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Well, I think the Apocalypse is both for understanding previous prophecies and for adding new details to them. It sort of summarizes biblical prophecy for the endtimes. I don't see the 7 kings of Rev 13-17 as related to Dan 7 in the same way you do. But I do see them related. In my view...

I completely and whole-heartedly agree with you that this is about *Israel!* I've not said otherwise. But I believe this all took place at Jesus' 1st Coming, at his earthly ministry. He died on the cross, and following that Jerusalem, with its temple, fell. This is how God disposed of sin in...

I don't really relate Rev 12 to Dan 9. Dan 9 has to do with the earthly ministry of Christ and to the fall of Jerusalem which immediately fell afterwards. And Dan 12 begins at the earthly ministry of Christ and then switches to the last days, when Antichrist arises. To be honest, I'm not sure...

You can't go wrong putting Jesus up front and focusing on him and on what he did. Thanks! :)

There are a couple of different approaches to this. One is that the covenant was the covenant of Law that Christ came to confirm in his ministry. He confirmed the Law by fulfilling everything he tried and failed to do--everything that it promised Christ himself would be able to do. This is the...

Yes, you should walk in the Spirit. I agree with you on this.

Okay, I'll try again. The prophecy, in my view, says there will be 69 weeks until Messiah comes, yes. Technically, I believe that there was 69 weeks until a covenant was confirmed by some entity, whether Christ himself or the Roman government. That confirmation began at the point at which Christ...

I understand that you're spiritualizing these prophecies. And certainly there is always a spiritual emphasis on everything the Bible has to say to us. After all, God indwells our spirits. And if we are to be renewed spiritually, it must be by spiritual means. But this doesn't mean that the...

Yes, we really must be missing what the other is saying? I'm saying that 483 years lapsed from Artaxerxes' decree until the beginning of Christ's ministry, which lasted for 3.5 more years. This brings us to 486.5 years. The remaining 3.5 years of the 70th Week go away because the 70th Week was...

My view is a very common one, also held by most of the Church Fathers, I believe, though on some points of this prophecy there is some divergence of interpretation. Cyrus made the original decree (530s. BC) to restore Jerusalem, and the project proceeded to take place in stages and over time...

Thanks for sharing your perspective. I get a little dizzy weaving in and out from one passage to another. I prefer to interpret each passage independently, to ensure I have each piece correct. But certainly each passage is drawing upon previous passages, and we would be wise to compare them. I...

A different view of Dan 9. I'm seeing the 70 Weeks of Dan 9 a little differently than I have been. And I think it may make reading it a little more cohesive and readable, which should be what an account is all about. Dan 9.24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to...

I try to keep my head down low at all times! ;)

Yes, as difficult as it is for Christians to state this in a feminist environment, it is nevertheless true. Female submission to *husbands* appears to be a consequence of the Fall, and in particular, Eve's role in the Fall. However, I believe that in the Kingdom of God there will be absolute...

I agree with you, insofar as I understand you.

The Law of God can be used as the generic Law of God or as the Law of Moses, which is a conditional covenant which, if broken, is terminated. A terminated contract can and was restored at one time. But it is not to be restored in the NT era. All this was saying that a new covenant would come...

I live in the Pacific NW, and also lived, for a time, in California. It's very sad to see the disasters hitting these areas. I do feel they are birth pangs of divine judgment--a warning to the people that they need God. Choosing to do things on their own, and trying to be their own "god," they...

I personally see that when the people failed, the contract failed along with them. That's how contracts work. When a party to the contract fails to do his part, the contract fails. The failure of the party who fails causes the contract itself to fail. That's not how I interpret it. There were...

The Law as a covenant no longer exists, unless you want to call "Judaism" a form of Moses' Law? The Law of God, in the generic sense, always exists--it is not dependent on there being a covenant. It is God's eternal mandate for Man in creating him in His own image. The Law of Moses was a...

You can then keep believing that Jesus was kidding when he said, "It is finished?" Let me rephrase, to see if that makes any difference. Jesus was saying that *as long as the Law remained in effect,* he had not come to abolish the Law--it remained in effect *as long as that covenant was in play...