Does the Bible prophesy about today?

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Dan McClellan

Dan McClellan

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@darthbek
@darthbek 2 сағат бұрын
I never stop appreciating your kindness in answering these questions. You are comforting and factual, and that is what we really need right now. Thank you.
@billcook4768
@billcook4768 3 сағат бұрын
If anyone knows of prophecies on this year’s Super Bowl could you let us know.
@germanboy14
@germanboy14 Сағат бұрын
The prophecies for this year also already fulfilled. Isaiah 7 14 is actually about Trump.
@mexdrago3009
@mexdrago3009 Сағат бұрын
The Super Bow.l​@@germanboy14
@Alex_Mitchell
@Alex_Mitchell Сағат бұрын
@@germanboy14 Eh?
@Michelehoffman-q7c
@Michelehoffman-q7c 21 минут бұрын
Thank you for being a voice of reason in a truly lost world. I appreciate you.
@0nlyThis
@0nlyThis 3 сағат бұрын
It should be remembered that early Christians expected the End Times at any moment. The gospel narratives, the epistles and Revelation, written in the vernacular of the epoch, were never intended to survive the generation. "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel". (Mark 1:15)
@chiefsideshow
@chiefsideshow 2 сағат бұрын
The only problem is governments or people using the book of revelation as a guide to manipulate other people. Claiming any bad event is revelation coming true.
@lisaboban
@lisaboban 2 сағат бұрын
I feel so badly for this young woman. The fear that is clearly on her face and in her vouce breaks my heart. The next person who tells me, "what harm is there in letting people believe" is getting this video. Living in genuine fear is terrible.
@brettkeeler8822
@brettkeeler8822 2 сағат бұрын
I remember years ago it dawned on me that the “signs of the times” are events that have always and will always occur at any given time in human history, so not exactly a great gauge to tip off when the “end times” are upon us.
@condorboss3339
@condorboss3339 Сағат бұрын
In the last 2,000 years, every single decade has seen all the 'signs' given in Matthew 24.
@hughb5092
@hughb5092 Сағат бұрын
46 years ago we were convinced Jesus would return within a few years, the prophecy teachers were wrong.
@stefanyalpoesy42
@stefanyalpoesy42 3 сағат бұрын
After the fears of divine judgement and condemnation to h3ll, I suspect fears about prophecy and "end times" stuff are probably next in line as the biggest and most common obstacles new deconverters struggle with. There's so much emotional investment.
@Cynicallyskeptic
@Cynicallyskeptic 3 сағат бұрын
I thought those concepts were the easiest to deconvert… if it sounds like religious terrorism, it probably is
@butolino
@butolino 20 минут бұрын
Finally, someone said it out loud. It's total BS and it's totally Irrelevant for us today.
@iamfiefo
@iamfiefo 2 сағат бұрын
I realized I've already lived through several "doomsday" prophesies as someone living in the Philippines: 1) The "Three Days of Darkness" prophesy in the early '80s 2) Halley's Comet smashing into Earth in 1986 3) Several nuclear war predictions throughout the '80s and '90s 4) Nostradamus' "July 1999" estimate 5) Good old Y2K 6) The end of the Mayan calendar in 2012 There are probably many more but I just can't think of them.
@donaldwert7137
@donaldwert7137 2 сағат бұрын
I know exactly what you mean. I've been waiting for those "End Times" since the mid-seventies, watching all the "events' play out over and over. And every time, the goalposts get moved.
@Nymaz
@Nymaz Сағат бұрын
That's nothing, search Wikipedia for "List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events" and you'll get a page with an overwhelming number of entries dating back two thousand years.
@clivespendlove5993
@clivespendlove5993 Сағат бұрын
As an ex JW, me too
@solidstorm6129
@solidstorm6129 34 минут бұрын
Don’t forget the blood moon tetrad from 2015 and rebranding 2012 to be 2020. Oh. And Harold Camping’s nonsense from 2011.
@markbcrich
@markbcrich 24 минут бұрын
@@clivespendlove5993 Don't forget this quote from 5 years ago. lol! "We're living in the final part of the last days, undoubtedly the final part of the final part of the last days, shortly before the last day of the last days!!!"
@theoutspokenhumanist
@theoutspokenhumanist Сағат бұрын
It's also worth mentioning (Dan alluded to it) that over the past 2000 years there have been many times when people thought the bible's 'prophecies' were coming true and the end was nigh.
