(April 7, 2018 at 7:21 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: ...
I'd ask for the particular prophecy that you're referring to and that you provide the "exact" (your word) details of how that prophecy has been fulfilled. If it's as exact as you claim then there should be little room for argument or disagreement.
My guess is that it will be a fairly ambiguous prophecy open to many interpretations and malleable enough to fit several circumstances.
The many and varied applications don't make any component obsolete, but just not in the right position. It is like hydrogen which can be attached to nearly every other element, but only one particular combination with oxygen will make water.
With Bible prophecy, every clue is narrowed down by the other clues, until every piece of the puzzle fits exactly where it should.
Some people are able to build a picture from the pieces without any reference to the frame, and although it may have consistencies, it doesn't fit the frame and is false.
There are frames in every prophecy which give the reader an overall picture of how everything should pan out. All the details have to fit into those initial references.
For an example of a frame read Daniel chapter 2.
The first reference is the 6,000 year history of the world, and the Bible is a record of the principles of good and evil as played out in history.
Evolution theory does away with this main frame.
Those actions reveal who or what is behind the scenes, the battle between the two sides. The history of the human race is sufficient evidence of how things will be done in the future, as if history repeats itself.
The intentions of both sides in the battle show what has happened and in part what will happen, and the Bible gives you an idea of who is behind what.
Once patterns of behaviour are understood, it becomes obvious that Satan hates the human race, and uses every deception and device to separate them from God.
That isn't the only consistent factor of prophecy by any means, there are dozens of sets of clues, such as historical dates, colors, words and phrases, progressions, numbers and maths, images, connecting statements, direct references by Jesus and the authors of the various books in the Bible, etc.
As for the irresponsibility of the human race towards the earth, it isn't universal, especially not by the common people, but it points to the rulers, which according to the Bible are in bed with Satan.
How many disasters and wars can be attributed to the moves of the authorities?
Who introduced chemical poisons? Who governs industry? Who demands blood in wars? Who makes the policies of water control and farming?
Environmentalism has two faces, one that's good the other that's destructive. See the number of farmers given false promises and sent broke. As someone said the Greens (political party) are about as red as you can get.
We are supposed to believe that it is good and that we should agree to every move the policies demand. Which serves the purpose of removing freedom through the control of one authority. That authority has one agenda, and that agenda overrules every policy made in government.
According to the Bible, the governments of the world are in bed with the great whore the Papacy, Satan's Christian pretense, and they do her dirty work. She works with deception and ultimately force. Idealism and death. Ideologies and impingements on freedom.
How do you explain the ridiculous decisions made by governments?
Be very certain that starving masses in remote countries, civil and economic strife and wars, are the deeds of men and their organisations led by the nose.
Revelation 18:24, "In her (the Papacy) was found the blood of all that had been slain on the earth." Who is behind the bloodshed? Who is behind strife and disasters?
Revelation 11:18 in the end, God will destroy those who destroy the earth. And that includes those who would remove liberty of conscience, the necessity of peace and prosperity. It is obvious that certain men are in the business of wrecking the earth.
In regards to the current situation of the environment - it is by no means an accident that the weather has gone wild. But because people have been kept in the dark about the real nature of matter and how it works, things done by science in secret are thought to be impossible.
In addition, because of a blanket of errors mixed with facts in strange conspiracy theories, the majority will either reject what is served to them or accept an exaggerated and unsubstantiated idea about certain phenomenon.
But in that mix are snippets of the truth.
Here again the Bible provides the information needed to understand these developments in science - which are not new under the sun.
