Alright, I have been following your posts and I have to find out what you believe.
Can you answer a few of my questions here, as I cannot DM people.
1. Do you believe in a future earthly millenium followed by the new heaven and new earth and new Jerusalem?
2. Do you believe the millennium will feature animal sacrifices?
3. Do you believe the great tribulation is past or future?
4. Where do you believe we are on God's calendar? What are the signs to look for towards the end?
5. How do you see 2 Thessalonians 2:4? " He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God."
“Do you believe in a future earthly millenium followed by the new heaven and new earth and new Jerusalem?”
“Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.”
John 18:36 KJV
i believe Jesus is reigning in his kingdom in heaven already with the martyrs and ot saints who rose when he did and the 1000 years isnt literal but should be understood as a long period of time they will reign in heaven before the end of this world then he will reveal the new heaven and earth after the judgement
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that
one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
2 Peter 3:8
In other words Gods measure of time isn’t defined as we define time he’s beyond it we are within it if you look at revelation you’ll see a narrative of what’s happening in heaven and simultaneously what’s happening on earth the reign of the martyrs with Jesus I believe is in heaven
“2. Do you believe the millennium will feature animal sacrifices?
For what purpose ?
“By the which will
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. ….but this man,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;”
Hebrews 10:10, 12 KJV
“Do you believe the great tribulation is past or future?”
the great tribulation is about what God told israel on prophecy regarding the curses of the law
“Where do you believe we are on God's calendar? What are the signs to look for towards the end?”
we are waiting for Jesus to return from heaven and gather his people we should be in this frame of mind
We’re waiting for this day
“For
the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and
the dead in Christ shall rise first: then
we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
Basically brother I believe the things Jesus and his apostles said we should be looking for and waiting for and not so much what Daniel said israel was waiting for you see here’s sort of a simple way to tell you what I believe
I believe the Old Testament was waiting for the messiah to come
and I believe the New Testament is waiting for the messiah to return
as d I believe each testament has its own prophecy and fulfillment
for example in tbe ot they were waiting for the messiah to come forth
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
Isaiah 7:14
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a
son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,
upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.”
Isaiah 9:6-7
The Old Testament is all about the foret appearance of messiah in Israel
In other words
“and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.”
Acts 3:20-21, 24 KJV
and when Jesus came forth he fulfilled those things but then you have the things he said would happen and his apostles said would happen later leading to not the end of Jerusalem but the world when the messiah returns a second time to fulfill the New Testament as he has the old
the ot and nt have thier own prophecies fulfillments and purposes and they are both all about Jesus coming the first time nd then the promise of his return which Paul and the apostles were always talking about
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