The Future of Prophecy Part 9
A debunking of the two false schools of eschatology, i.e. futurism and especially the encroaching misinterpretations of preterism. We examine the historical antichrists of whom there are many.
Sermon notes of Pastor Mark Downey
April 3, 2016
Scripture Reading: I John 2:18-26
The average Christian of whatever stripe may wonder how there can be so many interpretations of prophecy. They can't all be right. Bible prophecy is the business of predicting the future, sometimes literal and sometimes in figures of speech, and is usually not established until it happens. Its fulfillment must conform to the elements of the prediction. A controversy emerges between several schools of eschatology, the study of end time prophecies. The three major positions are the historicist, the futurist and the preterist. For our purposes in identifying the truth, the historicist position has been the most widely accepted and accurate means of understanding prophecy in Christian Identity. Likewise, before the Protestant Reformation, there was no other position than the historicist; as the name implies, it explains God's Word in sacred and secular history, both of which is His Story and proves God is true. The Protestant Reformers understood correctly, events that had come to pass fulfilling the veracity of Scripture. On the other hand, the futurists disregard the past and place the works of God in the distant future. And then along came the preterists to say all prophecy has come and gone. The Reformation was a great threat to the RCC and both factions were a danger to jews. So the jews created an opposition to the historicist view within the church, both Protestant and catholic. We will see how they spread their confusion, and know them today by their rotten fruit of false interpretations. The righteousness of prophecy can only be ascertained by identifying the right people in the right time frame of divine prediction. False prophets have thus rejected God's plan and purposes.
The father of rock ‘n’ roll and king of the Delta Blues, Robert Johnson, met the devil who had taken the form of a huge black man at a crossroad. The devil took Johnson’s guitar, tuned it, and proceeded to play before handing the guitar back to Johnson. From that point on, Robert Johnson had mastery of the Blues and the guitar. He was able to play incredible new songs instantly without taking the time to write the lyrics or compose any music.
