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Prophecy in general

It is a theory, and it is not a fact. Part of the problem you have I can see hear in that you speak of constants. Did you know the speed of light is slowing down? Gravitational pull has so many variables, besides not knowing what gravity is. Does it push, does it pull. Who knows? All we have is the effect. If it pulls, then we can only go as fast as it pulls. If it pushes... the same. Only how fast as it can push. And I guess you are one of those who actually believes the Earth is round. I mean, what a silly belief it is to think its flat.
Its a FACT, God used certain constants to create this universe, just because you refuse to acknowledge facts doesn't mean they are not facts my friend, we can calculate these things by using numbers. Ever hear of The Fibonacci Sequence? It is seen in all nature (no joke) and God used math to create the universe, from a sunflower, to a pinecone, to our faces, to Galaxies etc. etc. we see this Fibonacci sequence.

The Fibonacci sequence is the series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers.

For example,

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, …

Mathematically we can describe this as:

xn= xn-1 + xn-2

Every number that precedes is added up in the next NUMBER JUMP, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 you see 1 + 1 = 2 and then we see 2 + 3 =5 and 3 + 5 = 8 and 8 + 5 = 13. God DESIGNED the whole universe with numbers in this sequence.

Look at a Sunflower, it has this exact sequence in its petals, a row of 1, 2, then 3, then 5 in a row, then 8 in a row, then 13 in a row so does the pinecone, so does our face/teeth, and so do spiral galaxies. So, God uses calculations to create all things in specific way, He used calculations to also create the Heavens and the earth/planets or matter throughout, we have a Speed of Light that is a constant because it never changes, it is one of 8 or so Laws of Nature, we would not see light from stars billions of light years away if the universe was 6000 years old because those stars "LIGHT" could not have traveled that far !! So, there would be no discernable stars in our sky if the universe was 6000 years old. So, people look at these kind of statement and are bewildered that people can't understand these simple calculations.

When you get to heaven and find out you were in error on all this its going to be to late to reach those you might could have reached with the facts. And Jesus will simply say you were too stringent in your thinking, you could not read between the lines. Your thinking seems to be God tricked us with these "CONSTANTS" He had to have changed them because the "bible" calls it a day, but it never says that, it calls it a YOWM. I will do a post all to itself to prove the word YOWM means TIME PERIOD not day, seems you refuse to take my word on it. So be it.

The Speed of Light doesn't slow down, what the Scientists assume is it has to have slowed down because they can't figure out how all four corners of the universe have the exact same temps of 454 degrees, but they (mostly) discount God, so they can never understand all things, God was the Quantum Fluctuations outside our universe, it basically means a "force moving things" well, we know who that was don't we? They can't explain it so thy call it Quantum Fluctuations. Likewise the first temps came from the big bang, not from stars which were not around for the first 400 million years so its a different light so to speak. It was forced forward by God's orders and thus expanded at an accelerated rate. The Stars (Sun) however were not created until 400 million years after the initial big bang burst forth, thus those constants are always the same. We know the bang bang sped up things because of its explosive nature, but there was no Big Bang causing the stars light to accelerate, the stars came forth much later on, after the big bang ordered by God. You are hung up, it seems, on the word DAY, when the word is YOWM, not day, so you conflate things a bit, but the math just doesn't work. I see the earth being 6000 years old belief being the equal to thinking the earth is flat belief. Makes zero sense to me tbh.

