(10-22-2023, 01:35 AM)putnam6 Wrote:(10-22-2023, 12:33 AM)Infolurker Wrote: Well,
Turkey will join with Russia and half the middle eastern nations against Israel.
It is prophesized in Ezekiel 38-39
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So you are portraying this current conflict as the Biblical apocalyptical end times? Ive heard this so many times before, while not being blind to the seriousness of these events, don't we need more before attaching it to being in relationship to Ezekiel 38-39 or the actual end times.
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It happens every time there is a dustup in the Middle East - all the prophets crawl out of the woodwork with their sandwich-boards brightly painted with "THE END IS NIGH - REPENT!"
I can't count how many times Armageddon has happened just in my lifetime... yet the world just keeps ticking along like clockwork until the next Middle East dustup.
I won't say that Revelations should have been left out of the canon, because that ain't my call, but I will say that the misinterpretations - intentional or not - of Revelations, Daniel, Isaiah and Ezekiel have caused untold amounts of fear and trembling unnecessarily, and damned little comfort as they were intended to provide.
Their message is not "here's all the icky ways you're gonna die, and you need to calculate them out to the nth degree and dwell on them endlessly, making sure every one else has to dwell on then endlessly, too", their messages are "God is in control, God is gonna win, so fear not. Kick back, relax, trust God and let God do the God thing."
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