Laying Out Revelation Part 2
This is where we run into our very first problem, along with our first blessing. And, as much as we want that blessing, that problem is an unsettling conundrum, which is why most pastors won’t talk very much about the Book of Revelation.
No one wants to get the Book of Revelation wrong.
However, events in our world appear to be accelerating towards something that looks an awful lot like what John the Apostle wrote. So, we don’t have the luxury of ignoring this book.
I find it ironic that we stand on the doorstep of a moment in time that is awfully similar to the AD 70 destruction of Jerusalem. Only this time, WE are the ones who will suffer.
Then, I ran into yet another translation issue – this time about the original Greek manuscripts that were the source material for our English translations. I have avoided this issue for too long, so we need to talk about that. And, the translation issue came up because I realized a need to discuss something vital.
So, let’s do that…
To my horror, I have discovered that at least some of the King James Version of the Bible was translated from the Roman Catholic Bible, the Latin Vulgate. For decades, the KJV was my favorite Bible. The verses that I remember, are KJV verses. And, while I knew that there were errors in the KJV, I had not been sure about where those errors came from.
Unfortunately, I now see the fingerprints of Rome all over this.
The question is… how much?
How much of the KJV is Catholic?
Since I don’t know, I now have to be extra careful and double-check every verse with the original language. And, that’s infuriating.
And, in ‘other thoughts’, I talk about China’s genocidal intentions towards Taiwan and two important warnings from Martin Armstrong.
What you are about to listen to, in one sense, is something that has been years in the making. For years, I have wondered at how Afghanistan could be the source of 93% of the world’s heroin. I just couldn’t understand how the US Air Force could completely control the airspace of Afghanistan, while thousands of square miles of opium poppies were under cultivation.
We could see those poppy fields from the air, and could have sprayed them with any of the massively potent herbicides at our disposal, but we didn’t.
Why?
We had satellites that monitored everything that went on in Afghanistan – along with everything that went in and out of Afghanistan. There was seemingly no way that so much heroin could actually be leaving such a remote, land-locked country that was under the complete control of the United States military.
The truth about what America created is almost unimaginable. But, only almost. If we did not know about other CIA evils, we would dismiss what we are seeing here as just the fevered imagination of an over heated mind. Even so, the horror of what has been done is hard to face. But, the cost of ignoring the truth is far too high.
So, we MUST face this.
We must also realize that God is just and His judgment for these evils will not be withheld for long. Evil has a price, and it must always be paid in full.