(12-19-2017, 06:28 AM)guohua Wrote:(12-19-2017, 05:49 AM)dadmansabode Wrote: "Revelation 6:12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?" " .......... indeed the book is not done
You really don't believe the above do you?
I think he believes it, Guohua, but doesn't understand it. That, too, has already happened, and was missed by those looking to keep the prophecy alive long beyond it's time.
There is a reason that Jesus spoke in parables and riddles, and there is a reason he didn't keep explaining things to people who didn't really want to hear them - people who wanted to hear something else instead - i.e. "Jesus then left them and went away" as I quoted above.
Once a prophecy happens, no one needs to keep looking for it to keep on happening, but there are those who will never figure it out, busy as they are looking for it to happen again and again, and ignoring that it has already passed.
The Jews are still looking for their Messiah, to this day, as a case in point. The Jews of Jesus' day kept looking for the "signs" that he plainly told them were never coming, and got steamrolled for their trouble in 70 AD. Where was their Messiah then? They had already missed the boat, looking for a fancier one to come along. They evidently didn't like the one they'd already been given.
Some folks are so busy looking for a Burning Bush that they entirely miss the miracles that happen around them every day. Those folks will entirely miss the voice of God when it speaks, because it didn't come out of a burning bush... or a test tube... or a text book - depending on where it is they are looking for God and expecting to find It.
And so it is with the so-called "Third" Temple.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’