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maybe some people can manage it...but from what i have seen the 'old testament first' approach to revelation has been the source of just about every major eschatological error...or what i consider to be errors anyway...
i see this approach as being the direct cause of the errors of futurism...including millennialism and dispensationalism...as well as the errors of preterism and the 'day year principle' innovation that some teachers have attempted to introduce into historicism...
the main difficulties that i notice in studying old testament prophecy are people failing to recognize when a prophecy has already been fulfilled...and also the fact that some old testament prophecies were literally revoked by God...
with those pitfalls in mind...i think a lot of old testament prophecy is more difficult to figure out than revelation!
so i still say start with the obvious stuff...like when jesus and paul taught plainly on the end time...use that to lay out a basic framework...then fit everything in revelation into the framework...
i see this approach as being the direct cause of the errors of futurism...including millennialism and dispensationalism...as well as the errors of preterism and the 'day year principle' innovation that some teachers have attempted to introduce into historicism...
the main difficulties that i notice in studying old testament prophecy are people failing to recognize when a prophecy has already been fulfilled...and also the fact that some old testament prophecies were literally revoked by God...
with those pitfalls in mind...i think a lot of old testament prophecy is more difficult to figure out than revelation!
so i still say start with the obvious stuff...like when jesus and paul taught plainly on the end time...use that to lay out a basic framework...then fit everything in revelation into the framework...