There are no “secrets” in the Bible. It’s all written down. Discernment is required to “rightly divide the word”. (There are no vowels or punctuation in Hebrew, so it’s a continuous string of characters, and Ancient Greek is similar in that there’s no punctuation, or spaces between words or even upper/lower case letters.)
Fortunately, that work has been done for us. The difficulty for us lies in our direct transposition of an ancient mindset onto current sensibilities. We are easily misled by this. Be very very careful when making direct parallels between prophetic statements and current events. (See 7th Day Adventist history, or more currently “dispensationalism”) Arguably every prophecy has already been fulfilled, including St John of Patmos’. They’re useful, (as humanity and our fallen nature doesn’t change) but must be taken in context and consideration of the audience they were originally written to.
The reality revealed by close study of these ancient documents, in their original contexts is startling to us, but it’s all true. The Watchers of Enoch were/are real.
The Giants were real. Mt. Hermon, Tower of Babel etc all true. We await the fullness of “the nations”. Those God “divorced” and placed under lesser “gods” after Babel, until such a time as we currently are in. Everybody in the entire world will hear the Truth and be free to choose. Thank you Jesus!
Already, but not yet. NCSWIC.
There are no “secrets” in the Bible. It’s all written down. Discernment is required to “rightly divide the word”. (There are no vowels or punctuation in Hebrew, so it’s a continuous string of characters, and Ancient Greek is similar in that there’s no punctuation, or spaces between words or even upper/lower case letters.)
Fortunately, that work has been done for us. The difficulty for us lies in our direct transposition of an ancient mindset onto current sensibilities. We are easily misled by this. Be very very careful when making direct parallels between prophetic statements and current events. (See 7th Day Adventist history, or more currently “dispensationalism”) Arguably every prophecy has already been fulfilled, including St John of Patmos’. They’re useful, (as humanity and our fallen nature doesn’t change) but must be taken in context and consideration of the audience they were originally written to.
The reality revealed by close study of these ancient documents, in their original contexts is startling to us, but it’s all true. The Watchers of Enoch were/are real. The Giants were real. Mt. Hermon, Tower of Babel etc all true. We await the fullness of “the nations”. Those God “divorced” and placed under lesser “gods” after Babel, until such a time as we currently are in. Everybody in the entire world will hear the Truth and be free to choose. Thank you Jesus! Already, but not yet. NCSWIC.