Having seen the fist half hr of his link, I think it more likely he was harking back to my original post title about the ID of the antichrist. My title was actually ironic, of course, coz I make it pretty clear that I regard the linked ID (re Prince Harry) as a steaming pile of doggy doos. Same goes for the Prince William ID, Barak O'Dumba ID, Prince Charles ID ......as nauseum & ad infinitum.
This guy Veith (interesting accent btw - Afrikaans possibly, maybe Australian?) goes for the papacy, along with practically all the reformers, and almost every Finalist author I have read. Having already referenced my admiration for Hislop's The Two Babylons somewhere in these endtime threads, I think I've already declared where I stand on that one. It's infinitely more credible to me than all the inane ID's you find on YouTube, that's for sure.
But let's all give our Futurist brethren a hearty round of applause for deflecting attention away from the papacy to some mythical future figure who has yet to declare himself. Who could have imagined that a counter-reformation tactic straight out of the Jesuit School Manual of Dirty Tricks would hoodwink 90%+ (according to Veith) of so-called 'Protestants' into believing such garbage?
I personally doubt the figure is that high, but just a dab of substitution swiftly followed by a pinch of distraction, and as the late lamented Tommy Cooper used to say - 'just like that!'
Leaving aside the fact that Scripture consistently places the resurrection, judgment, and the dissolution of creation, etc., at the time of Jesus' second coming (not 1,000 years later), who then is left to inhabit this blessed millennium?
No, I would not be so parochial as to confine Rev. to events leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD. As I said, I intensely dislike that term 'partial preterist', and this is just one of many reasons. It is too restrictive to fully encompass what I believe to be the truth about prophecy and fulfilment. These labels, including 'amillennialism', are often invented by our opponents to shackle us, and I for one refuse to be shackled in this fashion.
Adams has suggested the term 'realized eschatology' to describe our interpretation, and it has some merit, but again I find it clumsy and not totally adequate to the task. I have not come up with a better alternative myself, and it may well be the case that we have to accept that you cannot simply pigeonhole biblical prophecy with any such labels. It is far too grand, sweeping, majestic in scope, awe-inspiring and all-encompassing to be straight-jacketed by such anodine nomenclature. Human language is quite simply inadequate to the task, and I therefore find that term 'partial preterist' an utterly risible attempt to shackle an easy target. Hence the nonsense refreshed cited above, which I also found risible.
No, when you recall that the messianic thread that runs thru the entire Bible starts in Gen 3:15 and ends with Rev 22:20, you start to realize how futile it is to try to pin it down in a single word or even two. Whole books have been written on this subject in order to get close to the truth, and even then we still only 'see thru a glass darkly' and only 'know in part, but then we shall know in full'.
From memory, 'The Researcher' (an 'amil.' jnl) had a better name for us, but unfortunately I don't recall what it was. I'm sure I'll come across it again sometime. Oh yeah..........I remember now..............just popped into my mind....................
FINALIST!!
I like that. It's positive, simple, effective, and conveys serious content, as in, for example:
One Final Community of the Redeemed
One Final Second Advent
One Final Resurrection
One Final Judgment
One Final Eternal Age
Yep, that's the one, and I think I'd be hard pressed to improve on it. I'm sticking with it. What do you think on that then?
PS Time permitting, I might dig out the article in the near future & publish it here FYI.
If it were secure, maybe, but bitcoin has been hacked twice now, with hundreds of $millions in value stolen to date, and the losses spread across all the account holders. No, I don't see it becoming a universally adopted means of exchange for every trxn, not even in 50 years time. For a start, the elites controlling the banking system will never allow it.
They have almost limitless resources to sabotage it, and it wouldn't surprise me if they were behind the hacks. As a 'conspiracy', that's infintely more plausible than your scenario of 'the antichrist's currency'. Revelation explicitly tells us that the number 666 is the number of a man, not an exchange rate against a currency, which constantly fluctuates anyway, and is currently a little under $900.
But since you're only looking for a little conspiracy fun, I have to assume your tongue was firmly planted in your cheek while you were posting.