Why I Am A Futurist

[good samaritan]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

His timing is not our time but he wants us to be ready?

So, quickly and at hand isn't meant for us to understand, but its meaning is only understood by Him? Therefore He is telling us that He is coming soon, and quickly, but those words are only meant for Him to understand, and not us.

Wow, that sure is as clear as freshly poured Sakrete.

Please with all due respect please explain "His timing is not our timing?"

2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day

What I mean is that every number in scripture has a literal interpretation. The purpose is being ready not understanding all the details of all prophecies.

Sakrete???

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by good samaritan

2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day

What I mean is that every number in scripture has a literal interpretation. The purpose is being ready not understanding all the details of all prophecies.

Sakrete???

But Peter was quoting the Psalm which speaks of man's brevity, and how fast God moves. Peter wasn't telling his reader that God cannot communicate with men due to men being unable to understand what time dimension God is living.

In Revelation we are told that the angel came to John to signify to his servants what must soon take place, because the time was near. There is actually no other way to take those words. Yet you are saying that they are not only one thousand years (God's Thousand Day Clock), but two thousand? I mean, the clock is ticking away, and John was told two thousand years ago for the reason that things must soon take place, because the time was close.

So, could you show me how everyone was to know that the soon warning of Revelation wasn't going to happen shortly, quickly, or that the time was actually near?

Sorry to come into this late, but I missed that you answered my post.

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

But Peter was quoting the Psalm which speaks of man's brevity, and how fast God moves. Peter wasn't telling his reader that God cannot communicate with men due to men being unable to understand what time dimension God is living.

In Revelation we are told that the angel came to John to signify to his servants what must soon take place, because the time was near. There is actually no other way to take those words. Yet you are saying that they are not only one thousand years (God's Thousand Day Clock), but two thousand? I mean, the clock is ticking away, and John was told two thousand years ago for the reason that things must soon take place, because the time was close.

So, could you show me how everyone was to know that the soon warning of Revelation wasn't going to happen shortly, quickly, or that the time was actually near?

Sorry to come into this late, but I missed that you answered my post.