My responses in blue:
None of this has been fulfilled as yet (unless you choose to be delusional):
All of it was fulfilled. I choose to be scriptural and I study history
MATTHEW 24
THE GOSPEL CONTINUES TO BE PREACHED, THE END HAS NOT YET COME
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
First one needs to understand that the "world" in this context was the Roman empire. It was the known world. This is how the term is used throughout the NT. Lk 2:1 And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. Did Caesar make the Chinese, Indians, Southern Africans and Russians register? How about the native American Indians?
THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION AND THE ANTICHRIST ARE IN THE FUTURE
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand) 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Antichrist? What Antichrist? There is no Antichrist found in this passage. You won't find the term anywhere in Daniel or in the 4 Gospels. The term is only is only found 4 places, all in 1 John and 2 John. I'm going to blend the passages together then comment.
Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour... Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son...and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world...For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Thus we learn that an "Antichrist" is anyone who denies the Father and Son. We also learn that there were many antiChrists and that another one was coming. The one which was coming was already in the world, back then!!! They were in the last hour!! There is no future antiChrist to us taught unless you think the antichrist is 2,000 years old and comes and goes. John was speaking of a contemporary antichrist, someone who as alive at the same time as himself.
THE UNIQUE GREAT TRIBULATION IS STILL IN THE FUTURE
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Nope, the great tribulation was the siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD. This was the worst trouble any nation ever endured. Josephus uses identical language to describe this period. 4. "Now this vast multitude is indeed collected out of remote places, but the entire nation was now shut up by fate as in prison, and the Roman army encompassed the city when it was crowded with inhabitants. Accordingly, the multitude of those that therein perished exceeded all the destructions that either men or God ever brought upon the world" - Josephus War 6-9-4)
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST IS STILL IN THE FUTURE
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before. 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
Quoting Josephus -
a great mixed multitude of the people, fled, in number about six thousand. But before Caesar had determined any thing about these people, or given the commanders any orders relating to them, the soldiers were in such a rage, that they set that cloister on fire; by which means it came to pass that some of these were destroyed by throwing themselves down headlong, and some were burnt in the cloisters themselves. Nor did any one of them escape with his life. A false prophet was the occasion of these people's destruction, who had made a public proclamation in the city that very day, that God commanded them to get upon the temple, and that there they should receive miraculous signs of their deliverance. Now there was then a great number of false prophets suborned by the tyrants to impose on the people, who denounced this to them, that they should wait for deliverance from God; and this was in order to keep them from deserting, and that they might be buoyed up above fear and care by such hopes. Now a man that is in adversity does easily comply with such promises; for when such a seducer makes him believe that he shall be delivered from those miseries which oppress him, then it is that the patient is full of hopes of such his deliverance.
3. Thus were the miserable people persuaded by these deceivers, and such as belied God himself; while they did not attend nor give credit to the signs that were so evident, and did so plainly foretell their future desolation, but, like men infatuated, without either eyes to see or minds to consider, did not regard the denunciations that God made to them.
CHRIST'S SECOND COMING WILL BE VISIBLE TO ALL ("THE LIGHTNING" FROM EAST TO WEST)
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
I'll take this issue separately because it takes more to explain.
THE EAGLES (BIRDS OF PREY) WILL GATHER AT THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON FOLLOWING THE SECOND COMING
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
There is no such thing as "The Battle of Armageddon." This is a false assumption. Megiddo was the place where the Roman troops gathered before their assault on Jerusalem. It was Jerusalem were we find all the bodies. Again, from Josephus:
"...they found in them entire families of dead men, and the upper rooms full of dead corpses, that is, of such as died by the famine; they then stood in a horror at this sight, and went out without touching any thing. But although they had this commiseration for such as were destroyed in that manner, yet had they not the same for those that were still alive, but they ran every one through whom they met with, and obstructed the very lanes with their dead bodies, and made the whole city run down with blood, to such a degree indeed that the fire of many of the houses was quenched with these men's blood."
Did you catch that? There was so much blood it put the fires out!!
THERE WILL BE CATACLYSMIC COSMIC EVENTS BEFORE THE SECOND COMING AND JUST AFTER THE GREAT TRIBULATION
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
I'll take this topic separately also.
CHRIST WILL COME WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY (WITH HIS SAINTS AND ANGELS) AND ALL WILL MOURN
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
CHRIST WILL SEND HIS ANGELS TO GATHER THE BELIEVING JEWISH REMNANT
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