But you don't even know the rudiments of how language works.
I will save this for a reply unto itself. I don't just play around, I have been called unto Prophesy 40 years or so, I have an Exegesis on Daniel 11 & 12 where I name every player in the whole chapter, it includes Alexander the Great to Cleopatra, to Antiochus who was met by the Roman Senator Gaius Popillius Laenas who forbid him from conquering Egypt (Alexandria) a 2nd time. In vs. 22 we see this....22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. So this is saying an Army of Antiochus overthrew peoples/nations, and one of those conquered foes was Israel and the prince of the covenant or High Priest of Israel (Onias III). Via this, a bit later (this is how God rewards STUDY & HARD WORK/Prayer for wisdom) I understood that Jason (real name Yeshua) bribed Antiochus to become the High Priest of Israel, Antiochus thereby killed Onias III a pious high priest, who was Jason's real life brother !! Jason betrayed the faith just like the coming False Prophet will do along side the Anti-Christ. Jason was a TYPE False Prophet, and he worked alongside a TYPE Anti-Christ in Antiochus. God gave me all this because I sought out wisdom via payer and hard studious work. So, what did Jason do that became a BOOM TO MY REALITY point that he was an Archetype F.P.? Well, he threw in with Antiochus, he went by Jason (Greek name for Yeshua as is Jesus and Joshua) not Yeshua, and he welcomed Antiochus into the temple to sacrifice a pig unto Zeus on the altar of God. He then MANDATED that all Jews become Hellenized and betray their God (the Lord our God) and this led to the Maccabean Revolt. I name everything, every king, every player etc. etc. So, I say all of that to say I do nothing half way, that is NOT ME, I have the word YOWM and I show and PROVE it means TIME PERIOD, I will make that a post unto itself. But trust me, if I post something in a blog as I did this, I understand it.

Wow, apparently God didn't create at all in the first place. Understood.
That is your words, not mine, you insist it was 6 days, you are in error. God created the Universe over a 13.7 billion year time period. You are limited in your thinking because you think the word YOWM means day, it doesn't. If I was taught 2 + 2 = 5 for 25 years, I would never be able to add, calculate etc. because my foundational starting point places me at a disadvantage.

There are some things you do not seem to understand. God does not exist in time.
Do you not read the replies? Because I stated that God created time for us and is not restrained by time because He is not from our universe, else he would have had to of had a beginning, but He is outside of our universe, thus God created this Universe and time for us. Saying God is not restrained by time is different from saying God does not LIVE IN TIME, of course He does, he is in our hearts, He lived in the Ark of the Covenant in the holy of holies, of course he lives in time, just in ALL TIME at once. An Immortal means just the opposite we are created in God's image, who can not die. We can, and most will, be separated from God for eternity, that is all that hell is, separation from God. Jesus says that punishment is eternal.

Finish later on, I find I do better when a take a break on long replies. I can get the other one ready Copy & Paste. Then I will take a break, feed my cats etc.
 
But you don't even know the rudiments of how language works. When you don't have a lot of words in a language, then you define words using other words.
I sent a private message to a guy named Mike who was having this same problem, thinking the world was only 6000 or so years old and he said Day MEANS day, also, so I sent him a former blog, adjusted a wee bit to try and teach him specifically the things he could not get past.
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Hi Mike, no worries, I just know you can't be in a discussion when someone's trying to mandate the meaning of words. I like the KJV but I am not bound to any version per se. Allow me to first show what I mean as per how the word is used in various ways, then we can go from there.

#3117 יוֹם yowm {yome}

from an unused root meaning TO BE HOT; TWOT - 852; n m
Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)

1) day, time, year
1a) day (as opposed to night)
1b) day (24 hour period)
1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
1b2) AS A DIVISION OF TIME
1b2a) a working day, a day's journey
1c) days, lifetime (pl.)
1d) TIME, PERIOD (general)
1e) year
1f) temporal references
1f1) today
1f2) yesterday
1f3) tomorrow
Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)

From an unused root meaning TO BE HOT; a day (as the WARM HOURS), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a SPACE OF TIME defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially):—age, + ALWAYS, + CHRONICLES, CONTINUALLY (-ance), daily, ([birth-], each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever (-lasting, -more), X FULL, life, as (so) long as (. . . live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X REQUIRED, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year (-ly), + younger.
—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)

