zzombie;8830062 said:
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zzombie;8817265 said:
using number as symbols does not equal numerology. numerology is much more complex than that and a wide variety of cultures have used numbers as symbols including the Israelite one rev 13:18 is not asking you to figure out the future using numbers it's just giving you an identification card for the ultimate anti-Christ
that is all it's not asking you to add up the numbers and figure out the future,
So a prophecy is not telling you the future. Here's the problem. The number 6 in astrology is a man's number. If they just used it to identify a person sort of like a street address 1 thing. They used the context of the word in its astrological meaning. So the number 6 being a man's number got its meaning from Astrology. More importantly it is predicting a future event where you will only be able to trade and is a sign of the time. The bible account would not be translated without the use of astrological sources.
You can only use the bible to understand the symbols in the bible. You are assuming that how people in astrology used 6 is how the bible is using 6. Astrology is also a varied practice not all astrological systems are the same.
Prophecy tells you the future, it's limited information. astrology is an attempt to learn more than what the prophecy provides.
Not when the audience you are preaching know's astrology. It would be like me making a religion where you use the force and fight with light sabers. Now it would be like oh Star Wars. 5K Years from now you'd be like this from the word of God. You can't take from the other religions around you and act as if you are the creator or innovator.
Most Christians at the time that revelations would have been prophesied would have been poor people,uneducated people, lower class people,slaves so i doubt many of them knew anything about astrology also The problems is who is the audience for a prophecy??? is it for the people living now or 10 years from now ???how about 1000 years from now??? Christianity is an evolution of Judaism to understand Christianity on a deeper level it is necessary to understand Judaism and i don't mean modern Judaism. The question is .
what was early Judaism and where and how did it originate. How you define what this Judaism was will give you your answer to how you look at christian prophecy.
Not exactly the bible the Christian Bible was not written in the language of the common man. It was written in Greek. A language only philosophers at the time well versed in the gnostic and occultic teachings would have quickly identified.
The book of Revelation is apocryphal because it seeks to sew in the occult into the themes of the bible. There is no denying that
Worrmwood, the morning start, Absynthe, 4 winds, 144k, Apployon, the great dragon, the woman clothed with sun moon at her feet. Even the the Circle of living animals the 4 living creatures they translate it to mean. Really are the cardinal axis points of the zodiac or the circle of living animals as zodion is translated in english. These are undeniable facts and to place those teachings into first century knowledge you will quickly see that the Revelation that is being used to prophesy the end time is heresy.