The Interpretation of Prophecy – Military
Arrests Liz Cheney - We Are the Enemy of Big Tech - ATLAS SHRUGS - NESARA/GESARA
NEWS – US Military News - De-Dollarization Underway - BRICS Urges Cooperation
& Peace & more.
Researched & Comments by Pastor
Gary Boyd
April 3rd 2023
CHRISTIAN PATRIOT NEWS - Q: The
Mother of all Truth Bombs Incoming [1 day] April 3rd, 2023! - Sunday, April 2,
2023 17:22 - We are the enemy of Big Tech, Big Money and Big Media. Together,
let’s expose the lies of the enemy. Impart a little truth every day. Especially
the Truth that Jesus Christ is Lord! https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/04/q-the-mother-of-all-truth-bombs-incoming-1-day-april-3rd-2023-3659172.html
ATLAS SHRUGS: DNC Lawyer Suing Trump
Over Jan 6 on Behalf of Democrats in Congress Arrested for Child Porn,
Depicting Children as Young as 5 Years Old. - By Pamela Geller - on April 2,
2023 - This is the Democrat party. Makes sense of their policies and their
obsession with sexualizing children, does it not? Michael T. Dolce, a lawyer
who specialized in fighting child sex abuse (no joke), was arrested by the feds
at his West Palm Beach apartment on March 15. According to reports, Michael
Dolce is no longer listed on the Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll website. https://gellerreport.com/2023/04/dnc-lawyer-suing-trump-over-jan-6-on-behalf-of-democrats-in-congress-arrested-for-child-porn-depicting-children-as-young-as-5-years-old.html/?lctg=87791646
NESARA/GESARA NEWS: Please take your
seats. The "show" is about to start – April 3rd 2023 - El
Salvador removes all taxes related to tech innovation for economic growth - India,
Malaysia can now trade in Indian rupee - Yuan tops euro as Brazil's second
currency in foreign reserves - BRICS urges cooperation and peace - India offers
rupee trade option to nations facing dollar crunch https://gesara.news/updates.html & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ismWDXgdC_A
De-Dollarization Underway: Is the US
Dollar Losing its Reserve Currency Status? A Discussion With John Rubino
(Video) - Sunday, April 2, 2023 22:33 - This Wealthion video was streamed live
on 31 March 2023. Adam Taggart and John Rubino sit down to discuss the current
status of the fading petro dollar in the eyes of the world. In recent weeks, a
number of countries including Russia, China, India & Brazil have announced
major trade deals which will settle in currencies other than the US dollar. Central
banks around the world are similarly reducing the percentage of US dollars they
hold in reserve. https://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2023/04/de-dollarization-underway-is-the-us-dollar-losing-its-reserve-currency-status-a-discussion-with-john-rubino-3082135.html
REAL RAW NEWS: Military Arrests Liz
Cheney - By Michael Baxter -April 2, 2023 - The imminent arraignment of
President Donald J. Trump hasn’t stopped White Hat efforts to cleanse the
nation of Deep State traitors and saboteurs, a source in General Eric M.
Smith’s office told Real Raw News. On Saturday, United States Marines under
Gen. Smith’s command arrested January 6 Committee architect Liz Cheney at her
posh home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a ritzy tourist town famous for its
mountainous landscape and majestic views of the nearby Grand Tetons…. https://realrawnews.com/2023/04/military-arrests-liz-cheney/
US MILITARY NEWS - Judy Byington:
Imminent Black Swan Events -Restored Republic via a GCR: Update as of Mon. 3
April 2023 (Video) - Monday, April 3, 2023 8:22 - A Nuke Scare and Global
Financial Crash caused by the bankrupt US Inc.-British Crown-Vatican Banking
Cartel was expected to be followed by a NESARA/GESARA Announcement and Global
Currency Reset, Med Beds rollout, activation of the Emergency Broadcast System,
worldwide Three Day Blackout and Ten Day Lockdown that carried with it… https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/04/judy-byington-imminent-black-swan-events-restored-republic-via-a-gcr-update-as-of-mon-3-april-2023-video-3790967.html
Derek Johnson & Juan O' Savin:
Donald J. Trump - Do You See It Yet? (Video) - Monday, April 3, 2023 8:00 - Everyone
is waiting with baited breath for the arrest of Donald J. Trump this week..
