I've never heard of Amill.Aren't you a follower of Amill or Preterism?
who is he/she?
I wouldn't say I'm a follower of preterism.
I think there are many varieties of it.
some aspects of it make a lot of sense to me.
I've never heard of Amill.Aren't you a follower of Amill or Preterism?
I disagree, I think we often hide things from ourselves.We are creatures of habit. You most likely eat something similar daily for breakfast, even if you try something new for a few other days. You have your favorite shows, movies, books, Scriptures, Biblical Characters and those all relate to who you are. So it is highly doubtful your mind would sway from your awareness.
what do you mean by "idealisms"?And yes, we all have idealisms. But if those idealisms (outside that Christ is the only way to God) aren't changing or adapting, it means you have become close minded and unable to learn. And that is the biggest issue with being raised with a set of beliefs versus learning a set a beliefs on your own. The beliefs you learn can adapt. Typically, the beliefs you are ingrained with takes an act of God Himself to change.
I don’t say I’m a preterist. You can drop the label. But the first century Christians knew that Matthew 24 applied to them certainly lastest when the armies surrounded Jerusalem.Jesus told them to leave. And history affirms not one perished. This is not Preterism. It's scripture and accepted as true in Amillennialism. Hint; Preterism = all of Matthew 24 was fulfilled then, and this is false.
Matthew 24 covers the first advent until the end of the world. Preterism is a Jesuit false doctrine to deceive the protestants from thinking the Papacy is the Antichrist. Study history and see for yourself.I don’t say I’m a preterist. You can drop the label. But the first century Christians knew that Matthew 24 applied to them certainly lastest when the armies surrounded Jerusalem.
Christians after that can rest assured that doesn’t apply to them. They don’t even live in that city.
Now they asked Jesus more than one question. The end of that age is not the same as the second matter. Just because both are discussed doesn’t mean both happen at the same time. It’s not all Matt 24 or nothing.
Those Christians knew Matt 24 end of age applies to them. This is known cause they left town.
Whatever label you want doesn’t matter.
Excellent detective work thank you. The case for a late date is overwhelming.However, the testimony of the Church Fathers is that the Revelation of Jesus Christ was written by John near the end of the reign of Domitian in AD 96. According to them, John was banished by Domitian to the lonely Isle of Patmos, a desolate Greek island in the Aegean Sea only 11 square miles in area
I cannot find any Church Father claiming Nero put John into exile. The consensus all claim Domitian put John there.
This is rather interesting:
Preterism & the Date of the Apocalypse (Revelation)
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1487362/posts
Sep 19, 2005 · Not a single early source (within 500 years of John) places John's banishment under the reign of Nero, as preterists claim.
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That claims NO ONE from John to the 6th Century claimed John was banished by Nero. 100% claimed John was banished by Domitian!
I studied history. Convinced me Matthew 24, Daniel and most of Revelation was completed by 70 AD. The early Christians knew that was the time Jesus was refering to and left town. None of them thought the end of the age was in 2000+ years and stayed home. That is pretty strong evidence for me but not the only evidence.Matthew 24 covers the first advent until the end of the world. Preterism is a Jesuit false doctrine to deceive the protestants from thinking the Papacy is the Antichrist. Study history and see for yourself.
But your view contradicts scripture.I studied history. Convinced me Matthew 24, Daniel and most of Revelation was completed by 70 AD. The early Christians knew that was the time Jesus was refering to and left town. None of them thought the end of the age was in 2000+ years and stayed home. That is pretty strong evidence for me but not the only evidence.
Not at all. It contradictions Dispensationalism, that is true. But that was an invention of Darby promoted by Scofield. Dispensationalism contradicts scripture and creates embarassing problems. This generation cannot mean that generation. Soon does not mean within then next 2 millenia. They who were told by Jesus they would see this did not. Armies surrounding Jerusalem did not mean leave except that all left and it was really good. The list goes on and on. And these are embarassing for dispensationalists.But your view contradicts scripture.
Actually the name YHWH was limited to the Jews and even they lost it. So no one in the whole world knows what word God spoke to Moses. No one. I think I asked where does he say he will not let his name be profaned anymore. Can you supply that scritpure please? I would like to know the surrounding scriptures and how this is enforced by Him.It requires a good study of Ezekiel Chapters 36-39 in context with the rest of the prophetic books.
Deuteronomy 32 is a great place to start.
Ezekiel 39 (NASB)
7 “My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is coming and it shall be done,” declares the Lord God. “That is the day of which I have spoken.
Notice how he refers to himself in this verse.
Not the The Holy One of Israel as in other verses but The Holy One in Israel.
The nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore!
Ezekiel 38:23
23 I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the Lord.”’
Actually it is the cities of the different ethnic groups fell and that was true. During that period many Roman cities fell as there was massive infighting. The Romans also destroyed many cities on the march to Jerusalem. So that was fulfilled. The word for "nations" is really ethnos which is ethnic groups. They did not have political nations, just ethnic groups. It was never meant to be the whole world.Revelation 16 (NASB)
18 And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty. 19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
You claim the great tribulation in Matthew 24:21 took place in 70AD?You are joking right? The Fall of Bablyon, the city of Jerusalem is the biggest single event and you still do not see it? It was actually common knowledge that the predictions Jesus made in Matt 24 regarding the signs of the fall of Jerusalem were fulfilled in 70 AD. Signs and then the end of Jerusalem whereby the Christians escaped it by believing they needed to leave when the armies were surrounding the city. Jerusalem was an extremely wealthy city, the jewel of the middle east. THe book even says Bablyon is Jerusalem, the city where JEsus was crucified. How can you miss it?
