see what im talking about is that all the Christian end times teachers that think that have "unlocked" the secret Bible math so that they can know a date, never are proved correct later.
At best all that can happen is like what the 7th day Adventists did, where a predicted date failed to appear, and then rather than admitting their math was all wrong, they came out with a new way to have the failed date look like it was a true date, "Just invisible" to human eyes.
"God did return, but invisibly"
or...
"God moved from one apartment in heaven to another"
But I just consider all that kind of stuff to be a bit silly...
The other thing that I see happen when people pick a date in the future and that day comes , is that the false Prophet will then find anything that might have happened on or near the date, and say that "that event" is what was predicted...
So in other words, it would be to predict that the next Monday something important in God's time table would happen, and then on the next Tuesday they would open up the newspaper and search for any story in the news of the day before that they can then point to and say "There it happened just as I predicted!"
So that is the type of stuff i see when i study the many false Prophets that have risen up and made predictions based on their own private bible math.
As I have already listed in a post on this topic, the history of the world is filled with the names of people and churches that fell in love with the idea that there was a secret way to add up numbers to make a prediction for the day of the lord's return.
And everyone who does their own Bible math and makes a prediction, is later proven to be a false prophet.
This is the start of a new year as i write this, and Im sure before too long we may yet again hear that some book in the bookstore has a new date for the return...
There is always a new writer that is convinced that the world needs to hear his version of the "88 Reasons Why Christ Will Return In 1988"
and then later, they come out with the next version ,,,,,and such books do tend to sell.
There seems to be this market for this type of stuff....and you would think that by now, after so many people have proven so clearly that you simply cant rely on predictions made with bible math that people would be wise to this foolishness......but i see that is not true...
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Once again, all who try to do Bible math end up FAIL......
oh they love to point out to us how other people were able to use the Bible's numbers to come up with a date in the past, and then they try to use this as a justification for their own use of Bible math to come up with their own set of results...
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But they all fail!
They all fail....
The most they can do is when they are shown to be wrong to switch things around like the 7th Day'ers did so as to put a better "spin" on their false dates.
But predict a date in the future?....not a chance.
while talking about the topic of Jewish temples....
I have been looking and researching the floor plan of the common artwork found in our study bibles about what the Jewish temple area looked like at the time of Christ.
I have come to the conclusion that most all the artwork that show how buildings were setting, and their location are in error.
The main trouble I have is the common way the Roman barracks are shoved up into one little corner of the temple mount.
I dont believe that is correct at all.
I believe that the Roman guard and all the Roman officials and all the troops would have required a monster size area, that would be far, far greater than the area of the temple.
This means that almost everything I see displayed about where the temple was and how it was sitting are likely in error.
so to sum up my views on the whole "Bible Math" issue.
I believe that every single person that has ever attempted to use the text of the Bible to add up numbers to arrive at a date for the return of Christ or the ending of the world are in error.
They all fail.
The people that try to defend the use of Bible Math always try to point to how a date was predicted in the past, and then slide their own date setting underneath that so that it looks like their own ways to do Bible math are just as true.
But they all fail.
They fail because they cant actually do Bible math.
What they are doing is allowing their imagination to rule their ability to reason correctly.
They want to believe they have "unlocked" a way to do Bible math so much that they just lose all logic.
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