Without Chronology, the Interpretation Goes Astray Many of those who attempt to interpret Revelation don’t see that the time periods of 1260 days, 42 months, and 3 ½ years are NOT to be interpreted as LITERAL time periods. For that reason, they think that many of the events fall into a future 3 ½ year period, a future time frame. Time in Revelation is interpreted symbolically, and it should, as a general rule, be computed at a day for a…
Many Christians are unaware of just how important the study of Chronology is in relationship to prophecy, especially in the study of the book of Revelation, and as such have no idea of where precisely they are on the stream of time or of impending events. Bible Chronology not only confirms that we are living in “the time of the end”, when knowledge would increase and the wise would understand, but that likewise we have reached the “end of the…
THE ONENESS VIEW The Oneness view was popular in the Third century A.D. and helped lead to the Trinity. It became popular again at the beginning of this century with the Pentecostal movement. Like the Trinity, this view holds that God is one person rather than three. They explain Jesus and the Spirit as manifestations of God’s separate roles: the role of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God reveals Himself to man as one or more of the three (but…
(Excerpts taken from the article “The TRINITY… Mystery or Confusion?” Beauties in the Truth, Volume 9, Number 3, August 1998) There are four primary theologies held by the Christianity today in respects to God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. They are the Oneness theology, the Trinitarian theology, the Arian theology and the Unitarian theology. 1) The Oneness theology is held by some Pentecostal groups such as the United Pentecostal Church, The Pentecostal Assemblies of the Word, and…