More people now attending churches online [Spirituality & Religion]

In case it hadn’t occurred to you mobile phones and the Internet were not invented in the time of the Bible@goldenorchid

@Speedyman well yes that's obvious ,what has occurred to me is that there's a few prophecies concerning the end of days yet nothing about going to church online, why? Did he not see that coming?

@goldenorchid The prophecy of images that speak in the end times was revealed in the book of revelation.. A first century mans description of a flat screen TV/ monitor.. An image is a flat image.. an image that moves and speaks..

(Revelation 13:15) "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."

@Speedyman Surely god must have known they were going to be. 🤔

Yes but if you look the book of Revelation is addressed to 7 contemporary churches. You don’t write a letter about things which is so far in the distant future has to be incomprehensible@NortiusMaximus

@Speedyman Oh but you do when you know that at the right time in the future people will understand what you are saying.. Yes the book of Revelations had messages addressed to the 7 churches of it's time.. But it contained a whole lot more then those messages.

The book of Revelation is apocalyptic and is a book of symbols not a book of riddles@Adstar

@Speedyman It is a Mix of symbolic and literal that's why some of the message meanings can be sealed until the latter times when the Saints in the end times will be given understanding by the Holy Spirit to understand those messages..

You begin understanding the book of Revelation by thinking about what it Meant to the people of the day. It is Jewish apocalyptic. Like Daniel. @Adstar

@Speedyman I believe the message was not simply for the people of those times.. It was a book of prophecy from that time to the end of the world.. too the final judgement.. Same goes for parts of the book of Daniel and Isaiah and other prophets in the OT they had a lot to say about the times in the future all the way up to the final judgement..

Of course they did but all biblical prophecy is rooted in the time when it was written.@Adstar

@Speedyman Prophecy is about the future.. And no it is not rooted in the times it was given.. I don't know where you are getting these rules of interpreting the Bible.. But i would suggest you take them as being suggestions someone has given to you in the past that where just that persons opinion. Or that religious organizations opinion..

I get these rules by the obvious fact that the prophet would have used terms understood by himself. Where on earth do you think that the prophet would’ve got the idea of televisions from?@Adstar

@Speedyman the beauty of the Book of Revelation is that it is so vague as to allow the reader to assign any interpretation he desires to it and no one can counter the interpretation based on the Book of Revelation. Just a side note of interest to me. I never preach out of the Book of Revelation. I base my sermons on three points the Old Testament combined with a Gospel account and a lesson from the Epistles. I find too many people go off the deep end from reading or trying to understand Revelation.

@Speedyman John was on the island of patmos and His book of Revelation came to him in the form of a Vision Speedyman.. So John did not need to know what the TV or screen was, How it worked.. All he needed to do was describe what He saw from a first century persons perspective and the way he described it was pretty good for a first century man..

Never mind keep going on your platonic view of prophecy@Adstar