Re: Brad Holkesvig <bradholkesvig@gmail.com>
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Originally Posted by Brad Holkesvig
All these questions were written by the flesh of man instead of the Holy Spirit. No matter which way I tried to answer them, I could not answer according to the truth. I know you did the best you could but that has nothing to do with the truth. There are billions of people on this earth trying to find the truth and it's not in their holy books. Jesus told the Pharisees that he was the way to eternal life, not the scriptures they had been searching. The scriptures are only testimonies about the truth but you need the truth in order to understand them. This is why there's over 40,000 denominations of Christianity and thousands of religions that branched off from Christianity such as Islam, Scientology, and the list goes on and on.
These questions are all by the Holy Spirit. If there was anything that you were not sure about you could just answer "Not Sure". Or, if there was any part of a question you disagreed with you could answer that you disagree by clicking "No".
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Read Amos 8: 11-12 and you will see a prophecy about this famine of the word until the end of this age. Daniel's 70 week prophecy shows this stretch of time that Satan will have his way on earth. This was the last 3 1/2 days of the 70th week after the Romans finished killing all the saints by the early fourth century to end the first 3 1/2 days of the 70th week. So the famine started when the saints were stopped preaching the gospel, which is the voice of God, or spoken Word. On June 16, 2008, was the day that God spoke through a man in over 1600 years since the last saints were preaching the gospel. I happen to be his latest saint to be his slave to speak for him and write the inspired words he wants me to write.
The 70 weeks have nothing to do with the 4th century. From 444 BC, the declaration to rebuild the temple, there was seven sets of seven years, or forty-nine 360 day years. Then there was sixty-two sets of seven. The combined 69 sets of seven was 483 years. which takes us to exactly the day, March 30th, 33 AD, when Jesus entered Jerusalem. He was the Lamb inspected for four days before Passover. Then He died on the cross on Passover on Friday, April 3, 33 AD (Julian). This was also April 1, 33 AD (Gregorian), April Fool's Day). Sank mocks Jesus. The 70th week or last set of 7 years occurs at the consummation of this age in which there will be an end of transgressions.
"Seventy sets of seven are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy" (Dan. 9.24).
Surely you don't think there is an end of sins and reconciliation back in 400 AD? How can the most holy be anointed when there is no temple built yet in Jerusalem? Have all the prophesied been fulfilled? No. For Jesus has not stepped down on the mount of olives, nor have Rev. 9.16 (army of 200 million) or 9.18 (one third of the people of the earth die in nuclear holocaust) taken place yet.
Since you think you are the first prophet in 1600 years since 400 AD, clearly you are not born-again, and thus, shall spend eternity in Hell. How sad for you. Your evil heart has been exposed! Would God shut down the work of prophets (Eph. 4.11) very centuries? Of course not.
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I understand more about God and his plans than all the Christians combined since Christianity was started by the Roman government after they killed saints. But your two bit lying questions are geared to keep everyone in a little box so no one can be exposed to the truth of God. We saints preach the gospel to all people who will listen and we don't have to turn people away because the truth will eventually divide them into two groups. Those who listen and become sinless saints or those who reject the truth and go on there merry way.
Christianity began with the original Apostles in the first century. "And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch" (Acts 11.26). The Roman government persecuted Christians so how can the Roman government start Christianity? The Romans killed Jesus. The Romans imprisoned Paul. How can the murderers of Christians be Christianity? Surely, you're mad!
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I've had a few sinners spend over a year trying to prove I was a liar but they all go away without the satisfaction of knowing who I am. I can tell them everyday that I'm the created Word of God and their unbelief won't allow them to understand me. It was in God's plan for them not to hear the truth. Most Christians I've preached to can't hear the truth so that tells you that Daniel's prophecy is right on about this religion. Here's Daniel's prophecy showing the future religion of Christianity.
Of course you are a liar, since only Jesus is the Word of God and He is not created. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." (John 1.1,3).
James disagrees with your view of religion, for James said, "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and] to keep himself unspotted from the world" (James 1.27).
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Daniel 2: 36: "This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.
37: You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory,
38: and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, making you rule over them all -- you are the head of gold.
39: After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.
