Do you want the truth? Here is the truth about eschatology

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Do you believe that because of Irenaeus? The same guy who thought Jesus was 50 years old when He was crucified. Irenaeus' statement in the Greek is completely ambiguous. There are two choices. He could have been referring to John Himself or the book of Revelation. FWIW, it is interesting that church tradition has John living to be very old.

If a person understands correctly that Revelation is about the destruction of old covenant Israel and the fulfilling of everything written in the law and prophets (Matt 5:17-18 & Luke 21:22) then it becomes clear that the book was written before 70 AD. We don't need outside sources to guess and try and tell us when they think it was written. The contents of the book tell you when it was written.
He probably got that from this.

John 8
57 Then the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”
 
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lol, to be fair though after the www took off I've seen famous misquotes repeated from both sides without checking the facts. It just makes it more complicated to understand regardless to the side who did so though.
book ends and somewhere in the middle the truth perhaps? ;)
 
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And they both just threw the lot in with---> The world is good and does not need to be rescued.....I would say the bible begs to differ....The view that the world is good and does not need rescuing is as Satanic as can be in scope.....
delusion at its best

send them all over to the Congo or Iran

beautiful world then I bet :eek:
 

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book ends and somewhere in the middle the truth perhaps? ;)
A great number of things are quoted from different web pages and books as if they are correct,,people seem to trust the things they read as if they are written by scholars and then repeated without examination. lol it's like cheating off someones paper in school,all is well unless the one you cheat off of gets a "D"...
 
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A great number of things are quoted from different web pages and books as if they are correct,,people seem to trust the things they read as if they are written by scholars and then repeated without examination. lol it's like cheating off someones paper in school,all is well unless the one you cheat off of gets a "D"...
IMO, few actually look at both sides of anything

they just keep putting manure on whatever is already growing :LOL:

I can say that because I actually do consider both

scholars, like anything else: some good and some bad
 

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The interpretation of Dan 9:24-27 should settle this debate:

Dan 9:
24Seventy weeksd are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.e

25Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah,f the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

26Then after the sixty-two weeks, the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing.

Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed. 27And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week,g but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation,h until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”



The major mark is when the Messiah comes. At this point we only have 1 week remaining; so whether you believe the coming of the Messiah was at His birth or was at His baptism, you need to show how this remaining 1 week stretches to 67-70AD or something close to that.
 
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A great number of things are quoted from different web pages and books as if they are correct,,people seem to trust the things they read as if they are written by scholars and then repeated without examination. lol it's like cheating off someones paper in school,all is well unless the one you cheat off of gets a "D"...
And which are the scholars that can be trusted?
 
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lol, lets talk about it for a while,start with us not needing to worry about the man of sin rising up in our future(show us it's fulfillment prior to ad70)...Show us who it was who took the mark and bought and sold with it prior to ad70 and was destroyed when Jesus returned.
Yep,and we need some instance in history of flying scorpions and hailstones of fire
You don't have to accept my understanding of Scripture. You should always study and take no ones word on anything. Sola Scriptura.
...and the ones in the way ?
Maybe spiritualize em?
 

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And which are the scholars that can be trusted?
I think the best approach is to carefully examine the things any of them say(me included,lol). For instance I keep posting Josephus wars 2 but no one will discuss it after I do. A few post back I gave several Scriptures that use the term "the day of the Lord is near" and gave the Hebrew word used in the OT(check it,,see if it actually say's that,,lol).

Now not that I think of my self as an scholar by any means I am just another old man on the internet. It would be the same if you notice about any of us whether an author, a scholar,or just an old man on the www we look at something and do our best to determine what it means but it's no different than picking out a thread in a forum and citing post # 152 as the truth. In the end we will still look at post #152 and research the facts stated in it and see if the things the poster said were true or stretched to support their own position.
 

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Please read these verses and tell me what they all have in common:

Matt 10:23, Matt 16:27-28, Matt 24:34, Mark 8:38-9:1, Mark 13:30, Luke 9:26-27, Luke 21:31-32, 1 Peter 4:7, James 5:8, 1 John 2:18, Rev 1:1, Rev 1:3, Rev 22:6, Rev 22:7, Rev 22:10, Rev 22:12, Rev 22:20.

Then we have these verses that use the Greek word "mello" (G3195 Strong's Concordance) in the present infinitive which always implies IMMINENCE. The word is often translated "will" in English because of the translators false presuppositions. It should be translated in English "about to". The verses are:

Rev 1:19, Acts 17:31, Acts 24:15, 2 Timothy 4:1, 1 Peter 5:1, James 2:12, Heb 10:27, Acts 28:6

Then you have Daniel. He is given a 70 weeks prophecy for his people and his city (Dan 9:24). Daniel Chapters 10-12 give details about that 70 weeks. At the end of that 70 weeks in Daniel 12 we find this:

Daniel 12:4, "seal up the book until the time of the end" Revelation 22:10 says, "Don't seal for the time is at hand"

Daniel 12:7, "when the power of the holy people is completely shattered all will be fulfilled" This occurred with the destruction of the temple in 70 AD.

Daniel 12:13, Daniel is told he will rise to his inheritance at the end of the days (see also Matt 25:34). Jesus said all who believed in Him He would raise on the last day (John 6:39,40,44,54) This was the last day of old covenant Israel in 70 AD and is what Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy is about. His people and their city.

And finally...Matt 5:17-18. Make sure you read that with Luke 21:22. Jesus came to fulfill everything written in the Law and Prophets. When all was fulfilled it would pass away. The book of Hebrews, written in the 60's AD, says the law was "ready to pass away" (Heb 8:13).

Jesus said not one jot or tittle could pass until everything was accomplished. This happened with the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple and the end of old covenant Israel. We have been living in the new heavens and earth (not a physical place) for 2,000 years. God bless you.
Seems you picked an appropriate ID.
 

