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I reject the way you treat the Prophesies as past events, without a smidgin of proof they did happen as described.
Take Psalms 83 as an example, It actually does refer to ancient battles, as examples of what will again happen in our future.
So Deuteronomy 4 was never fulfilled and the prophets didn't care about it?
 
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So Deuteronomy 4 was never fulfilled and the prophets didn't care about it?
God Promised ancient Israel that He would help them drive out their enemies, Deut 4:34, and that Promise will be kept again, when He clears and cleanses the holy Land to enable His faithful Christian peoples to live there.

Exactly as Psalms 83 describes.
 
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...that Promise will be kept again, when He clears and cleanses the holy Land to enable His faithful Christian peoples to live there.

Christian peoples? Jewish peoples?
 
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God Promised ancient Israel that He would help them drive out their enemies, Deut 4:34, and that Promise will be kept again,
Which is what most of Ezekiel was talking about - that Jerusalem would fall - then those who taunted Jerusalem would fall - then the Babylonians that executed God's plans for judgement would finally also fall - and then that God would gather his people.

This happened. Look it up.

Then at the very end of Ezekiel - you need to distinguish between what was for Ezekiel's day - and what was symbolic language depicting the final showdown on Judgement Day.

Your writing suffers from not distinguishing which prophesy is talking about what.
 
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The Iranian mullahs either have or will very soon have nuclear weapons. This reality is horrifying in the context of the Iranian leadership’s fantasy of annihilating Israel.
The inspiration for this comes from their god, who is none other than Satan.

This vision involves the Islamic Shi-ite belief in the return of the Hidden 12thImam, who is the awaited Mahdi of the Muslims. He is one of two eschatological figures in Islamic theology, the other being Jesus.

Al Mahdi means “the rightly guided one” and is portrayed as coming before the end times to make the entire world Muslim. Muhammad said that the Mahdi “will fill the earth with justice as it is now filled with oppression”.

This hidden Imam is, according to Islamic tradition, due to re-appear after a period in which the Muslims suffer great persecution and calamity. It is within the realm of possibility that the Iranian leadership is thinking that they can hasten the coming of the Imam Mahdi by bringing about an increase of what they would regard as oppression of the Muslims – ”oppression” that would in reality be Israel’s defensive response to an Iranian attack. The Shi-ite Muslims especially, believe that for as long as the Mahdi remains hidden, the world will stay apostate. They are fixated on the end times and are on the constant lookout for signs of his return. This obsession shapes their life, culture and politics and as can be seen by their speeches, their approach to world affairs.

Now, in 2025, the Iranian leadership is desperate; their currency is worthless and the citizenry are in revolt. They see their only chance to retain control, is to have a victory over Israel and America. They WILL attempt it; they have to!

Bible Prophecy says what will happen:. Ezekiel 7:14 …all are ready for war, but no one goes to the battle, for My wrath is upon all of them.

Over 100 Prophesies describe this terrible Day the Lord will arise and destroy His enemies. It will be triggered by Iran attempting to fire nuke missiles at Israel, with the result as Psalms 7:12-16 and Jeremiah 49:35-37, describe.
 
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Bible prophecy informs us of what will happen when a combined force of the neighbouring countries attack.

What happened May 14th-15th 1948?
A combined force of neighboring countries, Arab armies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, surrounded Israel,
attacking Tel Aviv.

The resulting conflict at one point in time was called the 50 years war, there is a now decades old PBS documentary series with that title.

From June 5th to June 10th 1967 Israel fought the six day war winning back territories that had remained literally desolate since May 1948.
The military occupation that started as a result of that war continues today.
2037 will mark 70 years since then.
Jeremiah says that after 70 years there will be destruction of many nations, including Jerusalem. Jeremiah 25:12,18,26
Daniel says that those 70 years happen repeatedly. Daniel 9:1-2,16,24
The Babylonian captivity was one set of 70 years. The Roman captivity another. The crusades another. And from 1967 to 2037 is yet another.
Surely the nations will be in distress around 2037.



