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To: topcat54; xzins; blue-duncan; HarleyD; TomSmedley; Lee N. Field; Buggman
Sure it is. You would have no reason to be a futurist otherwise. That's why folks like your friend xzins insist that Revelation must have been written in AD96. The alternative is devastating to the futurist view.

That is simply not true. It is irrelevant when Revelation was written. Most of the events in Revelation cannot be documented as having even a remote chance of having occurred in 70 AD. While the persecution of Nero and the destruction of the Temple can be gleaned from the passages, that does not mean that the persecution of Nero or the destruction of the Temple was the ultimate fulfillment of the prophecies. Nero was simply a portend of the ultimate fulfillment of the book.

So I could care less if it was written in 64 AD or 96 AD, it was not fulfilled in 70AD. The preterist's position, however, is fully and totally defeated unless the book was written prior to 70AD. And there simply is no extrinsic evidence to support that theory. There is strong extrinsic evidence to show that it was written AFTER 70AD.

So your eschatology is contingent upon a pre-70AD book of Revelation. Mine is not.

276 posted on 08/09/2006 10:14:41 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (((172 * 3.141592653589793238462) / 180) * 10 = 30.0196631)
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To: P-Marlowe; xzins; blue-duncan; HarleyD; TomSmedley; Alex Murphy; Lee N. Field; Buggman; ...
Most of the events in Revelation cannot be documented as having even a remote chance of having occurred in 70 AD.

If you are looking for Cobra helicopters and RFID chips, then you are absolutely correct. IOW, if you assume a futurist bias, then Revelation only makes sense in the context you are expecting.

If, on the other hand, you take seriously the opening words that "Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near," then you might come to a different appreciation of events in the book.

Futurists must ignore the obvious implication of those words. It's as if the book dropped out of heaven into our laps without regard to those people.

286 posted on 08/09/2006 10:44:54 AM PDT by topcat54
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