An End Times Perspective on the Nashville Shooting | Marking the End Times with Dr. Mark Hitchcock
This week on Marking the End Times, I discuss the shocking, recent tragedy of the Nashville shooting. As details come in about this, I explain how I believe it outlines the rising hatred against Christianity in America.
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We may not understand this but it is all part of God's to bring us home. KC Comanche tx
Satan is ramping things up, he knows his time is short
Thank you, brother for this timely message that the church needs to hear. We are truly in the last hour and Jesus is coming soon. We are definitely seeing the reprobate mindset of the book of Revelation….
Listen to me on this for I know who the Anti-Christ is and that is The King Charles 3 rd of Wales. I know we are in the Tribulation. Tim Cohen shows you though scriptures and proof that his name equals 666! Tim Cohen has done extensive research and study to prove his research! Go check Tim Cohen YouTube page and see for yourself!
I fear this is only the beginning of this kind of thing
as I understand it, the shooter at the Colorado school asked people if they were Christians before shooting them, too. I'm ashamed I can't remember the name of the school
CLASH OF KINGDOMS – good name for a book
Great words! Thanks for speaking the truth boldly.
Why Christians being murdered??? Cuz devil hates us!
My recommendation to all that read this recommendation,
purchase and read this book:
"BEHIND THE VEIL OF MOSES Piecing Together The Mystery Of The Second Coming" – Brian L. Martin
It will point you in the right direction, the correct paradigm and bring you to the Lord even closer,
if you can receive it.
I would be doing a disservice to the Lord and to you if I did not share this book with you
2 Timothy 2:17-18
"Their teaching will spread like gangrene.
Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have departed from the truth.
They say that the resurrection has already taken place,
and they destroy the faith of some."
If early Christians had believed that the resurrection would involve fleshly bodies coming out of graves, as is taught today – coincident with the rapture, every eye beholding the physical Christ, and the burning planet, etc. – Hymenaeus and Philetus could have never convinced anyone that the resurrection had already happened.
The first century Christians must have believed in the type of resurrection that we as Preterist today describe – a resurrection into new bodies after death, leaving the old one behind. They must have also believed that life on earth would go on without material change for people living after the resurrection. So, they did not believe that they would be transported from a decaying planet earth.
The NT Jews looked for restoration of the Davidic kingdom, just as many in the Church do today.
Yet,….having this type of worldly kingdom like other nations was in fact a sign of Israel's rejection of God 🙏.
1 Samuel 8:6-7
6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.
God was so displeased with this matter that He thundered from heaven.
1 Samuel 12:16-19
16 “Now therefore, stand and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes: 17 Is today not the wheat harvest? I will call to the Lord, and He will send thunder and rain, that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking a king for yourselves.”
18 So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
19 And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins the evil of asking a king for ourselves.”
Are we to believe, then, that a physical kingdom with a king on a physical throne is what God ultimately had in mind, and that the Israelites were chastised only for wanting it too soon?
Was not God reigning over Israel in a nonphysical manner prior to Israel's request for a mortal, human king?
Is not Christ reigning presently over His Church (spiritual Israel) in a nonphysical manner?
Do the Scriptures really teach that Jesus will reign physically from Jerusalem, or are we, like the OT Jews before us, wanting His kingdom to be like all the nations?
Instead of trying to pull the veil of Moses over the Second Coming, is it not time that we remove it?
The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD is one of the most prophesied events in Holy Scripture.
Scores of prophecies in both the Old and New Testaments point to this event.
Sadly, these prophecies are almost universally ignored by modern day preachers—or totally misapplied. Tragically, the vast majority of Christians know next to nothing of the great truths that God taught through this seismic event, they are all but lost to today's Christians.
The lack of knowledge and understanding about this event has led to the false teaching of Scofield's dispensationalism and the rapture theory, that has taken place in the Church over the past one hundred years.
This foundation drives Christians to support the modern day Jewish state of Israel and the building of a third temple, support for the Zionist State of Israel in its war against the Palestinians and perpetual wars in the middle east.
In this purpose, Zionism has completely succeeded.
American Judeo-Christians, more recently labeled "Christian Zionists," have remained mute during wars upon Israel's enemies in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and elsewhere.
A proper understanding of the destruction of Jerusalem is the key to unlocking the bible and how God symbolized the abolishment of the Old Covenant and establishing the New, Better and Everlasting Covenant.
