Prophecy - The End Times

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Originally Posted by Nell

These 4 topics stood out to me:
1. Answers to difficult questions...by revelation from God.
Because of curiosity to "know things", I have a tendency to try to figure things out by research, reading what others have said, pro and con, on what I think the answer might be. Another method we employ, as Christians, is to rely on our understanding of Scripture. "The Bible doesn't say that" or "The Bible says this..." I also rely on what I have been taught by a child, not because I tested what I believe by asking for God's clarity.

2. A particularly ear tickling question might cause me/us to come to a conclusion based on something that God has not revealed, but something research has uncovered.

3. Knowledge without understanding. Wow!

4. Listen to God's answer then test to be sure you heard Him correctly.

Be willing to admit that you/I/we don't know everything.

Knowing God is more important than knowing stuff about prophecy and/or the Bible. Unless He's talking to you via revelation, what you/we/I have may be "knowledge without understanding."

Nell

I also ask God the Holy Spirit to help me understand what I am reading, be it a passage or even something unrelated I don’t understand. And while it is not always instantaneously, He always comes through (sometimes it is almost immediately). Most of the time it is followed by confirmation.