End Time False Prophets and the Christian Celebrity System One
Posted : 2 Nov, 2011 08:35 PM
WHAT ARE THE {*3*} PASSAGES IN GOD'S WORD WHICH SHOW THAT THE GREAT TRIBULATION AND THE REIGN OF 666 WILL LAST EXACTLY 1260 DAYS OR 42 {30-DAY} MONTHS??
**{#1}** Daniel 12:1b,2,7b:� �There will be a time of distress {The Great Tribulation} such as not happened from the beginning of nations until then.� But at that time {The Last Day} your people--*EVERYONE* whose name is found written in the book {Both OT & NT Saints}�will be delivered.� Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt�It will be for a time. times and half a time {Which is also 1260 days as per Rev 12:6,14, or 42� {30-day} months as per Rev 13:5} *ALL* these things will be *COMPLETED.��
**{#2}**�Rev 13:5,7: The beast will be given a mouth to utter blasphemies and to exercise his authority for 42 {30-day} months {Not 7 years}�He will be given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. COMPARE WITH
**{#3}**Dan 7:25: �He will speak against the Most High and oppress His saints.� The saints will be handed over to him for time {12 months}, times {24 months} and 1/2 a time {6 months}. {Not 7 years}
� By comparing Rev 12:7b and Rev 12:14b we find that 1260 Days and Time {360 Days} Times {720 Days} and � a Time {180 Days} are the exact same period of time.� Likewise, when we compare Rev 13:5b with Daniel 7:25b we learn that 42 {30-day Bible} MONTHS and Time {12 Months}, Times {24 Months} and 1/2 a Time {6 Months} are also the exact same period of time. And therefore 42 {30-Day Bible Months} and Time, Times and 1/2 a Time are the exact same period of time since 42 X 30 days equal exactly 1260 days.� 12 Months = 360 Days = {1 Time}�� 24 Months = 720 Days = {2 Times}�� 6 Months = 180 Days = {Half a Time} and 42 Months = 1260 Days = 3 1/2 Times. Whereas, 42 times 29 1/2-day Babylonian moon months only adds up to 1239 days which shows that Bible months are always 30 days and not 29 1/2 days according to the evil Babylonian Moon Calendar.
For example: If the coming of 666 and the 1260-day Great Tribulation starts on April 5th 2012 then the 2nd coming of Jesus would occur exactly 1260 days later on September 17th, 2015. When the 1260-day Great Tribulation begins God's saints will then know the exact day of the 2nd coming on the Last Day: Rev 3:3: Jesus says, �But {*IF*} you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.� I Thess 5:4: Paul said �But YOU BROTHERS {*CHURCH SAINTS*}, are not in darkness so that {*THIS DAY*} should surprise you like a thief.�
���� Now there are some who suggest that the Anti-Christ will exercise his authority for 7 years {Not 42 Months} and that the Great Tribulation will last 7 years {Not 1260 Days or 3 1/2 Times}.� They have only **ONE** Bible verse {Daniel 9:27�which they grossly misinterpret} to support this idea which absolutely contradicts God�s Divine Time Periods as found in Rev 13:5b, Dan 7:25b & Dan 12:7b above.
������Before quoting Daniel 9:24-27 several things should be noted:
NOTE: About 280 years before the Daniel 9:24-27 Prophecy God made this amazing prophecy in Isaiah 44:28: The Lord� says of *CYRUS*, �He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please; he will say of JERUSALEM LET IT BE REBUILT!� This verse absolutely contradicts the Artaxerxes theory!�
��NOTE: According to Leviticus 25:8 a Sabbath �week� or 7 is *7 YEARS and 7 times 7 YEARS or �weeks� is a Jubilee or 49 years.
NOTE: Hebrews 9:15,26b-28: �Christ is the mediator of a *NEW COVENANT so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance--now that He has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant...But now He has APPEARED once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the SACRIFICE of Himself... so Christ was SACRIFICED ONCE to take away the sins of many people, and He will *APPEAR* a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.� When Jesus will bring in Everlasting Righteousness on the Last Day of the Last 7.
Daniel 9:24-27: �70 7�s {490 years} are decreed for your people to ANOINT THE MOST HOLY, TO ATONE FOR WICKEDNESS and to bring in everlasting righteousness... "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree {By Cyrus-Isa 44:28 above} to rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One comes {Oct 23, AD 29?} there will be 7 plus 62 7's {Which is 69 7's or 483 years}. "After the 7 plus 62 7's {actually 1260 days after on April 3-5 AD 33} the Anointed One will be cut off but not for Himself..... He {The Anointed One} will confirm a *COVENANT with many for one 'seven'.� In the middle of the 'seven' {After 1260 days} He {The Anointed One; not 666} will put an *END to *SACRIFICES{For sin}{And then after a long pause} the abomination of Desolation {666} will come {for the 1260 day Great Tribulation} until the decreed end is poured out on him.� on the Last day of the last 7 {See Rev 19:20} And so the first half of the last 7 was already *COMPLETED* when Jesus put and *END to all sacrifices for sin 1260 days after His Anointing which occurred *AFTER 69 7's were *COMPLETED!!
When the Anointed One came 69 7's or 483 years were 100% completed [See Dan 9:25 above} leaving just one 7 in the future; which will be totally used by those who wrongly believe in a future 7-year Tribulation; which means that the Atonement for sin by Jesus about 3 1/2 years after His Anointing can not be included in the 70 7's Prophecy. However, God's Word clearly states that 70 7's are decreed ...*TO ATONE FOR WICKEDNESS which occurred about 3 1/2 years after the end of the 69 7's and therefore the first half of the last 7 has already been completed since there are only 3 1/2 times left in the 70 7's. And so the Great Tribulation and the rule of 666 will last exactly 1260 days or 42 months or 3 1/2 times which agrees which God's Divine time periods found in Dan 12:1,2,7b; Dan 7:25 & Rev 13:5 above.
