Originally posted by WeAreOne
What is this half week you speak of? Is there a Ref in the Bible you can point me to ...
One thing I will point out about revelation is that even though certain parts are in order
There are parts not in order ...
I mention this because the wounding of the beast took place back a few hundred years ago;
the Book of Daniel speaks of the 70 weeks,
the 70th week is the end-times (a week of 7 years duration) and divides in half;
3 1/2 years where the Beast from the Sea (antichrist)
comes to prominence along with the false prophet/2nd beast accomplice.
And, 3 1/2 years when the Great Tribulation begins, which is when the 1st Beast sets up the 'Abomination of Desolation' in the holy place, then
all
hell on earth happens as heaven sends the 7 bowls of wrath & the 7 vials
of judgement & pestilence upon humankind...and all those who accept the Mark-of-the-beast....
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as for the jumping around of the revelation vision,
there are two schools of thought, one is that the series of 7 punishments
are sequential, they follow one another 1-07 seals,then 1-7 bowls, 1-7 vials
the other viewpoint is that they all happen at the same time i.e. that
the 1st seal & the first bowl judgement and the first vial occur at the same time... and then the 2nd seal/bowl/vial....all the way to the 7th
one really needs to immerse oneself in the end-times to the nth degree
(and then one will come to realize something quite unsettling)
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this wounding of the beast? already happening hundreds of years ago???
(this is the example of an individuals interpetation using the 'jumping around' angle to an extreme point...
let me guess, it was when Napoleon met his Waterloo?
because around that era & up till the WWII, there were fundamentalist
christians that taught that Napoleon was the end time beast & empire...)
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keep in mind that the scriptures tell us in the end-times that
a great delusion will befall men and keep many from seeing & discerning...