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Originally Posted by Bowas
Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from another
You been messin' around...*with the Bible
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Yes, pretty much sums it up. People will parrot something they heard someone say, or something they read in a booklet of tract. Yet, the book of Revelation starts with “This is the revelation of Jesus Christ. God gave it to him to show his servants the things that must happen soon. He sent this revelation through his angel to his servant John. Who faithfully reported everything he saw. This is his report of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is he who reads this book, and those who hear the words of this prophetic message and obey what is written in this book! For the time is near when all these things will happen."
If you read
Daniel 12:4 it states, the scroll recorded by Daniel is to be sealed until the time of the end.
"But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
Yet, in
Revelation 22:10 we read that John was to not seal his scroll because he was at the end.
"And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time [of their fulfillment] is near."
It's pretty plain, just like
Acts 2:38
But, this isn't about showing someone a Bible study in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, or ancient Hittite. I use to slug it out with the best, and get disappointed when someone couldn't understand
Matthew 28:18-19. How it says plainly that all total power has been given to Jesus Christ in Heaven and on Earth. That all His followers were to baptize in His name, and His name which represented three titles of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. This was plain. But it isn't. The conditions of the heart is the soil which dictates how the seed of the Word grows. Jesus also quoted the prophet Isaiah when He said, "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."
Therefore eschatology is the least of their problems.
Their issues are spiritually mountainous and may never find the way. The Word is sown in their hearts, but it's the condition, and that condition is totally on them. Like holiness you can get taught how to dress up. But if you don't get it through the Holy Ghost, sooner or later you'll just give up.
No hair pulling contest, no need for that. People just in this country alone believe some ecclesiastical fairy stories. They will fight you to the death to prove Jesus is the second person of the godhead. Or that you can have salvation without tongues or without water baptism. Or that their brand of eschatology is the golden goose. But, you know something? That's their journey, that is their issue. I hope they find the One True God Jesus Christ. I really hope they do. If they don't, it's no one's fault but their own.
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