The Lords breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck....
Isaiah 30:27
And the Lord shall cause His glorious voice to be heard.... with the flame of a devouring fire.... and hailstones.
Isaiah 30:30
For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be crushed...
Isaiah 30:31

And thou Bethlehem, even though you are small... out of thee shall come He who is to be ruler in Israel.
....and this man shall be the peace when the Assyrian comes into our land
Micah 5:2,5

And the rest were slain with the sword of Him that sat upon the horse,
which sword proceeded from His mouth...
Revelation 19:21


...the pile thereof is fire and much wood, the breath of the Lord,
like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.
Isaiah 30:33


Fire and brimstone from the mouth of the Lord is the full description of what happens.
But before the Lord arrives there will be a false prophet seeming to be the savior to most of the world.
 
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What happened May 14th-15th 1948?
A combined force of neighboring countries, Arab armies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, surrounded Israel,
attacking Tel Aviv.

The resulting conflict at one point in time was called the 50 years war, there is a now decades old PBS documentary series with that title.

From June 5th to June 10th 1967 Israel fought the six day war winning back territories that had remained literally desolate since May 1948.
The military occupation that started as a result of that war continues today.
2037 will mark 70 years since then.
Jeremiah says that after 70 years there will be destruction of many nations, including Jerusalem. Jeremiah 25:12,18,26
Daniel says that those 70 years happen repeatedly. Daniel 9:1-2,16,24
The Babylonian captivity was one set of 70 years. The Roman captivity another. The crusades another. And from 1967 to 2037 is yet another.
Surely the nations will be in distress around 2037.



The Lords breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck....
Isaiah 30:27
And the Lord shall cause His glorious voice to be heard.... with the flame of a devouring fire.... and hailstones.
Isaiah 30:30
For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be crushed...
Isaiah 30:31

And thou Bethlehem, even though you are small... out of thee shall come He who is to be ruler in Israel.
....and this man shall be the peace when the Assyrian comes into our land
Micah 5:2,5

And the rest were slain with the sword of Him that sat upon the horse,
which sword proceeded from His mouth...
Revelation 19:21


...the pile thereof is fire and much wood, the breath of the Lord,
like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.
Isaiah 30:33


Fire and brimstone from the mouth of the Lord is the full description of what happens.
But before the Lord arrives there will be a false prophet seeming to be the savior to most of the world.
Try answering these questions when reading Old Testament prophecy:
Who was the prophet speaking to and about? Who is their immediate audience and what is the issue of their day? Is there an immediate crisis in their generation that they are addressing? Are they encouraging their generation? Rebuking them? Or a bit of both?

What would THEIR audience have made of the message?

Is there already an existing body of images or metaphors that prophet is drawing on that would unpack the message to his audiences ears - before we jump in with our modern concerns of 2500 years later and totally smother the passage with our agenda.

Eg: Is their message actually a judgement on ancient Israel that is fulfilling the covenant warnings and prophecies of even older Israel standing before Moses and hearing the lessons of Deuteronomy?

Or is it a message of comfort to Israel that they have now see ed their time and are about to go back into the land - and to prepare the way for the Messiah to arrive?

Unless we ask these basic questions first - we are not practicing good reading - let alone good Bible study or scholarship.
 
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US President Donald Trump is seeking to limit Iran's uranium enrichment to 3.67%, White House special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff told Fox News on Monday night.

Trump told reporters on Monday that Iran “has to get rid of the concept of a nuclear weapon. They cannot have a nuclear weapon.”

The US president said on Sunday that he expected to make a decision on Iran very quickly, after both countries said they held "positive" and "constructive" talks in Oman on Saturday and agreed to reconvene this week.
Jerusalem Post. 23rd April

Surely it is obvious that nothing anyone can do to settle the situation in the Middle East.
Bible Prophecy does tell us that Elam/ Media - [Iran] will attack Israel, Isaiah 21:1-3

We as Bible believers should know that this will happen and what the Lord intends to do about it.
 
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We as Bible believers should know that this will happen and what the Lord intends to do about it.
(Sigh)
Where is the temple Keras? You know - the one that will have the AOD in it early next year?
Yeah - you REALLY know what will happen! o_O:doh::doh:
 
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Where is the temple Keras? You know - the one that will have the AOD in it early next year?
Yeah - you REALLY know what will happen! o_O:doh::doh:
A new Temple will be built, many Prophesies confirm it.
I am quite sure that I have never said the AoD will happen next year. I have speculated that Jesus will Return in 2033/4, and as the desecration of the Temple, as stated in 2 Thess 2:4 will be 3 1/2 years before Jesus Returns.

