Malachi the Prophet

[keras]

Malachi 4:1-6 This prophecy deals with what will happen to the people of Judah; the Jews and to Israel; the Christians, in the last days. Read and carefully consider his Words:
For lo, the Day comes; burning like a furnace and all the audacious sinners and all the perpetrators of wickedness will be like stubble. And the Day that comes shall burn them up, leaving neither root nor branch. But for you who fear My Name; the sun of mercy shall rise with healing in its wings.
Soon to happen, God will use the sun to reset our civilization to a similar degree as in the days of Noah; The wicked will be judged by fire Isaiah 30:26-30, Psalms 50:1-6 and all the faithful believers will be protected by Jesus. Psalms 23, 1 Corinthians 10:13,+
It will be the Sixth Seal worldwide disaster; Revelation 6:12-17, that will commence all the end time events, leading up to Jesus Returning as world Ruler.

Keep in remembrance the teaching of Moses, My servant, and the laws and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.
The prophet tells them in the name of God; ‘Remember forever the Commandments of Moses, My servant: in every time and situation.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the Lord, that he may return the heart of the fathers through the children, and the heart of the children through their fathers — lest I come and smite the earth with utter destruction.
This means that to prevent a situation in which God will have to come and totally destroy the earth: He will send Elijah the prophet to arouse people to repentance.

As individuals choose to obey, they will merit to be counted among those who fear My Name and their names will be Written in the Book of Life. Malachi 3:16-17

The prophecy “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet ... that he may return the heart of the fathers…” means that Elijah’s role to provide spiritual assistance to people living in this World, will take on immense proportions before the great and terrible Day of God’s fiery wrath and he will awaken the heart of people to repentance.
Indeed, what other convincing explanation is there for the wonderful commitment to the faith in these days, in which many youths and young adults are courageously swimming against the stream of hedonism and lusts which are part of our modern culture.

Elijah will return the heart of fathers; to the Almighty, through the children, by the children. They will show their parents by their joy and love; the right way to live.
This was also Prophesied for John the Baptizer; Luke 1:16-17, but was not fulfilled by him.

Throughout Jewish and Christian history, the parents responsibility was to educate their children to observe Torah, the Bible and its Commandments. To say that a time will come when the children will teach their parents to repent, seems absurd.
But now, we see many parents becoming religious by the example of their children. “He will return the heart of fathers to the Almighty through the children.”

There is very little time left now, for people to repent and have their names Written in the Book of Life. The forthcoming great and terrible Day of the Lord’s fiery wrath, prophesied over 100 times in the Bible, is near and coming fast. Zephaniah 1:14-18

 

[keras]

Malachi 1:2-5 I have shown you love, but you ask: How have You shown love to us? The Lord answers: Jacob, [Israel] I love, but Esau, [Edom] I hate. Edom is a people of wickedness, a people with whom the Lord is angry forever. I have reduced his ancestral lands to desert pastures. Your own eyes see it and you say: The Lord is sovereign over all.

Malachi 1:6-14 The Lord requires thank offerings given in honesty and truth. A curse on those who cheat Him, by holding back their best. Acts 5:1-10

Malachi 2:1-9 Now, you pastors, Rabbis and leaders; this decree is for you. Unless you listen to My Word and honour My Name, I shall lay a curse on you and banish you from My presence. People are instructed by their leaders, because they are the Lord’s messengers, But now you have turned away from right teachings and caused many to stumble with your instruction. So now, I will degrade you in the sight of the people, because you disregard My ways and make your own interpretation of My Law.

Malachi 2:10-12 Have we not only one Father and Creator? Why then do we violate the Covenant of our forefathers? Judah and Israel are faithless, they do abominable things and go after foreign gods. May the Lord banish from His Land those who do these things, even though they bring offerings to Him.

Malachi 2:13-16 You weep and moan at the Lord’s altar, but wonder why He refuses to listen to you. Here is why; it is because you have broken faith with the spouse of your youth, even though she/he is your partner by solemn covenant. God wants you to rear godly children, so keep faithful to your spouse.

Malachi 2:17 You have wearied the Lord with your talk. You ask: How have we wearied Him? By saying: All evildoers are good and asking: Where is the God of Justice?

Malachi 3:1-4 I am about to send a messenger, to clear the way before Me. Suddenly, the Lord, whom you seek will come to His Holy place. The messenger of the Covenant, in whom you delight, he shall come. But who can endure the Day of the Lord’s appearing? He is like a refiners fire, testing and purifying, he will refine His priests so that they will be fit to bring offerings to the Lord. Then those offerings will be pleasing to Him, as they were in years long past.

