Matthew 24 part 10 – The Abomination Resulting in Desolation

So which abominations were Daniel or Jesus speaking about regarding the end of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.? I don’t know of any specific raising of a false idol in the actual holy place of the temple by the Romans. There is an assertion that the Romans set up one of their banners with the Roman eagle, but I don’t know where or when. If it was in the temple area, that would have to have taken place after the Romans entered and took over the temple area. That would have been too late to act as a warning.

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July 18, 2017July 9, 2017

Avatar – post 7 – Attempting to Replace the Bible?

Avatar – Attempting to Replace the Bible?

I’ve already mentioned how Cameron uses the born-again concept in the religious culture of Pandora. He almost directly quotes the Old Testament when Jake says the Pandorans say that “Eywa will provide.” Even the name Eywa is close to Yahweh. Then, there’s the Pandoran worship services that are performed around the Tree of Souls; they look like a Charismatic/voodoo service. The process, passing through the eye of Eywa, attempted upon the Dr. (Grace) – unsuccessfully, but successful upon Jake, is basically the death – resurrection process of the bible. To give the benefit of the doubt to Cameron, he perhaps used symbols and principles to which we can relate in order to draw us into the story and relate sympathetically to the Pandorans. However, a not-so-subtle attempt to suck the viewer into a sympathetic view of environmentalist, anti-capitalist, nature worship cannot be ruled out either.

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July 17, 2017July 9, 2017

Matthew 24 part 9 – The Abomination Resulting in Desolations

Matthew 24 – The Abomination Resulting in Desolations

“And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, ‘O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.’ ” Daniel 9:22-7.

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