@Yoursss_Trulyyy
@Yoursss_Trulyyy 3 сағат бұрын
“Hollywood mocked God, LA was punished.” This is what Ray Comfort tells his audience.
@iamfiefo
@iamfiefo 2 сағат бұрын
So... eternal torment in hell later isn't enough? Also, god can't take a joke?
@DAYBROK3
@DAYBROK3 2 сағат бұрын
@@iamfiefo no those people have no sense of humour
@donaldwert7137
@donaldwert7137 2 сағат бұрын
Meanwhile, in North Carolina...
@dianewood2430
@dianewood2430 2 сағат бұрын
@@donaldwert7137What are they being punished for ❓
@donaldwert7137
@donaldwert7137 Сағат бұрын
@@dianewood2430 Exactly. Saying California is being punished for sin and "it just happened" to North Carolina shows how fake the argument is.
@Tdog500
@Tdog500 4 сағат бұрын
Thanks Dan.
@RussellFineArt
@RussellFineArt 3 сағат бұрын
Oh man, I just got my 666 tattoo on my forehead. :) We said Dr. Dan! Good to note that virtually all, if not all, "prophecy" and apocalyptic writings in the Bible, were written many years after prophesied events happened, "fulfilling" their own prophesy, which is super convenient! If people get out of the Bible to simply love, serve, forgive, and not judge each other, the world would be a MUCH better place. Would be nice if we could condense the entire Bible on 1 page that says this.
@Cynicallyskeptic
@Cynicallyskeptic 3 сағат бұрын
I remember Seneca’s Aesop and realized another variation: “Write your own Bible. Make it a good one. Who says you don’t have your own divine spark?” Granted, that’s some Gnostic value, not Stoic
@garycarter6773
@garycarter6773 2 сағат бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤thanks Dan!!
@douglasphillips5870
@douglasphillips5870 Сағат бұрын
It's not the end times, but a remarkable simulation
@robsaxepga
@robsaxepga Сағат бұрын
The ending there sounds like it applies to the entire bible. Stories told by ancient people 2000+ years ago that have no relevance to today.
@icollectstories5702
@icollectstories5702 Сағат бұрын
I am just aged' enough to remember when the 10-member EU was the "ten crowns" of Revelations. It's not impossible for the EU go to back to 10 members (or 10 kingdoms?), but it's not imminent. Has anyone confessed to reading the Signs incorrectly? Not in my aged' memory.
@rcktneo
@rcktneo 4 сағат бұрын
I mean, how much times the moon didn't turned out red (lunar eclipse), the sun turned black (solar eclipse), there happened earthquakes, wars, etc... before and after apocalyptical literature?
@leepenner3422
@leepenner3422 Сағат бұрын
It's unfortunate that so many have been traumatized by the misuse of Revelation in sermons and teaching. For context, I remember the Evangelical tent meetings that used to try to scare the hell out of you. Then, they would have an alter-call, and people would move forward to get saved from hellfire.
@Geminous1
@Geminous1 3 сағат бұрын
"Exhort behaviour" just like a parent spanking their kid. Time we grew up!
@_S0me__0ne
@_S0me__0ne 3 сағат бұрын
I used to think the Bible spoke to today, was was prophetic and filled with prophecies for and of today. Then I realized how much was made up, and that reading the Bible, especially as prophecy was the same as reading one's horoscope or the visions of Nostradamus.
@arnulfo267
@arnulfo267 Сағат бұрын
Are you telling me Hal Lindsey and Jack Van Impe and John Hagee and David Jeremiah are wrong?
@MrYuryZ
@MrYuryZ 2 сағат бұрын
Bible is not about outward events but rather inward ones and it also applies to prophesies. All prophesies has a spiritual meaning and for sure about us yesterday, today and tomorrow. So that people living in any time could have been going through certain spiritual events and manifistations, he could also rely on prophecies, which are necessarily fulfilled individually for everyone to this day.
@germanboy14
@germanboy14 Сағат бұрын
Sounds like excuses. Isaiah 53 is for example about the Babylonian time
@The_Eternalist
@The_Eternalist Сағат бұрын
Amen! The end of the world that is described in the NT is the end of the ancient Kingdom of Israel. Their world came to an end in 70 a.d. just as Jesus predicted 40 years before it happened. Peace.
