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Arming for Armageddon: Militant Joel's Army Followers Seek Theocracy

Submitted by gbmaster on Tue, 2011-04-05 18:07
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Casey Sanchez
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Intelligence Report, Fall 2008, Issue Number: 131

"Joel's Army followers, many of them teenagers and young adults who believe they're members of the final generation to come of age before the end of the world, are breaking away in droves from mainline Pentecostal churches. Numbering in the tens of thousands, they base their beliefs on an esoteric reading of the second chapter of the Old Testament Book of Joel, in which an avenging swarm of locusts attacks Israel. In their view, the locusts are a metaphor for Joel's Army.

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