various assertions   
   about what it means out is quite another.   
      
   The best explanation is that the book is useful to churches that are   
   being persecuted. Note that I mean /persecuted/ -- suppressed,   
   imprisoned, etc -- not just throwing a hissy-fit because they aren't   
   running things or their obnoxious (and so antichristlike) behavior   
   produces a negative response.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)