I'm going to begin this post with an anecdote that is totally unrelated to the topic but hopefully will show a clear analogy to that topic.
Like many other people, I have been more than interested in the assassination of JFK. I was sitting in my 8th grade classroom when Sister Alfreda came in crying with the news and then we were all sent home. I've read many of the various books that have come out and consider each and every theory. It usually happens like this....I'll see something in the news and then that sets me off on a period of a few days to a week where I can't get it off of my mind. Actually I'm surprised that I never took the trip to Dallas to walk Dealey Plaza. Here's my point...after decades of researching this and with no particular biases to cloud my thinking, I have come to the point where I tell people somewhat euphemistically that I know only two things for certain....one that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed that day....and two that Lee Harvey Oswald did not do it.
The topic that this leads into is Biblical prophesy. I haven't read as long on this topic, 30 years to 45 years, but I've put much more time into it. In fact it's not even close, for God's Word is a daily endeavor and prophesy is throughout that Word. I have strong inclinations on many things as they pertain to end-times prophesy but as with that terrible day in November of 1963 there are two things I personally have come to be sure of. One, that most of Scripture, from Genesis on, either alludes to or is a direct reference to the days of the Book of Revelation; and two, that God removes veils according to His own schedule!
I appreciate many of the men who have spent their life studying and writing about end-times prophesy. They served a purpose. They may see their findings as certainties whereas I see them merely as helps but as time passes and God removes veils, the last fifty years or so seem to have been God's doing, with a purpose, and are a foundation for what is ahead. If one is not reading prophesy right now at an accelerated and elevated rate and purpose, with the news of this world right in front of us, then something has impeded the desire to do so. It might be something banal such as the cares of this world or it might be something intensely personal such as a fear to admit that something new might be required of one who is set and confident in their ways. In either case, should our returning King be at the very doorstep, this will change, for every redeemed child of God will surely rush to open these pages of prophesy, and we will all together see what is under those veils as God continues to lift them.
To my brothers and sisters in Christ who tend to shy away from end-times prophesy, you see the world that is coming to be and where the various sciences are taking us. You see the violence overcoming peace and chaos overcoming order. You also see the burgeoning hatred of God. We are nearing the apex of this modern Tower of Babel. Lord Jesus come!
Like many other people, I have been more than interested in the assassination of JFK. I was sitting in my 8th grade classroom when Sister Alfreda came in crying with the news and then we were all sent home. I've read many of the various books that have come out and consider each and every theory. It usually happens like this....I'll see something in the news and then that sets me off on a period of a few days to a week where I can't get it off of my mind. Actually I'm surprised that I never took the trip to Dallas to walk Dealey Plaza. Here's my point...after decades of researching this and with no particular biases to cloud my thinking, I have come to the point where I tell people somewhat euphemistically that I know only two things for certain....one that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed that day....and two that Lee Harvey Oswald did not do it.
The topic that this leads into is Biblical prophesy. I haven't read as long on this topic, 30 years to 45 years, but I've put much more time into it. In fact it's not even close, for God's Word is a daily endeavor and prophesy is throughout that Word. I have strong inclinations on many things as they pertain to end-times prophesy but as with that terrible day in November of 1963 there are two things I personally have come to be sure of. One, that most of Scripture, from Genesis on, either alludes to or is a direct reference to the days of the Book of Revelation; and two, that God removes veils according to His own schedule!
I appreciate many of the men who have spent their life studying and writing about end-times prophesy. They served a purpose. They may see their findings as certainties whereas I see them merely as helps but as time passes and God removes veils, the last fifty years or so seem to have been God's doing, with a purpose, and are a foundation for what is ahead. If one is not reading prophesy right now at an accelerated and elevated rate and purpose, with the news of this world right in front of us, then something has impeded the desire to do so. It might be something banal such as the cares of this world or it might be something intensely personal such as a fear to admit that something new might be required of one who is set and confident in their ways. In either case, should our returning King be at the very doorstep, this will change, for every redeemed child of God will surely rush to open these pages of prophesy, and we will all together see what is under those veils as God continues to lift them.
To my brothers and sisters in Christ who tend to shy away from end-times prophesy, you see the world that is coming to be and where the various sciences are taking us. You see the violence overcoming peace and chaos overcoming order. You also see the burgeoning hatred of God. We are nearing the apex of this modern Tower of Babel. Lord Jesus come!
