Isaiah 46:10 – The Naked Prophet

November 2, 2021

Comfort My People

Artist impression of what the Earth may have looked like on the third day of creation

November 1

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that her warfare is ended,
that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.
A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
(Isaiah 40:1-5) ESV

In November we consider unfulfilled prophecy in the context of the spherical hollow Earth model that we deduced in March. How does 3D modeling affect our understanding of the plagues of the tribulation?

November 26, 2020April 5, 2022

Deductive Reasoning

“To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast? For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
(Isaiah 28:9-10) ESV

It’s not a good idea to pull Bible passages out of context because we’ve decided what we want them to mean and then proclaim that we have some new doctrine. That’s inductive reasoning, or eisegesis.

November 25, 2020February 23, 2021

The End from the Beginning

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
(Isaiah 46:10) KJV

We have to know the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end. When we understand beginning and end we can see that they are conceptually, and to a great extent physically, equivalent.

September 18, 2020September 18, 2021

Arbitrary Time Hacks

Is Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, one of the pillars of the Earth?

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
(Isaiah 46:10) KJV

The stratigraphic column, Cambrian through Quaternary, was deposited in Noah’s flood, a world-wide event. Arbitrary time hack (ATH) is the technical term for the Eras, Periods and Epochs of the geological timescale.

July 15, 2020July 15, 2022

The Big Picture

From the beginning I predicted the outcome;
long ago I foretold what would happen.
I said that my plans would never fail,
that I would do everything I intended to do.
(Isaiah 46:10) Good News Translation

We can parse the difference between hell and the lake of fire because we’ve laid out the broad narrative of scripture, the conceptual backbone of the Bible, a theme which weaves together the law, prophets and the gospel.

July 9, 2020September 7, 2021

Present Day Earth

Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken, Because He was angry.
(Psalms 18:7) NKJV

With a few pieces of information we can take what we know about the Earth today and use them to deduce what the Earth was like in the past. This is the alternative to using Uniformitarianism and assuming that things were the same in the past.

July 5, 2020July 5, 2022

The Broad Narrative of Scripture

declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
(Isaiah 46:10) ESV

The Bible is consistent throughout because it combines spiritual concepts, like good and evil, with their physical expression in space and time as light and darkness. It describes their permanent physical separation.

June 26, 2020April 9, 2022

Declaring the End: Cause and Effect

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
(Isaiah 46:10) KJV

Interpreting Bible passages works best when we understand something referred to as the broad narrative. There are some prevailing themes which are consistent from one end of the Bible to the other and back again. With this in mind we can make sense out of Bible passages which may otherwise look totally random.

June 10, 2020September 10, 2021

We Have a Prophetic Conundrum

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
(Isaiah 46:10) KJV

As always in our deductive process we have to know the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end.

January 13, 2019September 25, 2021

What is Creation?

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
(Isaiah 46:10) KJV

What is creation the verb, not creation the noun? The act of creation. Maybe we should say creating? Where does creating start? From nothing? Or is it the transformation of one form into another?