Mr Khan said:
chriscox1121 said:
All biblical prophecies will come to pass, whether the world wants to recognize this reality is another thing. The prophecies in Daniel and Revelation in particular are definitely something people who are not christians should take into consideration. The prophecies that have already come to pass and what it speaks about future events are truths that anybody who reads them should not take lightly. The attitude that people display towards the coming of Christ fits perfectly into what Peter says in his epistle. Although, I'm not into conspiracy theories, (I'm sure people in here with their superior intellect will say i've already bought into one) which Christians have unfruitfully participated in. I stand on the innerrancy of Biblical truth that is presented within scripture. It's hard to look around at the world's condition and not see the direction in which it's heading. John records in revelations which most scholars date roughly around 95 AD (some date it earlier), 13:16,17 about a one world currency. Bankers realize that it's moving to a centralized currency soon, which all banks will work directly through in some form or fashion and have talked about it openly. The parellel's are many if one takes the time to look at them. In the midst of all the crazies out there. There is sound exegesis of scripture and solid and logical evidences that point or shadow the things reflected in scripture.
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He was speaking of Rome. All of Revelations was an elaborate metaphor for the problems Christians faced in the unified Roman World in the time of John, mostly in that the Romans liked to incorporate all gods and belief systems into one (they saw worshipping a god as a mathematical thing almost. The more gods you claim to acknowledge and sacrifice to, the better you hedge your bets for your society), thus the one-god-only system of Christianity was very foreign to them, and that was part of a basket of reasons why they repressed them, and John wrote these stories knowing that other Christians would know what he was talking about, but Romans wouldn't know he was speaking against the state.
It would be like if we took Alduous Huxley's Brave New World as an inevitable picture of where the world is headed.
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the word your looking for is monotheism, and your entitled to that viewpoint, but i don't agree.