Ignorance of what God did when He destroyed the city of Jerusalem in 70 AD is a root cause of the vast (and often crazy) misinterpretations of prophetic futurism running rampant today
Revelation 5:10
“You have made them to be a kingdom [of royal subjects] and priests to our God; and they will reign on the earth.”
….and didst make them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests. Of those whom thou didst redeem from every nation, thou didst make a kingdom and priests.""""
These honours conferred upon the redeemed imply duties as well as privileges.
They receive the princely honours conferred upon them only on condition that they also become priests, presenting themselves, their souls and bodies, a living sacrifice to God (Romans 12:1, 2), and, being a holy priesthood, offering up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ (1 Peter 2:5).
"And we shall reign on the earth; or, and they reign on the earth.""
The interpretation of this passage will necessarily be influenced to some extent by the view adopted of the millennium (Revelation 20.),
Those who expect a personal reign of Christ on the earth for a thousand years naturally consider that in these aformentioned verses, reference is made to that period.
However, if the thousand years be understood to denote the time which elapses between the binding of Satan during Jesus' earthly ministry to Satans destruction in 70 A.D. during the Parousia (second coming) of Christ, is to say, their present time, the two passages – that in Revelation 20:4 and the ones before us – are connected, and intended to refer to the same time, their time in the first century.
We have, therefore, to inquire in what sense the word "reign" is used, and how the redeemed can be said to reign on the earth at their present time.
In the first place, nothing is more plainly taught us than that Christ's reigning, his power, and his kingdom on earth are a spiritual reign, a spiritual power, a spiritual kingdom; though the Jews and our Lord's disciples themselves frequently erred by supposing that his kingdom would be a visible, worldly power.
It seems natural, therefore, that if such is the meaning of Christ's reigning, that of his servants should be of the same nature; and we ought not to err in the same way as the ancient Jews did, by expecting to see the redeemed exercise at any time, a visible authority over their fellowmen.
The redeemed reign, then, spiritually.
The word "reign" is not often used of Christians in the New Testament.
In Romans 5:17 we read, "Much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ."
And in 1 Corinthians 4:8. "And I would to God ye did reign."
In both these places St. Paul seems to intend a reigning over self – an ability to subdue personal passions; a power which comes from the "abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness" which are mentioned, and which are possessed only by the redeemed, through Jesus Christ.
How are we to understand Romans 11:28-29?
"As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance."
ANSWER: Even though God's old-covenant people in their last generation were being hardened, and excluded from the coming Inheritance, that did not mean that God had rejected historic, old-covenant Israel (Rom. 11:1,2).
Although it may have looked like Israel was being utterly cut off in her last generation, the truth was that old-covenant Israel was being saved in her last days. God was actually saving all of historic Israel, fulfilling His promises to the fathers, partly by means of the hardening of her last generation.
Here is how:
1. Through old-covenant Israel's transgression/failure and rejection in her last days, riches and reconciliation were coming to the Gentiles (Acts 13:46; 18:6; 28:18). "They are enemies for your sakes."
2. The salvation of the gentiles was making last-days Israel "jealous," so that a remnant was becoming zealous for righteousness and being saved (Rom. 11:2-10,11,13,14).
3. The hardening, or reprobation, of old-covenant Israel in her last generation was to continue until the fullness of her Messiah was realized in the gentiles (Rom. 11:25).
4. In this manner, or by this process, all of historic, old-covenant Israel was going to be saved (Resurrected) with the last-days remnant and with the believing gentiles at the Presence of Messiah in A. D. 70, according to the promises made to the fathers (Rom. 11:26). "They are beloved for the fathers' sakes."
In the unsearchable wisdom and judgment of God, each member of the universal and elect covenant-Body was dependent upon the other in the working out of their salvation (cf. I Cor. 12:12-26):
The old-covenant dead could not be resurrected without the Christological perfection of the remnant, or first fruits (Heb. 11:40; James. 1:18), and of the believing gentiles. The believing gentiles (the grafted in wild branches) could not be saved without Israel (the olive tree) and her partial hardening. And all of God's chosen remnant in Israel were not to be saved without the believing gentiles to make them zealous for the good things that were being granted the gentiles in Christ Jesus.
"As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes" Meaning: Through the hardening of Israel, the Gospel came to the gentiles.
