In today's class, we paused our study of the 7 Seals to address some excellent questions which have been raised by individuals in our class:
1) How can we know that we are in the final 1260-day Timeline since our expected visual markers don't appear to be here?
2) If this is the 1260 days, where is the beast?
3) why don't things appear the way we have expected them to look?
In our study today, we discussed evidence for the timeline. We also addressed why it is always necessary to adjust how we expect prophecies to unfold. Expectations are usually wrong... They were certainly wrong in Messiah's Day.
So, issues we are addressing include:
1) In the time of Christ, people were asking the same kinds of questions? (ie: "if You are the Messiah, where is Elijah, who the prophets foretold would come first?" and "if you are the Messiah, why didn't you descend from the Temple and come through the approved channels?" etc...) This indicates that an actual fulfillment of prophecy typically looks a bit different from the commonly-held expectations. In fact, we should expect that some details will look different, in actuality, than we had all thought.
2) Believers all have myths, which we come to believe. We are unaware of these myths, until we come upon the prophecy being fulfilled, and it looks different than we expected. For example, in the time of Messiah, it was a myth that the forerunner would be the literal Elijah... John was the Elijah...
In order to see the prophecy which was being fulfilled before their very eyes, the Jews and believers of Yahshua's Day had to let go of these myths, by noting the perfect fulfillment of the prophecies - which were playing out in a way they had not expected.
This has been a recurring problem for believers... When a prophecy is fulfilled, it always looks a bit different than folks expect. But, when this happens the challenge is this... If we cannot adjust our thinking to fit what is playing out before our eyes, we will miss the fulfillment! This is exactly what happened to people in Yahshua's Day!
So rather than being dogmatic about how a prophecy must look, we should study the elements of the prophecy. Examine what we see against the Scriptural details. Does it fit even though it looks different than we thought? If the answer is "yes", we need to recognize we've had some myths. We need to chuck those myths, and align with the Truth.
This is what the disciples had to do when Yahshua gently told them, "Elias (Elijah) has already come"... by which He meant John the Baptist.
Class Schedule for May:
May 13 & 15 (Mon & Wed) - Prophecy Class meets live on Zoom from 9-10 AM (PST).
May 20 & 22 (Mon & Wed) - Prophecy Class meets live on Zoom from 9-10 AM (PST).
May 27 & 29 (Mon & Wed) - Prophecy Class meets live on Zoom from 9-10 AM (PST).
Our last class for this year will be Wednesday, May 29.
Video Links:
The following video link was provided by Jutta (thank you, Jutta), regarding the red heifer. This video shows that it may only be a rumor of plans to sacrifice the red heifer... This may not be accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cu6I4L-3do
I have some concerns in the video to be honest... For one thing... when does Scripture ever refer to the killing of animal (relating to the Sanctuary service) as anything other than a "sacrifice"? Yet, the teaching is that the red heifer is a "slaughter" not a "sacrifice"...
The red heifer killing in Scripture is for the "purification" of Israel, following the time of Korah, Dathan and Abirim, and in tandem with the death of Miriam... Purification is cleansing from a sin or multiple sins... Shedding of blood was for the remission of sins. There is no shedding of blood, unless it relates to dealing with sin...
Such a teaching seems to support the false idea that some Temple killing of animals might not relate to Messiah-Calvary... No on that one!
We need to listen - yet be careful - especially of the teachings from individuals who reject Yahshua's Messiahship!
Mark and Shauna had been privileged to research and build the displays for a Biblical history museum. Here's the promised video link of the museum, which used to be in Winston, Oregon:
View Print This Year's Completed Worksheets:
- Worksheet #1: To view/print the completed Worksheet 1 on Prophetic Symbols, CLICK HERE.
- Worksheet #2: To view/print the completed Worksheet 2 on The four Stages of the Beast, CLICK HERE.
- Worksheet #3: To view/print the completed Worksheet 3 on King Charles as contender for the Beast Stage 3, CLICK HERE.
Additional Resources:
To view/print the document regarding Diana, CLICK HERE.
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