How come you Bible "experts" never back yourself with any scripture or reasoning?

Question

Want realistic views about Revelation?
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Answer 1

I do!
A Brief Scenario of End-time Events

There is great debate about end-time events. Down through history there have been various time-tables explaining end-time events. We cannot be absolutely certain all of the following is correct but here is a possible brief summary of end-time events.
The next great event in God's dealings with the human race will be the Rapture (taking up off the earth to heaven) of God's people, the Church. All non-believers in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior form all their sins will be left behind to go through the Tribulation, seven years of chaos and hardship specifically for Israel and generally for the rest of the world.
(During the Tribulation, the Church, the body of Jesus Christ, will be in heaven at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb and before The Bema, the Judgment seat of Christ, to receive their rewards according to how well they let Jesus Christ rule and reign and have His way in their lives while they were on the earth. During the Tribulation some people on earth will also have a chance to receive Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior from all their sins. Some of them will be martyred for their faith in Jesus Christ.)
Shortly after the Rapture the mystery of iniquity will begin to unravel. The Antichrist, Satan incarnated in a person, will appear on the scene to take control of the world's religious, political and economic (financial) systems and establishes a peace accord with Israel.
The 144,00 Jews will be sealed for salvation. The Jewish temple will be rebuilt.
At the temple's dedication, 3&1/2 years later, the Antichrist will set himself on the altar of the temple and demand the Jews and all peoples of the world worship him (This iscalled the abomination of desolation).
The last 3&1/2 years of the tribulation is called the Great Tribulation when God severely judges the nation of Israel for their rebellion against Him in not receiving His Son, Jesus Christ, as their Messiah when He was here the first time, some two thousand years ago.
At the end of the Great Tribulation the Antichrist will gather most of the nations of the world together to attempt to destroy Israel in the Battle of Armageddon.
Jesus Christ will appear and set His feet down on the Mount of Olives. The Mount of Olives will be split down the middle and a great earthquake will level the country around Jerusalem. Israel will recognize Jesus Christ is their true Messiah and be converted to Jesus Christ as their personal Messiah in one day.
The Antichrist's army will be destroyed by Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ will put the Antichrist into the Bottomless Pit to be there a thousand years.
Jesus Christ will then judge the nations. Those nations who treated Israel kindly and protected them through the ages and especially during the Tribulation will be called Sheep Nations and will go into the Millennium to be with Jesus Christ as He rules the world, with His believers, through the nation of Israel from the throne of David in Jerusalem.
Those nations who hated Israel and mistreated Israel through the ages and especially during the Tribulation will be called Goat Nations and will be put into the Lake of Fire.
The Millennium will be a great time of peace and prosperity when Jesus Christ rules the world in righteousness for a thousand years. No wars will be allowed .
At the end of the Millennium the Antichrist (Satan) will come out of the Bottomless Pit to once again gather the nations together to try to defeat Israel and Jesus Christ as ruler of the world in the Battle of Gog and Magog. Jesus Christ will once again defeat that army and this time He will cast Satan into the Lake of Fire to be there forever.
After that Jesus Christ will take everyone (all true believers in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior from all their sins) to heaven to be there when He renovates the earth by fire to destroy all vestiges of sin from the earth.
After that the New Jerusalem will come down from heaven and be put on the earth for all true believers to dwell there for 33,000 years. That is called The Perfect Age. That will truly be heaven on earth. Sin will be no more.
At the end of those 33,000 years Jesus Christ will turn everything over to God the Father for all to dwell in heaven for ever.
Take this for what it is worth. No one can be absolutely sure of what and when God has planned.
Please do your own study of The Holy Bible and other books to confirm or disprove the validity of this brief summary.

Most of the above was randomly taken from Clarence Larkin's Dispensational Truth, 1920, Published by the Clarence Larkin Estate.

Answer 2

Interesting. You wrote:
"How come you Bible "experts" never back yourself with any scripture or reasoning?"

1) By using the word "you," you have lumped all bible experts together and indicated that you communicated with them all.
2) Your use of the word "never" should only be applied to the entire time continuum, don't you think? So we readers can only conlude that you have talked to "all" bible experts, past, present and future.

Consequently, you have already proven, by investigative techniques (limitless resources and time travel being just a couple) unavailable to the rest of us, that bible experts do not back themselves with any scripture or reasoning. So, your question stands as moot in its current form and is basically un-answerable.

Of course, if you would like to re-think and possibly rephrase this question, I would be honored to continue this line of reasoning in any venue comfortable to you. For as God says, "Come, let us reason together..."*

Answer 3

I am not an expert in the Bible, but I usually don't use as many bible verse just the truths that the bible tells me. I thought that you guys don't like us always showing you scripture verses, and now you want them. OK! Are you sure you want them?

Answer 4

Who in the world made you an expert, and how old are you, by the way? We give scripture and you say the bible is false, ergo the scripture too.

Answer 5

People who use Bible quotes get smacked around alot when they quote Scripture, then, people yell that they should think for themselves and not keep parroting scripture. Then, when they do speak for themselves, they get smacked around for not quoting the Bible... People of faith get smacked around alot, just for sport, just because people like smacking them around. It comes with the territory - so we just know that people's minds and hearts are sometimes closed for reasons we will not understand in this life. It doesn't make us stop giving the reason for the hope that we have, and letting the Holy Spirit open the hearts of the ones of His choosing...

Answer 6

I always back up my answers with Scripture where appropriate. If the question asks about the Bible, or how my faith informs my opinion on a matter, I back it up with Scripture.

If someone is messing around, provoking people, or asking an opinion that is not based on faith, I don't respond with Scripture.

You painted with too large a brush on your question.

Answer 7

I not a bible expert and I do back up what I saying. I know the reason why I read the bible. I try to explain the bible to people but it up to them to digest it.

Answer 8

Can't back up a question that is not asked.

Besides I would prefer you read the Bible and use scripture to prove me wrong.

Answer 9

What is it, Oh Great scholar, would you like to know?

Rapture or Revelation?
1st Beast or 2ND Beast?
Antichrist or the Forerunner?
The false Prophet or the False Messiah?
The 1st, 2ND or 3rd coming?

Duh?

What part can you not grasp?

I have scriptural answers. You have not defined a scriptural question. :)

Answer 10

Provide an example. I've seen plenty of people use Scripture and reasoning to back up their claims. Maybe you just choose to see what you want to see.

Answer 11

I rarely talk about revelation. It seems open to interpretation. Only a few religions have views counter to it, and I view anyones personal interpretation as speculation, I have a speculation as well.