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No attempt has been made to present proofs of the claims here. Nor will there be. One does not prove a riddle. You get it or you don't. However, the solutions here are open to challenge. Once a riddle is solved it is open to all to challenge. Be aware that your opinion has no value. This is not intended to be an insult, but my opinion has no value either. I may have more experience is observing the prophetic riddle, but they are self-validating. We do not argue opinions. We collaborate to solve the riddle.

A person who cannot solve riddles can't challenge them effectively. If they don't see the answers, they simply don't see them. A proclamation that they don't see it, is of no value. But one who can solve the riddles can challenge a solution by showing a verse where the metaphor does not mean the same thing. An open question, a place where the metaphor when applied as proposed is not understood, remains an open riddle to be solved.

It is my desire to share many things quickly so that a good sampling of prophecy is available as examples. As we run into opportunities to talk of the mechanics of solving riddles, we will point to an appendix.

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Mr 1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

There are several prophetic riddles concerning baptism: the flood, crossing the Red Sea, crossing the Jordan, Jonah cast into the sea, to mention a few. Each picture participates in the revelation of Jesus Christ. However, of particular importance is the story of Naaman. Naaman was a great captain in Syria who was a leper. ^[1] Naaman told him to immerse himself seven times in the Jordan. ^[2] When Naaman did it, he was cured and his skin became as that of a little child. ^[3]

1. ↑ 2Ki 5:1 ¶ Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, [but he was] a leper. {with: Heb. before} {honourable: or, gracious: Heb. lifted up, or, accepted in countenance} {deliverance: or, victory}
2. ↑ 2Ki 5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
3. ↑ 2Ki 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.