I answered you just as clearly as you asked. Maybe you have a problem with compound sentences.
Mark Quayle said:
I would like to think I always accept the Word of God —at least, once I realize it is the Word of God. I don't always accept any one person's use of the Word of God. Particularly when they think in some grandiose manner that THEY are the fulfillment of it.
But my question was about a SPECIFIC passage Dan 12:4 and 12:8-19
You saying you "always accept the Word of God - at least, once I realize it is the Word of God"
does not indicate whether you accept Dan 12:4 and 12:8-10
I don't know whether you are intentionally avoiding the question
or whether you do not UNDERSTAND the question.
Either way... you did not ANSWER the question.
But, isn't this remarkable? You think the conversation must necessarily go the way you want it to go.
Not so... I am just looking for an ANSWER to a specific QUESTION
and you are speaking in generalities.
Please answer the question
But if it will make you happy to hear it, YES, I accept what the BIBLE says in Dan 12:4 and 12:8-10. I don't accept your use of what the BIBLE says in Dan 12:4 and 12:8-10. —I hope that was clear enough.
So what PART of my understanding of Daniel 12:4 and 12:8-10 do you REJECT?
(1) Do you reject the Truth about Daniel's Fourth Beast (Revelation Beast) remained
"
closed-up" and
"sealed" until the "
Time-of-the-End"? Meaning all "interpretations about the Fourth Beast
MUST be wrong if they were made 100 - 200 -500 years BEFORE the "
Time-of-the-End".
(2) Do you reject the Last Saints are the ones that "
shall understand" those mysteries at the "
Time-of-the-End"?
(3) What EXACTLY do you REJECT?
Dan 12:4
But thou, O Daniel,
shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the TIME-OF-THE-END:
many [Last Saints] shall run to and fro,
and knowledge [about the Gospel] shall be increased.
Dan 12:8-10
And I heard,
but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel:
for the words are closed up and sealed till the TIME-OF-THE-END.
Many [Last Saints] shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly:
and none of the wicked shall understand;
but the wise [Last Saints] shall understand.
'Did not' is not the same thing as "cannot". But when you need to win by belittling someone, I guess you can't tell the difference.
I was not aware we were "in a battle"... certainly not from MY PART.
I am trying to have a civilized conversation with you about a specific issue.
I am sorry if I offended you in some way... it was not intentional
I am sorry that YOU think we are "in a battle"
Why should I show an example of you contradicting yourself? You aren't that important to me, anymore.
You should show me an example because you ACCUSED me of teaching contradictions...
without providing a SINGLE example. That is hardly the way adults conduct civil discussions.
If you are willing to ACCUSE me of something then you (by adult standard) are required to show
an example of a contradiction.
Children make accusations without providing examples or proof.
We are not children.
I have no desire to review your posts, just to prove an obvious point,
You do not need to "review my posts" to FIND some contradiction.
You only need to show WHAT contradiction I said for you to ACCUSE me of a sin.
If you do not have a single example of me teaching contradictions then you should
(1) not accused me of that sin or
(2) you should man-up and retract your accusation.
Somehow your overweening won't allow you to admit to it nor certainly to see contradictions in what you say. I have this thing where I find myself unable to take some people seriously after talking with them and seeing what they are like. You claim to never have contradicted yourself.
5thKingdom said:
"No... I have never contradicted myself."
I have been preaching for a long time.
NOTHING I have written in this forum is different that what I always preach.
So I have no doubt that I have not contradicted myself (unless it was a typo)
But, when I am accused of teaching contradictions
the burden is not on ME to prove everything I said,
Instead, the burden is on YOU to support your accusation
with EXAMPLES.
I know that YOU know this is "the way" it is supposed to work
So do not play a game that "everyone contradicts themselves sometimes"
That is childish - with all due respect. It is just childish.
If your "proof" is that "everybody contradicts themselves sometimes"
then you never should have ACCUSED me of that sin.
I am not interested in continuing this discussion
EXCEPT to find your answer to the Dan 12:4 and 12:8-10 question (above)
If you find that you are not ABLE to answer my (specific) questions about Dan 12:4 and 12:8-10
then your "fruit" demonstrates that the problem is YOU and not my questions.