End Times Bible Prophecy Quotes

“Do we then speculate that when Jesus said that “they were eating and drinking” that he meant the giants were eating humans and drinking their blood? (1 Enoch 7:2-5).”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You

“people before God. Judaism was a representative theocracy; that is to say, God ruled through the leaders. Much like a representative republic, those in authority represented the people at large. If the authorities were righteous—be they prophet, priest, or king—God would bless them along with the people. If the authorities were corrupt, God would punish them along with his people. This is the principle behind the federal headship or federal representation of Adam and Christ in Romans 5:2-21. Unbelievers are “in Adam,” or represented by his rebellion and curse. But when they place their faith in Jesus, they become “in Christ,” or represented by him and therefore receivers of the benefits of his righteousness.”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You

“When the plain sense of prophecy makes sense, beware your own bias and seek the genre sense. Take every word at its primary, extraordinary, symbolic meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and historical facts, indicate clearly otherwise.”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You

“It turns out that interpreting Bible prophecy with our modern, Western, hyperliteralistic plain sense will almost certainly result in a false interpretation of the text. If anything, the principle for interpreting poetic symbolic literature like Bible prophecy should be the opposite of the plain sense approach. So I herewith propose a rewrite of the hermeneutic principle applied to prophecy.”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You

“It turns out that the commonly used standard we cited above of interpreting the Bible through our plain sense, common sense, ordinary and usual meaning is an act of cultural prejudice. Our Western plain sense literalism is simply not the priority in a very symbolic genre of a different culture with a different plain sense than ours, different colloquialisms and memes than ours, and a different sense of what is ordinary and usual.”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You

“Text without context is pretext.”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You

“Language embodies a worldview that does not often translate through the words.”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You

“he [Messiah] shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.” The three-and-a-half years (“half of the week”) is not in the middle of a future tribulation; it represents the approximately three-and-a-half years of Christ’s ministry. In the Bible Satan does not make covenants; God does. The strong covenant is not of the Antichrist; it is the new covenant of the Christ. It is not the Antichrist who puts an end to sacrifice and offering.”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You

“Paul used the same hyperbole as Jesus when he wrote that the gospel “was proclaimed in all creation under heaven” during his own ministry. Colossians 1:23 The hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You

“The New Testament speaks of “a great famine all over the world” that took place in the reign of emperor Claudius (Acts 11:27-29). Josephus wrote of famines and earthquakes, especially near the time period of A.D. 70 (Wars of the Jews 6.299-300; 1.370-371; 4.286-287; 5.25-26; 6.193-200). Tacitus wrote of famines and earthquakes throughout the Roman empire. This year witnessed many prodigies [signs and omens].... repeated earthquakes... further portents were seen in a shortage of corn, resulting in famine... It was established that there was no more than fifteen days supply of food in the city [Rome].  Only Heaven’s special favour and a mild winter prevented catastrophe.27”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You

“If we are participating in the last days, then we are the last generation, the climax of God’s timetable before the Second Coming. If these are not the last days, then we are just another generation of Christians who live and die without that particular significance we crave. But we want to be important to God, even more important than all those who suffered and died in silence throughout the millennia. They were not the special generation that participated in anything other than living their Christian lives faithfully and spreading the gospel of the kingdom of God.”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You

“Sometimes a piece of literature is intended to be factual or historical, sometimes poetic or figurative, oftentimes both. So it is the literary context that determines how a scripture should be understood, not our expectations that we bring to the text. Since the Bible is literature with different genres and styles of writing, we should be literary in our interpretation, not literal.”
― Brian Godawa, End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You