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Originally Posted by YP0534
What do you think, aron?
Am I too much?
This is your thread, after all...
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Not at all. I didn't expect your questions, and cannot answer them to your or my own satisfaction, but I was getting stuck in my journey through the bible and I needed someone to come along and help me out. You did just fine.
And so did others, inc.
OBW. My idea of a conversation isn't "Listen to me" so much as "Here's what I have. What do you have?" It is mutual exploration, and trading.
I am convinced "something bad" happened in the fellowships after Pentecost. The sign of the woman on the beast(Rev 17), with the purple robe and the golden cup, tells me that John saw something bad was going on there, too. John had been intimate with the observant Jews before Jesus came along (remember he knew the high priest, Ananias), and he had himself a front row seat on the failure of God's chosen people, when the long-awaited Messiah showed up. Now, 50-odd years had passed, and the christian assembly was failing fast, and I want to know what happened. And I am trying to explain it to myself in a simple way (remember my "10 year-old" rule).
If it wasn't for Rev. chapter 21/22, I might get depressed. But I ain't.
p.s. John was just like the OT prophets. They lambasted Israel, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Babylon, everyone in sight, then when you think it's all over, just pelicans and cormorants and owls and a smoking hole in the ground, the prophets start on how good and merciful God is, and how He'll keep His promise to His people, and you go, "awww.."