#3117.
יוֹם
yom
(398a); a prim. root; day:—
NASB - afternoon*(1), age(8), age*(1), all(1), always*(14), amount*(2), battle(1), birthday*(1), Chronicles*(38), completely*(1), continually*(14), course*(1), daily(22), daily the days(1), day(1115), day of the days(1), day that the period(1), day's(6), day's every day(1), daylight*(1), days(635), days on the day(1), days to day(1), days you shall daily(1), days ago(1), days'(11), each(1), each day(4), entire(2), eternity(1), evening*(1), ever in your life*(1), every day(2), fate(1), first(5), forever*(11), forevermore*(1), full(5), full year(1), future*(1), holiday*(3), later*(2), length(1), life(12), life*(1), lifetime(2), lifetime*(1), live(1), long(2), long as i live(1), long*(11), midday*(1), now(5), older*(1), once(2), period(3), perpetually*(2), present(1), recently(1), reigns(1), ripe*(1), short-lived*(1), so long*(1), some time(1), survived*(2), time(45), time*(1), times*(2), today(172), today*(1), usual(1), very old*(1), when(10), when the days(1), whenever(1), while(3), whole(2), year(10), yearly(5), years(13), yesterday*(1).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

AV - day 2008, time 64, chronicles + H1697 37, daily 32, ever 17,
year 14, continually 10, when 10, as 10, while 8, full 8
always 4, whole 4, alway 4, misc 44; 2274

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Some examples where this word is used in a different way: Notice it's always used as a period of time of some sort.

2 Kings 17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore(YOWM); and ye shall not fear other gods.

Genesis 4:3 And in process of time(YOWM) it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.

Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting(YOWM).

Ezekiel 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year(YOWM).

Exodus 13:10
Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year(YOWM).

Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth(YOWM)
, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Genesis 40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season(YOWM) in ward.

Joshua 24:7 And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season(YOWM).

1 Kings 9:3
And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually(YOWM).

Genesis 29:14
And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space(YOWM) of a month.

Leviticus 26:34
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long(YOWM) as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

Deuteronomy 28:29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore(YOWM), and no man shall save thee.

Deuteronomy 5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always(YOWM), that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually(YOWM).

Genesis 41:1
And it came to pass at the end of two full(YOWM) years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

I could go on and on, but I think this shows enough variation and instances which shows us that the Hebrew word YOWM is used for a PERIOD OF TIME of many sorts. Of course it is going to be used for a day more than any other word because God is going to use "SPECIFIC MENTIONS OF DAYS" more than any other period of time. Whenever a Prophets says that there will be so and so many days of this or that he used the word YOWM. But when it was meant as EVERMORE he also used the word YOWWM, and when it meant a YEAR they also used the word YOWM, etc. etc.

So God uses the word YOWM and it's up to us to EVENTUALLY figure out what "PERIOD OF TIME" He(God) meant by that !!
The Hebrew language had 4000 words and no vowels at the time, it was a primitive language of course. We shouldn't allow the professors of that time (Pharisees, Scribes) to sway us into saying this word yowm has to mean one day, it was a period of time and it's up to us to figure it out in the end. All men knew back then, comparatively speaking, was that we had days/years/months. So they had to see it as something, what was it going to be ? Day, Year, Month, Evermore, Perpetually, Full, Always, X Required, Space of time etc. etc. They sure didn't have a clue about how big the universe is like we do, they had no concept of billions of years like we do.

So God created the Universe in a period of 7 YOWM'S...........which as shown above means periods of times in various ways. We have to figure it out, we can't allow the dog to lead us here, we have to lead the dog. We can't allow the word DAY (YOWM) to force us to look at things in a manner in which it drives people away from the Gospel. We want to understand the facts, therefore we can reach people in truth. I have seen many young people tell me, hey, anyone that thinks the universe is 6000 years old, I don't want to hear about your God man, you live in la la land. But when I speak in terms of knowledge, they listen and say so you believe in Evolution, and I say why ? God created the Universe over a 13.7 billion year period, as he so desired ? It makes them think, OK.....It opens a door to gain them via what I see as facts. But if we say the Universe is 6000 years old we have no hope to reach them brother Mike. And that is my job, that is why I researched it, I hated Science in school, but its my job to reach the masses with truths, so I dug in.

Morning and Evening mean beginning and Ending of a day, or of a period of time. As per the Day of the Lord, that is the Day God's Wrath starts on, but the Day of the LORD lasts 3.5 years does it not?

I hope the above helped explain my positions somewhat and opens you up to seeing my POV here. YOWM is always inserted for a PERIOD OF TIME, its up to us to understand what that Period of time means in each instance. God Bless
 
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