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Originally Posted by OBW
... can you imagine the thinking over the centuries if Lee was right and everyone before him understood the apparent prophecies? Sometime in about 200AD they would begin to say "Wow! We're in the age of Smyrna!" then quite some generations later, someone would declare "Woe to us who now live in the age of Thyatira!"
It doesn't take a degree in theology to see the problems with that interpretation.
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Not to mention the problems with theology of its reception with the actual recipients, and their contemporaries. I see a skit brewing:
(Scene: somewhere in Thyatira, circa 90 CE)
Bob: Well, hey there, Fred? Howzit going!!
Fred: Praise the Lord, brother Bob!!
B: Amen, amen. What's news?
F: Well, did you know, the aged apostle really took us to task, here? He said that all kinds of shenanigans were going on. Seemed pretty upset.
B: Oh you mean John? Not to worry. He was writing of a church age to come. We're cool.
F: Oh really? Well, that's good to know. I was worried there for a minute.
B: Yeah, but keep this between you & me, okay? Nobody's supposed to figure all this out until the apostle of the age, about 19 centuries hence. Until then it will all be shrouded in mystery.
F: Mystery, huh? Oh boy I like mysteries!! And we get to be in it! How cool is that?
B: No doubt, man.
F: Ok, see ya. Praise the Lord.
B. Amen, bro.