One of the iconic practices of most fundamentalist Christians is their obsession with Biblical prophecy. Prophecy has a rather mystical appeal and suggests that the future is not so unknowable after all. Most people spend their waking time either in the past, or in anger, or in speculation about how the future is concerned. This is due to the fact that he does not have the ability to live in the present day, when at the moment there is experience. Many Christians raised the knowledge of the future in the form of art and learned that it is also beneficial for the church to support members in accordance with fear, anxiety and perverted hope.
Bible prophecy and turning it into the center of life, reading the newspaper, as in the Bible, is a slippery slope and a very negative way to live life.
With sufficient study, one can learn that there are other explanations for what many consider so close and expensive, as predictions of things that will be “short” in the future. No one seems to think that “soon” for anyone really it is written that Revelation has now ended. Two Thousand Years! I do not like to think that “I will come back later” would mean!
We have learned to develop the bad habit of reading Paul’s predicates “in a short time” with the same generous deference to the fact that for Paul he had never been very good for him. We all know that the cycle Paul told us that the Church is ready to act as if you have no family and support of the Church, before his final realization that “well, I struggled with a good fight, it was fun while it continued, I was wrong ... I still win ... see I. "
On the other hand, we have areas of Scripture that have always been used as prophecies, which for me simply were not and were never intended for original authors.
Isaiah 7 is an example of this use of the Scriptures by OT authors NT. This prophetic history of vicious birth is considered one of the most dubious uses of Scripture, which Matthew told in his story about the birth of Jesus. Matthew had a habit of getting OT for everything that seemed suitable to him for the story he wanted to tell about Jesus. When we examine the context of OT, we must conclude that, at least in this original meaning, he should never have had the value Matthew assigned to him. In fact, in its original context, this has absolutely nothing to do with prophecy, but is a purely historical account of the events taking place at that time. This was never seen as a prophecy about the birth circumstances of either the Jewish Messiah or Jesus, until Matthew mined him, telling him about his perspective. Matthew took parts that fit his story, but left parts of the same story in Isaiah, which obviously did not make sense to his view of Jesus. If you just look at Matthew's stories about the birth of Jesus, it is easy to see that he combined them in the style of the day from the OT Scriptures, and not about the real events that he knew about. Here I do not want to explain all this, and I touched it in the last columns.
Another aspect of the “prophecy” that we missed is that much of what COG is used to increase their urgency with respect to membership is probably a prophecy written after the fact that makes it really non-prophecy.
Either the book of Daniel was written during recorded events, 585 BC, or, as many scholars now feel, it was written much later in 160 BC to encourage the Maccabeans to turn against Rome. . It was written AFTER all the events that prophesied, and therefore Daniel 11 is so specific. Then Daniel 12 becomes quite general, because after the rise of Rome, the authors really did not know the rest of the story after the specifics had ended 160.
The fact is that we all know that our life lived, and many still live their own lives, linking Daniel with Matthew 24, who was also written to address issues that have long passed since our time.
Again, this is not my goal to prove it to you, but I agreed that much of what we call a predicted story is in fact a “prophecy,” historized or consistent with later works, to match events like have occurred. If the detail of Daniel 11 is the thing that can be locked in stone for future performance, then we, like people, have no choice in the part that we have to play in the game, since it has already been indicated for us, obviously up the details. This is a philosophical problem for me about choice and free will.
Another problem with the prophecy is that they simply did not come true. We all cared for the fantastic story of the fall of Tire and how he would scrape, never to be the owner, etc. The problem is that this is not so, and the city of Tire is realized in NT once and to this day. Tyrants rejected Nebuchadnezzar and only succumbed to Alexander the Great, but still exist. This is a policeman pointing to the ancient ruins in the water, as evidence of prophecy, performed when a city called Tire is just above your shoulder. These facts are easy to find in a simple search on this topic.
The Prophecies of Ezekiel the Prophet on Tires and Egypt
Ezekiel made a prophecy that, at the time when he was writing, most likely will be fulfilled. The Prophet wrote in 587 BC. while Nebuchadnezzar was besieging Tire. With such a powerful army as Nebuchadnezzar, it is not surprising that Ezekiel predicted the fall of Tire on the king of Babylon.
Ezekiel 26: 7-14: For thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with horsemen and military soldiers of many soldiers, to Tire from the north. Sword, daughters on the mainland, he will put up a wall of fencing against you, he will trample all your streets, he will kill your people with a sword, and your mighty pillar will fall to the ground ... they will destroy your walls and destroy your pleasant houses ... I will make you are a bare stone ... you will never be restored because I said, ”says the Lord God.
