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Peter Confront Simon Magus |
In light of the dismal track record of the End-Time Prophecy Industry, the question is legitimate. One can easily assemble a list of the Industry’s failed predictions going back decades. But try to find one it got right. Now that is a challenge!
I am talking about specifics. Today’s shrewder interpreters have learned to employ three tactics: ambiguity, the subjunctive mood, and fancy footwork. News headlines do not go as expected? Start dancing! Distract your audience with new and frightening predictions. Start swimming fast or your “prophetic ministry” will sink!
It is all well and good to “predict” that
There is something wrong fundamentally with how the Prophecy Industry interprets Bible prophecies. It has missed hitting the nail on the head time and again. It is high time to reexamine scriptural passages to see what they really say, to take their words at face value. When Jesus said that "no one knows the day or the hour," do we really believe he intended to say, "Ah, but you can know the general season!" Take about 'special pleading'!
When events deviate from the party line, inserting a “time gap” where the numbers do not add up or shoehorning a loophole into the inconvenient words of Jesus is not a solution. Whether the “experts” are dishonest, ignorant, deceived, or just plain incompetent, the record demonstrates beyond that, at best, they are guessing about the future.
Peter warned of future “scoffers” who will scoff, saying, “Where is the promise of his coming?” Well, in all fairness to the "scoffers," have we have not provided them with more than an adequate supply of ammunition over the last hundred years or so?
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