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  "thread": {
    "id": 1343,
    "subject": "Wedding Attack by Inhumi",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2001-04-11T13:43:44+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-11T13:43:44+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0582@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan4 at home.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-11T13:43:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Wedding Attack by Inhumi",
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          "text": "Why a battle at a wedding? Here's some grist for the mill, offered only as \na possibility from Revelation 19 (my translation), where the marriage \nsupper is also a battle involving birds of the air. Seem to be some \nparallels. -- Patera Nutria\n\n9And he says to me, \"Write:\nBlessed are those who to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb are called.\"\nAnd he says to me:\n\"These are true words of God.\"\n\n10And I fell prostate at his feet to worship him.\nAnd he says to me, \"See that you do not do that!\nA fellow-servant of yours I am, and of your brethren who hold the testimony \nof Jesus.\nTo God give worship!\nFor the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.\"\n\n11And I saw heaven opened.\nAnd behold, a white horse\nAnd He who sat upon it called Faithful and True,\nAnd in righteousness He judges and wages war,\n12And His eyes like a flame of fire,\nAnd upon His head many diadems.\nHaving a name written that no one knows except Himself.\n13And clothed with a garment sprinkled (or dipped) in blood.\nAnd His name is called The Word of God.\n14And the armies in heaven were following Him on white horses,\nclothed in fine linen, white, clean.\n\n15And from His mouth comes a sharp sword,\nso that with it He may smite the nations,\nAnd He will shepherd them with a rod of iron,\nAnd He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath-wine of God the Almighty.\n16And He has on His garment and on His thigh a name written:\n\"King of kings and Lord of lords.\"\n\n17And I saw an angel standing in the sun.\nAnd he cried out with a loud voice,\nSaying to all the birds that fly in midheaven:\n\"Come, be assembled for the Great Supper of God,\n18In order that you may eat\nflesh-hunks of kings,\nand flesh-hunks of chiliarchs,\nand flesh-hunks of mighty men,\nand flesh-hunks of horses\nand of those sitting on them,\nand flesh-hunks of all sorts:\nfreemen\nand slaves\nand small\nand great.\"\n\n19And I saw the beast\nand the kings of the land\nand their armies,\nAssembled to make war against Him who sat upon the horse\nand against His army.\n\n20And the beast was seized,\nAnd with him the false prophet\nwho performed the signs before him,\nby which he deceived\nthose who received the mark of the beast\nand those who worshipped his image.\nThese two were thrown alive into the lake of fire,\nWhich burns with brimstone.\n21And the rest were killed with the sword that came from the mouth\nof Him who sat upon the horse,\nAnd all the birds were filled with their flesh-hunks.\u001a\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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