The Final Prophecies

It wasn't that it was a bad film, but it is heavily biased. They quite often explain how views are wrong, then don't explain why. This is basically a collection of people's opinions without very much evidence.

One of the things I really wished was covered in any documentary of this type is the fact that humans have been convinced they are living in the end times since as early as the year 100 AD. It amazes me that we as a species are still doing this. If you look at how many end time predictions we have survived it's over 300. You'd think by now we might have learned our lesson.

One of the great mysteries of the bible is that it can almost mean whatever you want it to mean. Allegorical stories are great like that.

I cried when I was done watching this movie. Everything in here makes so much sense and I couldn't find a single piece of evidence that I could argue with. The facts and discoveries presented here really make you stop and think about how human history really played out and made me look at the religious conflicts of the world today in an entirely new light. Not with hate or who was right or who was wrong from the viewpoint of a globally united world and it related to prophecy. This film so dead on accurate in regards to what is happening on the world today it gave me chills. Keep an open mind while watching this film because it really is all true!

PROS

+ Generally speaking a good defense of Christianity, with some good arguments.

CONS

• Sadly this documentary is hardly reliable. Most of the content is hastily pieced together, while lacking depth and in many cases obviously investigation and simple Bible study.

• It starts with the claim that the Jews, specifically speaking about the Masoretes, "preserved the text in its most original and purest form". While this is a simplified claim we hear today very often, it is plainly wrong. It should be well known that even the Masoretes complained to have received a corrupted Proto-Masoretic text (corrupted by Akiva, Aquila and Halafta, 2nd. C. AD).

The documentary does not even mention the Greek text which is much more reliable, and was the predominant text for 5-6 centuries - long before and after CHRISTOS came. Hebrew played a very minor role until Jerome (while working as secretary for the Pope) revived it. But the movie pretends that there had been a Hebrew tradition reaching from ancient times to our times which is simply wrong.

• It further claims that "even today the ancient Hebrew language is perfectly intact", which is an abstruse claim. Closer to the truth, we speak about very different alphabets and added vowels, and not even Moses would be able to read a single word of what is called Hebrew today. It is more, the term 'Hebrew' (G1447 ebraisti) in regards of language is exclusively found in the New Testament, while the OT speaks only of 'Aramaic / Syrian' (G4948, syros) and 'Jewish' (G2451, ioudaisti).

• They try to find naturalistic explanations for the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah, while not relying exclusively on the biblical miracle.

• They show a burned peak of a supposed Mt. Sinai and do not even mention the name of the mountain nor give at least a few hints why they think it is the correct candidate. The same with the split rock, with no location and little explanation.

• They claim that the Bible says about the anti-Christ, that "they will call him the greatest leader who ever lived." But the Bible does nowhere say anything similar and they also fail to recognize that the anti-Christ is not only a person.

• They randomly suggest that the Jews will search for protection in Petra, but everyone who has only once looked at the region will see that it is very exposed and can hardly serve as refuge.

• They lack an understanding of the 'Last Days' which refers not only to our end times, but all the time since IESOUS' resurrection.

• Quote: "Approx. 2500 prophecies exist within the ancient Scripture, each built chronologically upon the previous". I had to laugh aloud when hearing this. Anyone who has even touched eschatology, knows that prophecies are all over the place and that not even individual Bible books containing prophecy usually preserve a chronological order.

• Similar to his 2017 movie, Brent abuses here also Fig Tree Prophecy to supposedly stand for the end times which ought to begin with the rebirth of Israel. This abuse usually implies to confuse a UN declaration done in 1948 with the -SPIRITUAL- rebirth of Israel, to add a generation of 80 to 120 years from that date while badly abusing Psalm 102:12, to add some sensationalism or frightening music like here and to imply that IESOUS is just around the corner ...

I refute this Fig Tree Prophecy in more detail in the review about 'The Coming Convergence', where he also better explains what he sketched out here.

• Quote: "The Bible clearly teaches that some day there will be a global unity, eventually a one-world government, a one-world government empire, a one-world government economy and religion, all united in a one-world religion."

This is nowhere 'CLEARLY' found in Scripture and it usually implies not only quite some fantasy and sensationalism, but also to read Daniel 7 into our future, while ignoring that Daniel 7 unquestionably referred to IESOUS' ascension (only Daniel 12:1-4 affects our future!). Some of those hair-raising claims could become true, but we should never add to Scripture as clearly done here in an heretical way.