This show originally aired on Oct. 25, 2017. This is Part 3 in a series I’ve been doing with Brian Godawa, wherein we discuss the so-called End Times from two totally different perspectives: Brian arguing in favor of a Preterist view and I argued from a Futurist view. In this broadcast we began to do a breakdown of the book of Revelation.
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The Bible is its own best interpreter, comparing scripture with scripture. It provides its own methodology for understanding symbols and dates. But too many only do a superficial examination coupled with much imagination to make these fit an external system. This is the sin of Eisegesis. An external belief drives interpretation.
Another problem, alluded to about 43:10, is the problem of hyper-literalism. With respect to dating… How literal is the time? To the hour, to the day, to the month?
God told Abraham that his decedents would be in Egypt 400 years (Gen 15:13) but the closer time was 430 years (Gal 3:17). But the language of the 1000 years of Rev 20, when taken with other uses of 1000, is clearly representative of a long, inexact period of time. God owns the cattle on a 1000 hills. It has already been 2000 years.
42 months, on the other hand is repeated in a half-dozen different ways, indicating a more literal time-frame, and, as mentioned, there are a variety of 42 month time periods viewed in history. Jesus's ministry was also 3 1/2 years.
Be Bereans (Acts 17:11), prove everything, hold to what is true. Blessings to you all.
The spirit is Telling me this preterist view is error. To scholarly to hear the voice and simple truth of God.
I may be shooting in the dark here, or flogging a dead horse but…
What are the chances both interpretations are correct? The Bible is cyclical, it even states… What has been will be again,what has been done, will be done again, there is nothing new under the sun…
How truly powerful that it can be taken literally for the time period of Revelations if written in 70A.D., and still apply as prophecy for a futurist view.
I love how this guy just twists everything to try and make sense of scripture. We need to have context. Thanks Rob for being a voice of reason.
The scroll of divorcement concept is the ultimate replacement theology. This flies in the face of Hosea chapter 3. tinyurl.com/SkibaForgiveness