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Maranatha!
Amazing how such a book from centuries ago still resonates today.
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Since going through Revelation( 3X this month) I have a better understanding of the Bible and how the book of Revelation is intertwined with numerous books in the new and Old Testament. I especially enjoy chapter 12 and the end of chapter 6!!
Just FYI for those who are unfamiliar with the above Dispensationalist (earthly millennium, rapture-at-any-moment) interpretation of Scripture regarding the End Times presented here: the majority of Christians today (and who have ever lived, for that matter) do not ascribe to it. It was not developed until the early 19th century. It originated in England but is mostly held by many (not all) American evangelicals.
I'm not saying there is no truth in it or that nobody should consider it, only that it is important to know that this is not the only interpretation or position. As the majority of Christians in the world are either Catholic, Orthodox and other Eastern Churches who do not ascribe to modern Dispensationalism vastly outnumber the American influenced Evangelical Protestants and Protestant Fundamentalists that are the ones who primarily embrace modern Dispensationalism, it is important to point out that it doesn't represent the views of most Christians.
Not here to argue or debate, just here to clear the air. God bless.
I have been warning about the Ai-Christ.
but no one today considers the Revelations in that context, but if you do it makes a lot more sense.
I enabled the internet framework many years ago, and regret it, at the same time one of my friends wrote a 3d engine that is still being used today, but what was revolutionary then can run on a lawnmower today.
Recently I have talked with the leaders in Ai tech, (it is not AI or AGI today but 20 or 30 years from now I believe it will be.)
Reads like a Stephen King novel.
My favorite Book.
Seems to me revelation at Sinai to millions— who experienced it and believed it (they knew it, seeing is believing,)— is better proof.
--from Gospel Boogie--Leroy Abernathy & the Homeland Harmony Quartet (1947)
Nope. Just take it at face value unless face value makes no sense.
No reason to think the mark of the beast isn’t a literal, physical mark as clearly and plainly described.
And considering technology today, it’s more than feasible that it will happen. It’s just a matter of when.
Interesting, is it not, that John could have predicted something like this 2,000 years ago when there was no chance for enforcement of such a decree at that time. But there is now.
Amen.
It’s extremely difficult to understand (maybe impossible) without the full context of the preceding 65 books of the bible.
By itself, it could mean anything... in full context it means everything... by design.
The first 65 books refer to the last one.
Finished my first reading of El Apocalypsis, the Spanish translation, last night. That’s my dessert for my first completed reading of the NT in this new (to me) language.
I’ve probably read this “index” to the rest of the Bible 20 times in Greek. The original language has a pounding rhythm to it that loses something in translation.
I had a lot of fun blogging my way through the Turkish translation, since that nation is on my heart, and the 7 churches were all in that part of the globe.
Bottom line: Get the time frame right, and the whole New Testament pops into vivid focus and makes sense. Get the time frame wrong, and you might well spiral into immediate irrelevance, and a much lower quality of life.
The state-of-the-art best eschatology, postmillennialism, usually includes some form of preterism. Most of the prophecies in the Olivet Discourse, and John’s more detailed retelling of that discourse in prophetic (visual, right-brain) imagery, refers to the Jewish War, which lasted 7 years, started on schedule 40 years after Jesus pronounced God’s pending judgment upon “this generation,” and kicked the feet out from under the Kingdom of God’s two chief enemies — Rome, and apostate Israel.
Get the time frame right, and you can even explain Apocalypse to Turkish Muslims in a way that makes sense.
https://al-ve-oku.blogspot.com/2008/12/revelations-should-reveal.html
Rev. 1:1 Jesus says, “These things will happen shortly.” According to some here, if I take that literally, then I am some kind of apostate.
Despite all the controversy and differences of understanding on the book of Revelation, most will agree on one thing, strangely, that “these things will happen shortly” does not mean these things will happen shortly. It means these things will happen over the next few thousand years.
The Holy Spirit will splain it to you. (IF you know Him)
So only 144,000 is literally true?
The key to unlock Revelation is to look at what John was told to write. The things which were and are, are covered in the first 3 chapters, the things which shall be start at chapter 4 verses 1 (which sounds like a description of the Rapture and to back that up, note the church is not mentioned again).