reply to post by CLPrime
Ok, so you believe that the apocalyptic prophesies of the bible are complete. You are partially correct but there is a problem that happened in the
first century AD that invalidated the previous fulfillments of the prophesies. The problem is this.
John the Baptist wasn't supposed to die when he did. Why?
Try this verse
Malachi 3.
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the
messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
You see it's not one messiah that was supposed to show up in the first century AD.
It was supposed to have been 3 messiahs in the first century AD!
One was killed prematurely and the other simply never showed up. So what happened was this.
Malachi 4.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a
curse.
Matthew 17
10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son
of man suffer of them.
13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
Elijah was killed and the curse was laid on the earth. So what is the curse? I looked and figured it out. Per Leviticus 26 and the covenant made
between God and the Israelites there is a benefits/punishments arrangement there. Follow the laws of Moses and God will bless your nation. Break them
and there is a number of corrections that can be applied to try to bring you society back to the good side of the covenant.
What happened was a top level Leviticus 26 curse was applied. Where the nation and it cities are destroyed and the the people scattered. And after
looking at the prophesies of Hosea closely I found a prediction of the length of the curse. It's two thousand years long.
Hosea 6-2
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
2nd Peter 3-8
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.
Now do you see the problem with your position now? When the 2000 year curse kicked in all the previous fulfillments of end time prophecy became
invalid. Why. Take Daniel for example. The prophesies of Daniel have this condition in several places.
Daniel
8-19
And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.
11-6
And in the end of years
11-40
And at the time of the end
12-4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
And lastly.
Genesis
49-1
And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Why Genesis? The prophesies of Genesis 48 and 49 predict that the descendants of Israel were to have become a multitude of nations by the end times.
That certainly didn't happen by the first century AD. They had to be scattered to the world first. Conquest by genetics. And knowledge needed to be
increased as well. And while the Romans did have some interesting technologies in the first century AD it doesn't hold a candle to what we can do
today.
So here is the timeline of the 70 weeks of Daniel 9.
First 69 weeks or 483 years ended sometime around 25-35 AD. And the 2000 year curse of Malachi started then. At the end of the curse the last 7 years
or 1 week will start. The end of years/end of days is the 70th week of the Daniel 9 prophecy. Not the 69 weeks that came before. And that is why
your argument is invalid. Those events no longer fit the time requirements.
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