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The spammer Melchizedek wrote:
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Rightfully Dividing the Word of God, 4
Taking His Word out of context and using it to lead people away
from Truth is a method of Sophistry. It is slight-of-hand as
practiced by magicians--those same "wise men" who advised Pharaoh
and Herod to murder the children of God’s People.
There are several ways to do this:
a) One is to quote an entire verse and then use it to mean
something other than what it meant in the context from which it
was taken.
b) Another way to do this is to just use one word in a scripture
to mean something other than it meant in its context: that is, to
"translate" the word by some method or another.
c) A more sophisticated method is to take two or three verses and
reduce their meaning to a "principle" or a "rule" and then use
this "principle to convert the meaning of other scripture from
its intended meaning to one which supports a false doctrine.
d) The most deceitful of all, is to declare a "hidden meaning"
not clearly contained in the scripture; but my means of a
manipulation of the definition of terms is used to deceive.
First example: a) The Millennium, Rev. 20:6
Second example b) Fervent Heat 2 Peter 3:10.
Third example c) "The Principle," or "Rule"
There are many Prophecies in God’s Word which give times, days or
years. The meaning of the prophecy is given in the prophecy. That
is, "something will happen" and then a "result." The "something"
is the action or event, and the "result" is the outcome or
consequence of the action or event. In this kind of prophecy, the
"beginning" of the prophecy is shown or demonstrated by the
occurrence of the event. The end of the prophecy is seen by the
consequence. All Prophecy contains within itself its beginning
and ending.
Some Prophecy contains time spans, or a length of time over which
the Prophecy will be in effect. The prophecy given to Abraham was
of this type. Gen 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety
that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs,
and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred
years. There is an event which begins the prophecy, and an event
at its end, both described within it. The descendants of Abraham,
then, knew when they would return from Egypt. This Prophecy had a
beginning and an ending: the 400 years began when Jacob went down
into Egypt, and it ended when Moses led the 12 Tribes out of Egypt.
Another Prophecy which had a time span given in it was given to
Jeremiah concerning the captivity in Babylon. Jer 25:12 And it
shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I
will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD,
for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make
it perpetual desolations.
Jer 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be
accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good
word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
The reader will notice that this prophecy, like that given to
Abraham, has a starting event, a length of time and an ending
event, all given within it. The People of Israel are to be taken
captivity to Babylon, serve there 70 years, then ‘return to this
place.’
There are many statements of times and lengths of times given in
Scripture. What some false teachers and false prophets do, is
take some of these other "times and lengths of time" and make a
"rule" or a "principle" from that, then apply it to another
prophecy so that they can distort its meaning and use it in their
false doctrine.
To be specific: Daniel was given a prophecy of "Seventy sevens"
(or 70 periods of seven) which, in the King James Version is
translated "70 weeks." Now some individual who wishes to force
Daniels Prophecy to fit his false doctrine can use his personal
interpretation, or "rule" or "principle based on time periods" to
alter the meaning of Daniels Prophecy.
It may seem like a small thing, to insist that the Daniel’s
Prophecy is seven sets of 70 years; after all, 7 times 70 is 490
years--so the length of time seems to be the same. Yet, it is
not, and that (the length of time) is only a small part of the
consequence of this lie.
Gabriel, said: "from the going forth of the commandment to
restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall
be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks..." (And) "...after
threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for
himself..."
This prophecy, then, just like that given to Abraham, has an
"action" or things to happen; it has a beginning, a length of
time, and an end. The beginning is "from the command to rebuild
the city;" The "action" is "unto the Messiah" and "to destroy the
city and the sanctuary;" and the length of time given is "seven
plus threescore and two." (7 + 60 + 2 = 69 x 7 = 483) The end of
this seven plus threescore and two is "the Messiah shall be cut
off" and 'the end' is, unto the end of the war (with the
destruction of the city and temple) desolations are determined.
The end of the complete prophecy is then given: one period of
seven remains; and the "action" and the ending is given in verse
27. The "action" or "event" has not yet occurred.
Now some theologians and false teachers want to fit this prophecy
of Daniel into their false doctrine. In order to do this they
feel that they must translate the time period into something
which fits their doctrine; and so they use the "rule of seventy
years as established by other prophecies." This allows the false
prophet to "prove" according to their "rule," that the last
period is 70 years.
However, if the last period of seven is 70 years, then 490-70=420
years, which contradicts the prophecy by Gabriel that "unto the
Messiah would be "seven and threescore and two," or 483 years.
Regardless of any other consideration; this simple contradiction
should suffice to disprove the lie that the last "seven" is 70 years.
However, the false prophets do not stop there: they begin to deny
that the prophecy is about the Messiah, Jesus, who was born in
about BC 4-2, saying; "Messiah" is a title, not a specific
person:" or, "the prophecy in Daniel was fulfilled by the
Maccabees' revolt. Or, they say, "Daniel was not a Prophet; he
just wrote stories based on historical events." They even begin
to discredit Jesus, saying He was not referring to Daniel’s "last
week," but He did approve of the Maccabees because He went to the
festival..."
One denial and one lie soon lead to another; and the false
teachers are lead further from Truth with each lie, soon to
completely reject Truth and embrace delusion.
owd
http://www.xprt.net/~servitum/
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For surely there is an end. Solomon
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