(10-28-2023, 06:49 AM)BodhisattvaStyle Wrote: I have to agree with ya on all of that. That articulation of it is the only thing I've heard that actually balances out that revelation equation.
You got me thinkin' now...
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I just added a paragraph, after you read it - because I'm a kid at heart and can't help myself - to further complicate revelations. it's this one:
Quote:To further complicate it, Revelations was written in symbols and symbolic "code", to hide it's revelations from prying eyes who, in the first century AD, were not privy to the Christian teachings of those days. A "New Jerusalem" may not be, and is probably not, and actual physical cubic city larger than the earth flying out of the sky like a comet to obliterate what is now, physically. A "temple" may not be, and probably is not, a large cubic building on the top of Mount Moriah. The "Great Whore of Babylon" may not be, and probably is not, an actual sex worker in the Iraqi desert wastes where a great city once stood. That sort of thing.
I figure that the modern formulation of "The End Times" was developed by Millenialists to give folks a false sense of security - they can live like hell until the "see the signs" of the Kingdom coming, and just wait until then to get right with their Maker. That ain't how it works. We rarely see the end coming for us as individuals, and if we are not pre-prepared, then we miss the chance. Our ends come while we are waiting and looking for THE end, and many are caught unawares that way. The Kingdom is already here, and has been for some time, and Millennialism conditions folks not to see that. It's a shame, really.
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