The entire passage clearly predicted the sack and the complete destruction of Tyr by Nebuchadnezzar. However, a vivid description of the bag and the fall of Tire never happened. After a fence of thirteen years, until 573 BC, Nebuchadnezzar raised his sword on Tire and had to come to a compromise agreement. This Nebuchadnezzar did not destroy Tire. After 240 years, the Shire was destroyed by Alexander the Great. And besides, despite the Prophet, the city of Tire was indeed rebuilt.
When Nebuchadnezzar broke the gate, he discovered that the city was almost empty. Most of the people moved to the ship on the island about half a mile from the coast and fortified the city. The city was destroyed in 573, but the city of Tire on the island remained a powerful city for several hundred years.
The implication of this paragraph is that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed most of Tire. The main city of Tire was always on the island. A part of the city on the mainland is nothing but a suburb. In other words, Nebuchadnezzar could accomplish nothing more than capture a relatively small part of the city. In addition, from the passage in Ezekiel, it is clear that the complete destruction of Tire by Nebuchadnezzar was foretold. Ezekiel himself admitted that this prophecy was a mistake!
Ezekiel 29: 17-20: ... the Lord God came to me: “Son of man! Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, made his army difficult against Tire, and every head became bald, and every shoulder was naked, but neither he nor his army got anything from Tire to pay for the work he did against him .. . (Website: Refusal of Pascal)
The prophecies of Isaiah and Ezekiel against Egypt also did not correspond to the reality in their “fulfillment”.
“The Prophet Isaiah, for example, predicted the drying up of all the waters of Egypt and the destruction of all the land used for the plantation because of this drying up of the Nile River.
Isaiah 19: 5-7: And the waters of the Nile will be brought down, and the river will be dried and dried; and its channel will become a foul, and the branches of Egypt will shrink and dry, the reeds and aspirations will rot. There will be the bare places of the Nile, on the edge of the Nile, and everything that is sown by the Nile will dry out, we will drive it away and there will be no more.
This part of Isaiah, widely accepted by scholars, written around the eighth century BC, is about 2,750 years old. And for all these two or three quarters of a millennium, this prophecy has not yet been fulfilled! Moreover, it is clear from the context that the prophecy of Isaiah was for Egypt at that time. For it was with Egypt, that Isaiah and his people were offended, and prophecy was a warning to them. Obviously, this is a clear example of unfulfilled prophecy. "(Website: Refusal of Pascal)
I just point this out because many people will never support the idea that any prophecy about the Bible did not come true and will launch any amount and kind of apology to protect what was said to come from what really happened in history. . Some of you are doing it right now .. :)
The last Pope would be the last Pope, and now this Pope will be the last Pope, and I expect that the next Pope will also be the last Pope.
And now we are living again at a time when “prophecy” can manipulate real life. There are any number of people who just know how it all will be. Kings of all directions do this and that ... "Just read my article and see for yourself." Any world news event, as in the 60s or 70s or 80s, deserves attention. The last Pope would be the last Pope, and now this Pope will be the last Pope, and I expect that the next Pope will also be the last Pope. Meanwhile, we are getting older, but not wiser than experience. What we finish leads to the fact that every imaginary prophetic event becomes real, as some government leaders even seem to base their policies on "what the Bible says." It is very possible to make things happen because they expect them. The problem is that you get all the damage and nothing of salvation. In short, the end of the world scenario can be realized on the basis of false subconscious beliefs, and yet you will not end up with the Second Coming, the World Tomorrow or the Kingdom of God. You ended up squinting.
So why not LIVE your real life around the contested reality and the truth of the prophecy and the “inevitable” return of Jesus, which was inevitable for a couple of thousand years, why not?
I was there, I did it. I lived my real life before my real life, while it quietly slipped. In the past, I made life decisions based on my concern for the future. I also give a lot of precious life time, thinking about things that were wrong, and taught what was not. I thought they were, but when someone realizes that this is not the case, one would hope that it will stop. I did.
I was there, I did it. I lived my real life before my real life, while it quietly slipped. In the past, I made life decisions based on my concern for the future. I also give a lot of precious life time, thinking about things that were wrong, and taught what was not.
Based on the life of what may or may not happen in the future, and the types of the Bible have been doing this all the time and they have been mistaken, this is to miss the present. And whether it recognizes it or not, the present is all we really have to work with. Your children are really their age, and they are NOW, and no one is making a breakthrough, making memories with them now, because the future is a more serious consideration. They will NEVER be children again, and you and I will never be younger again. For Paul to live, perhaps, loss and death, but this theological rhetoric does not stand in front of this, Paul never, from what we can see, should never have enjoyed his children, friends or life now. He was in the inevitable future until he bit him in the ass. He may have had the power to have a wife, a great word there, “power,” but I’m sure he was basically not the one with whom the women were about to start.
