If you’re not willing to read and actually study scripture then there’s not point in us even discussing this.
When did Damascus cease to become a city and get obliterated?
Has an A/C and his false prophet ever demanded worship and kill everybody he possibly could who doesn’t take his mark worldwide?
Has the 2 million man army written about in Revelation 9:16 ever come to take on Israel?
There’s not one shred of evidence that these have come to pass. Your theories are flawed. Antiochus IV was never even close to what the real deal will ever be—not even by a long shot.
I agree.
>>>When did Damascus cease to become a city and get obliterated?<<<
If there is "no point in us even discussing this," then why are you discussing this? Why are you asking me this question?
I know why. You are not sure your interpretation of the prophecy of Damascus is accurate; and you would be correct (at least on that point.) This is the passage in question from Isaiah on the burden of Damascus:
"The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap." (Isa 17:1 KJV)
How long was it taken away from being a city? Forever? I don't think so. If you think otherwise, then you must prove your interpretation with scripture.
This was Isaiah on Judah under King Hezekiah:
"Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps." (Isa 37:26)
"Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord." (Isa 39:8 KJV)
Was Jerusalem "taken away from being a city, forever?" No.
Personally, I think you have been reading too much into the scripture; or you have been bamboozled by charlatans like John Nelson Darby and Cyrus Ingerson Scofield.
Philip
I don't recall reading anything like that in the scripture; nor do I recall reading about an Antichrist, other than in John's epistles in the mid-first century. Would you please cite Chapter and Verse references the next time you make such didactic claims? Thanks.
>>>Has the 2 million man army written about in Revelation 9:16 ever come to take on Israel?<<<
Are you claiming the Revelation must be interpreted literally according to the KJV 1611 translators? What does the original Greek words say? The Greek word for a "thousand" could be an indefinite number. Strong's translation for a thousand in Revelation 9:16 reads:
"a ten-thousand; by extension a “myriad” or indefinite number"
Since you appear to be a "literalist," please explain this:
"The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up." (Rev 8:7 KJV)
If that verse was literal, then how did any grazing animal survive after a few days with no grass. And if no grazing animals survived, then what was the point of this verse?
"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter." (Rev 8:10-11 KJV)
Why not simply let them die from the absence of meat?
>>>There’s not one shred of evidence that these have come to pass. Your theories are flawed. Antiochus IV was never even close to what the real deal will ever be—not even by a long shot.<<<
Many, many commentators disagree with you, and whoever you are defending. So I must demand that you prove it! Your pretense is far from convincing. I'll bet you cannot prove it.
Philip