Malachi 3:5-7 I shall appear before you in judgement and will testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who cheat workers of their wage, who do wrong to the helpless, who push foreigners aside and all who do not fear Me. I, the Lord, do not change and you, My people, have not ceased to be the descendants of Jacob. Ever since the days of your forefathers, you have been wayward and have not kept My Laws. if you come back to Me, then I shall return to you.

Malachi 3:8-12 You ask: How can we return? Because you have defrauded Me over your tithes and offerings, there is a curse on your entire nation. Put Me to the test; if you bring the whole tithe into My treasury, so that it fills with true gifts of righteousness, then I will pour blessings on you as long as there is a need. I will stop pests and diseases from affecting your crops and livestock and yours will be a favoured Land, envied by other nations.

Malachi 3:13-15 You have spoken bad things about Me, you ask: What bad things? You have said: to serve God is futile. What do we gain from the Lord by observing His rules and behaving with humble submission? We think the rich and proud are happy and evildoers prosper, for they disobey God and come to no harm.

Malachi 3:16-18 Then, those who respected the Lord and kept His commandments, talked together and the Lord paid heed and listened. A record was written before Him of all those people. They will be Mine, says the Lord Y’hovah, My own possession on the appointed Day and I will spare them as a man spares the son who serves him. Once more, you will be able to tell the good person from the godless and the servant of God from those who do not serve Him.

Malachi 4:1-3 The Day comes – burning like a furnace, all the arrogant people and the evildoers will be as stubble, for that Day will come and burn them up, leaving them without stock or posterity. But for you, who respect My Name, the glory of righteousness will come to you and heal and save you. You will break loose like calves released from their pens. On the Day that I take action, all wicked peoples will be as ashes under your feet.

Malachi 4:4-6 Remember the Laws I gave to all Israel through My servant, Moses. Now, look, I shall send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath comes. He will reconcile the families, [of Judah and Israel] so as to avoid My curse on the Land.
Ref: REB. Some verses abridged

God chose Jacob [Israel] to be His people – a nation to be ‘a light to other nations’, a people who would spread the good news of the coming Kingdom of the Lord. Jacob’s sons split into two Houses; the House of Judah, who have maintained their identity and the House of Israel, who are still ‘lost’; dispersed among the nations. This is how God planned it to be, however from the historical record, archaeological finds, linguistic matches and heraldic signs, we have a fair idea of who and where they are.

The peoples descended from Esau/Edom, those who inhabit the ‘desert pastures’, have kept their hatred of Jacobs descendants and now, in our times, threaten Israel and the Western world with war and disaster. Micah 4:11-12

Sadly, the leaders of His people have not kept to the right teachings and the people do ‘abominable things’. They lust after other gods and think that God no longer cares about them or His creation. But those people who do keep faithful to the one true God, will have their names written in the Book of Life and will be spared on the ‘appointed Day’.

That Day ‘comes burning like a furnace’, this is the fire judgement, the next prophesied event, the Lord’s Day of vengeance and wrath. It is clearly told to us, in Isaiah 30:26 that it is a coronal mass ejection, an explosion of the suns surface, that will ‘burn up all evildoers’. – in the Holy Land area and dramatically affect all the world.

It will be the fulfilment of Psalm 83; the punishment on the Edomite alliance who commence an attack onto the Jewish State of Israel with nuke missiles.
Both the Jews and the evil neighbors will be virtually wiped out. Jeremiah 12:14, Ezekiel 7:14

But it is also the Day of redemption and healing for His faithful Christian peoples, from every tribe, race, nation and language. They will then ‘break loose’, and Elijah will reconcile all twelve tribes of Israel. They will then gather and enter the cleared and cleansed Holy Land, in order to fulfil their destiny.

 

[keras]

The medieval French Biblical commentator Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, known by the acronym Rashi, explained the verse in Malachi 4:5a:

Lo, I will send the Navi Eliyahu to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of Hashem.

“This ‘Day of God’ is the result of God’s taking out the Sun from its sheath,” Rashi wrote.
“The prophet was describing the removal of our protection from the power and extreme heat of the Sun,”

“Rashi was foreseeing the existing cover around the Earth, which is the magnetic field discovered by scientific research many centuries later.”