My aim and object is to warn people of forthcoming difficult times and the encourage those who will listen; with the amazing Blessings the Lord will give to His faithful peoples.
I don't see any of that in your posts.
 
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A new Temple will be built, many Prophesies confirm it.
I am quite sure that I have never said the AoD will happen next year. I have speculated that Jesus will Return in 2033/4, and as the desecration of the Temple, as stated in 2 Thess 2:4 will be 3 1/2 years before Jesus Returns.
This smacks of denial, with a bit of historical revisionism thrown in!

Back in August 2020 I challenged you about the whole concept of having an end-times-tables and said that the Lord will return like a thief in the night. You said it was predictable - because the AOD comes 3.5 years before. You did a bunch of genealogy calculations and concluded that the Lord’s return (to run a ‘literal’ Millennium age in your view - which is actually metaphor for the church age, is:):

“2020 AD + 9.5 = 2029.5 AD Exactly 2000 years for the present Church age”​


Therefore according to your poor choice of a LITERALISTIC reading of a symbolic text - the AOD happens BEFORE the Lord’s return. (An entirely silly presupposition on an end times scheme - as the AOD happened in AD 70.)

Therefore - according to your (self-declared) SPIRIT INSPIRED PROPHECY the AOD was going to be January 2026! So where is the temple, Keras?

It’s all here!​

The Day of the Lord is at Hand for all the Nations


I asked if you were confident - whether you had considered the sheer number of failed end times tables?

You said: “I remain perfectly confident and I know the Appointed Day on which the Lord will arise and send fire to destroy the attackers of Israel and change the world, ready for the lead up to His glorious Return. I doesn't take great Biblical qualifications to know what God has planned, in fact such learning is a hindrance to finding the truth. And don't ask me when, as you would do what Jesus said will happen in: Matthew 7:6
The Day of the Lord is at Hand for all the Nations

(Which of course means you’ve got the ‘pearls’ and I’m just the swine! What a “humble servant” you are!? Ha ha.)
Where you really crossed the line was when you became a bit carried away with your own little story here, and declared GOD HIMSELF had told you all this!

"I am just a humble servant of the Most High God. He gave me a task: to promote what His prophets wrote so long ago, because what they wrote then, is about to happen soon. I know this, because in 2010, when I was in the Holy Land; I received a vision from the Lord and inspiration to do this."
The Day of the Lord is at Hand for all the Nations

Now you’re saying God got it wrong. You’re amending his timetable.
One minute you are PERFECTLY CONFIDENT the Lord would return 2029.5. Not 2029.0 or 2029.9 - 2029.5.
PERFECT CONFIDENCE!
A VISION which gave you the power to figure all this out - because YOU WERE CHOSEN.
Because the ‘wise and learned’ would become fools. There I was thinking those verses were about Jesus having a go at the Pharisees that would not believe the Old Testament fulfilment in Christ. The whole Old Testament looks forward to fulfilment in Christ, and the whole New Testament looks back at the fulfilment in Christ and trusts in that - and looks forward to his mysterious, unknowable return at any moment.
But you’ve twisted those verses to be about your precious “VISION” in 2010.
Oh - except now that vision is wrong.
Now you’ve got version 2.0 or something.
Are we to believe you THIS time? Really truly woolly? Pinkie promise? Are you confident this time? Oh wait - you were ‘perfectly confident’ last time.
This is yet another example of why I’m Sola Scriptura. If God wants something to happen in my life he will MAKE it happen. Until then, I’m to trust in God’s word - not in hunches or feelings or fever dreams on holidays in Israel when I might be catching a case of Jerusalem Syndrome!

My aim and object is to warn people of forthcoming difficult times and the encourage those who will listen;
If you were REALLY interested in encouraging God's people you would remind them to trust in his word - not in your outlandish, bespoke, Jerusalem Syndrome inspired 'vision' of God's word.

Which apparently keeps changing!

And you would not become condescending to those who disagreed with your 'vision'.

