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Recent content by Barraco

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    Anyone else have a unique eschatology?

    I really respect your approach. I decided in my early 20's to not try to force puzzle pieces into places they didn't belong, no matter how similar they seemed. I guess it's a moreorless scientific approach to eschatology. I present a hypothesis, then I conduct a synopsis to see if that...
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    Daniel 9:25's Decree

    That's a very dismissive response. It is relevant. It's biblically and historically backed. What it is not is something regurgitated from Evangelical eschatologists. It's my own studies, of which I hold myself very critical. My aim is not to gather a following. It is discourse. If I present an...
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    Anyone else have a unique eschatology?

    Mine are unique (I think). I've always been an out of the box thinker, as shown by my post today about the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem in Daniel 9:25.
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    Daniel 9:25's Decree

    I think we may have been interpreting the starting point of the seventy sevens prophecy incorrectly all along. What if the decree wasn't to be announced by a Persian king but announced by God through His prophets? Many think the decree began either with Cyrus's release of the exiles or in the...
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    Ten Kingdoms In The End Times

    My current take on the ten horns. I’m flexible, of course, and not certain on the eastern two. Could be Iraq and Iran. Jordan could be noncombatant, as has been the case in recent history. It’s military also isn’t the biggest in the region. My thoughts are that these kingdoms will unite...
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    Ten Kingdoms In The End Times

    Something I was researching might give us an idea. In the Old Testament, during the reign of Hezekiah, Israel’s most righteous king after David, the Assyrian Empire was conquering the Middle East and claiming its role as the first “world” empire. Assyria stretched from Persia and Media in the...
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    Signs of the Times

    I find it interesting that the first modern UFO sightings occurred less than a year before Israel became a nation. The war in heaven must have ended before 1947 with Satan and his angels being cast down to earth. The war in heaven was based on the supposition that the people of Israel failed...
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    Hezekiah

    This happened during the time of Ahaz, prior to the reign of Hezekiah. It was significant because the dominant threat against Judah at that time was the alliance of the northern kingdom (now occupied by Hezbollah in Lebanon) and the kingdom of Aram (current day Syria with its capital in...
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    The Name and the Number of the Beast

    That definitely would have been provocative. I'm not closed off to the idea. Domitian did claim to be a god, encouraged Anatolian cults to worship him, and did censor the public on religious matters. If he found anyone deviating from traditional Roman religion (like the vestal virgins), he...
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    The Name and the Number of the Beast

    A constant theme in Revelation is the two-fold witness: 1) Keeping the testimony (name) of Jesus and 2) obeying God’s commands (works). The seven churches were judged along a scale of how well they kept that two-fold witness. Similarly, the mark of the beast is described as the name of the...
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    Hezekiah

    I disagree. The sign of Immanuel was to assure Ahaz that the alliance of Samaria and Damascus would be defeated within a few years. That occurred with the Assyrians conquered Ephraim and Syria. Once the Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom, the Babylonians developed an alliance with Media...
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    Hezekiah

    I used to agree until I saw the pattern in the other books like Joel, Zechariah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel. Here is the pattern: 1. Israel comes out of bondage and settles in their own land 2. Surrounding nations gather against the Jews to stop them from living go among them 3. The “Assyrian”...
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    Hezekiah

    I found something interesting about the life of Hezekiah. After God saved Jerusalem by slaying Sennacherib’s Assyrian army, Hezekiah fell ill and asked for more time so he could have a son to inherit the throne of David. Hold that thought. Go back to Genesis where God told Abraham to...
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    The Four Horsemen and Palestine

    It is wrong if they are being targeted. It is immeasurably sad if they are collateral. Are the Christians being targeted or are they collateral in the war against Hamas? Put it another way. If a terrorist organization in your city went out and slaughtered innocent civilians in the most...
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    The Four Horsemen and Palestine

    The loss of life is immeasurably sad. I pray for all the Arabs day and night, but especially those who provoke the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by cursing His people and resisting God’s promises. This has never been about land for the Islamists. Jerusalem itself was sparsely populated...
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