What God stated NEVER:
"Here is my holy word, interpret it in whichever manner suits your fancy, it is all good, my credibility does not matter."
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What God stated NEVER:
"Here is my holy word, interpret it in whichever manner suits your fancy, it is all good, my credibility does not matter."
Actually has not been.
Jesus was speaking to an audience.. it was in their immediate future.
Jesus does not lie to the people to whom He was speaking.
Just like Paul was not lying to the people in Rome to whom He wrote His letter.
The correct lens is the primary audience first.
God is not moral monster who keeps people partially blinded for 2000+ years, generation upon generation.
He did do it for a time during a time of transition, for his purposes, as one age ended and the next came in.
In essence you are inline with Calvinism that is what I read.
True, the correct quote is from
2 Timothy 3:16-17. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Matthew 24 fits seemlessly into Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians in teaching, correcting and training righteousness based on the current events of the last 112 years.
Well, some people are "watching" in these LATTER DAYS, and some aren't.I did listen to Jesus Christ and used Matthew 24:4-14 to identify over 70 historical events from 1914 to the present that fit this pattern. The odds that this is a coincidence is greater than 1 in a quintillion.
two_threads_through_the_same_cloth.pdf
drive.google.com
Here is the introduction:
(anonymous)
Most people reading the headlines today feel one of two things: dread or numbness. The wars, thefamines, the collapse of trusted information, the sense that institutions no longer serve the people theyclaim to represent — it either generates anxiety or we find ways to stop paying attention.
Jesus predicted this moment. Not vaguely, not in the way that any pessimist might predict hard times.He described a specific pattern — deception, followed by war, followed by famine and pestilence —and he called it "the beginning of sorrows," using the Greek word for birth pangs. Not catastrophewithout purpose. Not decline without destination. Labor. Something is being born.
This document follows that pattern through six waves of modern history, from the World Wars of 1914to the converging crises of today. The first half traces what the sorrows have been building on the darkside of history — the infrastructure of global control that Revelation calls the Beast system, assembledpiece by piece through a century of crisis. That analysis is sobering, because the architecture is furtheralong than most people realize.
But there is a second thread running through the same history, and that is the thread this introductionwants you to notice before you begin reading.
The same World War that killed twenty million people placed a New Testament in the hands of millionsof soldiers and launched the Gideons into an international ministry that has now distributed 2.6 billionpieces of Scripture across every nation on earth. The same Iron Curtain that sealed off the Soviet blocfrom missionary access drove the church underground — where it grew from one million to onehundred million believers in China alone, precisely during the decades of maximum persecution. Thesame internet built as a military command-and-control network became the platform for YouVersion,the most widely distributed Bible in history. The same satellite infrastructure that enables globalsurveillance enables SAT-7 broadcasting the gospel in Arabic into households across the closedMuslim world.
The beast-system's delivery network and the gospel's delivery network are the same network. That isnot a coincidence. It is a pattern that four of Paul's letters — Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, andColossians — equip us to read.
Galatians names the deception in every wave. Ephesians explains the warfare behind the headlines.Philippians insists, from inside a Roman prison, that the things that happen to the church fall out for thefurtherance of the gospel. And Colossians tells us what is being born through all of it: Christ himself,formed in human beings drawn from every tongue and tribe on earth.
(anonymous)
Matthew 24:14 gives the completion condition: "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all theworld for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." What follows is a map of how that ishappening — through the very history that seems designed to prevent it.
Matthew 24:4-8 — "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Formany shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of warsand rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end isnot yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall befamines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."
Deception → War → Famine/Pestilence → Sifting → Something is Birthed
Then the consequences, be they tragic or joyous.....
Num 24:14
And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
Deu 4:30
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
Deu 4:31
(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God, he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Dan 2:28
But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
Dan 10:14
Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
Eze 38:16
And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
Eze 38:8
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Hos 3:5
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
I did listen to Jesus Christ and used Matthew 24:4-14 to identify over 70 historical events from 1914 to the present that fit this pattern. The odds that this is a coincidence is greater than 1 in a quintillion.
two_threads_through_the_same_cloth.pdf
Here is the introduction:
(anonymous)
Most people reading the headlines today feel one of two things: dread or numbness. The wars, thefamines, the collapse of trusted information, the sense that institutions no longer serve the people theyclaim to represent — it either generates anxiety or we find ways to stop paying attention.
Jesus predicted this moment. Not vaguely, not in the way that any pessimist might predict hard times.He described a specific pattern — deception, followed by war, followed by famine and pestilence —and he called it "the beginning of sorrows," using the Greek word for birth pangs. Not catastrophewithout purpose. Not decline without destination. Labor. Something is being born.
