But I'm not denying commonality, I'm saying that a partial commonality would cause us to have to link together far more prophecies than these.It is another problem altogether to deny commonality.
Partial commonality in terminology, for me, is not sufficient to overlook that which is contradictory or exclusionary.
I'm trying to follow the bouncing ball. You are the one who is making the argument that the partial commonality overturns the sequential narrative aspect to the vision.It kind of Irks me that you wish to change the topic from sequentiality to commonality now, ignoring the points I have made to you about sequentiality.
So, you'd need to point to specific instances of this, and show how those instances directly impact the Revelation prophecy you have in mind, and how this impacts it's timing.Again time is irrelevant for the most part in Prophecy one paragraph can speak of both the first and the second advent simultaneously.
And it's one thing to say, Here, Jesus read until this part, ". . . the acceptible year of the Lord", but not, "and the day of His vengeance", and this shows that prophecies may have partial fulfillments, with the rest after a period of time. Yes, we see that. However, we need to have the Bible's aurthority itself on the passage in question.
Otherwise, we're just saying, Well, it split that prophecy, so I'm sure this one will be split too! For myself, I look at the text itself to tell me.
I think first we need to understand each passage thoroughly in its own right, and, I find when I do that, I don't find any need to reach across to similar yet different prophecies. God often does the same thing, or very similar things, repeatedly.Commonality is the only thing we have to work with at times when interpreting Prophecy,
The destruction of Israel's enemies in the Red Sea will be mirrored by the mountain/valley in the winepress of God's wrath, for instance.
I find I don't have to fit the Revelation's chronology into anything. I find it has a reasonably clear and detailed chronology within it, which happens to parallel the other prophecies.that we must make revelation fit into,
Much Like you and most conservative Christians I started out in the pre-trib camp,
I didn't start out in any camp, other than having been reborn. And not all Christians start off in pre-trib churches either. But that's neither here nor there. I hold my current view from my personal study.
although I wanted to believe in pretrib
That doesn't mean everyone else is the same way.
But the simplicity and beauty of the whole picture rightly seen will outweigh all your preconceptions of what makes the pretrib rapture so appealing to you now
Actually, for me, the simplicity is in how the prophecies are laid out. Prophetic narrative with a few paranthetical passages, and those are labeled for us. The symbols are labeled and defined, the timeline is defined, I find it fairly straightforward.
And, would you please just be done with your accusations that I come to my conclusions out of some dishonest reason! Enough!
Here's a little secret, little known, but terribly important. Truth is what sets us free.
Much love!