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I appreciate your responding. You mention ‘faith’ that things can be restored. Is that just a general use of the word or is it more specific? In the poem you quote, the first line references ‘God’, so I might presume that your ‘faith’ is in the God of the Bible.
If this is so, then it raises a question regarding the many references in scripture to the end days, the ending of this Age of Man. Is your faith that these are not those times, based on something substantive, or do you simply not want it to be so?
If you agree that the scriptures do speak of a ‘last days’ time, is there some reason you would not want it to be now, in our time? As a Christian, my soul rejoices that His return could be soon.

The scriptures give us a number of things to be watchful of regarding when that ‘season” would be upon us, and since the reformation of the state of Israel in 1948, many things have transpired in world events that line up perfectly with prophecy like no other time in history. To be dismissive simply because we’ve had ‘rough times before’, ignores those many things. If you have another reason to believe this is not that ‘season’, I would like to hear it.

A couple of years ago, God grabbed my attention to study the prophecies of the Bible. I was of course aware that there were a number of prophetic scriptures, and even from an early stage, with a limited understanding of them, I regarded those prophecies to be equivalent to His signature, authenticating the scriptures. Little did I know where this study would lead me.

You, like I, have read at some point the Book of Daniel. Early in my walk, I read of the ‘beasts’ described there, and had no understanding of them…I even wondered why they were in the Bible…they seemed more fantasy and mystical than something of God. But that all changed as God gave me understanding.

In my studies, I learned that the number of prophecies is significantly more than I had previously thought. There are over 1800 prophecies between the OT and NT, and many of them are very specific in detail and time, and apart from a small handful pertaining to the ‘end times’, have ALL fulfilled just as unambiguously as they were given.

Time and space does not permit me to do any kind of justice to these claims (though I would be more than happy to provide as many examples as you could want), but it became abundantly clear that these prophecies are literally ‘proof of God’. Man cannot do things like this at a magnitude such like we see in scripture.

Now you state that you believe in ‘God’…that you have tremendous respect for the wisdom of the Bible, yet you are not a Christian. As I have studied prophecy, my appreciation of the continuity and connectedness of all scripture has grown as well. I hope the following illustration helps convey what I’ve learned.

I view it like this…God is true if the prophecies He gave to be recorded are true – they are, so therefore is He. This extends to the next truth…given the prophecies are true then the scriptures are true and both OT and NT valid one another. Given then that the subject of both the OT and NT is the ‘Lamb of God’, they both then validate Jesus as the Christ. He fulfilled all that was promised and prophesied. I cannot see how any other conclusion can be reached.

When He states in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me”, He is not making a contemporary remark… He is stating a fulfillment of that which was prophesied, in His soon sacrifice on the cross.

How can you be so close, yet so far away by declaring not to be a Christian.

I have not as yet studied the rapture in depth. I currently believe it is either pre or midtrib, as I see scripture that is supportive of both. I will study more and give you a more definitive opinion.

This question has also been one of mine for some time, and likely for the same reasons. I don’t know if I could offer anything that you may well have thought of or considered already.

I hate to speak of UFOs because I am unsure how to classify them in my own thoughts. I have seen things that I can’t explain and they are no more than a bit of a nuisance to not be able to adequately square them away, but one sighting in particular shook me to the core so much that I actively try to not think about it (I know, stupid, eh). However, in my eschatology studies, I came across some information regarding the telescope owned and operated by the Vatican.

Guy Consolmagno is a professor of astronomy at Arizona University and is a high ranking Catholic priest. He currently operates the deep space observatory, VATT, on Mount Graham, Arizona. When interviewed, he reportedly displayed some annoyance at the many times ‘sightings’ through the scope interfered with the field. He firmly believes in alien existence and speculated that they would play a role in the end times. It was his contention that they would claim Jesus was actually a ‘star child’ (the result of an abduction and impregnation), and that likely many parts of scripture would be rewritten to accommodate their claims.

In a similar fashion, there are ‘spiritualists’ who believe a supernatural, alien entity will appear on the scene to remove those who have served their time and purpose on earth but now hold it back from progressing socially by persisting in ‘traditional’ thought.

I think the pieces to the answer are not clear enough as yet to be able to do anything more than speculate. That one clear sighting I had (through high powered binoculars) completely defies what is known and leaves me unable to rationalize it.
What we can ponder is the lack of any reaction detailed in scripture. One would naturally think that such an event would generate great panic followed by chaotic upheaval, unless the event was associated with an explanation that was accepted by many and was not ‘judgement’ related. As it stands, I don’t see anything now that can meet that criteria, yet open, alien deception even seems to me to be a bit of a stretch…maybe.

“Instead, I have come to believe, against my will, that the ‘hairs on our heads’ are indeed numbered”. To believe a level of involvement to that degree, requires more than a little ‘faith’, but that which you have ‘faith’ in, is incongruent with the scriptures.

The Gospels aren’t apart from the OT in proclaiming the divinity of Jesus. Isaiah 9:6, “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given…and His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” That’s pretty much divinity in a nutshell.
Isaiah 53, outlines the things that would happen to the Messiah, and Jesus fulfilled every one of them, proving Himself to be the one spoken of in the scriptures. Do you cast your doubts upon these verses as well?

As I said before, the OT points the way to the Christ and the NT fulfills it, they are in perfect symmetry with regards to everything regarding Jesus as the Christ. As all scripture declares it, He is the Savior that takes away the sins of the world. If one says they believe in the kind of God that is described in the scriptures (omnipotent, involved and present, numberer of head hairs), yet not in Jesus as the Christ, then he knows not the God of the Bible. He knows and follows a different god…is that why you sometimes spell God as G-d.

A God that is capable of numbering hairs on heads, yet isn’t the author of prophecy, even in spite of all the prophets accrediting Him with the inspiration, in spite of His own words regarding the giving of prophecies, in spite of the infallibility of all of the prophecies recorded proclaiming, among other things, an involved and present, omnipotent God, you contend that you’re not convinced…you speak like one with a forked tongue.

If that is what you want. I was hoping that you would have at least made an effort to justify your repeated ‘not convinced’ response to the prophecies. It is a simple matter really… God did it or Man did it.

I think it is intellectually dishonest to just excuse oneself to a fence on so many critical issues. You have your doubts and you voiced them here, even though there was little real substance provided, so now what…run away? You are lost, and as it stands now, on judgement day you will be found in your sins. You need to get off the fence, and I hope you do. I will pray for you Michael.

If my posts have offended you, good…I disdain tickling ears, and sometimes a little shake up can be a good thing.