What I mean is this - its good when people can perhaps further elucidate Daniel, Joel, Zachariah, Revelations, etc. but as I surf YouTube and as I listen to more and more people coming in to different talk shows - even very well respected prophets - something's increasingly bothering me.
It's really starting to seem like the content of near death experiences and the content of prophecy are part in parcel. There's just as much spread in terms of content and disagreement of content, there's just as much seeming personalization of eschatology (which I don't think is deliberate), and even those who claim to have ongoing relationships where they have active conversations with the Lord (both see and hear) it sounds all too often like there's a big component of 'them' in the Lord's personality.
In looking at it I can't help but consider that all of these experiences well up through our subconscious and because of that it will never fail to come through a somewhat fragmented and dirty lens where such personalizations will occur. What bothers me the most though is seeing almost perfect parallel at times between a Christian prophecy and a new age prophecy, which comes often when Christian prophets start talking Nibiru and rescue from it by 'chariots of fire'. You also have plenty of people prophesying rapture, plenty prophesying no rapture, plenty prophesying Jesus coming at the beginning of WW3, plenty also talking about the people of the Lord simply lead to safe zones on each continent where the grace of the Lord has coagulated - regardless of which direction you take, person per person, the variability is almost endless. If this is the case I'm starting to wonder about old testament accounts were of all the false prophets giving sunny/cheery rubbish and one lone Isaiah or Jeremiah with a few other men preaching and getting spurned - the spread of info and accuracy is just as wide at the fire and brimstone end as it is on the global ascension of Gaia end.
The possibility that annoys me the most, that I run from constantly and that I pray to the Lord that I can steer clear of, is that somehow the new agers are right, that all of these deities are part of the game, and that the universe lies through its teeth because the ends - experiential development of any given incarnation with respect to its oversoul - justify the means or where incarnation is nothing more than an amusement park and when I leave my body I'll devolve into something capricious enough to take my life as a souvenir on a postcard. I'm really - really - hoping that's not what I'm seeing here. Even if only a small fraction of those alive are going to heaven, while that has its inherent problems it doesn't irritate me nearly as much as the other possibility.
Having done extensive research into new age and theosophy I have a pretty dim outlook on it and accordingly have no desire at all to flee the first commandment. Regardless, its really frustrating to see even on the Christian side all the dynamics of spread or personalization of reality that a new ager would claim there to be. I might have to tune out or ignore prophecy for a while and just focus on the news and analysis of current events.
Anyone else dealt with this dilemma or seen the same problem though? Are you still incredibly skeptical of prophecy at this point or have you gotten over it? If so how did you find resolution on this?