End Time False Prophets and the Christian Celebrity System One
Posted : 3 Nov, 2011 01:38 AM
Many people are no longer able to follow a line of thought. They focus on particulars, tangents and "rabbit trails" rather than on the ideas that are presented.
Even if they are "spoon fed" a line of thought, they still may not be able to follow it. The main line of thought in this strand is that the secular celebrity system some time ago spread to Christianity in America, especially to the dispensatrionalist leaders. The Christian celebrities are the false prophets mentioned in the New Testament. The false prophets and the Christian celebrities make use of deception in spreading false doctrines. And people have been dumbed down by the media and by other ways so that many have been deceived.
The celebrity system originated with early Hollywood film stars. And when network TV got going, it increased the importance of the celebrity system in America.
Network TV weakened the cognitive abilities of many viewers and also reduced their capability to detect deception on TV and in real life. So network TV had a dumbing down effect on its viewers, especially on those who spent more time watching TV. This dumbing down of the audience - who were the huge American lower middle class and the somewhat smaller middle and upper middle classes - made it possible for the celebrities to deceive masses of people in the U.S.
When network TV began in 1948, the fairly good storytelling heard on radio was continued in TV Westerns, detective shows and adventure dramas. But by the sixties the narrative quality of network TV began to decline and continued its decline into the nineties. Of course, by the first decade of the new century, network TV was beginning to be left behind by the Internet.
Almost all formula Westerns on early network TV had clear cause and effect sequences of actions. In other words they were mostly coherent. By the sixties and later the major coherence problem of network TV drama was over-cutting. Scenes were broken up by too frequent cutting. In his 1977 study of network TV Tamer found that cuts made up 94.7 percent of all shot changes. He found that, on the average, a sudden cut from one scene to another happened on network TV every 3.3 seconds, and he did not include commercials.
Network TV leaves out many actions and verbalizations necessary for understanding a story.
In addition, to the coherence problem of jump cutting, network TV fell into a habit of using poor story grammar.
Cognitive psychology has contributed some to the study of story grammar, and part of this comes out of Noam Chomsky's version of Cartesian linguistics. Interestingly, Cartesian linguistics makes a distinction between
the outward verbatim form of a sentence and the representation of the meaning of that sentence held by the reader in his mind. Chomsky called these two surface structure and deep structure. Usually the verbatim surface form of a sentence is not represented in the mind word for word. Rather, the gist of the sentence is abstracted and that gist meaning is stored in memory. Meaning is in the gist representations in short term and long term memory. It is not efficient for the mind to memorize the exact words of a sentence. So the mind represents a sentence by a kind of short-hand, by a "map," just as a map in abstract form contains the features of an environment. This use of Cartesian linguistics by Chomsky fits right into cognitive psychology.
So, if the stories presented on network TV are so incoherent due to poor story grammar and jump cutting that
the viewer cannot create in his mind gist representations of the actions and dialogue, then the story is essentially meaningless to him. He may though enjoy the actions, landscapes and the actors images.
A theory can be created from all this which predicts that poor story grammar and jump cutting on TV results not only in a momentary loss of the viewer's ability to create gist meanings from TV, but that the more he views TV the more he will develop a cognitive deficiency in his ability to generate accurate gist meanings in his mind of real life events. In other words, network TV was a dumbing down medium. There were a few studies I found in the early nineties when I was interested in the negative cognitive effects of network TV viewing. For example, Emery and Emery (1976) found that viewing network TV hindered the viewers ability to pay close attention to stimuli. Kubey and Csikszentmihalyi (1990) found that viewers reported that their mental concentration was lower while watching TV, but their concentration, they said, increased when they were doing reading. Studies of brain waves while viewing TV show that the mental state during viewing is one of low alertness and a low level of focus.
The human mind is greatly influenced by almost any kind of of much repeated experiences - be it reading grammatically well formed stories that are coherent, or by watching disconnected images on TV. Ability to focus attention is very important as a leader of other cognitive abilities.
The list of cognitive abilities that may become impaired by watching TV for years include (l) the ability to tell the difference between what is important and what is not important, (2) the ability to create accurate gist meaning representations (3) the ability to think in cause and effect ways, (4) clarity of perception of space and of time, (5) the ability to perceptually isolate and pay attention to an item embedded
in a complex visual field or context, (6) the ability to remember information from long term memory at the right time, (7) the ability to hold more than one item of information in short term memory at a time, and (8) the ability to combine into possible combinations and to see new connections. In addition reading skills are probably impaired by years of watching TV.
A person who has been dumbed down by network TV - and by other means and through other media - is more likely to fall for the messages of secular and Christian celebrities, than a person who has greater cognitive abilities to discern lies and truths behind images.
Unless a person spends time in reading at least moderately difficult material, and tries to understand it, the effects of TV and other popular media are not likely to be overcome. When the TV viewer cannot create in his mind gist representations of the actions and dialogue, then the story is essentially meaningless to him. A person who has not
learned to follow a story line and create meanings in his mind, is also more likely to be unable to follow closely an argument given in a text, including the Bible. Many people are now unable to follow an argument, or line of thought, and get easily distracted. They tend to focus on particulars, on tangents, or "rabbit trails," and not on the main strand of thought in a text.
