His NAME is Jesus!
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Originally Posted by phareztamar
While I certainly appreciate your concern for my inadvertent errancy, I respectfully disagree with your summary. On the fourth day when God made two great lights...the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night...it seems clear what the allegorical meanings are. Same with the stars, unless you believe that the earth will somehow survive the stars falling to earth in the Revelation. So yes, I can and do say that the making of the sun on the fourth day corresponds to Jesus coming in the 4,000th year.
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Here is my take on the 4th day.
(1) Each day begins in the evening, wich means we are prone to sin. Then it
becomes darker as sin progressively worsens.
(2) The light of the moon denotes mercy; while the light of the sun, grace.
(3) The stars represent those who believed in the gospel that saves; and their
fall from heaven (you guessed it), represents the apostasy or...fall from grace.
Matthew describes it thus:
" the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give
her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens
shall be shaken:" The darkening of the sun implies (I believe) the lack of faith
in that generation, and men rejecting (shrugging off) mercy. What about the
shaking?
"...Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this
word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as
of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain."
But that's only my take on that.
Brother Villa
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