[Genoa]

There’s plenty of predictive prophecy in God’s Word. Look at all of the Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah’s First Coming that were literally fulfilled in history. Call us fatuous, inane, and totally irrelevant if you must, but we have no reason to think that prophecies of the Second Coming are any less applicable to real-time events.

[fso301]

Read my other posts on this thread and you’ll understand where I’m coming from.

[RJR_fan]

Other than the final resurrection of the dead, which all SANE (orthodox, normal, creedal) Christians look forward to, I believe the Bible is a book of fulfilled prophecies. I take Rev. 1:1-3 very literally, for example. The only two "outstanding" things on the menu are (A) an ongoing process, described in Psalm 110 and in I Cor. 15:20-30, of the King ruling and subjugating His enemies one by one, and (B) one last big event -- the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting, amen.

Since the King is now ruling, we can face the future with confidence, joy, and faith that relies upon and rejoices in, the goodness and power of God, no matter what kinds of temporary setbacks arise.

It's strange, but for the last 1000+ years, the fortune tellers, who attempted to use God's Word as a tool of divination, always read it in such as way as to place themselves at the apex of history. After all, how would God dare do anything as important as the Second Coming, while leaving someone as crucial as ME out of His plans? You can see why this perspective hath its appeals to some element of our fallen humanity! Yet all of these prognosticators have had one thing in common -- they've been wrong, and eventually died.