Hey Cooter,
If I give you a citation, you'll refute it. (Yeah, of course I predicted ~WWI, WWII, the Korean Conflict, etc.,etc., etc.~). Alternately, if I give you a future event, you won't be convinced because IT HASN'T COME TO PASS.
But as you suggest, prophecy is a simple subject, easily validated by the historical record (as appropriate), and even validated by foundations which are laid today for fulfillment tomorrow. -- Take for example the ten horns. This information was pronounced in August of 1993, but will not take place until ~2015.
In fact I have no problem assigning future events to the "season" based solely upon Scripture, -- with no other direct evidence. But then again, prophecy is simple.
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You are not understanding what I am saying. Here are some examples of failed Futurist speculations.
Lindsey predicted that Nasser would become the leader of the Arab world - he died from a heart attack the same year LGPE was published.
My family came into the Church in the early 50's and at that time the Futurist AoG Church that we attended taught that Jesus would be coming back within 40 years of the founding of modern Israel. 1948 + 40 = 1988. 1988 came and went and nothing - another failed speculation. Next they said that they counted wrong and they should have started with the liberation of Jerusalem in 1967. 1967 + 40 = 2007. 2007 came and went - another failure in their endless fanciful speculations.
This same Church also taught back then that Russia would invade Israel any day now as per Ezekiel 38-39. I haven't seen this in my 60 years in the Church. Another failure. Back then they taught that the invaders on horseback were the Cossacks. They are still around, but their power started to decline in the 1800"s and they are not a significant force today. I think Futurists today are saying that those ancient weapons of war in 38 and 39 are symbolic of modern weapons. So they keep updating their speculations when they don't come to pass. Ezekiel 38-39 is an apocalyptic prophesy of the coming of Antiochus – a major event in Jewish history. It's already behind us.
The Antichrist. There have been hundreds of speculations about who the antichrist is over the past 60 years (my adult lifetime) - and the list changes continually. While doing this post I ran over a site that says that Prince Charles is the antichrist. Just this week I noted that in my wife's new edition of Charisma magazine there are two new books (full page ads) for the latest two speculations for the antichrist. And they will keep coming as Futurism is a very lucrative market for this kind of nonsense. I did take notice that one author stated that the antichrist would be allied to a 10 nation coalition. I was taught that this was the emerging revived Roman empire – then it morphed into the EU. Now the EU has 27 members with another 5 pending – so much for the 10 nation revived Roman Empire. They had to make up a new direction yet again. Add another failure to the long list. I realize that it is very difficult to predict fulfillments for Prophesy that are ALREADY fulfilled.
Dr. Charles Price decades ago wrote a book proving conclusively that Mussolini was the antichrist beyond a shadow of doubt. When hearing of the death of Mussolini - he simply said, “Thank God all of the books were sold.” And so it goes on ad infinitum. Just one failure after another - after another. I think Futurists are slowly learning that their Eschatology is not working. No problem – just keep it all floating out in the future in never- never-land. Don't make any firm commitments – because they are always wrong 100%.
This is what I mean – name one prediction that has come to pass in the last 60 years – they have all failed - every one that has been predicted publicly by the movement. As for personal individual predictions - the failure rate is also 100%. Personal predictions are in the 10's of thousands. I just ran across about three last week. I'm starting to collect them.
Of course all of these failures are long forgotten and never spoken of; but yet futurists publicize all of their new speculations and want people to accept them even with your zero credibility for past performance. And if they are contradicted they fly into an absolute rage as you can see from previous responses to my posts.
Mark my words - all of these Futurist writers and teachers with itching ears and fat wallets who have the adoration of millions are going to on day give an account for all of their false doctrines.
Give my best to Peter and Wendy.