"But as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes." Meaning: God promised the fathers that He would redeem His chosen nation, which came from their loins; and so God fulfilled His "gifts" and His "calling" to old-covenant Israel in 70, when through the power of the Gospel He raised her children from the dead and united the Jew/Gentile Body of Messiah into the true Tabernacle of God among men (Eph. 2:21,22; Rev. 21:3), in fulfillment of all the promises made to "the fathers."
"It is He Who will build the Temple of the Lord, and He will be clothed with majesty and will sit and rule on His throne. And He will be a priest on His throne. And there will be peace between the two" (Zech. 6:13).
– Fulfilled in the first century.
Scripture seems to have dual meanings: i.e.
Husband-wife/ Jesus-church,
Night-day/evil-good.
Couldn't the "coming" of Christ in A.D. 70 be a type of a final,
future Second Coming?
Answer: The dual meanings which are found throughout the holy writings are a testimony to the typical and symbolic nature of the Old Testament. Double references abound in the Old Testament books because all that was written and done in those days merely foreshadowed the future reality of Christ. Almost everything, if not everything, in the Old Testament somehow pointed to or foreshadowed Christ.
But when the New Testament writings appeared, the shadows and types were being done away with by the coming realities of Christ Jesus.
No longer would God's people need the school master
(the law with all of its symbolic regulations and rituals),
for their faith and love in Jesus was fulfilling the entire law,
and was hastening the day when Christ's loving Presence
in His Church would be complete, and the termination of the
fleshly Jewish covenant would finally be revealed.
Jesus did not die and rise from the dead to end one age of shadows and symbols, only to begin another age of shadows and symbols.
Christianity (Christ) is the reality, whereas Judaism was the shadow.
There is not much of the double-fulfillment spirit to be found in the New Testament writings because the New Testament speaks only of Christ being the fulfillment and end of redemptive history.
One of the reasons that Christ was a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense was because He was proclaiming a spiritual kingdom:
My kingdom is not of this world – John 18:36; the kingdom of God is within you – Luke 17:20-21.
Clearly, the majority of the Jews missed their Messiah because they were looking for a physical kingdom.
The disciples too, were looking for a physical kingdom, prior to Pentecost, they held that expectation and view.
After Pentecost, when they received the Holy Spirit, Who led them "into all truth" and taught them of the "things to come," their understanding of the nature of the kingdom was enlightened, and they no longer taught of a physical kingdom. Rather, they applied spiritual interpretations to Old Testament prophecies, used them to describe the Church, and associated the kingdom with the gospel.
The veil of Moses had been removed.
Sun, Moon, and Stars – (Matthew 24:29)
""Immediately after the tribulation of those days
the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give
its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the
powers of the heavens will be shaken."""
At the end of the Tribulation, Jesus said, the
universe will collapse: the light of the sun and the
moon will be extinguished, the stars will fall, the
powers of the heavens will be shaken.
The basis for this symbolism is in Genesis 1:14-16, where the sun,
moon, and stars (“the powers of the heavens”) are
spoken of as “signs” which “govern” the world. Later
in Scripture, these heavenly lights are used to speak
of earthly authorities and governors; and when God
threatens to come against them in judgment, the same
collapsing-universe terminology is used to describe
it. Prophesying the fall of Babylon to the Medes in
539 B. C., Isaiah wrote:
Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming, Cruel, with
fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it. For the
stars of heaven and their constellations Will not
flash forth with their light; The sun will be dark
when it rises, And the moon will not shed its light
(Isaiah 13:9-10).
Significantly, Isaiah later prophesied the fall of
Edom in terms of de-creation:
And all the host of heaven will wear away, And the sky
will be rolled up like a scroll; All their hosts will
also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, Or
as one withers from the fig tree (Isaiah 34:4),
Isaiah’s contemporary, the prophet Amos, foretold
the doom of Samaria (722 B.C.) in much the same way:
“And it will come about in that day,” Declares the
Lord GOD, “That I shall make the sun go down at noon
And make the earth dark in broad daylight” (Amos 8:9).
Another example is from the prophet Ezekiel, who
predicted the destruction of Egypt. God said this through Ezekiel:
“And when I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens,
and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a
cloud, And the moon shall not give its light. All the
shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you
And will set darkness on your land,” Declares the Lord
GOD (Ezekiel 32:7-8).
It must be stressed that none of these events
literally took place. God did not intend anyone to
place a literalist construction on these statements.
