You must be wilfully blind.

All things were made by God and through him, (logos, Son of God, Jesus Christ).

And Jesus who you claim to be God is actually the Son of God.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. This is how we know that we love the children of God:…[Read more]

From pandemic to endemic

If you see the summary of the above commentary Hippolytus replaced the earlier interpretations by incorporating Roman Empire as the Fourth Empire of Daniel and by merging the Media with Persian Kingdom which became the Second  and Greece became the Third.

This is natural. When a future event is prophesied, people only have data from their time…[Read more]

Proclaimer……Kingdoms are just symbols of who has the predominate rule, not  every little kingdom that exists  within or without them, have the greater rule.

Here are the seven kingdoms that had the greater rule. And for centuries even millenia.

Egypt – 3100 to 677 BC (Genesis 12:10)
Assyria – 677 to 626 BC (Genesis 2:14)
Babylon – 626 – 539 BC (…[Read more]

Well done, Gene.

1 John 5 American Standard Version
1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

4 For whosoever is begotten of God overcometh the world…

18 We know that whosoever is begotten of God sinneth not; but he that was begotte…

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Mike

I know from the letter to the Colossians that the Son of God IS BEFORE ALL THINGS …. THIS MEANS ETERNITY ….. AND THIS IS ENOUGH FOR ME. I BELIEVE.

It means he is before the cosmos and all creation.

It doesn’t mean that he was before or at the same time as God.

It means that he was with God before all things.

The words Father and Son hav…[Read more]

That is Hulk Hogan and his offspring.  As the offspring of a human being, she is equally human.  She likely even has many qualities of the one who begot her.  But being Hogan’s offspring doesn’t mean she is automatically as strong as him, and can pick up grown men and throw them across the room.  So you need to drop the idea that Jesus MUST be…

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But I request you to see the internal background and the insights given in these books. For example the first Kingdom of Daniel was identified by the writer as of Babylon.

You impose rules and expect that these rules must be adhered to. I do not think this is a smart strategy for analysing anything.

Time is a better judge and the number of…[Read more]

From our perspective, we have the luxury of hindsight.

So let’s look at the successive empires.

Egypt – 3100 to 677 BC (Genesis 12:10)
Assyria – 677 to 626 BC (Genesis 2:14)
Babylon – 626 – 539 BC (Daniel 1:1)
Medo-Persia – 539 – 449 BC (Daniel 5:28)
Greecia – 449 – 146 BC (Daniel 10:20)
Rome – 146 BC-476 AD eastern leg / 1453 AD western leg or…[Read more]

Daniel 2 and 7 were talking about Four Kingdoms and the promised God’s Kingdom by his holy ones will be established after the Fourth Kingdom. So we need to identify the Fourth Kingdom as per this book for the climax of this Apocalyptic book.

Well as mentioned before, history does line up with the theory that probably most hold to and Revelation g…[Read more]

Proclaimer,

Is Jesus Christ your God?

A simple ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ will suffice.

Yes. In the sense that he has rule over me.

But he is not the Most High God and the God of the Bible.

Rather he is his Son.

Hi brother Gene, Rome was no where in the vicinity of Danielic Four Kingdoms.

What are the 4 kingdoms then?

Surely history shows us the kingdoms that succeeded one another.

It’s really easy from our view point in history. You act like we are still living in Daniel’s time and looking into the future.

The past has already happened.

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To all……Rome, “was”  the fourth “world ruling” empire,  until 476 Ad,

Rome had two legs. The capital was moved to the east and it existed for another thousand years or so. The west divided into barbarian kingdoms and in time the countries of Europe. You see only the Western Roman Empire because your world view is western.

Know your history.

So now that we have the heads as kingdoms and Revelation being lifted from Daniel statements out of the way. What is the next sticking point you have or the next thing you would like to discuss?

Further, it is common sense that the future gives you more insight and foresight as far as history goes.

A fool sees otherwise.

Hi Proclaimer, finally you have come to conclusion that OT is narrower and the NT is wider.

Are uou serious? What made you think I just concluded that? Certainly nothing I have said. Its common knowledge.

For some reason, your statements keep missing the mark.

You need not search some where else to find their meaning here. The original texts contain the meaning and insights. I tell you there are no Seven Kingdoms in Daniel but it certainly talks about Four (world) Kingdoms.

It is well understood that Daniel got a narrower view of said empires.

Revelation which is much later, has a wider scope.

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Mountains are kingdoms in scripture.

The mountain is also said to be a king.

Daniel talks of a king and referenced kingdoms.

Enough said.

Case settled.

Arguing against this just looks desperate to me.

It is clear.

Move on.

Hi Proclaimer,

Jesus and His Father are both deity not just divine.

I believe this is what John 1:1 teaches.
“what God was, the Word was”

Clearly in your own post you have distinguished two. God and Jesus. That is good as the scriptures do this too.

Regardless of what the difference between deity and divinity is, you subconsciously or not rec…[Read more]