The Earth’s magnetic field also plays an important role in protecting the surface from solar wind and Coronal Mass Ejections, which explode plasma and magnetized particles from the Sun’s corona. The earths magnetic field has weakened about nine percent over the past 200 years, and an area between Africa and South America has experienced am even greater reduction in magnetic intensity. The South Atlantic Anomaly.

As a result, this change in the magnetic field has a serious effect. The earth is now much more vulnerable to any CME’s which could result in serious damage to our infrastructure.

The polar reversal that occurred 42,000 years ago is well on its way to happening again. The shifting polarity of the planet may also be behind outbreaks of migrating birds becoming confused and dying.

Saul Kullook, a scientist with many patents to his name who passed away last year, wrote about his theories concerning the end-of-days. Kullook believed that this period of intense exposure to solar radiation was described by the prophet Malachi as a harbinger of the final redemption.

There is prophesy in the Bible which says a dramatic cosmic event will take place:

For lo! That day is at hand, burning like an oven. All the arrogant and all the doers of evil shall be straw, and the day that is coming—said the lord of Hosts—shall burn them to ashes and leave of them neither stock nor boughs. Malachi 4:1-& 3
Ref; - Israel365 News.

 

[eclipsenow]

While I'm quite the fan of Sci-Fi - if anyone wants a less "Dr Who" approach to Malachi - I can't recommend "The Bible Project" enough!

The guy who wrote this series has a Phd in theology - focussing on Hebrew Apocalyptic Symbolism.

So - unlike Keras - he actually knows what he is talking about.
EG: Even the little book of Malachi has nearly 2 million views.

Unlike Keras's website - this Youtube channel has 4.63 million subscribers!

(Remember - this illustrated summary might seem simple - but it is a summarised version for the average person - made as user friendly as possible.)

 

[keras]

So - unlike Keras - he actually knows what he is talking about.
EG: Even the little book of Malachi has nearly 2 million views.

Thinking the number of followers and believers in what is promoted, is proof that is true, is the stuff of delusion and blinded acceptance.
Daniel 12:10b, is a plain statement: ONLY the wise leaders will understand. [the Prophesies]

 

[eclipsenow]

Thinking the number of followers and believers in what is promoted, is proof that is true, is the stuff of delusion and blinded acceptance.
Daniel 12:19b, is a plain statement: ONLY the wise leaders will understand. [the Prophesies]

No one is following you.
Therefore, you are not a leader - let alone a wise leader.
Remember - you have about 12 months for your precious AOD to show up.

 

[Strong in Him]

Daniel 12:19b, is a plain statement:

Daniel 12:19 doesn't exist.

 

[keras]

Daniel 12:19 doesn't exist.

Sorry; typo.
Daniel 12:10b only the wise leaders will understand.
This interesting truth, means that the prevalent beliefs of the majority, can be wrong. The 'rapture to heaven' of the Church is the prime example.

 

[Strong in Him]

Sorry; typo.
Daniel 12:10b only the wise leaders will understand.
This interesting truth, means that the prevalent beliefs of the majority, can be wrong. The 'rapture to heaven' of the Church is the prime example.

I have to confess that I have not been part of this debate, probably won't be and don't understand it.
I was just browsing the forum and noticed the irony of saying that a verse, which doesn't exist, was a plain statement.

I'll leave you to it.

 

[eclipsenow]

Sorry; typo.
Daniel 12:10b only the wise leaders will understand.
This interesting truth, means that the prevalent beliefs of the majority, can be wrong.

We need to talk a bit more about this. I would feel so much more comfortable if forum members phrased all this discussion about the end times as their interpretation - and avoid all these claims to having certain prophecies from the Lord.

HYPOTHETICAL

What would you do if someone in your church ran around declaring that the Lord had given him a special prophetic interpretation? It wasn't just a run of the mill standard Charismatic pastoral thing like "this person is homesick - they need a jar of Vegemite stat!" sort of thing. (I’m not convinced any of that stuff is legitimate - being a fairly “Sola Scriptura” guy myself. But I do think God answers prayers in sometimes spectacular ways.)

Instead - this prophecy is a powerful, globally significant new role almost on a par with OT and NT prophets! This person felt they had the right to challenge ANY existing theological authority without themselves relying on theological studies, knowing ancient languages, understanding hermeneutics - or any part of theological disciplines themselves. They were like Jesus battling the Pharisees - and indeed quoted those verses at fellow Christians who did not accept their rather 'unique' and 'bold' new interpretation of fairly standard verses.