@solidstorm6129
@solidstorm6129 55 минут бұрын
No. It wouldn’t not be referring to Israel. Israel wasn’t even a thing back when the prediction was made. It was the Roman province of judea.
@jkwatcher47
@jkwatcher47 3 сағат бұрын
Every time I ask an Evangelical what specific prediction the Bible tells that was fulfilled in the last 1800-1900 years. I usually get a vague “all of them”. My understanding is that Evangelicals believe that there are some prophecies being fulfilled today with “the end times”, but nothing that was specifically predicted that was completely right and absolutely nothing outside of those “end times” prophecies that use very very apocalyptic imagery. Just like one would expect of a book where the authors didn’t expect the world to continue for another 2000 years. Not a book that had the foreknowledge of an omniscient god behind it.
@Grantman-wy6zl
@Grantman-wy6zl 3 сағат бұрын
🎉🎉
@Luris-Den
@Luris-Den Сағат бұрын
I would like to add, for those still worried, that the various things mentioned in the apocalyptic literature are so vague and simultaneously so fantastical that you can use them as a metaphor for anything. Today the beast is AI, yesterday it was microchips, the day before it was bar codes. There is nothing concrete, it's all thrown together imagery desperate for people to give assign a meaning to.
@ji8044
@ji8044 3 сағат бұрын
That's a subject Christians go absolutely lunatic about. "The Old Testament predicted Trump's victory!!!!!" LMFAO
@germanboy14
@germanboy14 Сағат бұрын
Well, Isaiah 7 14 is actually about Trump. Proof? He was born of a young woman.
@ji8044
@ji8044 Сағат бұрын
@@germanboy14 Yes, Isaiah is as much about Donald Trump as it is about Jesus.
@byrondickens
@byrondickens 56 минут бұрын
Except for the billions who don't.
@prestonbacchus4204
@prestonbacchus4204 Сағат бұрын
Back in antiquity a religious cult appeared in Mesopotamia. It's not clear exactly when but maybe 1200 BCE. or so. Early on, according to the Bible, the God of this group (speaking through it's prophet), allegedly promised : "I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky..." The folks of the day would have been laughing at that, right? But here is the thing, that actually happened. The religious descendants of that cult, Jews, Muslims and Christians, actually number far more than the visible stars in the sky. So at least that time, one of these wacky cult prophesies actually came true.^
@Merrick
@Merrick 4 сағат бұрын
You should be concerned about the events happening. Very little to do with ancient literature, other than the broad strokes of humans and power dynamics
@googolplex1
@googolplex1 55 минут бұрын
So what can we do with texts like Daniel 12:4, where it states that the prophecy is for the time of the end
@solidstorm6129
@solidstorm6129 18 минут бұрын
That would’ve been for when it was written.
@sanguillotine
@sanguillotine 15 минут бұрын
Ignore them probably
@cygnustsp
@cygnustsp 2 сағат бұрын
If you want a huge laugh look at Jehovah's Witness eschatology.
@BR-ds3yl
@BR-ds3yl Сағат бұрын
Yup, there is a reason the religious themselves disagree about them. Prophesy, just in Christianity, has given rise to innumerable doctrinal systems from your typical premillennialism to preterism. They refuse to acknowledge (1) they didn’t happen or (2) they are not written to be clearly understood by their audience. Ezekiel said so much would happen to his neighboring nations and that the Jerusalem temple would stand above the world after the exile, but none of this happened. The NT authors spiritualize these passages and then say the end is actually coming in their lifetime, this also didn’t happen. Here we sit 2000 years later and no major spiritual phenomena as written in the Bible has occurred, people have rather used these books to harm humanity in the worst ways.
@MrVeryfrost
@MrVeryfrost Сағат бұрын
If somebody wants to know the worst time in history, google 536 CE. WW2 was a terrible step back, but still not close to how bad 536 was.
@Leningrad_Underground
@Leningrad_Underground 3 сағат бұрын
Does the Bible prophesy about current events. I recon; "Yes if you want to read it that way " . Since when have so called faithful believers not believed so?
@jackfox9082
@jackfox9082 2 сағат бұрын
While you are taking requests: is there an etymological connection between "Nazareth" / "nazarene" and "Hebron" / "hebrew". Thanks.
