The Bedrock of Prophetic Precision
Doug Martin
Hello, friends! First of all, I would like to say thanks for visiting my site! There is a lot of information here, and I have put it in sequence so that you will not get lost in the information. Most of what you will see on my website goes against the flow of popular, mainstream eschatology. What I can tell you is that I have not used world events, tradition, opinion or religion to interpret End Time Prophecy. I do not claim to have some special secret revealed to me and only me. I have not found "The Lost Translation of Revelation and End Time Prophecy" because it was never lost to begin with. Here is a quote from Jonathan Kirsch, author of "The History of the End of the World", which is anti-Christ, anti-God and anti-religion, but yet it seems so incredibly appropriate. "The imagery of Revelation, as we shall see, meant something quite specific - and quite different - to its author and his first readers and hearers. But the fact that we are able to understand what the "number of the beast" and the Great Whore of Babylon actually meant to a Christian visionary of Jewish birth. . . in the first century has never deterred subsequent generations from finidng entirely different meanings for themselves. . . each new generation of readers is convinced that God planted a secret meaning in the text that was meant only and especially for them. And, remarkably, the failure of each previous generation to crack the Revelation code only encourages the next generation to try harder."
I don't make any claims on my part. I did not interpret End Time Prophecy. No. I studied and let the Word of God interpret End Time Prophecy. That is what is called good hermeneutics.
I don't make any claims on my part. I did not interpret End Time Prophecy. No. I studied and let the Word of God interpret End Time Prophecy. That is what is called good hermeneutics.
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is defined as the correct way to study God’s Word. You let the Word of God interpret the Word of God. Good hermeneutics is when you study the Word of God and let the Word of God interpret itself. Good hermeneutics uses the crux or whole of the Word of God to interpret vague and nebulous scriptures rather than the other way around. Good hermeneutics does not treat the Word of God like bits and pieces of isolated truth unrelated to each other. That is something that most End Time Prophecy Teachers seem to do. They find symbols and pray for interpretation rather than look for the interpretation already in the Word. If you don’t know what I am talking about, just watch these teachers on TV. They will use current events to form their opinion on prophecy. Since when does the Church use temporal things to interpret Timeless Biblical Doctrine? Oh, yeah, I forgot. It’s the American Way. In Kingdom Culture it is not so. Since true Biblical Doctrine is interpreted by the Word, shouldn’t prophecy be as well? It used to be.
Take a look around. If you are new to this, I would suggest starting from the first post and moving in succession so that it will be built precept upon precept.
The Hub Scripture, I believe, for End Time Doctrine is actually found near the end in Revelation 17:10 concerning the Seven Heads of the Beast. "They are also seven kings (kingdoms): five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes, he must remain for a little while. The beast that was and is not, is himself the eighth, yet is of the seven and goes down to destruction."
The Hub Scripture, I believe, for End Time Doctrine is actually found near the end in Revelation 17:10 concerning the Seven Heads of the Beast. "They are also seven kings (kingdoms): five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes, he must remain for a little while. The beast that was and is not, is himself the eighth, yet is of the seven and goes down to destruction."
This shows that the Beast is a Kingdom of Kingdoms that transcends a period of 5000 years or so, because the first five kingdoms are Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia and Greece. The one that is (in John’s time) was the Roman Empire, and the one that comes and remains for a little while, 1,260 years in control of the Holy Land, is the Islamic Kingdom. The eighth kingdom that was not and will be is originally part of the first five. It is not Babylon because the Beast and the 10 kings that lend it their power will destroy the Whore of Babylon. So it is one of four: Egypt, Assyria, Persia, and Greece. The Revelation 13:1-10 Beast Kingdom is Islam and the 13:11 Beast/False Prophet is the 8th Beast. There is a description, that when compared to a description of a former Beast Kingdom, shows exactly what resurrected Kingdom it is. You will find that later on.
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Prophetic Precision