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Prophecy Questions Blog ^ | August 19, 2017 | Charles Meek

[dwilkins]

I don’t mean to be rude but that isn’t a very durable series of arguments. Jesus and the Apostles were clear to their generation that they would be the ones who saw these things.

[delchiante]

you’re not being rude.

I will give you another 2 day template for you to contemplate with the premise in the bible that a day is as 1,000 years or 1,000 years:

The 2 days of death darkness that the Lamb was in the tomb, before His resurrection on the ‘3rd’ day.
(the three hours of darkness on the cross also can speak to us prophetically)

Does the body of Christ truly believe it will follow the Lamb wherever He goes?
Because the Lamb went to the grave.
He fell asleep.

And even that was a picture of what happened to the first Adam!

And,you mention the apostles and the discourse. There is at least one difference/contradiction in there that makes one of those accounts different from the rest- Found in Luke.
There is also no discourse in John.

Ommissions or changes in different accounts are deliberate. They speak to His people as clues or riddles.
and speak to unbelievers as errors to their blindness.

But those slight changes, contradictions and ommissions are clues to His people.

And He gives us that in those discourses.

And I would also say to those who think 70 AD was the end of things,they would do well to recall Paul’s premise that there is ‘first the natural,then the spiritual’..

If people are simply looking at that discourse, or any of His Word with just natural eyes/natural fulfillment, they are going to miss the spiritual that comes after the natural.

Which may be why ‘about 2,000 cubits’ in the Old Testament turned into ‘about 2,000 swine (unclean) in the New Testament. But it was always going to be that way.
For His thoughts and ways are higher than ours.

For His Glory!

[dwilkins]

Is there a particular church tradition that is teaching what you are proposing? It seems to me that it would not work with any major school of eschatology other than Amillennialism, and I’ve never seen any of their writers hint at such a thing. I doubt that it would work with Postmillennialism either. It’s completely obnoxious to premillennial dispensationalism since a mandatory approximate 2,000-year gap completely eliminates the possibility of an imminent return.

[delchiante]

quote-It’s completely obnoxious to premillennial dispensationalism since a mandatory approximate 2,000-year gap completely eliminates the possibility of an imminent return.

dwilkins, time is not what the world sees it as-

I could prove the world doesn’t tell time like the Father, with His Word, but it won’t change the world from calling today:
‘Monday’ August 21st.

A day that gives honor to the ‘moon’ (honoring the created instead of the Creator) and honor to a roman emperor (instead of the Creator)

I will note that in Acts 1:6-7 His own disciples were expecting the Kingdom to be restored- then.

And He told them it wasn’t for them to know.

We’ve been blessed with His Word in our languages, and born about 2,000 years since His Resurrection- to glean clues to what is happening.

AD 70 was a marker- but not the end.

And nobodys age in the bible was recorded above 1,000 years- all short-
given that, everyone died the same ‘day’ they were born-
As He tells time
2 Peter 3:8.