Prophecy re-thinking?

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Mark Bassett wrote:
 
> On Sat, 25 Jan 1997 23:03:59 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> >> So it is self-worship and independance that is going to be
> >> made to speak?
> >
> >Sure!  What might "made to speak" symbolize?  Babel built
> >a tower to erect their name and themselves.  And it certainly
> >spoke a mesage to God.  This is not unbiblical.
> 
> Is it your opinion, Brother Blume, that Babel was a literal place at a
> specfic time in history?

Sure.  But when Babel spoke it was not a literal voice.

> Is it not possible the Old Testament writers also abstracted to a
> greater degree than is typically allowed for?

Since OT is foreshadowing of NT realities, and Revelation
is similar, then typology is a given for both.

You did not remark about how that Revelation is a vision.  And tha no
biblical visions were literally interpreted.

> Can we find a time in history when men and women were not worshippers
> of self, and independant ? 

Before the Fall.

I can safely be assured in saying the truth when I say that
mankind is bound spiritually in the Babylon 
human independence.  And a grand deliverance is occurring through 
salvation. And once Babylon is totally fallen and dealt with,
the Bride will have THEN made herself ready.

> Perhaps the time least likely to fit that
> desciption the era in which an institutional church ruled with a
> strong arm, and kept people from reading scripture and from gaining
> any sense of independance causing them to look to the church for
> salvation. If this is true, then the medievel church opposed the
> anti-christ rather than working as the mystery of iniquity as many
> have long felt.
> 
> These only a few of many interesting concepts.

Indeed.

> -mw bassett
> milford, ct
> http://eli.wariat.org/~mbasset

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