But no one agreed with this poor person. Then they started to sound hurt. They started to attack the character of anyone that didn't jump on board with their new teachings - saying awful things about their indifferent fellow believer’s ‘lack of faith’ etc. But on the other hand, they also seemed to feel a great deal of personal martyrs complex - like this 'burden' they had been given was almost too much to bear. It all became part of their identity - to the point that you became concerned they might consider self-harming if their whole vision did not pan out.

You didn’t speak to this person for 6 months and when you caught up with them, you discovered they had seen the proverbial ‘writing on the wall’ for their previous prophecy - that their predictions were just plain running out of time and not likely to happen.

So what had been a rather bizarre and bold new, prophetic message that was 'certain' and anyone else rejecting it was like the Pharisees - this whole timetable - it just got reset. Just like that. Put back a bunch of years. They had claimed the Lord had said it was certain - but what had been predicted was suddenly OBVIOUSLY a mistake on the part of the prophet. It was just case of "over-enthusiasm". But this NEXT prophecy was really truly certain! Everyone should continue listening to this self-appointed prophet again - from now. (Just please ignore that previous bit.) Oh - and then you discover that they've been like this before - and wrong about previous interpretations and prophecies!

How would you counsel this person?

What would you advise the elders of your church to do?

Right now - all I can say is I'm glad we're under grace, and not the OT law.

Deuteronomy 18:20-22
20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”
21 You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” 22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.

Jeremiah 14
14 Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds. 15 Therefore this is what the Lord says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ Those same prophets will perish by sword and famine. 16 And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons and their daughters. I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.

Ezekiel 13
13 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: ‘Hear the word of the Lord! 3 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! 4 Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins. 5 You have not gone up to the breaches in the wall to repair it for the people of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the Lord. 6 Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. Even though the Lord has not sent them, they say, “The Lord declares,” and expect him to fulfill their words. 7 Have you not seen false visions and uttered lying divinations when you say, “The Lord declares,” though I have not spoken?

Matthew 7
15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
I John 4
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world

 

[keras]

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world

No doubt about that!
A good way to discern who is promoting the truth, is see who promotes the Prophetic Word, with the plain meaning., like -
Malachi 4:1 & 3 For lo, the Day comes; burning like a furnace and all the audacious sinners and all the perpetrators of wickedness will be like stubble. And the Day that comes shall burn them up, leaving neither root nor branch.
This Prophecy is paralleled by 70 + other verses, graphically describing a terrible Day of fire, yet to happen. We know the way they can be literally fulfilled and we have been told what we must do to survive it.

But those who say that Prophecy, is symbolic, just a warning; probably not even to us today, then Pauls statement in 1 Thess 5:4-6 becomes null and void.

 

[eclipsenow]

No doubt about that!
A good way to discern who is promoting the truth, is see who promotes the Prophetic Word, with the plain meaning., like -
Malachi 4:1 & 3 For lo, the Day comes; burning like a furnace and all the audacious sinners and all the perpetrators of wickedness will be like stubble. And the Day that comes shall burn them up, leaving neither root nor branch.

Ah - but now you're diverting sideways into matters of interpretation. Interpretation by good theology is of course what I prefer. But I have NEVER said "God told me to tell you all it's this way..." That's NOT how I would break out a funky Sci-Fi reading of the bible!

But when I hear a false prophet splitting passages apart that I've always seen as a continuous whole describing the one event, I must act. When I see them inserting their own weird agenda into verses without any rational reason - I must act. When I see them claiming lofty visions from the Lord and then turning around and just modifying them willy-nilly and making it up as they go along - I must act.

How do I know this prophet's 'vision' was not all caused by some bad kebab from a late night diner?

Where Luther says "pope" here - I must stand with him and say "false prophet".

Since your most serene majesty and your highnesses require of me a simple, clear, and direct answer, I will give one, and it is this: I cannot submit my faith either to the pope or to the council, because it is clear that they have fallen into error and even into inconsistency with themselves. If, then, I am not convinced by proof from Holy Scripture, or by cogent reasons, if I am not satisfied by the very text I have cited, and if my judgment is not in this way brought into subjection to God's word, I neither can nor will retract anything; for it cannot be either safe or honest for a Christian to speak against his conscience. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.​

Luther's Speech at the Diet of Worms

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[keras]

@eclipsenow -So you think I'm the Pope and you are Luther?
You are like Amaziah and I am like Amos 7:12-15

 

[eclipsenow]

The only similarity you have with the pope is you want me to go against the bible and just take your word for it.
When I keep pushing back and asking you to prove it from the texts - you get all snarky about better theologians than yourself - and pretend to have a case of martyr's complex. You jump into the role of some OT scorned prophet. But the way you rip verses out of context has me quite amazed at one of the worst cases of eisegesis I've ever seen!