Derek share some Intel in regards to that and says it in this way: Trump Is CIC
Commander In Chief - MIL Continuity Of Government In Effect…. https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/04/derek-johnson-juan-o-savin-donald-j-trump-do-you-see-it-yet-video-3790962.html
Charlie Ward: Very Important Intel
-Trump Never Give Up or Quit! (Video) - Monday, April 3, 2023 8:29 - Everything
is changing and our political and economic worlds are about to explode!!
Charlie has HUGE Intel to share about that and much, much, more! https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/04/charlie-ward-very-important-intel-trump-never-give-up-or-quit-video-3790969.html
ATLAS SHRUGS: Japan Breaks With U.S.
Allies, Buys Russian Oil - Monday, April 3, 2023 9:17 - Russia’s economy and
currency are stronger than before the war. U.S. sanctions did not work. Biden
said our war against Russia would weaken it when it fact, it’s done the
opposite. It has crippled us. Tucker Carlson: “It’s scary… They told us
sanctions would cripple the Russian economy… well, this summer the Russian
ruble hit its strongest level in 7 years and just a few months ago Russia was
running a massive trade surplus…” https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/04/japan-breaks-with-u-s-allies-buys-russian-oil-3659212.html
MAIL ONLINE: Marjorie Taylor Greene
calls Democrats 'pedophiles,' claims Biden supports 'sexualizing children' and
criticizes Republicans for not backing Trump when he was President - Rep. MTG
defended claims that the Democratic Party is 'full of pedophiles' - Greene has
drawn fire in the past for circulating QAnon-linked conspiracies - The 60
Minutes interview with the Georgia Republican also covered school shootings and
her thoughts on Ukraine - By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and JAMES REYNOLDS - PUBLISHED: 09:09 EDT, 3
April 2023 | UPDATED: 11:27 EDT, 3 April 2023 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11932941/Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-Democrats-pedophiles-Biden-supports-grooming.html
ISRAEL 365 NEWS: US training and
arming 5,000 Palestinian Authority troops in Jordan – “As you did, so shall it
be done to you; Your conduct shall be requited. Yea, against all nations, the
day of Hashem is at hand.” OBADIAH 1:15 (THE ISRAEL BIBLE) - BY ADAM ELIYAHU
BERKOWITZ - MIDDLE EAST, US-ISRAEL RELATIONS - APRIL 2, 2023 – The Biden
administration is currently training and arming several thousand Palestinian
Authority troops, commentator Carolyn Glick has recently denounced. https://www.israel365news.com/369160/us-training-and-arming-5000-palestinian-authority-troops-in-jordan/
WATCHERS – Meanwhile yet again a Powerful
storm system to affect large portion of the Intermountain West and Central U.S.
