Hi Chuck, Thanks for the comments. I recall we discussed this subject recently on
another thread. I really liked how you concluded there:
(04-27-2016, 05:06 AM)Thirdwoe Wrote: …
Anyway.
What God has determined to be, will be, Greg.
Do you like this art that my wife drew? She loves to draw, and this one was very special given all the parallel meanings throughout the drawing. This piece is actually encoded with the golden ratio. She spent a long time to measure and draw everything.
On the heavenly side the Messiah Yahshua is King, but on the worldly side Caesar Augustus approaches the UN.
I especially like the satirical elements, such as the UN flag flying from an obelisk.
The soldiers represent worldly empires that have dominated the earth militarily over millennia. The first in time was Babylon (the soldier on the far left). After Babylon came Persia, then Greek, Roman…
Notice how Yahshua's crown features the five platonic solids, compared to the conveyor belt around the pyramid on the worldly side.
On the original drawing you can see WAY more detail than the photo I posted. But did you notice "Gen 3:15" on the soldier's jacket? It's a verse, "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
Compare the verse on the foot bridge, "As my Father has loved me, also I have loved you." John 15:9
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Thanks again for your comments about the risk of predictions. I make a point to listen and learn from every comment, and I thought you gave a very thoughtful response.
You’re highlighting that it seems dangerous to you when men forecast dates by interpreting the Book of Revelation. I would just ask though if you’re potentially approaching the issue by first assuming the failures of other men (using other methods) are automatically on my same path?
From my perspective, my research methods are fundamentally unique (geographical & geometric). I've always thought it would be wrong for me to hide new insights within myself simply because other men failed with counting methods irrelevant to my own work. Proverbs 1:2-7
For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
For giving to simple ones — prudence, To a youth — knowledge and discretion.
(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
Fear of YHWH [is] a beginning of knowledge...
My findings reveal that much of the Book of Revelation has been fulfilled in history. If these findings are correct, then that is useful and important for Christians to know today and in the future. For example, this method clearly identifies the two witnesses as the church of Ephesus and church of Smyrna. And this method forecasts the end of 690 years of safety (ending circa 2018AD-2020AD) with the church of Laodicea.
If these methods are correct, then this will honor the Father by showing fulfilled prophecy through layers of geography and geometry. Or if I’m wrong, all failure is on me, because I have made three assumptions articulated here:
(04-26-2016, 09:01 PM)gregglaser Wrote: ...
The assumptions of this methodology are: (1) 1,260 days = 1,260 years, (2) time, times and the dividing time = 690 years, and (3) ܦܪܓܡܘܣ is actually near Mt. Hermon. Take away any of these assumptions, and my entire methodology falls apart.
But if those assumptions hold true, then everything else lines up with astonishing accuracy! And in any case, Mark and Revelation would still appear to be greatly synchronized (just on the Aramaic words alone).
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In either case (whether this method is right or wrong), I must reveal myself for who I am, and I trust the Father will reveal the correct answers in time and space and people. I think this is exciting to research!
And you have to admit, this is really cool art, yes?!