You would encourage them to believe the verifiable truths in the gospel, in the bible itself.
Not in verses about battle ripped out of context! Or local OT judgements ripped out of context!
I don't see any of that in your posts.
That's a circular argument - where because I'm Amil and disagree with your silly "Knowing" presuppositions, I can't encourage people to trust in your silly "Knowing" presuppositions.

But I do encourage them to be Sola Scriptura.

To trust in what the bible says.
To read it in light of its context in each segment.
To do good biblical theology and understand hermeneutics - what the messages meant to the original audience.

All you're saying is you don't see me being your errand boy!
I shudder at the thought of becoming yet another end-times Christian swept up in another failed prophecy.

When we're all still here in the late 2030's - I hope you'll reconsider your judgmental stance to the Bible Project and go have another look. Those illustrations condense a Phd in this stuff down to easy, bite sized chunks. I hope you'll question your propensity to believe and trust in your own gut more than good, disciplined bible reading - and realise you have become just another one of these. The whole failed end-times gig makes many Christians doubt their own faith in the process!

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I shudder at the thought of becoming yet another end-times Christian swept up in another failed prophecy.
No Bible Prophecy has failed, they just wait for their fulfilment at their proper time.

@eclipsenow, you have had your Aussie put down and kick in the guts of me. I hope you feel good, because when the end times really starts, it will be hard for all who are clueless of what God has planned.
Here are scriptures for us all to carefully consider:

Proverbs 1:20-27 Wisdom cries aloud in the open places, in the streets, she says: How long will you fools be content with your simplicity? If only you would respond to my reproof, I would fill you with My spirit and make My precepts known to you. But because you refuse My call, reject My advice and will have none of My admonition, then, I in turn will laugh at your doom and deride you, when terror comes like a hurricane and your doom approaches like a whirlwind and anguish and distress come upon you.

Proverbs 10:24-30 What the wicked dread will overtake them, what the righteous desire will be granted. When the whirlwind sweeps past, the wicked will be gone, but the righteous will be established forever. The fear of the Lord gives a person length of days, but the years of the godless are cut short. The Lord is a refuge for the blameless, but He brings destruction onto the evildoers.
The righteous will never be shaken, the wicked will not remain in the Land.


Proverbs 12:12-13 The strongholds of the wicked crumble like clay, they are caught by their own offensive talk and actions. The righteous come safely through the troubles ahead.

Proverbs 16:2-6 A person’s ways may seem right to him, but the Lord weighs up his motives. Commit to the Lord all that you do and your plans will be successful. The Lord works out everything for His own ends, so He has made the wicked for a Day of disaster. One and all, the proud are an abomination to the Lord, be sure of this: they will not go unpunished.
Through love and faithfulness, sin is atoned for, through the fear of the Lord: a person avoids evil.


Proverbs 8:4-21 It is to you that I call, to all mankind I appeal. You who are uninstructed: gain knowledge, you who are complacent and imprudent – gain understanding.
Listen, for I shall speak clearly, I say nothing but the truth, all that I say is right. It is straightforward to those with understanding, it is plain to those with knowledge. Choose My instruction rather that silver, My knowledge is better than pure gold. To fear the Lord is to hate evil, to hate pride, arrogance, cruelty, subversive talk and sinful actions. I am Wisdom, from Me comes sound advice and knowledge I love those who love Me and those who search for Me will find Me. In My hands are wealth and prosperity, I shall fill the treasuries of those who love Me.


Proverbs 8:22-31 The Lord appointed Me from the beginning, long ago before all else was made. When He set the heavens in place, gave the seas their boundaries and fixed the earth’s foundations, then I was by His side rejoicing in His presence. I got pleasure over the whole world and My delight was in mankind.
Ref: REB, NIV. Some verses abridged.

It seems obvious that the Wisdom described in Proverbs, is Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:15 Christ is the image of the invisible God, for by Him everything was created.
His instructions are as given to us by His prophets and personally in the New Testament. We are told in many passages to ‘fear the Lord’, that is: hate evil, pride, arrogance, cruelty, subversive talk and sinful actions. Not really impossible for us, is it?
 
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@eclipsenow, you have had your Aussie put down and kick in the guts of me.
Oh give it a rest. I love NZ and want to holiday there. This whole chip on your shoulder about my being Australian is your issue - not mine.

