A Puzzle Piece Falls in Place:Dan.9:24-27

Grasshopper · Dec 15, 2009

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Who's playing games? 2 Peter 3:9 addresses your very question. Read it carefully and you will see.

2 Pet 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Peter said the Lord is not slack concerning his promise. Slack is defined as delay. But carefully notice he then says, "as some men count slackness". Did you see that? Do you understand what it is saying? From God's perspective he is not slack, but from man's perspective he is. Peter is explaining this.

So, nobody is playing games, Peter was answering "some men" (not pointing fingers) who seemed to believe the Lord was not being completely honest and was slack in fulfilling his promise.
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So the 1000 years of Revelation might be 1 day.

And when the scriptures say the stars will fall to earth, it is surely speaking of meteorites, or pehaps an asteroid. Did you know an asteroid approached very close the the earth not long ago?

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/pressinfo/1997XF11.html
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Why are you quoting man? Did you not just lecture us on that in another thread? Where does the Bible use stars in the way you say it is to be used?

Pretty sad when you have to explain something like this. :rolleyes:
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Pretty sad to have to explain to someone who claims to study the scriptures how the OT writers used the heavenly bodies in a metaphoric way.

Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

You see "wandering stars" there? Jude is speaking of the planets which today we do not consider stars at all.
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How do you know? The stars move in the heavens and are easier to see than planets.

But in ancient times, all things that showed light in heaven such as stars, comets, or meteorites were simply called stars.
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In ancient times these same bodies are used to describe Kingdoms, empires, political powers and peoples. But thats just OT stuff we don't need anymore.
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A Puzzle Piece Falls in Place:Dan.9:24-27

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