This document follows that pattern through six waves of modern history, from the World Wars of 1914to the converging crises of today. The first half traces what the sorrows have been building on the darkside of history — the infrastructure of global control that Revelation calls the Beast system, assembledpiece by piece through a century of crisis. That analysis is sobering, because the architecture is furtheralong than most people realize.
But there is a second thread running through the same history, and that is the thread this introductionwants you to notice before you begin reading.
The same World War that killed twenty million people placed a New Testament in the hands of millionsof soldiers and launched the Gideons into an international ministry that has now distributed 2.6 billionpieces of Scripture across every nation on earth. The same Iron Curtain that sealed off the Soviet blocfrom missionary access drove the church underground — where it grew from one million to onehundred million believers in China alone, precisely during the decades of maximum persecution. Thesame internet built as a military command-and-control network became the platform for YouVersion,the most widely distributed Bible in history. The same satellite infrastructure that enables globalsurveillance enables SAT-7 broadcasting the gospel in Arabic into households across the closedMuslim world.
The beast-system's delivery network and the gospel's delivery network are the same network. That isnot a coincidence. It is a pattern that four of Paul's letters — Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, andColossians — equip us to read.
Galatians names the deception in every wave. Ephesians explains the warfare behind the headlines.Philippians insists, from inside a Roman prison, that the things that happen to the church fall out for thefurtherance of the gospel. And Colossians tells us what is being born through all of it: Christ himself,formed in human beings drawn from every tongue and tribe on earth.
(anonymous)
Matthew 24:14 gives the completion condition: "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all theworld for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." What follows is a map of how that ishappening — through the very history that seems designed to prevent it.
Matthew 24:4-8 — "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Formany shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of warsand rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end isnot yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall befamines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."
Deception → War → Famine/Pestilence → Sifting → Something is Birthed
One age ended and the NEW was ushered in, that is the focal point of the eschatology in scripture.
It happened in the first century. It was momentous!
And that has nothing to do with what I shared. I am simply showing that the pattern at work in the first century is still at work today.
I suppose with the Ministry of Paul and others that the gospel was going out into the whole known world. But in the last 112 years we have seen 2.6 billion bibles distributed worldwide with the bible translated into thousands of languages and available free on the internet to anyone with access to the internet. Surely that is a greater fulfillment of this gospel being preached in the entire earth than what we saw in the first century.
Likewise with the Beast system rising out of the sea, an empire that is clay mingled with iron and that is unlike any empire in previous human history.
I am simply pointing out that this pattern works throughout all of the age of grace, I focus on the last 112 years since people are more familiar with that history and because the amount of events referenced is over 70 events.
Also this puts current events into perspective with regards to the gospel being preached in the entire earth and the rise of the Beast out of the Sea.
"Likewise with the Beast system rising out of the sea, an empire that is clay mingled with iron and that is unlike any empire in previous human history."
Gotta be right now. Only today do all of the boxes get the checkmark.
But then again, if you are not watching, you would not care to begin with, nor would you know any better either.
The fulfillment that God prophesied, where He closed the age of the Mosaic Law happened in the first century just as He described it would.
And that theory collapses when you see that the pattern Jesus gave in Matthew 24 is working even today.
I did listen to Jesus Christ and used Matthew 24:4-14 to identify over 70 historical events from 1914 to the present that fit this pattern. The odds that this is a coincidence is greater than 1 in a quintillion.
two_threads_through_the_same_cloth.pdf
These events from your document were unveiled in the 1st four seals that Christ opened when he received the kingdom from the father, and they have persisted throughout nearly 2 millennia. They are not peculiar to the 20th century. So what Christ told his disciples pertained to their time and what Revelation says to us pertains to our time, ie the age of the nations.
"Jesus predicted this moment. Not vaguely, not in the way that any pessimist might predict hard times.
He described a specific pattern — deception, followed by war, followed by famine and pestilence —
and he called it "the beginning of sorrows," using the Greek word for birth pangs. Not catastrophe
without purpose. Not decline without destination. Labor. Something is being born."
1st seal - deception
2nd seal - war to remove peace from the earth
3rd seal - economic collapse
4th seal - death by hunger, violence, plague and wild beasts
Btw.... throughout the Book of Revelation, the sea beast (foreign to the land beast) is Roman Empire, the historical kingdom existing over time, ruled by a series of emperors.
And how was the ancient Roman empire clay mingled with iron and unlike any empire before it?
I personally think the sea beast represents the sum total of all kingdoms of the world that have stood in opposition to God's kingdom.
It is not working today, because mere men cannot do what God knew would happen and what has already done.
As long as you are not a dispensationalist!!
The blender eschatology: Throw OT and NT in the blender and set on high
Needs to be repeated.
It requires the Calvinist principle of "particular individual regeneration before belief" something @cv5 used to deny vehemently!!
"particular national regeneration before belief"
