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[quote:K.Kool:MV8yMTIyOTM1XzM1ODI3MTUzX0Q1MUMyQTFE] I realize most of you think Revelation (the Apocalypse) is speaking about events still to come, but could you suspend this belief for a while, just long enough to consider that the events described were actually much closer to the time of writing? The interpretations from this point of view make much more sense - "it is evident that the Seer was influenced by the prophecies of Daniel more than by any other book. Daniel was written with the object of comforting the Jews under the cruel persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes. The Seer in the Apocalypse had a similar purpose. The Christians were fiercely persecuted in the reign of Domitian. The danger of apostasy was great. False prophets went about, trying to seduce the people to conform to the heathen practices and to take part in the Caesar-worship. The Seer urges his Christians to remain true to their faith and to bear their troubles with fortitude. He encourages them with the promise of an ample and speedy reward. He assures them that Christ's triumphant coming is at hand. Both in the beginning and at the end of his book the Seer is most emphatic in telling his people that the hour of victory is nigh. He begins, saying: "Blessed is he that . . . keepeth those things which are written in it; for the time is at hand" (1:3)." http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01594b.htm The danger in looking at world events and figures while expecting to see the visions appear, that John dreamed about all those hundreds of years ago on the island of Patmos, is that Christianity is being made superstitious, signs and visions believed over the simple truth - "It is an article of faith that Christ will return at the end of time to judge the living and the dead. But the time of His second advent is unknown. "But of that day and hour no one knoweth, no, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone" (Matthew 24:36)." The second coming of Jesus will be something unmistakable for anything else, not like any other supernatural phenomenon, the message for Jesus to people of our time is to practise faith and be his servant. "Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing." http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=MATTHEW%2024&version=KJV [/quote]
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Very interesting video.....that's all I'm going to say about that.
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