40: And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things; and like iron which crushes, it shall break and crush all these.
41: And as you saw the feet and toes partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the miry clay.
42: And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle.
43: As you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.
44: And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand for ever;
45: just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure."
The Kingdom of feet with iron and clay is Christianity with the iron part symbolic for the Roman Catholic church and the clay is symbolic for the Protestant churches. Now you should be able to interpret the rest of these scriptures.
New Living Translation Life Application Study Bible comments on Daniel 2.31ff:The head of gold on the statue in the dream represents Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of the Babylonian Empire. The silver chest and two arms represents the Medo-Persian Empire, which conquered Babylon in 539 B.C. The belly and the thighs of bronze were Greece and Macedonian under Alexander the Great, who conquered the Medo-Persian Empire (334-330 B.C.). The legs of iron represented Rome, which conquered the Greeks in 63 B.C. The feet of clay and iron represent the breakup of the Roman Empire, when the territory of Rome ruled divided into a mixture of strong and weak nations. The type of metal in each part depicted the strength of the political power it represented. The rock cult out of the mountain depicted God's Kingdom, which would be ruled eternally by the Messiah, the King of kings. The dream revealed Daniel's God as the power behind all the earthly kingdoms.
The Apologetics Study Bible (TASB) reads on Dan. 2.31-43:The different materials of the statue represent four world empires. Interpreters who view Daniel as taking a long-range view have usually identified these kingsomds as the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek, and Roman. Critical scholars who view Daniel as a work from the second century B.C. generally consider the empires to be Babylon, Media, Persia, and Greece-the empire of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, whose far-flung empire was divided into four major parts (cp. "a divided kingdom," v.41) after his death in 323 B.C. On this view the final kingdom, to be crushed and repalced by God's eternal kingdom, would be the regime of the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes. By this argument these critics assign the writing of Daniel to the period of Antiochus's persecution. To make the Greek Empire the last in the eries, they claim that Daniel's author artificially partitioned the Medo-Persian Empire into two consecutive world empires, the Median and the Persian. The traditional interpretation (Babylonian, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome) conforms to the texst of Daniel, which considers the Medo-Persian as one (e.g., "law of the Medes and Persians" in 6.8,12,15; cp. 8.20). It is supported by other OT testmony (2 Chron. 36.22-23; Ezra 1.1-4), the historical record, and more than two millennia of Jewish (Talmud, medieval Jewish commentators, etc.) an Christian (Church fathers, Jerome, etc.) interpretation.
On Daniel 2.44, TASB reads:2.44 According to some critics, the author of Daniel predicted that God's kingdom "that will never be destroyed" would appear with the collapse of the Seleucid dynasty. As the record of history showed that did not occur, therefore these commentators assert that this prophecy was in error. But if the fourth kingdom referred to Rome, not Greece, the difficulty disappears. Jesus Christ sets up His spiritual kingdom (e.g., John 18.36-37) in the Roman period and will establish a direct rule at His second coming (which some suggest will involve a later form of the Roman Empire).
Look how well Watchman Nee ties all of Scripture together on this matter:Third Division of "Revelation" Concurs with the Other Bible Prophecies
We earlier saw that the human image in Daniel’s writing symbolizes the time of the Gentile rule. From this image we recognized Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome as signified by the golden head, the silver breast, the brass belly, and the iron legs. But we know from history that these have all passed away; only the image’s ten toes—partly of iron and partly of clay—have yet to be revealed in human history. These ten toes symbolically represent the future confederacy of the revived Roman Empire that is to arise. But at the fullness of time, a stone from heaven (which stone, as we saw, points to the Lord Jesus) will break them to pieces and will itself fill the whole earth. Likewise, in Revelation we are told of ten horns (13.1) which stand for ten kings (17.12), representing the last powers of the Gentiles. But "these shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings" (17.14). What agreement we find here with Daniel!
In the vision of the beasts in Daniel 7, it is recorded that a little horn came up among the ten horns, and this little horn "shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High [the Jews]; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time" (v.25). In reading Revelation, we learn of a beast (Daniel’s little horn) who is greater than the ten horns (17.12,13) and who speaks blasphemies (13.5) and makes war with the Jews (v.7). He speaks blasphemies against God (v.6) and has authority for forty-two months (v.5). Once again we see the perfect harmony.
