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Thought? Well...my main thought is that it's a coincidence. In much the same way you can see something that looks strikingly like the WTC buildings burning on the back of a $20 bill if it's folded properly, if you look hard enough at something you'll probably start to see what you want. And especially in a book as big as the bible...it's only a matter of time before letters and words line up. Besides...why would the prophecies predict things in the U.S. before anyone on that side of the world even knew this land was here? And which version of the bible would you read? The Jerusalem bible? The KJV? The NJV? Then you have to take into account that the bible wasn't written in english and that modern english didn't exist yet...so you're looking at a lot of translation...some of which isn't always right. Somehow I doubt god took our own ineptitude into mind. There's a jewish practice that revolves around this thinking, too (though I can't recall it's name). Since in hebrew characters represent numbers, people have gone through the torah and bible looking for coincidences and similarities to ways of thinking. Of course, they found them. It's a fun parlor trick, I suppose, but I don't think it means anything more than you want it to mean. In my case, that's not much. I'd put more stock in the ending of the Mayan/Sumarian calanders since they both happen to end in the same year even though they were made thousands of miles and thousands of years apart. Add that Einstein theorized some shit would go down during the harmonic convergance (or planetary alignment...whatever), which also happens to bein 2012...I'm thinking we might just be fucked.