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To: RJR_fan; streetpreacher
>>Fortune-telling is a fool's game, that makes fools of those who buy into it.<<

RJR! You seem to have a problem answering my scripture questions when I debate you. Just denying truth gets weaker and weaker if you have no counter scripture to prove your position.

Revelation 1: 3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

John wrote those words around 96AD, much later then the 70Ad those that deny prophecy claim all prophecy was fulfilled. Would either one of you care to tell us how in 96AD John was calling something prophecy when what he was writing about had already happened prior to 70AD some 26 years earlier? Was John just suffering from Alzheimer?

40 posted on 11/18/2010 9:08:26 AM PST by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear
The internal evidence suggests that the canon was closed by 70 AD. The "it/he" that was seen around 96 AD -- something reported only by Iraeneus, may well have been John, rather than John's Apocalypse.

Revelation, like Isaiah, like Jeremiah, like Amos, is almost entirely a book of fulfilled prophecy. There are prophecies yet to be fulfilled. One day, these mortal bodies will share in our Lord's physical resurrection. One day before then, some scholars believe, Israel will get over its milennia-long pout, get with the program, and become one Christian nation among many other Christian nations. They'll finally get tired of being outside the party, and will be driven to envy by God's blessings poured out upon the nations that confess that Jesus is Lord.

Meanwhile, we have nations to disciple. And powerful tools to shape the future with. Let's go carve the name of Jesus on our personal worlds!

44 posted on 11/18/2010 10:32:23 AM PST by RJR_fan (The press corpse is going through the final stages of Hopium withdrawal. That leg tingle is urine.)
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