Well, modern Jerusalem is a very ungodly city and it spoken of as ungodly in Revelation. God called the city Sodom. It is hard to imagine in that day or this that He is smiting the people who smite Sodom. We all know what happened to that city. So obviously that verse does not apply to the next some decades. God is not a bigot favoring one race over another. He gives one nation tasks or blessings that He does not give the others that is true. But it all comes with resonsiblity.Where is that verse?
Zechariah 14 NASB)
12 Now this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.
Those are not the same thing and in Matthew 24 they are not taught as the same thing. The gt comes with lots of signs. The second bodily coming of Christ comes with none, same as in the day of Noah. No warning.You claim the great tribulation in Matthew 24:21 took place in 70AD?
The Bible speaks of God coming in the clouds and so on as judgement. The Sahedrin knew that was what Jesus was saying when he said they would see him coming in the clouds. He was coming to judge them and judge them He did.Where was the second coming of Jesus Christ recorded in history "They Shall See The Son Of Man Coming In The Clouds Of Heaven" as seen in Matthew 24:29-31?
Wrong! Read it again. It says they will see the SIGN OF THE SON OF Man, not the son of man. That is what they saw."Immediately after the tribulation of those days"
"They Shall see the Son of Man"
Matthew 24:29-31KJV
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:
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.
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.
Jesus Messiah Himself sanctioned (and in fact led) the conquest of Canaan!You believe that God, HImself, will forcibly take over the world in a military engagement. The above is not God taking over in a military engagement. God, not man is what you believe.
Or do you believe God will send some nation of people to take over the whole world? That is not what I heard anyone in the whole of dispensationalism say. This is what happened in the above example.
Again, where in the whole of human history has God (Jesus) even taken over in a military invasion manner a nation? WHen I took Israel for his own, it was not a military invasion. ALl who joined his family were volunteers. All who wanted to be his people left Egypt when the timing was ripe. All volunteers. No one at gun or sword point.
The sun, moon, stars, heavens shaken, are the "SIGN", as you desperately try to remove the literal visual "Second Coming" of Jesus Christ in the clouds of heaven.Those are not the same thing and in Matthew 24 they are not taught as the same thing. The gt comes with lots of signs. The second bodily coming of Christ comes with none, same as in the day of Noah. No warning.
The Bible speaks of God coming in the clouds and so on as judgement. The Sahedrin knew that was what Jesus was saying when he said they would see him coming in the clouds. He was coming to judge them and judge them He did.
Wrong! Read it again. It says they will see the SIGN OF THE SON OF Man, not the son of man. That is what they saw.
This was him coming in judgement same as he warned the Ephesians if they did not repent he would come and take away something. They didn't and he came and did as promised. Jesus came, but that coming in judgement is not the final appearing you are thinking of. The sun and moon, by the way, are not the bodies in the heavens.
Zech 14:3-5 definitely matters if you happen to be in Israelite residing in Jerusalem during the time of the GT.Thats what you believe but that doesn’t matter. It’s your personal opinion.
Don’t ask what is bad if you’re going to discredit every answer cause it has the word “bad” in it. Jesus thinks it was the worst (a kind of bad) in all human history. Do you care if Jesus thinks it was bad too? You’re joking right?? Jerusalem was totally ploughed under and why don’t you see that today? They rebuilt it. There are valleys there and “large” doesn’t matter cause your thinking what large is doesn’t matter.
He returned to Ephesus as promised and did as he threatened. I’ve been there. Very strong evidence he came to them as promised...that’s in the past, by the way.
Amen. Which is exactly what the Lord did in the Exodus and in Canaan. ALL of the nation's roundabout knew it was Yahweh. They had their witness.It requires a good study of Ezekiel Chapters 36-39 in context with the rest of the prophetic books.
Deuteronomy 32 is a great place to start.
Ezekiel 39 (NASB)
7 “My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is coming and it shall be done,” declares the Lord God. “That is the day of which I have spoken.
Notice how he refers to himself in this verse.
Not the The Holy One of Israel as in other verses but The Holy One in Israel.
The nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore!
Ezekiel 38:23
23 I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the Lord.”’
Your scope of understanding is severely limited. The Scripture makes it perfectly clear time and time again that in the TRUE Great Tribulation, the armies of ALL nations will surround Jerusalem, not just the Roman army. Then the Lord arrives as Savior AND DEFEATS THESE ARMIES! This alone falsifies any claim that 70 A.D. is the GT.Not at all. It contradictions Dispensationalism, that is true. But that was an invention of Darby promoted by Scofield. Dispensationalism contradicts scripture and creates embarassing problems. This generation cannot mean that generation. Soon does not mean within then next 2 millenia. They who were told by Jesus they would see this did not. Armies surrounding Jerusalem did not mean leave except that all left and it was really good. The list goes on and on. And these are embarassing for dispensationalists.
It is foreign to the historic creeds which condemned all but Amillennialism as heresy.Not at all. It contradictions Dispensationalism, that is true. But that was an invention of Darby promoted by Scofield. Dispensationalism contradicts scripture and creates embarassing problems. This generation cannot mean that generation. Soon does not mean within then next 2 millenia. They who were told by Jesus they would see this did not. Armies surrounding Jerusalem did not mean leave except that all left and it was really good. The list goes on and on. And these are embarassing for dispensationalists.
I would throw every creed in the trashcan that doesn't support premillennialism. Without the slightest hesitation.It is foreign to the historic creeds which condemned all but Amillennialism as heresy.