- Sunday, April 2, 2023 - A large and powerful storm system is expected to
affect the western and central U.S. this week, beginning to strengthen over the
Intermountain West on Monday, April 3, 2023, before moving into the central
Plains by April 4. The highly anomalous upper-level low is forecasted to swing
from the Intermountain West to the Central Rockies on Tuesday, potentially
causing the biggest snowstorm of the year across parts of the northern Plains. https://watchers.news/2023/04/02/powerful-storm-system-to-affect-large-portion-of-the-intermountain-west-and-central-u-s/
RAIR: Minneapolis Moves Closer to
Becoming First U.S. City to Blast Islamic Call to Prayer Five Times a Day,
Starting at Dawn - By Amy Mek - April 2, 2023 - Any concession that non-Muslims
make to adopt Islamic norms and laws gradually erodes the foundations of
Western civilization, undermines the principles of the rule of law, and ends
the fundamental notion of equality for all individuals. The Minnesota chapter
of Hamas-linked CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) is demanding that
mosques in Minneapolis can broadcast the Islamic call to prayer five times a
day versus the already allotted three times a day. (Comment: The Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was one of 82 groups around the world
designated terrorist organizations by the United Arab Emirates, placing it in
the company of Al Qaeda, Islamic State and others. While CAIR has previously
been linked to Hamas, it has held hundreds of meetings with Obama White House
officials in 2015 on a wide range of community issues and has sought to present
itself as a mainstream Muslim organization, which has been proven it is not.) https://rairfoundation.com/minneapolis-moves-closer-to-becoming-first-u-s-city-to-blast-islamic-call-to-prayer-five-times-a-day-starting-at-dawn/ & https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-group-cair-named-terrorist-organization-by-united-arab-emirates
RAIR - Threat Alert: Islamic
Terror-Tied Nadia Kahf Sworn in as New Jersey Superior Court Judge (Video) - By
Amy Mek - April 1, 2023 - Kahf is the former Board Chairwoman of Hamas-linked
CAIR in New Jersey and the current Chairwoman of a Muslim Brotherhood-founded
Mosque led by an Imam who was arrested and convicted of being a member of
Hamas. Following her Superior Court of New Jersey appointment on March 23,
2023, Islamic supremacist attorney Nadia Kahf became the first hijab-wearing
judge in the United States. Kahf, whose family is of Syrian origin and who is
an immigration attorney, took the oath of office on Thursday with her hand on a
copy of the Quran – a book that teaches supremacy, hatred, and hostility.
Furthermore, it dehumanizes and stigmatizes non-believers. https://rairfoundation.com/threat-alert-islamic-terror-tied-leader-nadia-kahf-sworn-in-as-new-jersey-superior-court-judge-video/
The Interpretation of Prophecy
by Dr. David R. Reagan
Published on: May 7, 2013
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
April 3rd 2023
An Exercise in Imagination or the
Application of Plain Sense?
When I was about 12 years old, I stumbled
across Zechariah 14. It was an amazing discovery. You see, I grew up in a
church where we were told over and over that “there is not one verse in the
Bible that even implies that Jesus will ever set His feet on this earth again.”
Simple Language
Well, Zechariah 14 not only implies
that the Lord is coming back to this earth again, it says so point- blank! It
says that the Lord will return to this earth at a time when the Jews are back
in the land of Israel and their capital city, Jerusalem, is under siege. Just
as the city is about to fall, the Lord will return to the Mount of Olives.
When His feet touch the ground, the
mount will split in half. The remnant of Jews left in the city will take refuge
in the cleavage of the mountain. The Lord will then speak a supernatural word,
and the armies surrounding Jerusalem will be destroyed in an instant.
Verse 9 declares that on that day
“the Lord will be king over all the earth.”
Muddled Interpretations
When I first discovered this passage,
I took it to my minister and asked him what it meant. I will never forget his
response. He thought for a moment, and then He said, “Son I don’t know what it
means, but I’ll guarantee you one thing: it doesn’t mean what it says!”
For years after that, I would show
Zechariah 14 to every visiting evangelist who came preaching that Jesus would
never return to this earth. I always received the same response: “It doesn’t
mean what it says.” I couldn’t buy that answer.
Finally, I ran across a minister who
was a seminary graduate, and he gave me the answer I could live with. “Nothing
in Zechariah means what it says,” he explained, “because the whole book is
apocalyptic.”
Now, I didn’t have the slightest idea
what “apocalyptic” meant. I didn’t know if it was a disease or a philosophy.
But it sounded sophisticated, and, after all, the fellow was a seminary
graduate, so he should know.
A Discovery Experience
When I began to preach, I parroted
what I had heard from the pulpit all my life. When I spoke on prophecy, I would
always make the point that Jesus will never return to this earth. Occasionally,
people would come up after the sermon and ask, “What about Zechariah 14?” I
would snap back at them with one word: “APOCALYPTIC!” They would usually run
for the door in fright. They didn’t know what I was talking about (and neither
did I).
Then one day I sat down and read the
whole book of Zechariah. And guess what? My entire argument went down the
drain!
I discovered that the book contains
many prophecies about the First Coming of Jesus, and I discovered that all
those prophecies meant what they said. It suddenly occurred to me that if
Zechariah’s First Coming prophecies meant what they said, then why shouldn’t
his Second Coming promises mean what they say?