@Nymaz
@Nymaz Сағат бұрын
But you don't understand! In Matthew it says there will be war and rumors of war before the end times. And humans have NEVER had wars except for in the last couple of years!
@mdeadz1980
@mdeadz1980 2 сағат бұрын
The noble lie in full display
@user-gk9lg5sp4y
@user-gk9lg5sp4y 3 сағат бұрын
Apache helicopters are not wasps 😄😄😄
@markhaukaas4170
@markhaukaas4170 12 секунд бұрын
The temerity of biblical scholars such as Dan who contend that nothing in the Bible is prophecy is breathtaking in its audacity and stupidity. Critical scholars of the Bible have their place, but they often go beyond the evidence or run contrary to Scripture in their attempt to maintain their presupposition that the Bible is only the product of human imagination, despite many prophetic-historical fulfillments that upend such bogus scholarship. I noticed that Dan makes many dogmatic assertions in this video without providing evidence for them. I look at what Dan brings to the table in this video and break it down into two syllogisms, the first being Dan's underlying argument and the second being the fact of what we're dealing with: Human literature is not prophetic. The Bible is human literature. The Bible is not prophetic. All humans are fallible. Dan McClellan is a human. Dan McClellan is fallible. Dan's comeback to the latter syllogism may be hinted at in his Incredible Hulk T-shirt, which appears to say that Dan may not be human after all.
@dannyboyakadandaman504furl9
@dannyboyakadandaman504furl9 Сағат бұрын
I've been saying this forever now.
@gritch66
@gritch66 4 сағат бұрын
I think you may explicit a little bit more what you mean by us?
@chumpchangechamp3643
@chumpchangechamp3643 Сағат бұрын
I just watched your video two years ago on the meaning of deity. Deities are forms. One of the greatest influences on the Bible was Plato. Understanding what forms are means you have to understand who the author was. A Greek, whose worldview starts with chaos. If everything is in chaos, then no thing can exist, something must hold form to be a thing at all. In the world there are many forms physically, but there are other forms that do not appear as physical. These forms are in the realm of love, logic, anger, knowing, etc... where these states of human being is universal in each instance of human, therefore these are considered forms, although you can not put hands on these forms. These types of forms were known as deities. The main deity is God, the intelligence of life, the communication of cells found in all instances of life. The God deity is the higher calculator of your own mind, the same intelligence that was the previous forms, has evolved to become the conscious thinking mind. You probably never connected Plato's cave with original sin, as they are the same idea, the same concept, narcissism. But to say that Plato was solely responsible for the concept would be wrong, because the same concept was already understood by the earlier Egyptians who wrote the story about Osiris being constrained to a coffin. These are all the same idea, as it developed thru history, the telling or description changed, but it was always the same idea, narcissism, the only evil that exists, is the evil that man does.also in that video you again, claim that stories and words have no inherent meaning, and again you are absolutely wrong because the authors had intent, that is the meaning. Whether or not you understand the story doesn't mean it has no meaning, it means you haven't recognized what it is describing.
@solidstorm6129
@solidstorm6129 52 минут бұрын
Where did you get all that from? That’s crazy.
@chumpchangechamp3643
@chumpchangechamp3643 5 минут бұрын
@solidstorm6129 modern religious beliefs, now that's insanity, truly. You worship God's???!!! And I'm crazy? Please, you're like a child.
@DeludedOne
@DeludedOne 3 сағат бұрын
If En Sabah Nur were to ever reveal himself as someone who actually exists, then maybe those apocalyptic literature would have some value as far as being "prophetic" is concerned. (the fit for this video being En Sabah Nur would have been appropriate).
@Cynicallyskeptic
@Cynicallyskeptic 3 сағат бұрын
Previously, on the X Men…
@TontonPourquoiTuGlousses
@TontonPourquoiTuGlousses 3 сағат бұрын
From your perspective as a believer -- which seems quite honest and even rational in every video you posted so far -- what are your thoughts on the existence of Jesus? Do you align with the consensus that considers the Gospels as evidence of his existence? Is it fair to marginalize mythicist scholars who argue that the evidence for his existence is insufficient? What about the possibility of bias, where experts in the field may adhere to the consensus simply to ‘protect their own interests’?
