thank you for the post.
i assure you that i have a firm enough grasp of the basics of the Christian position to make sense of it i have, after all, spent more than 5 years on this forum talking to Christians about these very things.
I didn't mean it like that. For a christian the Holy Spirit must come within the being. This is the seal of God on the believer. The Holy Spirit is all one needs to illuminate scripture, a PHD in hermenutics is not neccessary, but the Spirit is. You get the Spirit by entering into the simple truths of the Gospel, namely believeing that Jesus Christ is Lord of all.
is this your view or do all Christians agree that this is the pillar, as it were, of prophecy in your tradition?
No, All do not take prophecy as such. There are people that are no doubt christians that believe that the second coming prophecies, will not be fulfilled the same way the first coming prophecies, that is literally. The first comming prophecies were fulfilled to the letter. Although this is not a reason for division. The Fundementals of the faith are far more important. I have serious doubts about christian who "profess" Christ, yet deny the virgin birth, resurection, deity of Christ ect.
is the heptad used because the Hebrews lacked Indian arithmetic?
Im not sure how to answer this, All I know is that the prophecy places a time period 70 heptads on the remarkable prediction
could you expound on your statement that the Jewish religious adherents took part in his execution? i.e. what did they do?
I could give you a hundred verses in scripture, but one cluster is sufficient.
Acts 3:12-15 "And when Peter saw
it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let
him go.
14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses."
you do realize, of course, that the Jewish people do not think that the Moahiach has arisen on this world system, yes?
Im well aware, the Word of God is not silent on the subject. As a student of prophecy I constantly have an eye on Israel
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. 5:41 I receive not honour from men. 5:42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 5:43 I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not:
if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive
In scripture another one that comes in his own name is the false messiah and apostate Israel will acept him.
more to the point, perhaps, is that in occupied Judea the only beings with the authority to condemn a criminal and put them to death was Rome, which you are aware of, yes?
yes
my understanding is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles not on solar cycles. do you have any information that would allow me to confirm your information?
This is not an area that I have any knowledge, but 360 day years is indeed biblical and still used today. I had to cut and paste this off the web sight
http://www.360calendar.com/
It is commonly supposed that the ancient 360-day calendar is hopelessly inaccurate. After all, has not modern science shown the number of days in a year to be 365.2422 days, and not 360? However, such reasoning lacks understanding as to how all calendars work. All calendars insert leap-days or leap-months to nudge the 'normal' year closer to the exact 365.2422 year, otherwise before long the months on the calendar would be out of synchronization with the seasons of the year. (This was a big problem in the ancient world.)
For instance: In our modern calendar, a 'normal' year has 365 days, with every 4th year having 366 days. In the modern Hebrew calendar, a 'normal' year has 354 days, but upon every 2 or 3 years a leap month is added with 384 days in that year. Likewise, the 'normal' 360-day year of the Prophetic Calendar adds a 30-day leap month at regular intervals, with that year having 390 days. All three of these calendars are about the same in accuracy over relatively short periods of time. However, the 360 Prophetic Calendar soon shows itself wonderfully supreme in every way, as it spans and divides time into biblical generations of 40 and 100 years, and biblical ages of 4,000 and 100,000 years; with the biblical principle of a 7th-day rest woven throughout. Moreover, the constant use of multiples of 360 years in keeping with 360 days enforces the biblical concepts that, "a day is as a year," and also, "a thousand years is as a day."
so.. if i can sum up... in your view biblical prophecy is an area which would change a beings view of the Christian paradigm, is that correct?
There is no doubt the prophetic scriptures are an effective evangelism tool. If a person truely believes that the Lord Jesus Christ is coming back, and that at any moment he could appear, it would motivate that person to a life of holiness.