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To: Buggman
'Tis a more devilish work for someone to claim that the Messiah Himself didn't know what He was talking about. After all, did not Yeshua say, "Therefore when you see the Abomination of Desolation standing in the Holy Place . . ."? And yet wasn't that prophecy (He quoted directly from Dan. 11:31) also fulfilled by Antiochus Epiphanes?

Daniel 11 was indeed fulfilled by Antiochus Epiphanes.

Jesus simply warned His listeners that the Temple would be despoiled again.

As it indeed was, during the Great Tribulation of the Jewish Wars, AD 66 through 70.

Prophecy is about pattern, not prediction. That's why the Apostles could see in prophecies seemingly already fulfilled pictures of our King. And therefore it will be no surprise to the dilligent student of the Word when another Antiochus/Antichrist appears to defile the Temple yet again in the days just preceeding the return of our Savior. Shalom.

Well, there's no personal, Big-A "Antichrist" in Scripture. The Bible never employs the term in that manner.

But, at any rate -- as mentioned, Christ's own prophecy regarding the despoilment of the Temple has also been fulfilled.

22 posted on 05/06/2010 8:27:49 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist (Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
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To: Christian_Capitalist
Jesus simply warned His listeners that the Temple would be despoiled again.

No He didn't. He specifically said that it would be the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet.

Not that precision ever mattered to the preterists.

Well, there's no personal, Big-A "Antichrist" in Scripture. The Bible never employs the term in that manner.

True, but you know exactly what I meant when I used the term, so it retains its usefulness as convenient shorthand. I could call him the Man of Sin, the One from the Abyss, the Assyrian, the Abomination, the Son of Perdition, the Beast, etc., but "Replacement-Christ" is pretty accurate for what he'll be for most of the world.

But, at any rate -- as mentioned, Christ's own prophecy regarding the despoilment of the Temple has also been fulfilled.

Only in the manner of the "near" part of a "near-far" prophecy. Titus Vespasian never set up an idol in the Holy of Holies, and neither did the zealots, the preterist misuse of Josephus' political opinion notwithstanding.

Frankly, if you understood the prophecies of the First Coming, you would join those of us who dilligently observe the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Second Parousia in our own day.

Shalom.

64 posted on 05/06/2010 10:44:43 AM PDT by Buggman (HebrewRoot.com - Baruch haBa b'Shem ADONAI!)
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