Posted on 07/17/2024 11:24:07 AM PDT by DallasBiff
That my friend is blasphemy. Be careful not to be flippant with the Word of God.
And maybe the head with the fatal wound was Jordan, which was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and absorbed into the province of Damascus. At it's lowest point it had only 38K people (seemingly dead). Yet after WW1 Jordan became a nation again (the head was healed and living again).
Then maybe the 2nd beast in Revelation 13 is the western left, opening their doors to the nations of the first beast (what Europe calls "Asian immigrants") and changing their laws to accommodate Muslims at the expense of Jews and Christians. Before too long it'll be so that in Europe and the Middle East you can't buy or sell unless you're a Muslim (it'll probably enforced more strenuously than it was during the Ottoman Empire days, which had some decades of relatively benign rulers).
This is just one of my eschatology theories and could easily be wrong.
You and I think alike. See my post # 22.
Thank you for your post. And just like much of the rest of the Bible, even though it was written for the people of the day, it has application for us today. (Much of the Bible IS also a direct message to us.)
“History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.”
Oh yes. It has total significance for today. But to try to make the beast out to be one single person alive today doesn’t hold water. Jesus Himself taught “many antichrists have come and are in the world today”. John said Antichrist were those who outright rejected Jesus as Lord.
My personal thinking is the majority of people in the world fall to following some false belief system and be expected to bow to it literally and figuratively. I mean look at the huge push towards the health and wealth preaching. Instant healing hoo-ha crap. Some adding to the Gospel with new revelations which is heresy. Masses of folks inventing a god in the image they prefer in order to live as they please without regard to holiness. God will only endure it for so long and then wipes the entire slate clean.
That was clearly the hand of God that turned Trump’s head. There is nothing no one can say that will change my mind.
The people pulling this crap seem to have forgotten everything they pulled from 2016 onward against Trump.
Proverbs 6:16-19 Literally the entire stack of dirty tricks the DNC pulled on Trump and company since then.
Copy/Paste bible verse theology morons.
“God is my judge. You are not my judge, and you will never be my judge, and I am very happy that that is the case.”
WOW!!!! I DID think you were serious as I’ve read a lot of posts by folks who truly believe Trump, and/or other leaders alive, today are somehow related to the prophetic book. You didn’t have to write a novel about it. Gee wiz.
To set you straight, I never judged you. Was only making what I see was a vane attempt to point out it was not a proper thing to say/write. I’m of the conviction no one should make light of or joke about the scriptures in any way, shape, or form.
I am curious though, why should I be glad you are not my judge? Do you wish ill upon me? I’d never wish ill upon anyone. It’s not my place.
Will close by mentioning my father was a biblical scholar. Read fluent Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and was pretty good reading Latin. He explained a lot to me about translation, so although I appreciate your little lesson, it’s not needed.
Have a blessed evening!
“would God allow Satan to use a Christian? Job comes to mind.”
Whoa! Satan did not USE Job. He requested permission to torment him believing he could cause Job to curse God. Job did have a few bad moments (in part to his “wonderful” friends), but in the end God admonished Job and and he never did curse God.
No, Satan cannot use any Christian. If Satan can use anyone they are not a Christian. How could Satan take control of anyone with Jesus as their Savior and the Holy Spirit residing in them? He couldn’t.
Because it eliminates Islam as the Beast.
Islam is of course one of the many antichrists prophesied (their scriptures specifically deny the Father and the Son, which is a particular mark of Antichrist per the Bible). And they will literally cause a world of trouble, albeit not as much as the Beast will.
Yes, Revelation is spread over the latter days, but they and the Old Testament Scriptures point towards what Jesus called the Great Tribulation and that has not happened yet.
The Bible does say that Christians can fall from grace.
Best we agree to disagree.
Disagree. The Bible speaks of Demas who left Paul although he’d professed to be a follower of Christ.
“The implication was that Demas did not want to be a martyr so he abandoned Paul in Rome just before he was executed. If this is the case, the allurement that enticed Demas was the pride of life. He valued his earthy life more than receiving the crown of life (James 1:12; Rev. 2:10).”
Also:
1 John 2:19 New International Version
They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
You had better read Galatians 5:4 in context, where Paul uses the very phrase “fallen from grace”.
God’s own word stands, apart from either of us. It’s not a matter of two people disagreeing, but us agreeing or disagreeing with the words.
And it’s quite obvious that things never got so bad in the world yet that “no flesh should be saved”. That phrase has only one meaning.
But why would John's Revelation, preceding Mohammed as it does, eliminate Islam as the Beast or anything else given that End Times prophecies don't require any of the elements to be present in Jesus's day.
As an aside, Muslim scholars believe that Islam (as "submission to the Islamic Allah") pre-existed Christianity and is eternal. I'm not enough of an Islamic scholar to know how they arrive at that conclusion.;-)
Oh. I have many times. This letter was written to the church in Galatia as a whole. They’d deviated from the Gospel message and were teaching and living by their own religious practices. Paul was admonishing them AS A CHURCH for falling from grace because as he wrote, “When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace.” It’s pretty simple. So I continue to stand on what I originally said.
Please read the entire book of Galatians to understand that one verse in the context of the book’s entirety.
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