The just Shall live by faith

PROPHETIC DREAM? I just had a dream about the next financial crisis. In the crisis, there was a bank holiday in which all banks were closed for 3 months. When they were opened, everybody's bank deposits had been confiscated and converted to special confidence bonds. These bonds were like treasury notes with a yield of 2 percent. They were 10-year notes and at the end of the 10 years they matured and you got your money converted to dollars. The joke was they were not called confidence bonds but confiscation bonds. There was also a provision where you could convert your bonds to certain stocks in the stock market that had a better yield from their dividend but if the stocks lost value you did too. So the so-called safe investment was the confidence bonds. DO ANIMALS HAVE A SOUL? This question is even asked because the whole concept of what a soul is, is misunderstood. Souls for humans or animals are somehow considered to be some discreet blob made of some invisible energy that ...

The Influence of Enoch on the Book of Revelation: The Old Testament does not contain an apocalypse. Yes, there are portions of some Major and Minor Prophets that are apocalyptic, but there is no single book that is apocalyptic in its entirety. This is true whether we use the truncated Old Testament of the Protestants, or the more inclusive Old Testament of the Roman Catholics, the Orthodox, and others. Only the Ethiopian Coptic Church has a canon that includes an Old Testament apocalypse. Yet the New Testament contains the Revelation of St. John, a book that is steeped in second temple apocalyptic imagery and thematic material. The primary difference between the Revelation of St. John and the second temple apocalypses is Christology. Whereas the second temple imagery looks forward to the coming of the messiah, the Revelation of St. John describes Jesus Christ as the Messiah who had come, who was slain, who was resurrected, and who is coming again at the end of the age to judg...