Back in August 2020 I challenged you about the WHOLE CONCEPT of having an end-times-tables. I brought up that the Lord says he will return like a thief in the night. You contradicted me and said “The Return will not be unexpected, as that will occur exactly 1260 days after the leader of the One World Govt sits in the Temple.”

It’s the classic literalist Abomination Of Desolation - or AOD - with the classic literalist 3.5 years. (Both awful mistakes because the whole thing is as symbolic as Jesus having 7 horns and 7 eyes - but let’s stay on track.)

THEN you did a bunch of genealogy maths (as if the genealogies never made special selections and skipped generations to tell a particular thematic story - which shows how you’ve just read yet another biblical genre all wrong!). You came up with:-

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

I said: “...doesn't the sheer quantity of utterly FAILED end-times-tables shake your confidence in your own? What will you do when 2026 doesn't have an AOD? (And the years leading up to it don't have your CME?)”
The Day of the Lord is at Hand for all the Nations

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.)

TALLY SO FAR - AOD 3.5 years before 2029.5 = January 2026. 12 months! Tik tok!

But where you REALLY crossed the line is you claimed to be a special prophet chosen by God!
There I was thinking this was some really bad joke - or just really bad eisegesis - and you go and throw this spicy news into the pot!

"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

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The humble servant, calling others swine.​

Seems to be running out of time.​

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Where's the temple, AOD, or CME?​

Oh me oh my - can it be?​

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The "humble servant" will eat humble pie,​

In just 12 months - that time will fly.​

 

[keras]

you want me to go against the bible and just take your word for it.

That is so far from what I want, its laughable.
I promote what the Bible actually says, whereas you say Revelation 20 is just a symbolic chapter and we are in the Millennium now.

Great flights of poetic fancy! We will soon see what God has planned for our future and those who promoted error and fables, will be castigated and have a loss of rewards.

 

[eclipsenow]

That is so far from what I want, its laughable.
I promote what the Bible actually says,

In your mind. But you cannot transmit it to my mind without resorting to the 'authority' of your own personal visions. When people come in her ranting about their own personal futurist timetable - of course they're ALL convinced they are carrying around in their own individual timetable in their own individual heads 'what the Bible actually says'.

I'm talking about the grounds of authority for the conversation - and what we do when we cannot convince the other person quickly.

You have resorted to your personal vision - and being a 'humble servant' - and quoting 'wise and foolish' verses about how silly modern theologians are. But what you fail to grasp is that theology is the science of developing a good argument from the scriptures and available evidence from the hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is the science of good reading in historical context - theology is the collection of systematic summaries that comes out of good hermeneutics.

You just bypass all that and make countless spamming posts here without any evidence other than your 'personal vision' and thumping your keyboard with more vigorous assertions!

It's obvious to you that it's 'what the Bible actually says' - but no one else.

That's what we ALL say when frustrated. Every frustrated 'interpreter' has said it. (I'm no bible interpreter - I'm trying but I do rely on the scholarship of others a lot.) I've said it to you regarding the Lord returning like a thief - which you passionately deny - and yet for the life of my I cannot see how and why you split up Matt 24 and 25 and 1 Thessalonians to FORCE the Lord's return to NOT be a surprise!

This isn't about how clearly and passionately we each 'see what the Bible actually says' and yet have different conclusions.
It's about why.

I am convinced by good theology.

You are convinced by a subjective personal vision. A personal vision is what the whole of Islam is based on - not to mention Jonestown, the Branch Davidians, the Mormons, and countless other Millennial end-times cults!

I'm a "Sola Scriptura" guy. That's why I'm with Martin Luther - and you're with the pope.

If you can convince me from the Scriptures in a rational way - great. But just asserting Revelation is literal when it has Jesus portrayed as a slain Lamb with 7 eyes and 7 horns immediately shoots that assertion down like a rabid dog!

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?​

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.​

If Revelation is literal, then Juliet really is a ball of fusing hydrogen millions of miles across - and Jesus is some sort of strange lamb from space!

If you did the hermeneutics - you would know what was really going on in that style of literature - and not try and equate "Juliet" to an solar mass - let alone a CME. (Now - ask yourself - was I talking about Juliet there - or something else? Oops - don't look now - but you're doing hermeneutics and recognising metaphors and symbols!)

