LibertyGal on Nostr: I'm reading a very interesting book, called "The Great Controversy". It was ...

I'm reading a very interesting book, called "The Great Controversy". It was originally written in the late 1800s, but this is a more modern version. It starts with some great history of the church. It then gets into some eschatology and the author's interpretation of prophecy and end times. (I haven't finished yet, so I don't know for sure what the great controversy is).

Although the author does a fantastic job using scripture to support his theories, based on what we know now and what is happening in the world, I'm pretty positive many of his conclusions and interpretations of prophecy are incorrect, but it is interesting how and why he believes what he believes. So far, my biggest take-away is to be careful being dogmatic when interpreting prophecy, especially end-times prophecy. Even with some disagreements, I am learning a lot and getting a lot out of the book.

I think the author's biggest problem is not thinking about end times prophecy as being as big as reality will be. He equates smaller, more local events as what is predicted by the Bible where I believe the true events will be worldwide or even universe wide events. So often we look at God and his actions as small, but they aren't small at all.
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