If you are still in the spotlight, your Saturday experience, the weekends that your children should also call their free time, is that they come, sit and go? How often we forget that parents usually make decisions about their lives, and then refuse them to their children. I know: "Raise your child the way he should go." I have a problem with "must go."
I am amazed after all these decades KOG still cannot understand whether there is a Saturday! You truly believe that the Divine cares! Do you really think angels take names!
I used to take my children to the local zoo on Saturday after the church. That was in 1970. I never regretted spending a lot of time on Friday night when they swam a bit at the YMCA and stayed at Dunkin Donuts on their way home. This “now” ritual is much more memorable than any sermon I might have given that day. But for some, depending on their prophecy, loaded with a pastor, life is just one big “around the corner”, “a little more” and never ends with a “cannon-wheel”. For many years I walked for many years, when we were so often on our knees with weapons, we run the risk of running into bullets. I knew little that it was a prophecy that would come true!
Prophecy means little to me at this point in my life. This can mean a lot to some of you, depending on who feeds the need to know, which I don’t think we can know in this world. We may hide behind the thought that we know that God is doing this or that, but this is very well known.
Whatever your position, at least you know that even the Bible was sometimes wrong, no matter what your pastor says or how your church motivates you to live on the edge of your chair by prophecy, a little ahead now, in some dire or at least least disturbing, "what will happen." Isaiah was wrong, Ezekiel was wrong, Paul was wrong and yes, even Jesus was wrong in his own perceptions of his own experience. This is another story.
If we can be wise enough to see that even biblical prophecies have indeed failed, that some prophecies are not really prophecies, and that reading the newspaper as if it were a vibrant Bible is unwise, we could have a life that's real life. A life living in anticipation of some supposed future is not real life. This is a disappointment in the making process.
I am going to enter my prophecy limit here. I predict that all leaders of any center who promote the prophecy in the first place and in fact never preached the ideas in this article will not live their lives and will not come to the same conclusions as Paul. They have kept faith, and now they have to go.
I predict that churches such as PCG and RCG will pass from the stage when they are only my leadership. Of those who died many years ago, one can get so many miles from playing in the preaching of world events. Nevertheless, I think we are doing this, repeating Paul’s warnings that he forgot about it long ago, when he felt that it would end. We do this when we say: “Behold, I came quickly,” when it was more than 2,000 years ago.
I predict that WCG (soon GIF, it seems, we can predict) will become a meaningless reference to the Christian experience. I mean, why does something belong to California where you live? What keeps the scattered groups together is special and has a special understanding of the "Middle East, what's next." And "Will you be at the safety site." Don't get me started!
I predict that more people will use the Internet to do their research and come to their own conclusions. I always had to ask the pastor, because for some reason I thought he should know. After all, he was a “Bible expert”. Now you can ask a lot of pastors and scholars, and even those who used to be, and can no longer follow it. I predict that the Guru era will end for those who learn to think and search for a question from many, not just from one source. I would like to hope that people in congregations, in which one great idea dominates, declared by one great person, finally wake up and do not care if they ask a question or a sermon or concept to be expelled. Being released, terminated, dismissed, marginalized or locked at the door may be the greatest freedom you will ever experience if you ever want to regain your own brain and perspectives. Remember ... ANY TIME, that you are listening to another person talking about how this is happening, and you get this little “uh oh” in the tummy ... listen to him! It's true, trying to talk to you.
Я предсказываю, что многие будут продолжать верить в невероятное, потому что это то, что делают люди, чтобы страх и неуверенность были в страхе. Я делаю это, вы это делаете.
Я предсказываю, что очень мало людей дают крысам ... задницу ... о том, что я думаю!
Не живите в ожидании возможного будущего. Мы не можем знать, и никто никогда не исправился. Все пророчества о Второму пришествии Иисуса не достигли 100%! Не пропустите свое СЕЙЧАС за эту идею, что за углом, я и моя будут оправданы, забыв наслаждаться той жизнью, которую мы знаем, мы сейчас на этой планете. Это опасный мир, чтобы быть уверенным, это не значит, что это результат пророков, которые сами пропустили свои собственные следы назад.
Жизнь, основанная на Пророчестве, интерпретируется кем-то, кто думает, что они знают и принуждаются к тому, чтобы быть фактом, просто ждать и видеть, в лучшем случае будет напряженным. Вам также придется отказаться от нескольких долларов, заработанных, чтобы сохранить мифологию и великую poopa в режиме прогнозирования. Помните, что есть зависимость от предсказаний. Не позволяйте себе просыпаться на десятилетия старше, когда взрослые дети сожалеют о том, что вы не ходили в зоопарк или не останавливались на пончиках Dunkin в своих джембах по дороге домой ... даже в субботу.
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