Hi Mee —
Two things:
One: Using your methodology, one can quite easily derive any date one likes from Scripture ... and it's been proven that by using your methodology, one can come up with any piece of data at all ... names, places, dates, events ...
You can do the same with any sizeable text. The example I was shown was Moby Dick, from which one could extract exactly the same information, 1914, all of it ... if you wanted.
Two: Each age always sees prophecy as referring to itself more than any other, and interprets the 'signs' according to itself.
Sorry, but the system has been proven to be flawed Mee, it's man made, and made to come up with the answer you're looking for. As the history of your own tradition demonstrates, when one date doesn't work, you go back and manipulate the data until it reads the way you want it to, and declare the prior reading an error or unfortunate mistake ...
Thomas
Two things:
One: Using your methodology, one can quite easily derive any date one likes from Scripture ... and it's been proven that by using your methodology, one can come up with any piece of data at all ... names, places, dates, events ...
You can do the same with any sizeable text. The example I was shown was Moby Dick, from which one could extract exactly the same information, 1914, all of it ... if you wanted.
Two: Each age always sees prophecy as referring to itself more than any other, and interprets the 'signs' according to itself.
Sorry, but the system has been proven to be flawed Mee, it's man made, and made to come up with the answer you're looking for. As the history of your own tradition demonstrates, when one date doesn't work, you go back and manipulate the data until it reads the way you want it to, and declare the prior reading an error or unfortunate mistake ...
Thomas