@angelawossname
@angelawossname 3 сағат бұрын
It is fair, because it's not insufficient. I found the mythicist argument interesting for a couple of hours. Then I remembered James and realised their arguments were ridiculous. I'm a secular Jew, so I have no bias or agenda, but the mythicists funded by atheist dollars certainly do. Atheism also has apologism and propaganda. Using it and defending it makes us look as bad (and as stupid) as religious apologists.
@TontonPourquoiTuGlousses
@TontonPourquoiTuGlousses 2 сағат бұрын
​@@angelawossname First and foremost, I'm always baffled by the audacity of combining the terms 'atheism' and 'apologetics.' Atheism is a lack of belief; it is simply the strict opposite of a belief system. It has no prophets, no dogmas, no sacred books, no ministries, no place of worship, no liturgy and no symbols. Therefore, it should be associated with the term 'unapologetic' or, in a broader sense, with the word 'déconversion' as it is used in French. And as if dollars or any currency weren’t used to promote religions worldwide. 'Money is the sinew of war' and also ‘the root of all evil.’ So, if promoting skeptical thoughts through the use of currency is a questionable practice employed by atheists, what can be said about the religious who spend without restraint in the name of proselytism? -- Televangelists disapprove of this message.
@frenziedwriggling
@frenziedwriggling 2 сағат бұрын
i think the issue is that mythicists don’t present an argument that is convincing. i’d like to see it engaged with more as i find the discussion interesting even if im not a mythicist but its hard to ask scholars to spend a lot of time on a theory they don’t find at all plausible. if they were forced to do that with all theories they don’t find plausible then nothing would get done
@berglen100
@berglen100 Сағат бұрын
Mind the most ancients time tales get secular perceptions personal thoughts by how time learn can be delusions sound well taught even giggle your mind never covets or well just pure ideals from heros you bow to have your heros show up so we all can see flesh identification or actors real gods need hidden purity of imaginations but Neville Goddard gets my vote.
@VeridicusMaximus
@VeridicusMaximus 5 минут бұрын
Revelation is clear that the time was at hand, soon, and near. It did not happen - FAIL - Next!
@SWatts529
@SWatts529 2 сағат бұрын
How can you say that because biblical texts are not prophecies about our day, they are therefore “no longer relevant to us”? Could it be that you’re pushing so fast to get content out that you’re not being careful with words?
@germanboy14
@germanboy14 2 сағат бұрын
Well, he studied the bible. Isaiah 53 is for example about the Babylonian exile
@shanegooding4839
@shanegooding4839 2 сағат бұрын
Prophecy is of little value to anybody but the credulous.
@Fritz_Lost_Sanity
@Fritz_Lost_Sanity 2 сағат бұрын
I was always told that it would be a cold day in hell, or hell would freeze over, if the Eagles ever won the Super Bowl. And since they did win in 2017, I always just assumed that hell has been a giant ice cube ever since. I have no scripture to support this, and I will say Go Birds. Also, if it has been the end times since THEN, it’s taking a reaaaaaally long time. It should speed up. Or maybe people should treat others kindly and enjoy life. I dunno. Maybe I’m crazy.
@ds6972
@ds6972 3 сағат бұрын
NOOOOO!!!! Vertical frame!!! TIIIIK TOOOOK!!!
@kanwarjitsidhu8678
@kanwarjitsidhu8678 3 сағат бұрын
U r wrong here because many Bible threats r like high school Algebra formulas. when conditions match results will be what formula explains. verses like Isa 65-12 predict what ? modern world will see similar events. same with verses in Isa 66. Isa 66-4 crisply states God when angry befuddles humans and u will see that happening. how Bible is understood in west is any one's guess but Ezk 7-9 God is an angry God
@marienbad2
@marienbad2 3 сағат бұрын
I thought he was a god of love? For God so loved the world and all that. Now you're saying he is an angry god who will befuddle humans. Make your mind up pls.
@kanwarjitsidhu8678
@kanwarjitsidhu8678 2 сағат бұрын
@@marienbad2 Loving God only for those who pay the preachers money. preachers fool masses with such BS. read the verses i mentioned and Ezk 7-11, 8-18 if u want reality
@germanboy14
@germanboy14 2 сағат бұрын
The Isaiah verses are "prophecies" about the Babylonian time
@kanwarjitsidhu8678
@kanwarjitsidhu8678 2 сағат бұрын
@@germanboy14 If possible read my first post
@solidstorm6129
@solidstorm6129 27 минут бұрын
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