Poetically, however, all these things did happen: as
far as these wicked nations were concerned, "the
lights went out."
This is simply figurative language, which would not surprise us at all if we were more
familiar with the Bible and appreciative of its literary character.
What Jesus is saying in Matthew 24, therefore, in
prophetic terminology immediately recognizable by his
disciples, is that the light of Israel is going to be
extinguished; the covenant nation will cease to exist.
When the Tribulation is over, old Israel will be gone.
In John 1:11, John writes:
He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
Now the dispensationalists tell us that God presented Jesus the Messiah to ancient Israel, they rejected Him, so God withdrew the offer, went to plan B and plan B is the church; a parenthesis in history that will at some point in our future, very near for sure, and then God will go back and re offer Jesus the Messiah to modern day 1948 Israel and this time they’ll receive Him and He’ll reign in Jerusalem on the literal throne of David, the temple will be rebuilt, the priesthood will be reinstituted, the sacrificial system will be reinstituted, circumcision and dietary laws will be reinstituted, and modern day Israel will be the chief among the nations of the world, the world geopolitical and militaristic power that they were always intended to be.
Now, here’s the problem, the predominant view of Israel and the end times among evangelical Christians is no different than the view of the first century Jews who had Jesus killed in the first place and the root cause of their rejection of Him was that His definition of the kingdom and their definition of the kingdom were totally opposite, and most Christians today hold the same view as the apostate, first century Jews.
In one of His episodes with the Jewish leadership in John 5:39-47, Jesus said this:
“39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
41 “I do not receive honor from men. 42 But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. 43 I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. 44 How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God? 45 Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
Now, here’s the storyline. This specific bloodline that began with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and went through King David, was going to produce the Promised One, the Messiah of Israel, the savior of the whole world, it would come about in the last days of ancient Israel, the end of the Old Covenant era. A New Covenant was going to replace the Old Covenant. Throughout the history of ancient Israel, there had always been a faithful remnant and the word remnant simply means a small percentage of the whole. There was always just a remnant of true believers. The vast majority throughout their entire history, all the way up until the first century, the entire majority were apostate, which would serve in this first century as the culmination of all their history, those first century Jews, they were the terminal generation. They were the evil and perverse generation. They were going to fill up the measure of the sins of their fathers who had murdered the prophets and they were now going to have Jesus murdered, the very son of God, the promised Messiah who the faithful had looked forward to throughout their entire history.
Now, He was there right in front of them. He proved himself to be the Promised One and they rejected and had Him killed. And they were going to stamp out what they believed to His apostate followers. The fact is, that they (the majority) were the apostates and Jerusalem, and the temple were going to be destroyed as the final proof. Now saying that the majority of first century Jews were apostate, well, it’s offensive to modern-day Christians, if not most modern-day Christians. But remember in multiple places, Jesus said to them that though they claimed to love and know God, they don’t know Him.
The persecution of Jesus, the Apostles and the early first century followers of Jesus was at the hands of the apostate Jews.
In fact, the persecution of the faithful throughout the entire history of ancient Israel had been at the hands of the majority, the apostates of Israel that had murdered the prophets that God had sent to her.
Jesus had warned his disciples about this and that they would face the same thing:
Matthew 10:16-17
16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
It was the Jews who had synagogues.
The primary persecution of the early followers of Jesus, the first fruit followers of Jesus, would come from the Jews and it would build and build to near intolerable levels before the end came and Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed, and the righteous were vindicated.
Jesus continued to describe it in verses 21-23 of Matthew 10:
21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 22 You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 23 When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
This is one of the major time statements of Scripture regarding the end. It was going to be in the lifetime of these first century followers of Jesus. This is the suffering being faced by the followers of Jesus in the church at Smyrna, exactly as Jesus had warned His disciples would take place!
In Luke’s version of the Olivet discourse and describing the coming destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, Jesus is quoted as saying to them in verses Luke 21:12-22
12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
– Fulfilled in the first century, just as the text indicates it would be.
In two of the letters to the seven churches in Revelation 2 & 3, Jesus refers to those who say they are Jews and are not but lie.
He then calls them "the sanctuary of Satan."
One of the principles I have learned from Scripture is that throughout the Old Testament and into the New Testament, God called Israel, because of their apostasy, His enemy. As such, He labeled them with the name of His and their greatest enemies, such as Sodom, Gomorrah, Egypt, Babylon, and Assyria. But in Revelation, He calls them the Synagogue of Satan.
