You speak in weird ways - not plain English - “REVERSED Jesus at the Cross to a future-to-us Devil”.
What are you trying to say? That the translation or translators or people with a certain ‘blind’ interpretation are taking the passage in Daniel to somehow equate to the Antichrist what you feel should be accurately attributible to Christ?
It’s a strange stretch you have there as if ‘Modernists’ are somehow NOT stating Christ’s once-and-for-all atonement on the Cross, NOR that He ALONE is the ONLY Way, Truth and Life and He ALONE can forgive sins by His blood shed.
No one here is confusing Christ’s redemptive work. So for you to take one passage and call all who disagree with you regarding an End Times/Not-End-Times specific point as NOT born of the Spirit is dangerous to do.
Additionally, what exactly are you saying regarding the AntiChrist - when will his time be? Are you saying he WON’T make a deceitful covenant with the Jews who are wrongly looking for The Messiah? You DO realize that their deception has much to do with their blindness in thinking atonement with sacrifices must still be made - thus the nature of the discussion regarding the AoD standing in the Temple?
“You speak in weird ways - not plain English - “REVERSED Jesus at the Cross to a future-to-us Devil”.
What are you trying to say?”
Answer:
I am saying precisely what I mean. Again, clearly;
For 2,000 years now, the suffering Church knew the Person of Daniel’s Great 70th Week to be none other than our Lord and Saviour - Jesus Christ. No one disputed that.
Jesus knew it, the Apostles knew it, the Early Chruch knew it, and all of the great Reformers knew it.
Then, along comes Irving, Darby, Scofield, et al, some 18 centuries AFTER the Cross of Christ, and they declare that all of these people were wrong. That according to their ‘wisdom’, the subject person of Daniel’s Great 70th Week is now to be the Devil.
That my dear friend is a huge REVERSAL. This reversal turns the Gospel on its head. It imputes violence into God’s Word from the cunning mind of man.
So, I do not mince words here like many flim-flam theologians like to do these days. I will tell it straight.
I suspect that this post is the first time that many Dispensationalists have ever heard (and hence now understand) this malicious reversal. Certainly, Dispensational teachers will never teach it to them and will do everything they can to hide this fact.
Now, the Christian thing to do is to face Truth. Jesus said that He is the Truth. He also said that the Truth shall make you free.
It is your decision to defend Jesus Christ at the Cross, or to treat Him with disregard and substitute the Antichrist where He rightfully belongs.
In all of Christ’s mercy, I pray that you will repent of your Dispensational sin.
“Additionally, what exactly are you saying regarding the AntiChrist - when will his time be? Are you saying he WON’T make a deceitful covenant with the Jews who are wrongly looking for The Messiah? You DO realize that their deception has much to do with their blindness in thinking atonement with sacrifices must still be made - thus the nature of the discussion regarding the AoD standing in the Temple?”
Answer:
Most Dispensationalists go to the Book of Revelation to constrive their ‘seven year deal’ with ‘the Antichrist’. But, there are two peculiar things about this: a) Revelation does not mention ‘the Antichrist’, and b) there is no ‘seven year deal’ mentioned anywhere in Revelation.
In fact, if the Truth be known, there is no seven year ‘anything’ mentioned in Revelation. (Check it out for yourself - don’t listen to false teachers.)
So, all of this Dispensationalism is merely speculative thinking. It is created by the cunning mind of man.
- Where does the Bible mention antichrist?
Antichrist is ONLY used four times in the Bible. It is used in the letters of I and II John.
- What do these verses actually say?
I John 2
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
I John 4
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
II John 1
7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Notice a few obvious things here:
a) That antichrist was present back then, in the 1st century, when John instructed his followers (proof text: I John 2: 18). Therefore, Dispensationalists argue counter to the Bible that thier ‘antichrist’ can be ‘only future’ (to us).
b) That antichrist is NOT a flesh and blood person, but rather a spirit. A spirit that inhabits ALL who deny Christ. The spirit is not singular as in ‘the’ antichrist, but rather plural in MANY who do not believe. Proof text: I John 4: 3.
So, when Dispensationalists weave their scheme through Revelation, know that this interpretation is completely contrived out of whole cloth. It is not a Scriptural reading of God’s Word.
In all mercy, I pray that you will repent of your Dispensational sin.