Jamdoc
Watching and Praying Always
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I think a big factor in play is the "mountains of prophecy" effect. When you look at mountains from a distance, they seem close together, all clumped up, you just see the peaks and not much in between, but as you get closer you realize there are miles between the peaks, and a lot more detail about each mountain becomes clear as you get closer.
In the old testament, they viewed all messianic prophecy as 1 singular event, compressed all of the prophecies into a single coming of the Messiah. This is a big reason why those who practice Judaism did not accept Jesus, because they don't see that there is more than one coming of the Messiah, and not all prophecy was fulfilled in the first coming of the Messiah. New Testament Christians accept the new testament as a revelation that the prophecy is being fulfilled, and will be completed in the return of Jesus at least one more time (depending on your rapture stance He comes in the clouds for His elect before He comes down on a white horse with His saints for the battle of Armageddon, which would be a second and third coming depending on whether you consider it a coming of the Lord if he never actually sets foot on earth but is just in the clouds)
But there is still a mountain of prophecy problem, as the "last days" have been going on for thousands of years now, and in the gospels, acts, and epistles, we're still looking at prophetic events from a far distance, and in some cases, the events of the future seem to be all compressed into a single event, the second coming. But as we get to the last book of the bible, Revelation, I believe we are shown a closer look at those events and see that it is not one singular day/hour event, but rather a series of events.spaced out. That is what I believe the purpose of Revelation 20 is, to show us a closer look and see the 1000 year valley between the peaks of the 2nd coming and the throne of judgement, that from a distance, look like they are right on top of each other.
I think that should be kept in perspective as we get closer to the tribulation and second coming, that the events are not sudden and all compressed into 1 day, but rather spread out over a period of time, we're given several figures of time like the 42 months, 1260 and 1335 days, time, times, and half a time, 1000 years, one hour, five months, etc. You have to understand it's not a single peak but a range of mountains with valleys of time between. You can find the peaks of prophecy in many books of the bible, but I think Revelation is intended to be our closest look to show us some of the valleys.
In the old testament, they viewed all messianic prophecy as 1 singular event, compressed all of the prophecies into a single coming of the Messiah. This is a big reason why those who practice Judaism did not accept Jesus, because they don't see that there is more than one coming of the Messiah, and not all prophecy was fulfilled in the first coming of the Messiah. New Testament Christians accept the new testament as a revelation that the prophecy is being fulfilled, and will be completed in the return of Jesus at least one more time (depending on your rapture stance He comes in the clouds for His elect before He comes down on a white horse with His saints for the battle of Armageddon, which would be a second and third coming depending on whether you consider it a coming of the Lord if he never actually sets foot on earth but is just in the clouds)
But there is still a mountain of prophecy problem, as the "last days" have been going on for thousands of years now, and in the gospels, acts, and epistles, we're still looking at prophetic events from a far distance, and in some cases, the events of the future seem to be all compressed into a single event, the second coming. But as we get to the last book of the bible, Revelation, I believe we are shown a closer look at those events and see that it is not one singular day/hour event, but rather a series of events.spaced out. That is what I believe the purpose of Revelation 20 is, to show us a closer look and see the 1000 year valley between the peaks of the 2nd coming and the throne of judgement, that from a distance, look like they are right on top of each other.
I think that should be kept in perspective as we get closer to the tribulation and second coming, that the events are not sudden and all compressed into 1 day, but rather spread out over a period of time, we're given several figures of time like the 42 months, 1260 and 1335 days, time, times, and half a time, 1000 years, one hour, five months, etc. You have to understand it's not a single peak but a range of mountains with valleys of time between. You can find the peaks of prophecy in many books of the bible, but I think Revelation is intended to be our closest look to show us some of the valleys.
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