The reason I leave here for about 6 months before coming back to look out of sheer morbid curiosity?

I actually think getting too obsessed over 'being right' about end-times stuff is a sign of warped personal priorities. I'm concerned that in my desire to be 'right' - and test my thoughts against other claims - I'm getting side tracked from loving others and being productive in my personal life.

So I'm forced to ask 4.5 years later....

“...doesn't the sheer quantity of utterly FAILED end-times-tables shake your confidence in your own? What will you do when 2026 doesn't have an AOD? (And the years leading up to it don't have your CME?)”​

Israel is currently at war with Gaza and fumbling peace talks. They don't have control over all of Jerusalem and the temple site to rebuild the temple. They don't have the money to fast-track such a thing. How likely is it there will be a temple in January for the AOD to stand in?

And what will this say about your 'vision' - and your status as 'the Lord's humble servant'?

 

[keras]

It's obvious to you that it's 'what the Bible actually says' - but no one else.

Many people have thanked me for presenting the Prophesies, most of which, they [despite having read their Bibles] had never 'seen' before.
Their and your difficulty is how the Lord locks people into their fantasies, so the truths are rejected.

“...doesn't the sheer quantity of utterly FAILED end-times-tables shake your confidence in your own? What will you do when 2026 doesn't have an AOD? (And the years leading up to it don't have your CME?)”

YOU CANNOT CALL ANYTHING FAILED, UNTIL THE WINDOW FOR ITS FULFILMENT IS CLOSED.

Re a Coronal Mass Ejection: Have you even looked at spaceweather.com, or any other site like NASA, for information about CME's?
Right now the sun is at the peak of sunspot cycle 25 and the sun is very active, sending out many CME's in all directions.
It will be a big earth directed one to literally fulfil the graphically Prophesied worldwide deaths and devastation.
God did such a reset of human civilization before; with water. This time it will be by fire. Coming ready or not!

 

[eclipsenow]

Many people have thanked me for presenting the Prophesies, most of which, they [despite having read their Bibles] had never 'seen' before.
Their and your difficulty is how the Lord locks people into their fantasies, so the truths are rejected.

YOU CANNOT CALL ANYTHING FAILED, UNTIL THE WINDOW FOR ITS FULFILMENT IS CLOSED.

I know you're just the Lord's 'humble servant' and all with your 'perfectly confident' "vision" you have to share - but it's actually against forum rules.

• Date setting or date speculation is not allowed.
• No Personal Prophecy (prophetic utterance) allowed.

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This must be annoying - because it robs you of your primary authority - your gut feelings.

Oh well. We'll just have to go back to using hermeneutics and respecting good theologians then.

 

[keras]

Date setting or date speculation is not allowed.

I do not regard the posting of a Bible based timeline, using known dates, as an infringement of Forum rules.

No Personal Prophecy (prophetic utterance) allowed.

I AM NOT A PROPHET - I just reiterate what the ancient Prophets have told us. I also point out facts about the physical universe.

That these thigs conflict with your 'good theology', is your problem.

 

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I do not regard the posting of a Bible based timeline, using known dates, as an infringement of Forum rules.

Um - isn't that what it just said? That it's not allowed?

I AM NOT A PROPHET - I just reiterate what the ancient Prophets have told us. I also point out facts about the physical universe.

I certainly know that. But it's not the way you present yourself.

Correct me if I'm wrong - but does not this next paragraph say the Lord gave you special insight into the passages that you keep quoting?

"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​

You know what you know about the prophets not because of years of study, not because of sound hermeneutics and the understanding of how Jewish people read apocalyptic writing 200 BC to 200 AD, but because of your 'vision'.

You've said you're not a prophet - but the way you write still assumes the mantle of an OT prophet. Any time I ask about context or hermeneutics or good reading of the OT prophets so we can understand what they were really saying in their historical framework - you declare you don't need all that. To me it sounds like you're putting on the mantle of an OT prophet - and just declaring how it is! Then the defensive stuff and references to those wise in 'worldly things'. Or attacking my theologian friends as if they were Pharisees?

I'm Sola Scriptura and kind of allergic to all this subjective 'vision' stuff.
You're Charismatic and prone to all those things.

Check out the forum rules. I seem to have trouble with Section 1 - and you have trouble with Section 2.

My question?

Where do we go from here?

Over to you.

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