We are told to WATCH by the Lord. I have run across a three-part video, that I would imagine that many of you have seen. Scripture after scripture is claimed to indicate that Jesus returns in 2030.
Have any of you seen these videos and do you think they are correct?
Here is part one.
This 2030 date is actually the date that the millennial kingdom is set up.
If the millennial kingdom is set up in 2030, what should we be seeing today?
I've always been averse to date-setting, but that series is the best I've ever seen - so this time (and for now) I'm paying attention, prayerfully and very cautiously.
The series grabbed my attention probably because in other ways that he doesn't even speak about, I've also seen 7 7 7 popping up all over scripture, and I already agreed with AD 30 as the year the Lord was crucified, as well as with his interpretation of Daniel 9:27, as well as with his interpretation of the abomination of desolation (as a thing that we will see appearing in the holy place 3.5 years before the return of Christ), although I disagree with him about which "temple" / holy place it will appear in.
I was battling to concentrate because I was tired and will have to watch again but the series has grabbed my attention, despite the fact that I've always been uncomfortable with and averse to date-setting.
Thanks for posting.
I don't agree with his theology regarding Torah observance either, though. I do not believe the Torah gives life - not because the Torah isn't good and holy - but because of sin:
Romans 7
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of lust. For apart from law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once. But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
10
And the commandment, which was to life, was found to be death to me.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
12 So indeed the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
13 Then
has that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, working death in me by that which is good; in order that sin might become exceedingly sinful by the commandment.
14 For we know that
the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do, I know not. For what I desire, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do.
16 If then I do that which I do not desire, I consent to the law that it is good.
17 But now it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
24 O wretched man that I am!
Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Jesus
fulfilled the law, and the fruit of the Spirit
fulfills the law, and there is a difference between
obeying the law in order to fulfill the law on one hand, and through faith in Christ, abiding in Christ so that His Spirit in us will enable us to produce the fruit that
fulfills the law, on the other hand
.
I really wouldn't have a problem if I was born into a Jewish family, with having the Jewish customs viz celebtrating the biblical chaggim as part of my culture (in fact it would be more meaningful in terms of the understanding of how it
all points to and
is fulfilled by Messiah)
- but I believe that it is for freedom that Christ has set us free, so I also have no problem with the Easter celebration of pickled fish and Resurrection Sunday, and Christmas day (if it's celebrated in honor of Christ) as part of my culture.
But I wouldn't appreciate someone implying that there's something wrong with my walk with Christ if I don't turn myself into a Jew and observe sabbath every Saturday + all the biblical chaggim. I do not believe that obeying Torah
fulfills Torah. I believe that Torah points to Christ and is
fulfilled by Christ and that the fruit of the Spirit
fulfillsTorah because it's the spirit and motive behind Torah.
But anyway I wouldn't discourage anyone from watching the series. I would encourage them to watch the series but prayerfully (asking God to reveal any deceptions) and cautiously.