The Plain Sense Rule
That was the day that I stopped
playing games with God’s Prophetic Word. I started accepting it for its plain
sense meaning. I decided that if the plain sense makes sense, I would look for
no other sense, lest I end up with nonsense.
A good example of the nonsense
approach is one I found several years ago in a book on the Millennium. The
author spiritualized all of Zechariah 14. He argued that the Mount of Olives is
symbolic of the human heart surrounded by evil. When a person accepts Jesus as
Savior, Jesus comes into the person’s life and stands on his “Mount of Olives”
(his heart). The person’s heart breaks in contrition (the cleaving of the
mountain), and Jesus then defeats the enemy forces in the person’s life.
Hard to believe, isn’t it? When
people insist on spiritualizing the Scriptures like this, the Scriptures end up
meaning whatever they want them to mean.
Keys to Understanding
I believe God knows how to
communicate. I believe He says what He means and means what He says. I don’t
believe you have to have a doctorate in hermeneutics to understand the Bible.
The essentials, instead, are an honest heart and the filling of God’s Spirit (1
Corinthians 2:10-16).
One crucial key is to approach the
Scriptures with childlike faith. Dr. Henry Morris addresses this issue in his
great commentary on Revelation, called The Revelation Record. He says,
“Revelation is not difficult to understand. It is difficult to believe. If you
will believe it, you will understand it.”
For example, in Revelation 7 it says
that at the start of the Tribulation God is going to seal a great host of Jews
to serve as His special “bond-servants.” The text specifies that the number
will be 144,000, and that 12,000 will be selected from each of 12 specified
tribes.
Now, I ask you: What would God have
to do to convince us that He intends to set aside 144,000 Jews for special
service during the Tribulation? The text is crystal clear. Yet, hundreds of
commentators have denied the clear meaning and have spiritualized the passage
to make it refer to the Church! This is reckless handling of God’s Word, and it
produces nothing but confusion.
The Meaning of Symbols
“But what about symbols?” some ask.
Another crucial key is to keep in mind that a symbol stands for something,
otherwise it would not be a symbol. There is always a literal reality or plain
sense meaning behind every symbol.
Jesus is called “the rose of Sharon.”
He is not referred to as “the tumbleweed of Texas.” The image that a rose
conjures up is something beautiful; a tumbleweed is ugly.
The Bible is its own best interpreter
as to the meaning of the symbols which it uses. Sometimes the symbols are
clearly explained, as when God reveals to Ezekiel the meaning of the symbols in
his vision of the valley of dry bones (Ezekiel 37:11-14). In like manner, the
apostle John was told the meaning of certain symbols which he saw in his Patmos
vision of the glorified Lord (Revelation 1:20).
At other times, a simple search of
the Scriptures will reveal the meaning of a symbol. Consider the statement in
Revelation 12:14 where it says that the Jewish remnant will escape from the
Antichrist into the wilderness “on the two wings of the great eagle.”
Is this a literal eagle? Is it an air
lift provided by the U.S.A. whose national symbol is an eagle?
A concordance search will show that
the same symbolism is used in Exodus 19:4 to describe the flight of the
children of Israel as they escaped from Egypt. The symbol, as Exodus 19 makes
clear, is a poetic reference to the loving care of God.
The Importance of Context
Another key to understanding prophecy
is one that applies to the interpretation of all Scripture. It is the principle
that the meaning of words is determined by their context.
I ran across a good example of this
problem recently in a book in which the author was trying to prove that Jesus
is never coming back to reign upon this earth. Such a position, of course,
required him to spiritualize Revelation chapter 20 where it says six times that
there will be a reign of the Lord that will last one thousand years.
In this author’s desperate attempt to
explain away the thousand years, he referred to Psalm 50:10 where it says that
God owns “the cattle on a thousand hills.” He then asked, “Are there only one
thousand hills in the world?” He answered his question, “Of course not!” He
then proceeded to explain that the term is used figuratively. But then he made
a quantum leap in logic by proclaiming, “therefore, the term, ‘one thousand,’
is always used symbolically.”
