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Three pages of thread to talk about how this video is not worth watching. :D

But they are for sure God's servants--not John's servants?

is that meant to be "His" servants, with a capital H? Substantial difference.

I don't know that it is always a matter of maturity. It is a matter of attention span.

In light of that, I guess the answer to your question would be that the OT prophets knew through the Holy Spirit. Since that's what your passage in I Peter said.

I see it differently. What about the book of Esther? Esther is about something that happened back when Persia ruled Babylon and Palestine in BC times. The book doesn't even mention God. Yet the OT scribes still include it in Tanakh with exacting detail. The book is considered a...

This statement is part and parcel to this thread. A different hermeneutic is applied to Revelation depending on whether it is a parable, versus a vision, versus John literally being snatched up to Heaven.

Forgive me, typos, I don't understand. John the Baptist was not Elijah. People thought he might be, they asked, and he was not.

I actually see three major views, maybe four: it is in the future, it is in the past, and it is symbolic. Amill, for example, is neither future nor past--it is present, and symbolic. This makes Revelation relevant to our Christian life today, end times or no end times. I wouldn't go so far...

Turns out the Gordon Fee book is a free audiobook, so no feeding the Amazon juggernaut there. :) Also, Gordon Fee has a book on Revelation. I like the path this is going.

I do not contest that. Certainly, the isms and ists are not the MOST important thing, and drawing God's word out of God's Word is. But, like I said in my analogy about studying false religions (and that is an ANALOGY, people...), it does not mean we have to exclude study of the isms and ists...

Excellent, relevant passage. But what is your exegesis of this passage? My read is that, the Old Testament prophets, when they were inspired by the Holy Spirit, they knew there would be a latter day, which we now know as the New Covenant. And so the Holy Spirit revealed to them that their...

I should probably clarify. I am concerned about the PERCEPTION. Let's take the first thing: introducing the words, "Hermeneutics", "exegesis", and "eisegesis" to laymen. Exegesis=good. Eisegesis=bad. First thing somebody's going to ask: Do any of these words appear in the Bible...

I will take that as a no.

Hi, Quick poll of this board. So...my preparation for a Revelation Bible study has led me off on a study of hermeneutics. Which frankly might be a more important study, anyway. Learning right and wrong hermeneutics lays the groundwork for studying Revelation. Let me explain my poll...

You do realize that studying Revelation before you lead Revelation is a lesson straight from Captain Obvious, right?

Here's the thing: John Wycliffe died for his faith. He translated Revelation into multiple languages. Gutenberg and he are responsible for putting the Bible in the hands of thousands--if not millions--of people. His resume beats all of us. He is more qualified to preach than all of my...

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Thank you for this keen observation about Luke 21 mentioning Jerusalem is surrounded, while other Synoptic Gospels don't. However, there is another keen difference I see, that in Luke 21:8 it says, "Jesus replied...," implying that Jesus delivered basically the entire Olivet Discourse then and...

I will give you this: If government scientists thought there would be a 50% chance the asteroid would strike the Earth, they would probably be telling us there is a 3% chance. There is also a hypothetical supernova astronomical event wherein the Earth would be destroyed by fire, and there is...