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  3. Hello my friend. Do not worry about the rapture. If you examine the context in detail of the rapture doctrine's origination and other views of those exact scriptures there are other more than fitting interpretations. Still just as authoritative and just as Christian. What stops so many people is they are prevented from learning from others outside their circle. No worries my friend. Its only context. Prophecy is marching forward and the signs are significant. I have a theory, that this sign is a born again sign..and a sifting. Those looking are forming a common bond by this sign in preparation for watching everything unfold. A cohesive "ecclesia" is born on these signs of various faiths (other "churches" or "ecclesia") and as a unit we will all become watchers.

  5. I give you credit for leaving this video up. Everything else has been taken down. The astronomical events of 2017 are indeed very intriguing, and powerfully reminiscent of Rev. 12:1-2. The problem is that they unravel as you continue with the chapter. Rev 12 goes on to describe how the child is caught up into heaven and the woman flees to the wilderness and is pursued by a great red dragon who vomits forth a flood from his mouth trying to kill her. None of that got fulfilled in 2017.

    Worse for this supposed "fulfillment," however, is that Wormwood has not happened yet. Revelation 8 tells about a great mountain being hurled from heaven into the sea, and turning 1/3 of it into blood. After that, a "great star," called Wormwood, falls from heaven and turns 1/3 of the world's fresh water poisonous. That definitely has not happened, so how could something in Revelation 12 be fulfilled, when Revelation 8 still has not?

    That's really the problem with so much of what passes for eschatology today. Prophecy is not given in bit-sized, 2-verse pieces. It's given in extended narratives where every verse is connected to all the other verses in sequence. You can't jump ahead and claim fulfillment of a couple verses when the verses before it haven't yet come to pass, or the verses following contradict your fulfillment. It simply doesn't work that way.

    The truth is that there are very, very, very few places in prophecy where you can plant your flag and say, "this proves that we are here on the prophetic timeline." The language is simply too vague, like Mt. 24, or too precise, like Revelation. The establishment of the nation of Israel in 1948 is one of those places where you can plant a flag, but it only establishes a window (1 generation), not a date. I think the next place you'll be able to plant a flag is after the rapture has occurred. Of course, that's too late for most Christians.

    I grew up in church and heard way too many times statements to the effect, "Boy you sure can see Revelation happening all around!" or "the rapture's gonna happen any moment!" etc. I think the best you can say is that we see echoes of Revelation all around us, because when you take any specific event and try to plug it into context, you realize it just doesn't fit.

    We're all trying to figure it out. That's good, but we need to dig deep into the Word, and think critically when we do. Far too many weak Christians hear some tantalizing analysis and get fooled. They fall away thinking the Bible failed them, when it was sloppy exegesis that failed them. Far too many Christian leaders stake their credibility (ala Harold Camping) on some prediction, and destroy themselves. It makes us all look silly and foolish when they do. We shouldn't go along with it.

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