The Not-so-Importance of Biblical-Prophecy

— My Opinion

• Where's the Beef?

If you type in the words "what makes a prophecy," you get over 4.5 million website hits. Some of the websites are merely, self-promotional websites, and have very little to do with the protocols of prophecy. But then again the subject of prophecy can been so broad, that it makes it tough to find the good sites about biblical prophecy. However, after scrolling down through the links, I can across a hit named: believersweb.org. Believersweb.org's website seems to be a religious website, which provides theoretical sermons that are (in my opinion nonsense) designed to pressure their viewing audience into believing their particular ideology (just like they all do).

Like for instance, Believersweb says;

"Prophecy; is a message of judgment, because God’s people are constantly in need of correction. At the same time, it is a message of hope, for (God) has not broken His covenant and will complete His redemptive purpose... ," (as if any of that makes any sense).

Crap like this only aids in furthering my own opinions about prophecy, which is that it was devised by early man as a way to manipulate a group of people. Simply put, a scare tactic. I think stuff was made up in order to scare people into "walking a fine line." This method of manipulation, only solidifies my own personal feelings that biblical prophecy is nothing more than theoretical hogwash! I don't mean to be picking on Believersweb.org here either. As far as I can estimate, most of the other websites on prophecies, seem to handle the issue in the same way. I mean as far as I could tell- none of the sites that I uncovered, had anything solid to offer up as evidence in support of their prophecies. If there is so much truth to these prophecies, such as the doomsday prophecy, where is the hardcore facts? Why is everything so scripted, and yet very vague or lacking all the important details?

• How I see It

Whether there is any real meaning behind biblical prophecy, or any other prophecies for that matter; it doesn't change the fact that prophecies are essentially someone's best guess estimate of what's to come. People only need to look at the famed seer Nostradamus, to know what I am writing here to be true. Not even he could exactly pinpoint one of his notorious prophecies. For example; was it Hister or Hitler?

Whether he was predicting the king of France's death or the rise and fall of Hitler(Hister); Nostradamus's predictions were nothing more than calculative word problems; which he made by using certain mathematical formulas, and combining them with a little astrology. Seeing how mathematics is considered the universal language, I feel that anyone with this know-how could have predicted the exact same things. Needless to say, there was no divine interceding taking place. Though some of his guesses were accurate, we still cannot dismiss the fact that over three-fourths of his predictions are nothing more than the poetic rantings of an old man.

Matthew 24:30-31 reads;

"And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other."