(Besides Revelations which will happen in the future). Are nonbelievers afraid of the prophecies in Revelations? Like 1/3 of the population of the Earth will die, the ocean will turn into blood, you either take the mark of the beast or you die? So, its supposed to be hell on earth, does this scare you?
2006-12-21 09:16:56 · 17 answers · asked by Nikki 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i'm not trying to scare anybody, i just watched National Geographic channels show on the Book of Revelations and i'm just curious? the 'experts' seem to think Revelations is Not literal
2006-12-21 09:27:50 · update #1
Response to the above answer: It happened, 2 people in the bible were taken up to heaven without even dieing.
Thousands, literally. Not exagerating. Every last prophecy but revalatins has happened. People just deny that, either because they're scared or they don't know and they are making the answer up themselves. Even the prophesies explaining about what the "end times" will be like in the bible have beef fulfilled.
2006-12-21 09:21:38 · answer #1 · answered by Lord_French_Fry 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
So many prophecies are yet to be fulfilled. But the most important ones that point to Messiah have been fulfilled.
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man goes to the Father except by Jesus.
The fulfillment of the prophecies of the Book of Revelation will be an exciting and horrific time in which to live. Pray that the unsaved will become saved in order to escape.
2006-12-21 09:23:58 · answer #2 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In Mark 13:30 Jesus says: "Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done."
Among the "things" which were to have been done before the generation (of Peter, James, John, and Andrew) had passed are much Revelation style mumbo jumbo, none of which came to pass during that generation.
Therefore, if Jesus couldn't see three score years and ten into the future, why would I be scared of the ramblings from some disturbed monk sitting in a cave on Patmos?
2006-12-21 09:44:58 · answer #3 · answered by Dave P 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Every prophecy ever given has been fulfilled. Of course there are some to be fulfilled sometime in our future. What I'm saying is that there has NEVER been a prophecy contained within the canon of Biblical Scripture which has not come to pass as prophesied.
2006-12-21 09:20:39 · answer #4 · answered by luckyme 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Aesop's Fables has more to fear. Rev 8-10 is sometimes assumed to have been fulfilled by Chernobyl, but I don't remember a third of all trees being burned up, ALL the grass being incinerated, the sea becoming blood and a third of all sea life dying, quite apart from mountains crumbling into the sea. Is someone going to tell me that John put those in that order but didn't actually mean they were going to happen in that order? How convenient.
2006-12-21 09:25:53 · answer #5 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No it doesn't scare me. Not anymore. Actually it never did; I mean religion in general - the concepts contained therein - no longer scare me.
Catholics didn't focus on all the big bad stuff like some other religions do.
2006-12-21 09:24:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there are still a bunch of prophecies that have to be fufilled. They come mainly from Ezekial, Isiaih, Daniel, Hosea, Joel and a little from Matthew.
2006-12-21 09:22:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well revelations has passed, it was the fall of Rome, but no, god says Adam will die the next day if he eats the apple and Adam eats the apple and lives to be 900. There is the first failure. You can say some of the vague ones passed and link them to quite a bit of history though. There will be a war in the middle east, tell me when that one ISN'T fulfilled...
2006-12-21 09:20:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Not at all. Saved Christians should be looking forward to the return of Christ because everything described in Revelations precedes his coming. It will be the beginning of the end of this world and the beginning of forever with Jesus in Heaven. That's why we pray "come Lord Jesus".
2006-12-21 09:26:29 · answer #9 · answered by FennFish 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Part of Revelation has been fulfilled. please read this part:
Revelation 12:7 And war broke out in heaven: Mi′cha·el and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled 8 but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. 9 So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him. . 12 On this account be glad, YOU heavens and YOU who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to YOU, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time.”
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It is not surprising to see the world in chaos, war,poverty, famine because Satan, the manslayer, wants to kill us much people as he can before God himself destroys him.
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Starting from Revelation 14:8 onwards has yet to be fulfilled. For Christians, these are not to be scared of but something to look forward to as these events will later on bring peace.
2006-12-21 09:26:46 · answer #10 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