I am not afraid of you. (More on that below.)
When you are in a hole, stop digging down.

I'm following this up to remind this list of your years of attacking everyone here. But the worst was when you attacked theologians I not only respect as professional academics, but as genuinely passionate gospel people.

The way you rip verses out of context and do not respect hermeneutics is classic proof-texting - classic eisegesis. It's how cults start.

Your recipe is so cliché. Start with people anxious about living in uncertain times. (Because any time is uncertain!)

Grab Revelation and through sheer gusto and repetition - pretend to know something about it.
Get that boiling cauldron, and add a dash of Hollywood Sci-Fi, throw in some b-grade astronomy, add a bunch of toxic insults at anyone that asks what you're doing and why - and there it is!
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Except - now it's blown up in your face.
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But sadly it seems this is still your precious. You have your "pearls of great wisdom" - and everyone else on the planet - thousands of professional theologians that disagree with you - are swine!

However, your hallucinations have been exposed. I tried to warn you 5 years ago that your schema would not happen. Where's the temple, Keras!? 2029.5 - 3.5 = AOD in 2026.0

That's this January. Tick tock!

Be glad we are not under law, but under grace.​

Deuteronomy 18:20–22 (ESV)

"But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.

And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’ — when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him."

 
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That's this January.
That is next January.
I suppose that foaming at the mouth makes you exaggerate and make wild accusations.

Anyway, I have realized that the 3 1/2 year period of world Satanic control, is not counted as part of the 2000 year Church age.
The AoD of Daniel 9:27, cannot be before 2030.
But the worst was when you attacked theologians I not only respect as professional academics, but as genuinely passionate gospel people.
I respect genuine Bible scholars, but to believe and trust their views of what the Bible Prophecies mean, is a mistake.
Jesus said. I thank You Father, for hiding these things, [Bible Prophecies] from the wise and learned....... Matthew 11:25-26

Have you ever asked your fav Bishop about this scripture?
 
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Anyway, I have realized that the 3 1/2 year period of world Satanic control, is not counted as part of the 2000 year Church age.
The AoD of Daniel 9:27, cannot be before 2030.
I'm not exaggerating.
Your words are all there for anyone to see.
You were 'perfectly certain' - because the Holy Spirit told you.
In your desperation to have your Sci-Fi story taken seriously you pulled the old "God told me so" routine.
(That trick goes back to Mohammed, and almost every second cult since then.)

I respect genuine Bible scholars, but to believe and trust their views of what the Bible Prophecies mean, is a mistake.
I like the change of tone - and hope I never see you just answering their arguments with nasty verses plucked out of context to insult as was your previous pattern.
Jesus said. I thank You Father, for hiding these things, [Bible Prophecies] from the wise and learned....... Matthew 11:25-26
And the New Testament explains that they were all fulfilled in Christ!
That the mystery that all these prophets LONGED to look into was the gospel itself! (Paul)
My bishop, the entire reformed Sydney Anglican theological scene - they all show how 'these things' that were hidden from the wise and learned has NOTHING to do with you and your little Sci-Fi story. And not much to do with the Return! It's more about salvation for God's people through the gospel events themselves. That is - read the gospels and Galatians and Corinthians - and you see that those who follow worldly philosophy reject the gospel of Jesus. This 'secret' is that God was going to fulfil the promise to Abraham to bless the whole world through Israel by sending his son to die.


Millennialists can often have trouble reading apocalyptic scripture. What is this about? The future or the past?​


“‘In the last days, God says,​
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.​
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,​
your young men will see visions,​
your old men will dream dreams.​
18 Even on my servants, both men and women,​
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,​
and they will prophesy.​
19 I will show wonders in the heavens above​
and signs on the earth below,​
blood and fire and billows of smoke.​
20 The sun will be turned to darkness​
and the moon to blood​
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.​
21 And everyone who calls​
on the name of the Lord will be saved.’​

Sorry - it's about the past. It's Acts 2 - not about your Sci-Fi story.
It's Peter explaining that it's only 9 o clock in the morning and the disciples are not drunk.
It's about the gospel being fulfilled THEN - 2000 years ago!

Remember the sun went dark as the Lord died?
Remember how blood was part of the judgement on Egypt, and fire was in the Lord's column that went before them?
THIS is the great and glorious day of the Lord - but it's now split! It's now 2 events - not 1.

