There are always two camps. Even the confused are two camps. In modern times many Catholics study prophecy exclusively from seers, while they ignore scripture; while another camp, the Evangelicals, these study prophecy from scripture alone without the fathers. I happen to have delved in all camps: Muslim, Protestant and now Catholic. What can I say. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Even the errors repeat twice. Israel missed Messiah’s first coming and when Christ comes again, we have five unworthy virgins missing the wedding. Everything repeats. Even during Israel, one camp had Messiah as the “suffering Messiah” (Messiah son of Yousef) while the other camp had the Messiah Who will “defeat Rome” and will be “King Messiah” (Messiah son of David).
Then Messiah showed up. And He was one Messiah coming twice.
So where the Rabbis wrong? No. It was the duty of each individual faithful to seek with all their strength in putting the two puzzles together. Both camps in ancient Israel were correct. Messiah will be a “suffering Messiah” and will also defeat pagan Rome by converting it later through His seed. What people lacked was the patience of Job.
Similarly, we also have the same beast coming twice; the “first beast” comes out of the sea to conquer one half of Christendom in Constantinople. Then that same beast gets a death wound and is buried in the earth to later come back out of the earth as the “second beast” to conquer the other half of Christendom: Rome.
When I was Muslim we used to say: “first we conquer Constantinople and then we will conquer Rome”. The Islamic threat comprises the two beasts and the day when I studied scripture (as Muslim) it all came together.
The prophecy is for the whole of church history. Yet you still have people trying to find both beasts coming at once in the end times. Why? Its because the first beast (the Ottoman Turks) do not match the Vatican whom they insist is the “first beast”.
There is always two sides with one side that hates the other; a Cain and an Abel. One loves an elaborate service to God. So he (Abel) sets an animal sacrifice with fire and all, where the smoke pleases God’s nostrils. The other (Cain) simply offers fruit. Nothing changes. Today we have one side who goes elaborate and burns incense to please God’s nostrils. The other side says that God has no nostrils so he offers grape juice.
So which side is right and which side is wrong? The answer to this is very simple. Just google and see which side hates the other and mouths off the most. Always remember, Cain hated Abel. Find the hate and you found Cain. Find the quiet one who does not even consider the hatred and you found your Abel.
Christ always defies the interpreters who were limited. But only the meek were able to see it. Some had a piece of the puzzle, while others had the other piece, just as it is with Antichrist where John has one piece while Daniel has the other piece. The wise examines both pieces. The wise consider two comings, two beasts (the first out of the sea and the second out of the earth where the first was buried).
The problem is that whenever someone puts the puzzle together, the masses oust him out, since this new puzzle builder does not conform to either side of the two camps, yet he does, by putting both camps together. Yet the two camps refuse to unite. This, the puzzle builder has no control of since one camp has to accept Holy Smokes.
It is that new “John the Baptist type” who all camps reject. This is why he is a voice that “cries in the wilderness” and he is not found in the halls of the churches. People must go out of their way to meet him and listen to his instruction crying “prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.”.
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