This is just a question/observation/wondering..... How does one properly and successfully DECIDE what is accurate regarding the END times and the topic of "the missing people". Is it not a guess at best??
Would the Lord not clearly have stated a CERTAINTY if we were actually meant to KNOW?
The book of Revelation ( in my limited thinking ) is a book of the FUTURE... where there will be so many surprises.
Not much of a thought process but I think this is why I don't feel comfortable partaking in conversations like this because at BEST... everything is a guess.
I don't do well with these things... HAHA.
I enjoy reading these deep topics. I wish my brain would cooperate.
Not necessarily, IAoH. That's a good question however, and in answer I will offer this to answer why the Lord did not speak with greater precision when the prophecies were inspired for writing:
Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks (heptads - groups of seven years) 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.
A more precise understanding of the prophecies and the things they portray were never before discernible in the past because the fulfillments were not yet being realized as they are today, and the Spirit of the Lord is also opening up our understanding like never before because of the proximity we are to the culmination of these things.
Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel,
shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end:
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Never before has mankind gone "...to and fro..." throughout the earth in mass transit until very recently with the invention of trains, planes and automobiles. With millions traveling all across the earth each and every day, compared to ancient times when they were limited to the speed of horse and wind sail ships. Never before was it possible for all the peoples of the earth to see things happening on the other side of the planet is real time as is possible today with hand held devices, even if they are out hiking in the woods and still within signal reception of a cell system. Every prophecy for the abilities among mankind are right now in place that only boggled the minds of people just 100 years ago, with people assuming the cinematic movie of the two witnesses being projected supernaturally onto the clouds above, but with modern technology, this is well within our grasp right now without supernatural interventions.
Knowledge has increased tremendously, especially when you consider how much knowledge is right there in the palm of your hand on that computer you're reading and typing these messages, and your cell phone. We have access to the whole world at our fingertips that was utterly impossible just a few decades ago.
See? it can be simple, without the complexities of foreign languages, to understand how we are seeing prophecies coming true right now.
Does that help?
MM