What is Biblical Prophecy? What Biblical Prophecy is NOT, and What It Really IS

CatholicResources.org ^ | February 12, 2012. | Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D.

[johngrace]

When you post at times I believe we have real hard core masons responding at times.

[johngrace]

When you post at times I believe we have real hard core masons responding at times.

[RegulatorCountry]

One gets the impression that “fundamentalist preachers” are some mysterious, exotic breed of human to the author. I suspect he's never encountered one in the wild.

Heaven forfend if prophetic warnings of future events in the Bible itself are taken literally as (gasp!) prophetic warnings of future events.

We apparently are to instead look to odd, modern era “spiritual” emanations such as Fatima regarding future events, since these things ever so much more credible than the Bible.

[Salvation]

Oops

. Who does the writer say denies Daniel?

[Salvation]

I can't judge your mind or read your mind, but did you miss the following two quotes from the Bible?

• Catholic Bibles contain all of the above, but also include the book of Baruch and a longer version of Daniel (with two additional chapters)

 

• Note: Daniel is never called a "prophet" in the Hebrew Bible!

Did you, in fact, miss those?

[Salvation]

**This article is written by a proper Jesuit. **

Indeed!

[Salvation]

And some other “off the bases” posters.

[RaisingCain]

“Did you, in fact, miss those?”

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What does it matter how long it is in the Catholic Bible when the author doesn’t even believe it was written by Daniel? Unless you think Daniel survived the Babylonian captivity and lived to the times after Alexander, which your author dates him. Same thing for the other prophets. He accepts the modernist interpretation that dates scripture after the events they predict, since, of course, they don’t believe in God.

As for Daniel never being called a prophet. Seeing as how he spoke to God, received answers, same as any other prophet, and received both advice on matters and visions of the future, sounds like he’s a prophet.

[Just mythoughts]

Hello Salvation. Wonder when Christ told His disciples in Mark 13:23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.” Did Christ really mean what He claimed, or was He just boasting? Now this was stated before one ‘WORD’ (sola scripture to the majority of protesters) of the so called New Testament ever got recorded on plant or animal materials.

Then Christ quotes Isaiah 13:10 in verse 24, But in those days *after* that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

Then Christ quotes Isaiah 34:4, then Daniel 7:13, etc....,

The Gospel includes those as Peter called ‘holy prophets’. Silly men/women snip and clip scriptures much like the scientific community devised their so called scientific methodology. And the longer I live the more I have observed the conjoining of religion of men in the same methodology some call science.

I think the author has called Christ Himself a fundie.

[MarkBsnr]

Well I'll say this for Fr. Just, S.J., Ph.D.: his article would probably get him lynched in Texas. St. Ignatius might be happy about that. But I catch your drift on the S.J.s in general. I sent one of my brighter kids to them and he came back somewhere to the Left of Trotsky and talks like Barbra Streisand.

Through his (prodigious) nose with a Brooklyn accent?

Now about my brother ... who became a Unity minister ... splain that!

[circlecity]

"OK, second time through. Who doeos the writer say denies Daniel?"

The writer of the post says Daniel was written in the 2nd and third centuries BC. Absolute nonsense. These claims for a late authorship of Daniel are just transparent attempts to explain away Daniel's incredible accuracy in predicting the rise of the Persian, Greek and Roman empires.

[johngrace]

All due respect there is alot wrong with this author's writing.

"The books they wrote do not contain hidden coded messages for people living in the 20th or 21st centuries!"

Really! Mr Author!

Daniel 12

12:9 "And he said: Go, Daniel, because the words are shut up, and sealed until the appointed time.

12:10 Many shall be chosen, and made white, and shall be tried as fire: and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand.

12:11 And from the time when the continual sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination unto desolation shall be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred ninety days.

12:12 Blessed is he that waitedth, and cometh unto a thousand three hundred thirty-five days.

12:13 But go thou thy ways until the time appointed: and thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot unto the end of the days."

I do not know about his specifics but nobody will truly understand until the end of days. We are near and dear very close. These passages and others like it it make more sense now than ever.

Especially in the book of Revelation a hundred million plus man army from the east will be a major event.

Right now we have 90,000 Chinese army and Russian army in Middle east.

I believe it is no coincede that China is called the Dragon which is in Revelation book. It is steeped in there culture.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Where did you get the idea that Catholics don’t read/deny Daniel

From the fact that your beloved author lists it as a forgery?

[Kenny Bunk]

Sung to "O Tannenbaum," or "Maryland my Maryland"

I sent mys son to Holy Cross,
He came back a total loss.
O Holy Cross, O Holy Cross,
Where all they eat is apple sauce.
They eat it
Morning, Noon and Night,
They even eat it when they're tight,
O Holy Cross, O Holy Cross,
Where all they eat is applesauce.

Yes, he has le bec de Cyrano, the political dialog,but not the accent. It's just as annoying in any accent.
This just in from Unity
where the pastors receive a bonus for new members. "You are wrong about Islam, Ken. Mohammed (May Peace be Upon Him) was probably a very nice guy. You know, like Buddha, or St.Francis of Asissi... like that. He was cool."

[Kenny Bunk]

Sung to "O Tannenbaum," or "Maryland my Maryland"

I sent mys son to Holy Cross,
He came back a total loss.
O Holy Cross, O Holy Cross,
Where all they eat is apple sauce.
They eat it
Morning, Noon and Night,
They even eat it when they're tight,
O Holy Cross, O Holy Cross,
Where all they eat is applesauce.

Yes, he has le bec de Cyrano, the political dialog,but not the accent. It's just as annoying in any accent.
This just in from Unity
where the pastors receive a bonus for new members. "You are wrong about Islam, Ken. Mohammed (May Peace be Upon Him) was probably a very nice guy. You know, like Buddha, or St.Francis of Asissi... like that. He was cool."

[crosshairs]

I think I’ll pass on receiving Biblical instruction from any member of a religion that does not acknowledge that all Scripture is God breathed, but rather places more emphasis on it’s man-made traditions and rituals.

[Salvation]

Where does it say that the prophets spoke of man made traditions?

They spoke the Word of God as warnings to the people of their day.

You certainly would not be referring the Last Supper and the Institution of the Holy Eucharist as man-made, would you? For the Holy Eucharist, as recorded in scripture, was instituted by Christ himself.

[MarkBsnr]

Sung to "O Tannenbaum," or "Maryland my Maryland"
I sent mys son to Holy Cross,
He came back a total loss.
O Holy Cross, O Holy Cross,
Where all they eat is apple sauce.
They eat it
Morning, Noon and Night,
They even eat it when they're tight,
O Holy Cross, O Holy Cross,
Where all they eat is applesauce.

Whoa, dude...

Yes, he has le bec de Cyrano, the political dialog,but not the accent. It's just as annoying in any accent.

You bet.

This just in from Unity where the pastors receive a bonus for new members. "You are wrong about Islam, Ken. Mohammed (May Peace be Upon Him) was probably a very nice guy. You know, like Buddha, or St.Francis of Asissi... like that. He was cool."

Cool huh? I wish somebody had put him on ice before he started the Religion of Hate.