Recent content by Richard Ruhling

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    Are We Hearing the Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen?

    You say, "Jesus made it very clear that we are not to know the time of the end." When Scripture contradicts itself, we need to look at our assumptions to consider where we might be wrong. Speaking of when "we which are alive and remain shall be caught up" (1Thess 4:17), two verses later Paul...
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    Are We Hearing the Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen?

    Lot's of people think "the day of the Lord" is when He comes in the sky, but Joel 2:10,11 show it starts with an earthquake and there is no 2nd coming clearly seen in Joel.
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    Are We Hearing the Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen?

    The white horse is preceded by the "thunder"--the roar of the Lion of Judah--Joel 3:16 decodes it to an earthquake which precedes the 7 trumpets & 7 thunders also, concurrently. That earthquake initiates "the day of the Lord"--the end-time period seen in Joel 2:10,11 and it would be hard to...
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    Are We Hearing the Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen?

    The antichrist (deception) has the color of scarlet, Rev 17:4 and the crown on the rider of the white horse is Strong's 4735, a victor's crown or crown of righteousness if you search the word. The early gospel went "conquering and to conquer" as Paul said the gospel was preached to the world in...
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    Are We Hearing the Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen?

    Metaphors for what? What do they represent? The early gospel did go "conquering and to conquer" as Paul said. The end-time message must do similar as Christ promised to send Elijah to "restore all things" and the seals of Revelation have a contextual link to topics that need to be restored...
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    Are We Hearing the Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen?

    Thank you for your comments! But maybe you can remember about 40 years ago when people waiting in long lines for gas? A banker friend then said the economy would crash and we would be in end-times. Trouble with Iran has waxed and waned since a Persian Gulf Crisis in 1987. Because the Bible has...
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    Are We Hearing the Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen?

    Baker Books published "More Than Conquerors" with half a dozen reasons why the white horse is NOT antichrist, but a message of truth for the end-times, like Elijah who is to "restore all things", Matt 17:11. White is the color or righteousness; red is the color of the anti-christ, Rev 17:3--a...
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    Are We Hearing the Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen?

    From Roe v Wade in 1973, every sabbatical year has had a major sign of end-times with Mt St Helens eruption making a Dark Day over 3 states after wind carried the ashes on May 19, 1980--200th anniversary from the Dark Day in 1780 that New Englanders took as a sign of the end (Joel 2:31). 7...
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    Are We Hearing the Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen?

    Thank you for your interest. Baker Books has a title, "More Than Conquerors" with half a dozen reasons why the white horse is not antichrist but a message of truth like the early gospel went conquering and to conquer in Paul's day. A 2nd contextual reason to consider is that John heard thunder...
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    Are We Hearing the Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen?

    This is a good question, sparked by a couple articles seen on the internet. The answer is “soon but not yet”, and here are three reasons why we may expect the red horse of war to take peace from the earth in 2023, but first, an insight as to a couple events before the red horse. The events of...
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    Student of Prophecy

    Berean, In the same chapter, Acts 17, where the Bereans were more noble for searching Scripture, Paul saw an idol to an unknown God with no name and Paul said he would declare Him to them and the times of ignorance God winked but in time of Judgment, repentance is required. The point about...
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    Student of Prophecy

    SORRY, I think you shoul dconsider more Scripture and less other opinion. God made a covenant with Abraham for the land between Egypt and the Euphrates for his seed, Gen 15:17, and Paul said, if you are Christ's, you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. When this land that...
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    Student of Prophecy

    I think the message for our time is seen in Christ's words to "prophesy again" in Rev 10:11. The context was John's bitter belly when followers of Wm Miller (Baptist in 1844 proclaimed impending judgment on the world and "the Bridegroom comes" (wedding parable) but not rapture or judgment then...
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    Student of Prophecy

    History (Josephus) is not about wisdom, just the facts and unless you have a better source for 70 AD than an eye-witness, I think you should update your focus to the present time with present truth. The "True Witness" tells the aggelos (Messenger) to the last lukewarm church content with its...
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    Student of Prophecy

    Dave, I appreciate your good spirit but your information blows me away and I don't think God intended for it to be so complex. He instituted a system of jubilees that spanned the 70 weeks of Daniel 9 to Messiah and 50 bring us to 1995 and Pope John Paul's UN visit on Day of Atonement (Lev...