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Prophecy Questions Futurists Cannot Really Answer
Prophecy Questions for Christians ^ | January 20, 2014 | Charles S. Meek

Posted on 01/20/2014 7:30:29 PM PST by grumpa

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Mr. Meek is also the editor and chief writer of one of the oldest apologetics sites on the Internet: www.faithfacts.org.
1 posted on 01/20/2014 7:30:29 PM PST by grumpa
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Lots of questions like history channel trying to prove bigfoot and UFOs.


2 posted on 01/20/2014 7:35:53 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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The problem with preterism is that so many events clearly described in Revelation just did not happen in 70 AD.


3 posted on 01/20/2014 7:38:53 PM PST by SkyPilot
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There is astounding disagreement among Christians on Bible prophecy. About a dozen years ago I decided that I could no longer blindly listen to my pastoral staff on this subject, and I became determined to get to the bottom of this subject. There were too many questions I had that the church just could not answer adequately. I became a preterist. Preterism is the view that most if not all prophetic events happened with the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. It appears to be the fastest growing view of eschatology as other systems are being discredited. I see a dramatic upheaval coming in the church on eschatology.
WHEATON — A broad coalition of evangelical theologians has cracked the code of the Book of Revelation, solving its mysteries, metaphors and messages in what is being called a watershed moment in Christian history.

"To get this kind of across-the-board agreement is phenomenal," said a spokesman. "Moments like this come along once in a millenium."

The key to understanding the book's puzzling enigmas and fundamental message was "hidden in plain sight," say the scholars. The book's purpose and message can be summed up for lay readers as

(Excerpt - read more at Evangelical scholars solve Book of Revelation's mysteries


4 posted on 01/20/2014 7:44:58 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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I think he’d better just stay a Preterist. He is obviously clueless as to what scripture prophesy really says. I sure hope he doesn’t try to teach that crap to anyone who truly has studied prophesies.


5 posted on 01/20/2014 7:48:32 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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So, when Meek can exegete Zechariah 8: 20-23, Luke 21:24, Ezekiel 37, Romans 11, I’m all ears. Nothing he spews makes sense in light of plain reading of the Word.


6 posted on 01/20/2014 7:53:00 PM PST by fahraint (git theah fuhstest with the mostest)
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Links appear to lead to a ( humorous) dead end?


7 posted on 01/20/2014 7:53:54 PM PST by faithhopecharity (C)
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I became a preterist.

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Yeah. That’s the ticket. Localize the Second Coming.... the same way that the Libs try to localize the worldwide flood of Noah’s day.

Okay, so R.C. Sproule is also a preterist. He is as wrong as this guy (about eschatology, though he is outstanding in virtually every other area of theology).

I still love my preterist brethren, however! Eschatology divides believers into several different camps, due to our imperfect understanding of he prophetic Scriptures.

The biggest separator, however, is this: Is the LORD going to give the Jews a literal (earthly-based) Millennial Kingdom with Christ ruling from Jerusalem — or not?

If not, then the Amils, preterists, and/or Post-Mils are probably on the right track.

I tend to disagree with them on this point, however, and anticipate a literal (post-Rapture/pre-Second Coming) Jerusalem-centered Millennium! So call me a wooden-headed literalist. (I have been called worse!)


8 posted on 01/20/2014 7:54:51 PM PST by man_in_tx (Blowback (Faithfully farting twowards Mecca five times daily).)
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correction: I should rather say that I believe the Millennium will be ushered in by the LORD at His Second Coming (but after the Rapture and after the Tribulation).

Apologies... open to comments, criticisms.


9 posted on 01/20/2014 8:01:21 PM PST by man_in_tx (Blowback (Faithfully farting twowards Mecca five times daily).)
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Bttt.


10 posted on 01/20/2014 8:02:05 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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You may find some answers to your questions in the following teachings. Jump to the 1 hour mark of each.

Shabbat Night Live with Michael Rood: November 1, 2013

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11 posted on 01/20/2014 8:08:02 PM PST by Errant (Surround yourself with intelligent and industrious people who help and support each other.)
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Eschatology is often worthless, a vanity, and a distraction. Beyond the idea that a Christian ought to live as if Christ is coming in the next hour, every hour of their lives, none of the eschatalogical doctrines affect my Christian testimony or walk.


12 posted on 01/20/2014 8:22:40 PM PST by FateAmenableToChange
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I laugh in this guys face. Hopefully with enough spittle to ruin his day. I wonder how many people he’s deflated and caused to leave the faith?


13 posted on 01/20/2014 8:23:52 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Up yours NSA !)
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So many straw men, so little time!


14 posted on 01/20/2014 8:25:45 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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The problem with preterism is that so many events clearly described in Revelation just did not happen in 70 AD.

I thought the preterism book was closed in 1948, and then nailed shut in 1967.

15 posted on 01/20/2014 9:38:23 PM PST by D Rider (Don't give sharp objects to small children)
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Exactly! I could probably argue or show his misguidedness in every instance he sites, but who has the time to waste in proving him wrong when I already know he is wrong.


16 posted on 01/20/2014 10:13:27 PM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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These questions are all easily answered with scripture but when one has made up his/her mind, no answer is suitable...What is far, far tougher (impossible) is for Preterists to answer the questions posed to them...

What is interesting is that there are millions upon millions of Christians who believe scripture HAS answered these questions but the author acts as tho they have never been answered by anyone...Apparently the author just doesn't care for the biblical answers given...

17 posted on 01/20/2014 10:41:48 PM PST by Iscool
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Apologies... open to comments, criticisms.

None from me...

18 posted on 01/20/2014 10:43:53 PM PST by Iscool
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AMEN! The truth summed up in one sentence! Have said this for years......


19 posted on 01/20/2014 11:12:43 PM PST by Arlis
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A lot of prophecy cannot be determined until after it has passed and looking back it can be recognized.

Looking forward, it often doesn’t make much sense.

It happened with Jesus when He came.


20 posted on 01/21/2014 12:43:10 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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