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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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To: Buggman
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.

Actually, if I blew up your house, and then you rebuilt it, and then I blew it up again... you could refer to "THE" time that I blew up your house, and you'd be correct in reference to either instance.

And, no, I'm not planning on blowing up your house. Or blowing it up again, sometime afterwards. Just making an observation.

69 posted on 05/06/2010 10:58:12 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist (Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
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