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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
I consider this concept to be very dangerous, and you are now the second poster on this thread to express it. We all know that the False prophet, and Antichrist will be performing miracles. We also know that the two witnesses will also be performing miracles. What we don't know is if "this day and age" is their day and age. For all we know, they could pop up on the news tomorrow.
To me this concept is like having the third 100 year flood in ten years. It is time to change your concept. You are asking to be blindsided with this concept.
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I'm not sure that I follow. I am merely saying that looking for signs and wonders in a day when it is commonplace to create the illusion of the miraculous makes the testing almost impossible. So we need a different approach.
Yes, assuming that the part about the False prophet, Antichrist, and two witnesses are intended to be literal and not yet another sign to be interpreted, we will have a problem.
And actually, I begin to wonder whether the whole premise that these charges to test apostles was intended to be for the "average Christian" is a valid thought. Are these clearly stated to everyone? Not everything in the NT is. We have kept it and called it scripture. But is/was all of it written for the general consumption of the people? I note that Paul wrote specifically to Timothy a couple of times. And some of the more direct words he gave on checking out teachers, elders, etc. were in those letters. Yes. There is some in Thessalonians. But it does seem evident that even as Paul wrote, he did not have the concept that everyone was an elder or leader. Or that everything he wrote was about everyone. Some of it is very pointedly at the leadership.
This does not answer any question. But I believe that it does make the question even more problematic if we are presuming that everyone is supposed to be figuring out the False prophet on their own.