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Originally Posted by OBW
I happened to read some of the beginnings of this thread and they were quite interesting. According to the first post, Israel was prophecied (by the Arab world) to be blotted from the earth (my words, not theirs) by 2022.
And here we are in 2024.
What are the prophecies of the end times? I seem to recall that there was something about events that would indicate the end within that generation.
Yet the event keeps getting restated. First, it was the (re)creation of Israel as a nation. Then it was this war or that war.
Question. What was the relevance of Revelation for the past 2,000 years if it is really only about the end times? (Ignoring the first 3 chapters.) Are we looking for the wrong thing(s) in it? Is there current value if it turns out that the end still hasn't happened by 2095? If so, how do we read it apart from dispensational rapture theology?
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Obviously if you heed the many false prophecies of the end time like the Millerite SDA (1844), the Mayans (2012), or the Arabs (2022), it’s kind of like those predicted by Climate Prophets like Al Gore, John Kerry, AOC, or Greta Thunberg.
There is, however, a definite blessing in reading (1.3 out loud?) the Revelation of Jesus Christ. After these events in Revelation begin to occur, many Christians will wish they had heeded this instruction more carefully.
Today we are in a time of great delusion and lawlessness, with a tremendous adversity to truth, all predicted by Paul in 2 Thess 2. The Bible clearly instructs us to watch for the signs of the end times, rather than attempt to ascribe some date. The only times and dates we should consider are after the age of grace, the fullness of the Gentiles, when the Temple is restored in Israel. That event starts the clock.