Monday, February 21, 2011

Prophecy: The Central Issue

Make no mistake. The difference in effect between historicism and futurism is huge!

That effect ought to be self evident but apparently isn't, and is a principal reason why I feel such urgency in setting forth these things. Those who are laboring under a futuristic mindset are laboring under an enormous deception which history will show clearly got its beginning as recently as the early nineteenth century, only a couple of short decades before our own Civil War.

To state the matter in its utmost simplicity historicists believe that very important prophecies have already been fulfilled, while futurists are convinced that they have yet to be fulfilled.

And since much of these prophecies (i.e. as a generalization the entire book of Revelation) have as their central theme the immense conflict between the true followers of Jesus and the pseudo followers thereof, collectively identified as the great harlot, and the awful, awful, unimaginable sufferings of the former at the hands of the latter, those who embrace Revelation as a current and past tense see themselves as part of a great worldwide body of SUFFERERS, while those who see Revelation as basically yet to start (i.e. chapter six and following) see themselves as fundamentally exempt from any appreciable suffering. Don't you know, say they, that we will be raptured out before 'The Great Tribulation.'

Reviewing ground we have covered earlier, take note that the tribulation above is capitalized, since to futurists it is a one great, and very brief yet future enormous time of world wide suffering, and the fundamental passage that justifies it all is Daniel chapter 9:24-27. We won't go back there now, but if you missed those emails (which I began before starting this blog format) email me at dgregory17@sc.rr.com and I will send you that material.

This post is long enough.

Sincerely,
David

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