Why?
How can that be true?
Revelation 2:9
"I know your affliction and your poverty— though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews but are in fact a synagogue of Satan."
Revelation 3:9
"Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you.…"
This builds the case that apostate first-century Judaism was the enemy of God, the enemy of the Gospel, and the enemy of His true people.
God’s chosen people had become His enemy.
Deuteronomy 32 describes their end in latter days.
That transition from the Old Covenant to New would culminate in a cataclysmic end of Jerusalem and the Temple, thus fulfilling Matthew 24:21 concerning the great tribulation.
Revelation 11:8 Speaking of the dead bodies of the two witnesses lying in the street of “the great city, which is mystically called Sodom and Egypt, the city where our Lord was crucified.”…
Well, clearly, the Lord was crucified in Jerusalem. We know that. That’s not a controversial view. But here, Jerusalem is called Sodom and Egypt!
Apostate, first century Judaism had become the embodiment of God’s enemies throughout their history.
In the rest of the book of Revelation, there are other examples of this including calling Jerusalem a harlot and calling her Babylon. So, if God assigned the names of His and Israel’s enemies to Israel.
As we see here in the book of Revelation, who would you say is the greatest enemy of them all? Sodom? Gomorrah? Egypt? Babylon? Assyria?
Well, in Revelation, He (God) even calls the apostate, first century Jews, the synagogue of Satan.
If we take Jesus seriously and not entertain ideas that He lacked discernment or that, for whatever reason, He fails,
then we must also come to terms with a deep conviction that He was honest then, now and tomorrow (Forever)!
Right? I mean, our salvation depends on Him, right?
So, we can read Matthew 10:23; 16:27-28; 26:63-64 and come away with the notion that Jesus was basically saying that some of them He was speaking to would live to see His second coming in their lifetimes (first century).
Concerning the Parousia (Second coming of Christ), the Inspired writer of the book of Hebrews in chapter 10 and verse 37 said:
""For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.""
Are we supposed to believe that 2000 years and still pending is not tarrying (a delay)?
Are we to believe that Jesus was tricking them or that he was prevented from coming back in their lifetimes?
Are there 2000-year-old disciples still alive today?
Were Jesus and the NT writers confused regarding the second coming, when it would be?
Matthew 10:23 reads as follows:
But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another:
for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Matthew 16:27-28 reads as follows:
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. 28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Matthew 26:63-64
But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him,
“I put You under oath by the living God:
Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!”
Jesus said to him, “It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
Did Jesus lie? Did they live to see His Parousia?
NO, WE KNOW JESUS CAN'T LIE.
Saints, this should settle it, though you might not understand it, His first and second coming were in the first century,
JUST AS HE SAID.
It's not in our future. Peace in Christ be to you.
The death Adam and Eve were warned about by God wasn't physical death. The day they would eat the forbidden fruit would be the day they died. We know that Adam and Eve did not physically, biologically die that day. Adam died at 930 years old. No. The death they experienced that day, in which God warned them of, was sin-death, which is spiritual death. Sin separates us from God. Adam and Eve did not biologically die that day and our biological death is not the consequence of the sin of Adam.
As a result of Adam's disobedience, Adam and Eve were removed from God's presence in His garden and barred from the Tree of Life. Being cut off from Him and fellowship with Him is the sin death of Adam. That is why sinners need to be born-again. John 3:3. And that is why it is a soul salvation. 1 Peter 1:9 says that "you are reaching the goal of your faith' the salvation of your soul." It's not an issue of our human tissue. It's our spirit joined to the Lord to be one with Him.
The "catching-up" (1 Thess. 4:17) or "gathering" (Matt. 24:31) was accomplished when the faithful remnant of Jewish believers with the in-grafted Gentiles were transformed (and transferred) into Christ's new spiritual Israel.
This was accomplished at the same time the old fleshly-based Israel was dissolved at A.D. 70.
The meeting-place is the heavenly places in Christ – the spiritual kingdom.
I am sure that those to whom Paul wrote in 1 Thess. 4, who were living in the day of God's wrath upon fleshly-oriented Israel, who remembered Jesus' words and fled into the hills to escape the destruction, took great comfort in those precious words of hope (see Matt. 24:15-21)
They did not want to forsake their being gathered together into the heavenly kingdom.
