Originally posted by toad_ster
question, if it was blasphemous, then why is it in the Bible?
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Hi,
some times [messages] get under our [human] skin!
and we might say things [in messages] that just come out in a way that we really do not believe perhaps? But we need to correct the statement, even if it is hard to do? (for me at least!)
But anytime you want to know the future? (Prophecy) Read Eccl. 1:9-10 & Eccl. 3:15 for a quick shortcut. And then go and look for it! Remember that God CANNOT LIE, and that He DOES NOT CHANGE. He is the SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER. It might be recorded a little different, but remember that it is the prophet that is inspired to write in his own descriptive words, to describe the prophecy. Yet, ALL "The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets." 1 Cor. 14:32.
These Eccl. verses are His INSPIRED WORDS! 2 Tim. 3:16-17.
So Revelations [testing] is NOTHING NEW. It is scattered all through the Word of God! [ALL 66 BOOKS OF INSPIRATION].
The way it ended in the Master's first Advent was with His 'House of God in Judgement FIRST' this has also been the case again as we read in 1 Peter 4:17. A Virgin Seventh-day Adventist denomination has gone the EXACT ROAD as Virgin Israel of old. Yet, the rejection of Israel was not the ending of Christianity, only the beginning! (please remember, it is the DENOMINATION & not all of the in/mature Christians that were rejected!)
Now, about the Rev's. testing (OR THE ENDING) the ending of all probation, the Mark of the Beast? It is the [counterpart] of Israel's destruction of 70AD. But make NO MISTAKE, it was the Master of the House that stated clearly and unequivocally.. "BEHOLD, YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE." This HOUSE was their Denomination! This was their [MIDNIGHT CRY] of Matt. 25 and NOT THE [LOUD CRY] OF REV. 14:7-10.
This LOUD CRY of Rev. 14:6-10 is still some what future. Remember that 70 AD came 39 years after Israel's rejection as a denomination. (they still could come to Christ as individuals & be saved until 70AD)
BUT: It was the Master that told us Himself that the END would not be 39 years from another MIDNIGHT CRY to the LOUD CRY,
[by saying], "It shall be cut short in rightousness". Paul also was inspired to state the same fact! try Matt. 24:22 & Rom. 9:28.
In closing: You do not understand this?
Relax,
study & just print this missive for further reference, if it helps then? Great, and if not, what have you lost? It will all be opened up to you as time progresses. For, for us to be [FORCE] 'marked' means that [we as Christians] will know what God requires of us before a DECISION is made! try Rev. 18:4. And all others?
They could not care less, this testing is foolish to them, and besides, they want to 'buy and sell'! so? these [just go along] with the forced testing, that is why we see the hand marked.
Your true friend in the Master's quickly finished work,
Pastor N.B.