Not so. It depends on context. In Psalm
50 the term is clearly symbolic. But in Revelation 20, it is not so. Again, the
thousand years is mentioned six times. What would the Lord have to do to
convince us that He means a thousand years? Put it in the sky in neon lights?
Pay attention to context!
Reconciling Passages
An additional key to understanding
prophecy is one that applies to all Scripture. It is the principle of searching
out everything that the Bible has to say on a particular point.
Avoid hanging a doctrine on one
isolated verse. All verses on a particular topic must be searched out,
compared, and then reconciled.
Let me give you a prophetic example.
Second Peter 3:10 says that when the Lord returns, “the heavens will pass away
with a roar . . . and the earth and its works will be burned up.” Now, if this
were the only verse in the Bible about the Second Coming, we could confidently
conclude that the heavens and earth will be burned up on the day that Jesus
returns.
But, there are many other verses in
both the Old and New Testaments, which make it abundantly clear that the Lord
will reign over all the earth before it is consumed with fire. Those verses
must be considered together with the passage in 2 Peter 3 in order to get the
correct overall view.
Special Problems
There are some special problems
related to prophetic interpretation. One is that prophecy is often prefilled in
symbolic type before it is completely fulfilled.
In this regard, I feel certain that
the Jewish people must have felt that Antiochus Epiphanes fulfilled Daniel’s
prophecies about a tyrannical leader who would severely persecute the Jews. But
200 years after Antiochus, Jesus took those prophecies of Daniel and told His
disciples they were yet to be fulfilled.
Another example is the sign which
Isaiah gave to King Ahaz to assure him that the city of Jerusalem would not
fall to the Syrians who had it under siege. The sign was that a young woman
would give birth to a son whose name would be called Immanuel (Isaiah 7:1-19).
The passage certainly implies that such a boy was born at that time.
But hundreds of years later, Matthew,
by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, reached back to Isaiah’s prophecy and
proclaimed that its ultimate fulfillment was to be found in the virgin birth of
Jesus (Matthew 1:22-23).
Compressed Time
Another peculiar feature of prophetic
literature is called “telescoping.” This occurs when a prophet compresses the
time interval between two prophetic events. This phenomenon is very common.
The reason for it has to do with the
perspective of the prophet. As he looks into the future and sees a series of
prophetic events, they appear to him as if they are in immediate sequence.
It is like looking down a mountain
range and viewing three peaks, one behind the other, each sequentially higher than
the one in front of it. The peaks look like they are right up against each
other because the person viewing them cannot see the valleys that separate
them.
In Zechariah 9:9-10 there is a
passage with three prophecies which are compressed into two verses but are
widely separated in time. Verse 9 says the Messiah will come humbly on a
donkey. The first part of verse 10 says the Jewish people will be set aside.
The second part of verse 10 says the Messiah will reign over all the nations.
These three events — the First
Coming, the setting aside of Israel, and the reign of Christ — appear to occur
in quick succession, but in reality, there were 40 years between the first two
events, and there have been over 1,900 years thus far between the second and
third events.
Another way of viewing the phenomenon
of telescoping is to focus on what are called “prophetic gaps.” These are the
time periods between the mountain peak prophetic events.
Because the Old Testament rabbis
could not see the gap between the first and second comings of the Messiah, some
theorized that there would be two Messiahs — a “Messiah ben Joseph” who would
suffer and a “Messiah ben David who would conquer. From our New Testament
perspective we can see that the Old Testament prophets were speaking of one
Messiah who would come twice. We can see the gap between the two comings.
A Challenge
I ask you: How do you treat Zechariah
14 — as fact or fiction? Are you guilty of playing games with God’s Word in
order to justify sacred traditions and doctrines of men?
I challenge you to interpret God’s
Word — all of it — for its plain sense meaning. As you do so, you are very
likely to find yourself challenged to discard old doctrines and to adopt new
ones. This will be a painful process, but it will be a fruitful one, for you
will be blessed with the truth of God’s Word.
“If you abide in My word, then you
are truly disciples of Mine; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free.” — John 8:31-32.
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