Imagine your driving down the road and you think you see a huge tree high up on a hill - a vast great tree - but when you get there you realise this one huge colossal structure is actually made up of 2 trees? That is how the Day of the Lord is.

The Old Testament Day of the Lord speaks of God's judgement then and there in various instances and situations.
It gradually builds to this huge picture involving both a saviour king and day of judgement in the final prophets in the OT.

That is why many Jews rejected Jesus message of a suffering servant king - because they also wanted the immediacy of the military leader that would kick out the Romans. That is why Peter rebuked Jesus about all this death talk, and bought a sword!

But no. The day of the Lord's salvation arrived - and it was different to what many expected. The tree split in 2. It fulfilled both the salvation of God's people from sin AND the judgement of all God's enemies - on the cross. But the real judgement could happen in 5 seconds or another 50,000 years - we just don't know.

THIS fulfils Daniel 7 - when one like a son of man comes before the Ancient of days. He's going TO the father in victory - after the cross! It's how Hebrews 1 reports it, as it also reports all prophecies were fulfilled and wrapped up in the gospel!

1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. 4 So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.​

See that? Verse 3? That's Daniel 7's son of man.

This is why there's no room for subjective visions helping us understand the Old Testament - the New Testament explains everything we need to know to us! The gospel word is the last word we need. And if our questions do not give us all the answers we might want? Tough. The bible says they are enough! So I'll just have to wait till I meet the Lord to understand certain other issues. The one place I'm NOT going to turn to? My own subjective experiences and vibes - because I KNOW how Geeky and speculative I am - and how much I like GOOD Sci-Fi. Who knows where my own gut feelings might take me? Which is why I think the other great 3:16 every Christian should memorize is 2 Timothy 3:16

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.​

Not a bit equipped. Not "a good grounding, but to REALLY know what to do you've GOT to listen to the Spirit!"
Sorry - that's not on.
The SPIRIT himself speaks through God's word - when handled correctly.
And if we're not bothering to do the work to understand it correctly - we're stubbornly refusing to listen to the Spirit!
 
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The Americans hope that an agreement with Iran, if reached, will turn the Iranians into peace seekers. But if that's what they think, they still haven't understood the true nature of the ayatollah regime, 40 years after it seized power in Tehran.

The collapse of the previous nuclear deal in 2015 allowed the Iranians to become a nuclear threshold state, with knowledge and capabilities, facilities and equipment that will enable them to produce nuclear weapons within a short time – a few months, or at most a few years. The Iranian leadership’s desire is to preserve the status quo as much as possible, and for that purpose, they are willing to show far-reaching flexibility, commit that Iran will not produce a nuclear bomb, and even give up some of the enriched uranium in its possession. But as we know; the Islamic precept of al-takkya, allows them to tell lies and deceive infidels. Who are every non-muslim.

Any agreement is just a piece of paper that can be violated in a few years, after Trump leaves the White House or when the regional and international reality changes. Therefore, it's possible to discuss and talk about any agreement that doesn't require Iran to give up what it has – not its regional proxies, not its military projects and missile arsenal, and also not its nuclear research infrastructure.

In Tehran, there is serious concern for the future of the ayatollah regime. The economic situation is deteriorating, and suppressed domestic protests are erupting above the surface. A war between Iran and the US and Israel, if it breaks out, could prove to be the final nail in the coffin of this extremist regime. Iran needs an agreement like air to breathe, but it plays its cards well. The Iranians are masters of negotiation, which is why the media portrays the Americans as the ones eager to reach an agreement.

