The study of biblical prophecy can become a life-long project and joy. It can also be the source of much confusion and even controversy. As anyone knows who has spent much time studying the doctrine of eschatology, or last things, there is considerable debate over the proper way to interpret these Scriptures. This debate exists even among evangelical Christians who hold to the inerrancy of the Bible. Such is the difficulty of the task.
While a study of the end times is not the purpose of this article, it is helpful to understand the context of where our discussion will go. A proper study of eschatology requires the harmonizing of relevant passages from both the Old and New Testaments. Just reading Revelation doesn’t cut it. Scriptures that inform this study are scattered throughout the Bible, although some books address the topic more thoroughly.
Another decision the interpreter encounters is determining when passages are meant to be taken literally and when they are symbolic. Or maybe even both. Figures of speech are used, just as we use them in our normal conversations. How should those be interpreted? More to the point of this article, how should we take the numbers that are used in prophetic passages? Again, even those evangelicals who uphold the doctrine of inerrancy can still differ, hopefully in a friendly way, on the proper methods of interpretation.
So what are some prophecy scholars saying now in the light of some remarkable happenings in our world? More on page two.
I agree with you. The continuation of the last eight years was leading to a war anyway whether from within or without.
Interesting article
Really???? You want a WAR???
No because the Bible is fiction.
And now the time is near and so I face the final curtain, isn’t it odd this was a song that Donald and Melania danced to at one of the inaugural balls
I’m pretty shure they are already at war and have been for over 1,000 years weather it has the formal title or not.
PSALM 83, Prayer to Frustrate Conspiracy Against Israel
1 Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold your peace, and do not be still, O God!
2 For behold your enemies make a tumult; and those who hates you have lifted up their head.
3 they have taken crafty counsel against your people and consulted together against your sheltered ones.
4 they have said come and let us cut them off from being a nation that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.
5 for they have consulted together with one consent they form a Confederacy against you.
6 the tents of Edom and the ishmaelites; Moab and the hagrites;
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of tyre
8 Assyria also has joined with them they have helped the children of lot. Selah
9 deal with them as with Midian as with sisera as with jabin and the brook Kishon
10 who perished at En Dor, who became as refuse on the Earth.
11 make their nobles like oreb and Zeeb, yes all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna
12 who said let us take for ourselves the pastures of God for a possession
13 O my God make them like the whirling dust like the chaff before the wind!
14 as the fire burns the woods, and as the Flame sets mountains on fire,
15 so pursue them with your Tempest and frighten them with your storm.
16 fill their faces with shame that they may seek your name oh Lord.
17 let them be confounded and dismayed forever yes let them be put to shame and Parish.
18 that they may know that you whose name alone is the Lord are the most high over all the Earth.
Crazy fucking$#%&!@*heads… seriously crazy -$#%&!@*- heads….
No one knows the exact day , but we can tell by certain signs of things that will and are happening..
Julia Benson Not all of us .