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Originally Posted by Ivanhoe While I realize this is vague, are we perhaps asking the wrong questions when we frame our eschatology? | Many wrong questions arise because people think prophetic oracles are only concerned with foretelling future events. Prophetism is a movement which affects the future by shaping the present. It's not simply the case that God has a plan for the future and the prophet makes it known. Because biblical prophecy is divine it is also infallibly self-fulfilling. The Word itself initiates the movement which results in its own fulfilment. Failure to comprehend this basic point dooms prophetic interpretation from the start. |
This is an excellent point that is often overlooked. It also brings to mind the truth that the overwhelming volume of prophetic texts were given to reveal more of the knowledge of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The prophets spoke of these days of the Kingdom growth, and the reign of Jesus Christ. Revelation as the last book is the promised capstone of all the preceding revelations.
We are given just a small glimpse of His heavenly glory through John's eyes.
It is almost as when Moses was hidden in the cleft of the rock ,and able to catch but a glimpse of the passing glory of God.
It sets before us as the book of Hebrews presents Hebrews 12:1-3
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1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
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The reason why we are to motivated to serve Him,is clear.
Any end time calendar or system that does not cause you to pursue, or follow after holiness needs to be cast aside Heb12:14
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14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
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That might be the key "end time " question to ask. Is what I see in the prophetic scripture making me-
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25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29For our God is a consuming fire.
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