I looked up Michael Griffen. He seems to have very weird beliefs.
Ha ha ha ha ha! On the irony.
You mean his weird untestable 'vision' distorted his reading of Scripture?
I'm shocked!
Not an 'anointing, just a vision, a momentary glimpse of how it will soon be in the holy Land. As Hosea 4:3 and many other prophesies describe.
Oh puuuuhhllllleaaase.
Anyone obsessed with something long enough is going to have a daydream or nightmare about it.
Your points:
1/ A Jewish man; Matthew Young, from Houston USA, helped me with the 7000 year timeline. Many others do agree with it, no one has yet proved it wrong.
Except history - every time one of their 'certain prophecies' fails - like yours will in 2026.
2/ I do not know the date the Lord will change the world. It will be His terrible Day of fiery wrath that will come as a thief.
yes - you've made this quibble before.
But you've dated the anti-Christ to 2026 which means Fiery Wrath is sometime in the next 5 years which is a close enough guess to be unbelievably arrogant. Jesus said STAY watching, because we WILL NOT know. You've just implied all Christians watching were wasting their time for the last 2000 years.
His Return in Glory will be known; as it comes exactly 1260 days after the Temple is desecrated by the Anti-Christ. Then the New Heavens and the New earth come 1000 years later.
Or - as the majority of theologians with knowledge of Hebrew and Greek and Apocalyptic Literature (200BC to 200AD) it's number symbolism that has a clear metaphorical value as expressed in countless writings. But you just ignore all that and go with your gut feeling!
As for my 'followers', I have none. Neither did the ancient Prophets; Ezekiel 20:49, Jeremiah 6:10 I am just a messenger, I promote what they said.
There's that wonderfully consistent martyr complex again.
3/ We are equipped to confront and overcome Satan. Knowing what and when God plans for our future is another matter.
Prove it from the scriptures.
2 Timothy 3:16 doesn't seem to have an exemption clause!
4/ Revelation is Written to us today.
So is the gospel promise that Jesus will return. The promise is relevant - but the return hasn't happened yet. The promise has been relevant and given hope to Christians for 2000 years - but he still hasn't returned. What if the symbols in Revelation are a similar sermon that make it about the Roman persecution and then relevant to ALL Christians that have been persecuted since then? What if the end of Revelation 6 is actually describing Judgment Day - as do so many other cycles and chapters in the book?
What if you are actually robbing ALL Christians across the last 2000 years of ANY meaning or relevance of the book from Chapter 6 to 21 - basically shutting up most of the book to them?
5/ To those who have already decided about the future, I cannot help but sound like a know it all. It is the typical 'shoot the messenger' response.
There's that wonderfully consistent martyr complex again.
But what I quote IS Biblical.
Quoting bible verses at someone out of context and ignorant of the original language, genres, and audience is as much 'Biblical' as the way Satan quoted the bible at Jesus when tempting him!
There are rules the New Testament itself sets up on how to read it. You're ignoring those - especially as you sidestep 2 Tim 3:16-17 above.
The Words of the Prophets. Believe them!
As every JW or Mormon says.
6/ I did go along with the euphoria of 2012, that was a mistake and shows my humanity.
No - you're asking me to read the bible in a completely alien, incomprehensible way and just 'trust you' and your vision. Sorry pal - 2 Timothy 3:16 gives me confidence in God's word, NOT you.
The Biblical timeline shows how close we are now to dramatic and world changing events.
But aren't we always?
The collapse of the Roman Empire, the Black Plague, the invention of the printing press, the rise of the steam engine and industrialisation, the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms across the world, the invention of the atomic bomb, global warming - we're always experiencing dramatic and world changing events. Which is precisely the point of Revelation! Stay true to Christ because this world is ruled by tyrants, ruled by chaos in nature and plagues (erhem - relevant today?), ruled by worldly systems of government and temptations of wealth and power, and will all one day be destroyed.
This sermon comes to us in vivid, graphic, disturbing imagery - to really make us see OUR world in OUR age - whenever that is - in a new light. Through God's eyes! To keep us faithful to God the son. You're taking God's version of Shakespeare written for ALL Christians across the last 2000 years - and
reducing it to a travel guide. It's just sad.
We should not be in the dark about what must happen.
Why? Jesus said we are!
7/ The Bible is all we need. Why then do you reject so much of it as irrelevant and unworthy of your attention?
I don't - you do.
The only reason I can fathom for your hatred of what I do, is jealousy and a fixed, peer supported belief how you want God to act.
It's not - I genuinely think you're wrong and distorting the fantastic and vivid sermon we have in Revelation into something confusing, aloof, and all about YOU and YOUR precious personal cult-like fantasies.
Keras - you can't even get Matthew 11 right. Please, get another hobby and maybe all this will go away. Maybe you'll be able to just focus on being thankful for the gospel events in Jesus - and care to share the gospel - rather than browbeat everyone here to your own will?
A hobby in retirement. It might even be a beautiful thing that gets you out of the house (when this pandemic is over) and makes friends. I'm sure you would feel so much better if you just deleted your website and got on with enjoying your retirement in a godly, gospel focussed way.
Who knows what great things you might build - whether figuratively or literally?
Be this guy...
