oh now i get it.
that explains the 4 waves thingamjig.
severed from grace.
ok. apostasy. right.
t.y.
Or this could really be flipped on its head.
amills and post mills believe this is yet to happen.
Rev 20
[SUP]7 [/SUP]Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison [SUP]8 [/SUP]and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. [SUP]9 [/SUP]They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. [SUP]10 [/SUP]The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where[SUP][b][/SUP] the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
A final loosing of Satan to deceive the nations into battle against the saints and the beloved city.
Where is the beloved city?
I don't think it's earthly Jerusalem.
Rev calls earthly Jerusalem Sodom and Egypt.
Rev 11
[SUP]8 [/SUP]And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our[SUP][c][/SUP] Lord was crucified.
But there is a beloved, blessed Jerusalem.
Rev 21
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. [SUP]2 [/SUP]Then I, John,[SUP][a][/SUP] saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
What if this loosing war of Satan on the saints and Jerusalem is on Christians who reside in the holy city Jerusalem from above?
Gal 4:26
but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
So is there any Satanic wars against the church currently, recently, recent past, that seek to distract us from grace, and point us toward law and reliance and focus on Earthly things like temples, and animal sacrifices and such?
Maybe Satan has finally been loosed.
Maybe that attack is under way now.
Can you think of any movements that have been direct attacks on the church and the core doctrine of grace, and that may in fact focus us on law, temple, and another covenant?