I think a really good book series to read, for Daniel and Revelation, is a two part book called God Cares. He goes into really indepth analysis of how Daniel and Revelation both line up with real time lines and shows just how close we are to the end, prophetically speaking.
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Daniel and Revelation as Book Ends——
Interesting that you would post this today as our minister’s sermon today was on the same subject.
Wait...
WHAT?
Isn’t every solar eclipse necessarily a new moon?
There is a LOT happening tomorrow.
It’s also the last day or Ramadan, there’s a line up of five of the planets, there’s a comet visible called *The Devil’s Comet*, NASA is launching three rockets during the eclipse named after some Egyptian god, and CERN is supposed to be getting the Hadron Collider going to try to find *the God Particle*.
That’s all I can remember of what is supposed to happen tomorrow and I *THINK* I remembered it all.
I think your arguments for reincarnation are weak. I do believe people may sometimes experience residual memories of other people’s past lives, but each person born into this world is accountable for his or her own actions.
Romans 14:12 NKJV
So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
Hebrews 9:27 NKJV
And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.
John the Baptist was serving in a role like that of Elijah. Christ spoke figuratively about this just like he spoke of Lazarus “sleeping” when referring to his death.
Matthew 11:14 NKJV
And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come.
Receiving it was not about being able to accept the idea of reincarnation. It had to do with the fact that Israel, as a nation, did not repent at the preaching of John or Jesus. God could have fulfilled prophecies concerning the millennial kingdom sooner if Israel had repented. However, in God’s sovereign plan, He chose to use Israel’s stubbornness to bring salvation to the Gentiles. See Romans 9-11.
As far as the blind man being born blind as punishment for his own sins (that you mentioned in the link), the disciples were aware that sometimes God brings judgment for sins that have not occurred yet. Sometimes this acts as a deterrent, as was the case of Paul having a “thorn in the flesh”.
I don’t have enough time to spend on this topic, but I thought I’d throw this out there for your consideration.