The problem is that those who don't address the Iranian threat today will face a much more dangerous threat in the future.
Israel Hayom 30 April 2025
 
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THE LORDS WRATH – how will it happen?
This much prophesied, still to come, Lords Day of vengeance and wrath – will happen at the same time as an attack against Israel. Psalms 7:12-16, Psalms 83, Micah 4:11-12 People think there may be a nuclear exchange, but what is more certain is what the prophets say:
Jeremiah 50:25 The Lord opens His armoury and brings forth the weapons of His wrath, for this is His work to be done in the lands of the godless peoples. Deuteronomy 32:34-43
Isaiah 34:5 For My sword appears in heaven, it descends in judgement…….
Psalm 11:4-6 The Lord is in heaven, raining fiery coals onto the wicked. ……
Isaiah 66:15-16 See, the Lord is coming in fire, like a whirlwind. He will judge with fire, His sword will test mankind and many will be slain by Him.
Isaiah 33:10-12 Now I shall arise, says the Lord, I will exalt Myself. You will be as chaff and stubble, a wind like fire will consume you. Whole nations will be heaps of white ash, like thorns cut down and set on fire.
Psalm 144:5-6 Lord, part the heavens. Make lightning flashes far and wide.
Isaiah 30:30 Then the Lord will make His voice heard in majesty...descending in fierce anger with devouring flames of fire amid storms and hail.
Jeremiah 30:23-24 See what a scorching wind has gone out from God, a sweeping whirlwind which whirls around the heads of the wicked. The Lords fierce anger is not to be turned aside until He has fully accomplished His purposes. In Days to come you will understand.
Isaiah 29:5-6 Yet, the horde of Your enemies will crumble into dust, fly away like chaff. Suddenly in an instant punishment will come from the Lord, with storms, thunder, earthquakes and great noise and a flame of devouring fire. 2 Peter 3:7
Isaiah 9:19 The land is scorched by the Lord, the people are like fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 10:17 The Light of Israel will become a fire, its Holy One a flame, which, in one day will burn up and consume His thorns and briars.
Isaiah 30:26-30 On the Day that the Lord saves His people, the sun will shine with seven times its usual brightness and the moon will be as bright as the sun……
See; the Lord comes from afar, His anger blazing and His doom heavy. His lips are charged with wrath and His tongue is a devouring fire. His breath is like a torrent in spate. He sieves out the nations for destruction.
Isaiah 63:1-6

What these (and many other) prophecies, seem to be describing is sunspot activity.
Maybe the sun is building up to a huge Coronal Mass Ejection, something we do experience with minor CME’s. They happen very suddenly and unexpectedly, reaching earth within hours and are capable of causing enormous damage and deaths worldwide.
All electrical and communications systems, industry, transport; our modern infrastructure could be destroyed, or at least severely damaged. Armies would be back to 1800’s technology.

A CME explosion of the suns surface, as described in Isaiah 30:26, with the sun flashing 7 times brighter, would be one of unprecedented magnitude and would literally cause all the graphically Prophesied effects. For example; the moon would shine bright red as it reflects this suns explosive flash, plus a thermoluminescent reaction between the metallic oxides of the moon with the superheated Hydrogen mass and our satellites would crash to the earth, like ripe figs falling.
 
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Iran has ordered thousands of tons of ballistic missile ingredients from China as part of an effort to rebuild its military capabilities while navigating ongoing nuclear talks with the United States, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the transactions.

The shipments, which are expected to reach Iran in the coming months, include ammonium perchlorate, a key component in the solid propellant used for ballistic missiles. Sources indicated that these materials could potentially fuel hundreds of missiles.

Iran's crazy mullahs WILL have nukes and the means to deliver them. They must attempt it, as they know their own fate is in the balance.
The Lords response to their pressing the red firing button, will be as Prophesied above and just as Psalms 7:12-16 describes.
 
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The recent special International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iranian nuclear violations added many points, one being that Iran carried out multiple implosion tests, a key military skill necessary for developing the atomic bomb. Implosion tests do not have civilian nuclear uses.

The fact that it carried out various explosive tests also suggests that Iran is further along in other skills needed for developing a nuclear bomb, besides just enriching uranium, than many observers may have thought.

Intelligence sources inform us that Iran has ordered a shipload of ammonium hypercholrate from China. The only real use for that is rocket fuel.
 
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keras, Iran (Persia) in Ezekiel 38 is listed as one of the nations that make up the Gog/Magog attackers on Israel.

In your theory, you have the current nation of Israel de-populated by a solar flare event and re-populated by Christians moving there from all around the world to create a new nation called "Beulah".

The problem with your theory is that there is not enough time for that to happen in your projected fit of end time time frames.

You have Gog/Magog happening around 1 year prior to the 2520 days -7 years. 1 years is not enough time for your theorized solar flare event and new nation creation comprised of Christians.



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