It was Paul’s personal, distinctive, divinely appointed stewardship to “fulfill” (pleroma) the mystery of God (Colossians 1:24-27).
The mystery of God was the equality of Jew and Gentile in the one body of Christ (Ephesians 3:3-8).
Therefore, the full equality of Jew and Gentile in the one body of Christ, the fullness of the mystery, would be accomplished by the time of the completion of Paul’s personal ministry.
Does the image of the statue by the king of Babylon
explain when the kingdom would come?
Answer: Yes.
The prophesy in Daniel, chapter two, is interpreted by Daniel himself, with God's help. Daniel told the king that the statue represented a series of four kingdoms that would rise and fall.
Daniel identified the head of gold on the statue as being the Babylonian kingdom (6006-538 BC), the chest of silver was the Medo-Persia kingdom (539-331 BC), the thighs of bronze represent the kingdom of Greece (331-30 BC), and the forth and final kingdom, represented by the legs and feet of iron and clay, was the Roman Empire (30 BC-397 AD).
Then Daniel made that fantastic prophesy about God's kingdom (Daniel 2:44). This is a crystal clear time prophesy that God's kingdom would be established sometime during the ancient, Roman Empire!
The transition period of the "last days generation" was AD 30 – AD 70.
What was temporary – physical:
1. The Old Covenant written on stone.
2. Physical kingdom: the Law, the Temple, the Priesthood, National Jews and Canaan.
What is eternal – Spiritual:
1. New Covenant – written on the heart, a Spiritual kingdom, the Gospel.
2. The Church, Christ, Saints, the Word, Life and Heaven
Read
2 Corinthians 4:18
2 Corinthians 5:16
1. There is no physical removal of the church from earth in our future.
2. The second coming of Christ was in the first century.
3. We are not living in the end times, much less, in the end of the end times.
4. The resurrection and final judgment were in the first century.
5. Modern-day, 1948 Israel, is not the Israel of the Bile or God's chosen, nor can they ever be.
6. The great tribulation mention in Matthew 24:21 was fulfilled in the first century. It's not in our future.
7. Satan was destroyed in the first century, at the end of the millennium, which was in 70 A.D.
8. All the parables Jesus taught were in fulfilled in the first century.
9. All biblical prophecy / eschatology has already been fulfilled.
10. One has to be born again by water and the Spirit to enter into the Kingdom. It is in Christ, it's Spiritual, not earthly.
11. Our biological death has nothing to do whatsoever with the sin of Adam. Adam lived 930 years old!
12. All that's left is faith working through love, serving one another in love, bringing Christ to a dead world of humanity.
13. The New Covenant age = The New Heavens and Earth where righteousness dwells; Christ is our righteousness by faith.
14. We are not living in the end times or last days post 70 A.D.
15. The salvation of Christ applied to sinners with repentance, is not an issue of our human tissue. 1 Peter 1:9
16. The Old Covenant age, Jewish world ended in 70 A.D. finding it's spiritual fulfillment in the New Covenant, in Christ.
17. Sons of God are no longer produced by human marriage, physical circumcision, but by faith and the circumcision of Christ.
18. The NC age has no end or last days. Isaiah 9:6-7, Ephesians 3:20-21
19. Current events have nothing whatsoever to do with bible prophecy.
20. Fellowship with God has been restored. The bible is the history of redemption, not time.
21. God's New Testament economy is to make sinners Sons of God by faith in His Son. This enterprise has no end or last days.
22. All come to God through Jesus the Son, through faith and repentance in Christ, the mediator of the New Covenant, which has NO END.
23. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism… one body. John 3:3, 6 = resurrection applied.
24. The mature church stands as the base and pillar of the truth; male and female teach the word, the Gospel, equally from the pulp
Trans people hate the truth they want to kill christians
Oh brother. Most Americans consider themselves Christians but sure, rising hatred against Christians. The religious right is nothing if not obsessed with victimhood and the accumulation of wealth. Satan isn't real, people don't need a boogeyman to be unbelievably cruel at times. Oh, and Paul was a complete dick who missed the point of many of Jesus' key teachings. #notarealapostle
I'm not going to lie. I struggle with loving them. I hate what they do to my God and our people. When I hear the devil's words coming out of their mouths, it's hard to love them. But I want to do things the way God wants me to. But it's a struggle. I just have to remind myself of the times I was deceived too and try to have the same mercy on them I would want for myself.