2 Peter 2:21-22
The One Thing I Know
There is so much in the collections of the Tanakh and New Covenant that are not quite clear but hazy. Details that you have just enough information to have a rough outline but not enough to anticipate clearly. The Rapture is extremely vague, The Tribulation no where near as locked as conventional wisdom would have you believe. Even the Ages of God which has more evidence than the two previous topics has its amorphous soft edges. In all my years and research I have been able to see the arguments on both sides of many topics so clearly that it can be frustrating; all but one.
For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.
-1 Thessalonians 5:5
AND I appointed the eighth day also, that the eighth day should be the first-created after my work, and that the first seven revolve in the form of the seventh thousand, and that at the beginning of the eighth thousand there should be a time of not-counting, endless, with neither years nor months nor weeks nor days nor hours.
-2nd Enoch 33:1
Interpretation concerning the ages made by God, all the ages for the accomplishment [of all the events, past] and future. Before ever He created them, He determined the works of … age by age. And it was engraved on [heavenly] tablets… the ages of their domination. This is the order of the cre[ation of man from Noah to Abraham, until he begot Isaac; ten [unknown period].
Dead Sea scroll 4Q180
In you shall the temple of God be glorified, and a man shall proceed from my seed, like unto the sun of righteousness, who shall be manifested to the nations in meekness, and all the nations shall be in His faith. Through Him shall the Gentiles know the Lord.
-Testament of Benjamin 11:2-3
Possible prophecy about Saul/Paul the Benjamite.
For if we still go on observing Judaism, we admit we never received grace… Get rid, then, of the bad yeast — it has grown stale and sour — and be changed into new yeast, that is, into Jesus Christ. Be salted in him, so that none of you go bad, for your smell will give you away. It is monstrous to talk Jesus Christ and to live like a Jew. For Christianity did not believe in Judaism, but Judaism in Christianity.
-Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians, 8:1, 10:2
On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed
-Codex Justinianus lib. 3, tit. 12, 3 [331 AD]
Why Did We Start All This?
Why go through all this? Doesn’t the Old Testament Tanakh & New Testament give you everything you need to be saved?