spreading 3 angels' messages
Let me ask 3 questions:
1. When was (or will be) Daniel 9:24 completely fulfilled?
2. When was (or will) God’s people receive the seal in their foreheads?
3. How terrible are God’s “woes” in Revelation when we can’t even agree on what they were (if they are history already)!
There are many strange prophetic interpretations floating among Seventh-day Adventist circles today. Last Sabbath at the Bangkok Chinese SDA Church, there was a pastor from Australia with a new twist. But can he show us from the Bible how he got the idea to divide 1260 by 6 and then add that to 1798 to arrive at 2008? And does grasping at 1888+120=2008 seem a bit far-fetched to anyone else besides myself? But if he or anyone can show from inspired words that this is truth, then i am happy and willing to follow all truth. Many times tho, i’ve seen people come up with crazy “timing” prophecies which cause an excitement for a while, but when the time is passed and nothing has happened, the people’s hearts become harder than stones.
There were people promoting the “Jubilee Cycles” among us Seventh-day Adventists in the late 1980s-early 1990s. What they showed looked pretty good. It is true that the Jubilee cycle was very important to Jewish society and to their relationship with God. They calculated that the year 1994 would be the end of the Grand Jubilee of Jubilees if i remember right, and some people got really worked up about it and left the church and sold their stuff and bot land way out in the country etc. etc. It is very hard, if not impossible, for those people ever to come back to the truth, and they put a big stain on ALL prophecy study.
Satan has led many since just right after the October 22, 1844 disappointment to point to some day or year as something special happening, only to disappoint people, and make them that much more resistant to any kind of prophecy studying. That’s what i see happening – after the false interpretations fail, it makes it much more difficult to wake people up to study prophecy at all. I believe that there is a LOT more in Daniel and Revelation that is still future, but it is very difficult to study with anyone, as most of us believe the “safe” way is to just believe what Uriah Smith wrote over 100 years ago.
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