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To: xzins
Additionally, there is no evidence of the death of the Apostle John around 70 AD. That would appear to end speculation about the date of Revelation.

How so? There's nothing in Revelation regarding the timing of John's death.

9 posted on 09/19/2005 10:05:43 AM PDT by topcat54
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To: topcat54; xzins

Does not Paul teach that Jesus will destroy the antichrist - the man of sin - upon his return to earth?


10 posted on 09/19/2005 10:18:29 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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Indirectly, there is. It says it was penned while John was in exile on Patmos. We know from numerous Church fathers, Irenaeus and Eusebius among them, that Yochanan was exiled to Patmos during Domitian's reign. Therefore, the Apostle couldn't have died before Domitian's reign and was around in the 90s AD.


12 posted on 09/19/2005 10:46:08 AM PDT by Buggman (L'chaim b'Yeshua HaMashiach!<p>)
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You must have John dead around the time of the destruction of the Temple. Otherwise, your position makes no sense.

He didn't die at that time if the datings of the general epistles (inroads of and fight against gnosticism) has any validity.


41 posted on 09/19/2005 5:00:57 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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