Daniel 9 tells us of seventy sevens, of which sixty-nine sevens have already passed but the seventieth seven is yet to come. As the last seven arrives, Antichrist will make a covenant with the children of Israel; but after three and a half years he will break the covenant and set up the idol image which is "the abomination of desolation." The last two chapters of Daniel repeat the mentioning of the setting up of this abomination (11.31 and 12.11). As we have seen, the Lord Jesus himself referred to this matter too, and so did Paul. And when we come to Revelation, we find the same thing: it records how the second beast entices people to make the image of the first beast and to worship it (13.14,15,4,8).
Daniel 9 observes how the Antichrist will break his covenant in the midst of the last seven, which leaves another three years and a half remaining. This coincides with the three and a half years alluded to in Revelation chapter 7 and mentioned directly in Revelation chapter 12, during which time the Antichrist will be in power.
The time of the Antichrist is altogether forty-two months (Rev. 13.5), which is three and a half years’ time. During that period the wicked cruelty of the beast and the related idolatry shall be rampant upon the earth. It is then that Jerusalem will be trodden under foot again, that the two men clothed in sackcloth will bear witness, that the persecuted saints will flee to the wilderness to be under the protection of God, and also that the Gentiles shall have dominion on the earth. All these will happen within the three years and a half. Within a very short time afterwards, the Messiah will come to reign.
We have thus seen how the prophecies found in the book of Revelation agree with Daniel’s prophecies found in the Old Testament. Now, though, let us learn how they concur with the prophecies of the Lord Jesus.
According to Matthew’s record of Jesus’ words, the signs of the end are (1) false Christs (24.5; cf. also v.24); (2) wars (vv.6,7); (3) famines (v.7); (4) pestilences (v.7 AV; cf. also Luke 21.11); (5) martyrs (v.9); and (6) signs in the sun, moon and stars (v.29). By comparing what Matthew’s record of Jesus’ words says with the six seals spoken of in Revelation, we can readily see the similarities. Even the order of them are the same. Moreover, Jesus in Matthew’s account speaks of the "abomination of desolation . . . standing in the holy place" (v.15), but so also does Revelation (13.14,15). In Matthew, our Lord warns the Jews that as soon as they see the idol being set up, they should flee; Revelation too describes how they run (12.6). Matthew records that Jesus says that for the sake of the elect that day will be shortened (24.22); Revelation states: "the devil . . . knowing that he hath but a short time" (12.12). Jesus in Matthew’s account states how the false christs and the false prophets shall show great signs and wonders so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect (24.24); and a similar statement is given in Revelation: "he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs" (13.14). In Matthew Jesus tells how people will look for an earthly Christ (24.26); Revelation shows how they follow an earthly beast (13.3). Finally, Matthew indicates how the Lord will come from heaven; and Revelation describes how the Lord with His army shall come out of heaven in glory and power (19.11-16).
We should also notice the harmony between Revelation and the Thessalonian prophecy of Paul. Paul mentions the revealing of the man of sin, the son of perdition; Revelation tells of the appearing of the Antichrist (13.1). Paul says the man of sin will oppose the Lord; Revelation records how he blasphemes God (13.6). Paul foretells how that man of sin will exalt himself as God to be worshipped; Revelation describes how he has his image made to receive homage (13.14,15). Paul describes that his coming is according to the working of Satan; Revelation narrates how he receives power from the dragon (that is to say, from Satan) (12.9, 13.4). Paul predicts he will perform signs and lying wonders; Revelation observes that "his death-stroke [will be] healed" (13.3; cf. also v.14). Paul concludes that he will be destroyed by the glory of the coming of the Lord Jesus; Revelation depicts him as being seized at the coming of the Lord and then being "cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone" (19.20).
Can we not now see how the prophecies in Revelation correspond so intimately with all the other prophecies in both the Old and New Testaments? How truly one is the word of the Lord! Even as the prophecies quoted above from the New Testament as well as the Old await their fulfillment in the coming days, so also do the corresponding words in Revelation await their future realizations too.