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God offered the Messiah to the Jews and they rejected Him. And they paid for that in 70 AD.

God then offered the Christ to the world. It is rejecting Him and will pay for that soon in the future.

God's word is eternal. One manifestation thereof does NOT render it moot.
 
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I think the best approach is to carefully examine the things any of them say(me included,lol). For instance I keep posting Josephus wars 2 but no one will discuss it after I do. A few post back I gave several Scriptures that use the term "the day of the Lord is near" and gave the Hebrew word used in the OT(check it,,see if it actually say's that,,lol).

Now not that I think of my self as an scholar by any means I am just another old man on the internet. It would be the same if you notice about any of us whether an author, a scholar,or just an old man on the www we look at something and do our best to determine what it means but it's no different than picking out a thread in a forum and citing post # 152 as the truth. In the end we will still look at post #152 and research the facts stated in it and see if the things the poster said were true or stretched to support their own position.
There are ways to determine reputable sources both on the internet and in academia, however reputation does in either place determines truth, on this I am sure you would agree.

In academia "citations" are a key indicator of the calibre of the scholarship.... the internet is much more tricky. LOL

What exactly in Josephus Wars 2 is no one willing to discuss?
 

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There are ways to determine reputable sources both on the internet and in academia, however reputation does in either place determines truth, on this I am sure you would agree.

In academia "citations" are a key indicator of the calibre of the scholarship.... the internet is much more tricky. LOL

What exactly in Josephus Wars 2 is no one willing to discuss?

It seems as if someone sees things Catholic then they will go to an Catholic school to get their education and diplomas. If someone sees things as extreme dispensation-al then they will attend th Dallas seminary and get their credentials there. Baptist do the same,and the Methodist,Lutherans ect.ect. even the Jews study in their schools and get diplomas to prove their reputation. So it's a matter of choice before they ever began to obtain credentials from the camps school they desire to protect and prove is correct.

In post #224 I gave a link and suggested the Jews were who were killed because they refused to worship Nero as God(image) and so were killed, is this correct or not? It wasn't the fulfillment of Revelation 13:15 though I was waiting to see what you would say.
 
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Yep,and we need some instance in history of flying scorpions and hailstones of fire
...and the ones in the way ?
Maybe spiritualize em?
(Rev 9:10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. )

Note John says they had tails like scorpions. Real scorpions have actual scorpion tails.

(Rev 16:21 And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great. )

This is from Josephus' Wars of the Jews:

The engines, that all the legions had ready prepared for them, were admirably contrived; but still more extraordinary ones belonged to the tenth legion: those that threw darts and those that threw stones were more forcible and larger than the rest, by which they not only repelled the excursions of the Jews, but drove those away that were upon the walls also. Now the stones that were cast were of the weight of a talent.

Wikipedia:

The scorpio or scorpion was a type of Roman artillery piece. Also known by the name of the triggerfish, it was described in detail by Vitruvius. In the progressive evolution of catapults, the next major improvement after the scorpio was the cheiroballistra.
 
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It seems as if someone sees things Catholic then they will go to an Catholic school to get their education and diplomas. If someone sees things as extreme dispensation-al then they will attend th Dallas seminary and get their credentials there. Baptist do the same,and the Methodist,Lutherans ect.ect. even the Jews study in their schools and get diplomas to prove their reputation. So it's a matter of choice before they ever began to obtain credentials from the camps school they desire to protect and prove is correct.

In post #224 I gave a link and suggested the Jews were who were killed because they refused to worship Nero as God(image) and so were killed, is this correct or not? It wasn't the fulfillment of Revelation 13:15 though I was waiting to see what you would say.
I agree, "theology scholarship" is not my field of expertise but I would agree that people are definitely in silos, in various schools of thought, but this is true is no matter what field.... internal bias is a problem all the time, the only one who can breakdown those internal biases is Christ Jesus because He is Truth.

Okay I will go back and reread.... I must have missed it....some nasty comments on this thread, when the "ad hom" attacks arrive I usually leave and try not to be pulled in.
 

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(Rev 9:10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. )

Note John says they had tails like scorpions. Real scorpions have actual scorpion tails.

(Rev 16:21 And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great. )

This is from Josephus' Wars of the Jews:

The engines, that all the legions had ready prepared for them, were admirably contrived; but still more extraordinary ones belonged to the tenth legion: those that threw darts and those that threw stones were more forcible and larger than the rest, by which they not only repelled the excursions of the Jews, but drove those away that were upon the walls also. Now the stones that were cast were of the weight of a talent.

Wikipedia:

The scorpio or scorpion was a type of Roman artillery piece. Also known by the name of the triggerfish, it was described in detail by Vitruvius. In the progressive evolution of catapults, the next major improvement after the scorpio was the cheiroballistra.

That could prove more interesting if you had mentioned the book and chapter from Josephus. The stones were painted(black/white) to keep them from seeing them coming and shouting, "the son cometh" and dodge them. After they were painted and were not as easily seen Titus realized that they were not effective and stopped. Just another quote being re-quoted without a source given and without checking the context.
 
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The stones were painted(black/white) to keep them from seeing them coming and shouting, "the son cometh" and dodge them. After they were painted and were not as easily seen Titus realized that they were not effective and stopped. Just another quote being re-quoted without a source given and without checking the context.
It would be nice "if you had mentioned the book and chapter from Josephus"

But the Romans contrived how to prevent that, by blacking the stone: who then could aim at them with success, when the stone was not discerned beforehand, as it had been till then: and so they destroyed many of them at one blow. Yet did not the Jews, under all this distress, permit the Romans to raise their banks in quiet. But they shrewdly and boldly exerted themselves, and repelled them, both by night, and by day.

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