GOD'S JUSTICE. RESPONSIBILITIES IN CHRIST. THE CONCLUSION OF JOHN DOERR'S STUDY ON THE NEW WORLD TRANSLATION.
No one gets away with anything. Christians included. John concludes his series on the Watchtower Society's Bible, The New World Translation. He shows how it matches Roman Catholic Bibles and other corrupt modern Bibles.
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Regarding looking at what others are doing and beating ourselves up, 2 Corinthians 10:12-18 is very applicable.
I’m usually partial to a very symbolic interpretation of the prophecies of which these passages are a part as Revelation says stars refer to angels and stuff like that. I also am prone to assuming that there is very little room for literal fulfillment of prophecy in the future because Jesus said that he came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets. I take from this that his ministry and the events that took place during the time of the apostles, as they sat on thrones in the Kingdom of God, fulfilled the literal sense of the prophecy and left the remaining senses of prophecy as spiritual meat. I wish I could cite more scripture, but hopefully I can read more soon and show more of what I mean.
I understand your position. It may be something like preterism or partial-preterism. Yet there are prophecies that have not yet been fulfilled. When Jesus said he came to fulfill the prophets and the Law, he did not restrict the entirety of that to his life time. For most of its history, the church was essentially historicist in its view of eschatology. I recommend you read E.B. Elliot's work and that of H. Grattan Guinness. Also search my Patreon site: "Historicism." I've made quite a few lessons on this subject. They might be of use. God Bless.
From Wikipedia . . . . . This is a list of solar eclipses in the 20th century. During the period 1901 to 2000 there were 228 solar eclipses of which 78 were partial, 73 were annular (two non-central), 71 were total (three non-central) and 6 were hybrids. The greatest number of eclipses in one year was five, in 1935, and one month, July 2000, had two eclipses.[1] . . . . so . . . I would say that each full solar eclipse does not line up with a biblical prophecy. We need to tread lightly in this area . . . Jesus said a wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign . . Matthew 16:4 . . . . also from Wiki . . . A total of 229 lunar eclipses took place in the 20th century: 83 penumbral, 65 partial and 81 total.[1]
I have been thinking this week as we face news of events of the sky, in the case of the auroras, about the symbolism and potential literal physicality of certain trains of imagery in scripture. The trains of imagery of which I speak involves the sun being darkened and the moon being covered in blood. It always seems to coincide with judgment on the part of God, and in one message Jesus follows it with something about heaven and earth passing away, seeming to suggest that it may be part of a final judgment. I have been mulling over it myself, but it would be cool if others had insights of scripture to lend to the imagery or language involved in prophetic mentions of suns and moons. I will cite the specific verses below so that I hope to be clear about this. Thanks everyone for whatever considerations you have! Matthew 24:29 ¶ Immediately after the tribulation of those dayes, shall the Sunne be darkned, and the Moone shall not giue her light, and the starres shall fall from heauen, and the powers of the heauens shall be shaken. Revelation 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixt seale, and loe, there was a great earthquake, and the Sunne became blacke as sackecloth of haire, and the Moone became as blood. Joel 2:31 The Sunne shall be turned into darkenesse, and the Moone into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come. Joel 3:15 The Sunne and the Moone shall be darkened, and the starres shall withdraw their shining.
Taken literally, it appears there will be profound cosmic signs just before the second coming.