What value Christian Prophecy?

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Date Line April 23, 2007

Democracy? Is it something an evangelical should promote? There is a mystic voice speaking in western culture; it is not always listened to, sometimes it is denied, but always it remains.

What is that voice? It is the voice of religious belief and doctrine. It is also the voice of Christian hypocrisy, ignorance and stupidity.

The sole thing which can be relied upon? Evangelical Christians will cause the downfall of America and western civilization.

I could make that case; but history makes it so much better.

It is not necessary to recount all the superstitious beliefs and actions which go contrary to the teachings Christians attribute to Jesus; it is sufficient to ask that one actually demonstrate the three elements evidencing a contact with the Sprit of G-d ... these being Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding.

Proverbs 2:6 states, “For the Lord giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh knowledge and discernment.” (Judaic Masoretic text) It is an interesting distinction, “Understanding” verses “Discernment.”

Translations render synonymous “the cognitive condition of someone who understands” and “The act or process of exhibiting keen insight and good judgment. Keenness of insight and judgment.”

What is this last element of the spirit? Surely none have a problem with knowledge, or even wisdom, but how to discern understanding?
Understanding is that “AH-HA!” moment when the concept and reality are internalized. We know, even if we cannot actually express that knowledge in words.

Discernment! Discernment is seeing that something is there to know. It is seeing beyond the consensus of small minds and the repetition of the ignorant as shown through their reliance on meaningless ritual.

Worse, they assert promises based on prophecy; and yet fail to see the fulfilment, or the threat. In the case of The Book of Revelation, the promise if a thousand year kingdom under Christ.

A thousand years? Hum? If we said the Reformation began in earnest (in 1517) with Martin Luther, the rule of the Vicar of Christ (the Pope) could be said to have begun (in 517) a thousand years earlier.

If we hold the beginning to be (in 413) with the Council of Ephesus, or the Council of Chalcedon (in 451), than we must look ahead a thousand years (1413-1451) for the first signs of the demise of Christ’s Kingdom, or Rule.

In 1413, the Pope chartered The University of St Andrews, the oldest University in Scotland, and set the stage for the spread of a Protestant Reformation in Britain. Symbolically, to mark the end of an era begun with a call to Judgment, in 1451, Roger van der Weyden paints his Last Judgement.

Ah if symbolic efforts were sufficient; but it would be fifty years to the birth of Henry VIII who brought an end to Papist England.

But it was most certainly Martin Luther who fulfilled the prophecy of Revelation. Luther, per his writings, was an anti-Semite who was also anti-Judaic; thus he was an anti-Christ. Obviously; for was not Jesus both Semitic and Judaic, and the fulfillment of Judaic Scripture?

Martin Luther asserted that Jews' homes should be destroyed, their synagogues and schools burned, money confiscated, and rights and liberties curtailed.

All who seek to place themselves above Jews are in fact subordinating Jesus; thus all his Philosophical heirs (known today as Protestants or Evangelicals) are, based upon The Book of Revelation, anti-Christ.

Now that is a shocking assertion to many, and a clear “ah-ha” to many others. But here is another: Those who see the reign of Christ as being in the future, and who pray for it to begin, are seeking the beginning of a Kingdom under a physical king.

Those who proclaim the belief the prophecy lies in the future, rather it having been fulfilled and document by past history, are asserting that they are opposed to Democracy and the democratic process.

We cannot have an all powerful king, and meaningful Parliament as well. We cannot have a King and President at all; by the very nature of their assertion of literal and controlling scriptural content, those people (you know them) are opposed to American and must, therefore, engineer its destruction.
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