Revealing Times
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Genesis 1:14 is a verse I can talk on for an hour if I wanted to. The English word 'seasons' in that verse, alone... is a sermon on God's greatness. But that verse also includes 'signs' which, the underlying Hebrew word, could have been translated as harbinger, omen, etc. So God did indeed place the luminaries into the skies, among other reasons, for signs. I have no issue with that... what I do have an issue with is our Amerocentric mind (everything prophetically runs through us or our country) and how everything, from eclipses to excessive bovine gas emissions are taken as signs from God. We are literally a people who LOOK for signs but we already know the world is evil, we already know the bridegroom is coming... why are we not out doing what He called us to do and why instead do we spend our days on internet forums debating the signs? That is what boggles my mind, RT.
God did place them in the Skies and can use them for signs such as the Matthew 24 signs he speaks of (Joel 2/Rev. 6) but when God mentions for "Seasons" it obvious to me it for the reason of keeping time/seasons/days/months/years because He mentions that in that very passage. And an omen/warning is mentioned as one reason but the times that Sign is used as vastly greater, like 184 to 1 or something close to that.
#0226 H0225 (in the sense of appearing); TWOT - 41a;
n f
—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)
1) sign, signal
1a) a distinguishing mark
1b) banner
1c) remembrance
1d) miraculous sign
1e) omen
1f) warning
2) token, ensign, standard, miracle, proof
—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)
Probably from H0225 (in the sense of appearing); a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:—mark, miracle, (en-) sign, token.
—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)
- #226.
- אוֹת
- oth (16d); from 184; a sign:—
- NASB - banners(1), omens(1), pledge(1), sign(43), signs(30), standards(1), witness(1), wondrous(1).
And the word for season is MOWED in Hebrew which means appointed time/place, fixed time, festival etc. etc.
So I agree it can be that God uses to planetary digits and the heavens as signs, but for the most part He was speaking about us using them for Navigation and for setting up a calendar used for understanding the seasons, times, etc. etc.
Take the blood moon tetrads, that might very well be a valid sign. But you don't have a sign in the Heavens on an event that has already happened. Especially by incorporating Astrology into it.
You're right, dead on. In Jeremiah God said that He would correct us >>ALL<< in due course, all means all. We have not been perfected yet, we are NOT a finished product, and yet we divide like amoeba over what we think is truth and in the process raise our own understanding of God as the standard that God Himself will use to judge the world. We ALL will be corrected which means we ALL have error. Why do we then not proceed with a little more mercy toward others?
I spent a couple of years in full studying Babylon and I wrote a blog that Rev. 17:18 was speaking about Rome. Within two months the Holy Spirit was like RON, you were wrong, it is not Rome, I stated in that verse what JOHN SAW...........What did he see Ron? And what John saw we all know was a vision, and the vision is only in verses 3-6, the rest of the chapter is the Angel speaking to John about what hes is going to show him in verses 1 and 2 and what he has shown him in verses 8-18, verse number 7 is the angel explaining to John that he is going to explaining what the MYSTERY IS.
So what did John see? Well he saw a Harlot/Woman with Four Descriptions on her head. MYSTERY, (COMMA) BABYLON THE GREAT.....Abominations of the Earth.....Mother of Harlots.
The Angel tells us hes going to explain the Mystery, which he does (verses 8-18) and he told us BABYLON THE GREAT, so that GREAT CITY that John saw was what? Babylon !! Of course. Not Rome, but Babylon, a Metaphor for the World or World governance under Satan (Statue that gets SMASHED).
So you are 100 percent right, God does correct us. But if we harbor pride, He can't correct us.
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