Just a Matter of Time

RR ^ | 4/25/21 | Daymond Duck

[Cronos]

According to the Bible, Israel would return to the Promised Land at the end of the age, and they will not be removed again (Amos 9:15).

Amos 9:14-15

14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

The book of Amos was written in 750 BC before the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles -- Amos was writing about the Judaeans returning after the Babylonian exile

[Cronos]

A plague shall fall upon the world. After, a feeble man shall rule the Western world with a jezebel. The people will be damaged and subjugated by a fool ruler. The great eagle shall suffer and fall

That's NOT in Nostradamus' works - it's an internet hoax

A look through The Compleat Works of Nostradamus did not reveal any mention of a “jezebel” or a “feeble man.” And though the word “plague” was mentioned more than 30 times in the Nostradamus text, there is no instance where it occurs alongside the same wording as in the meme.

In short, that line isn't in any of Nostradamus' writings AND Nostro was just a bad poet, not a prophet

[Cronos]

Romans 11 is Paul addressing the people of his time - the period 50 AD to 70 AD.

The “Israel” he refers to were the 2nd temple Jews.

This is not a reference to today, 2000 years later

” a hardening has come upon Israel in part, until the full number of the Gentiles comes in” is a reference to the pushback of the Pharisees and Sadducees against the concept of Jesus as God. They laughed at the Jesus-movement “followers of the Way” saying “Your God promised to come back on clouds, where is he?”

And Jesus DID come back in AD 70 - Josephus records people in besieged Jerusalem seeing the signs in the heavens.

AFTER the Destruction of Jerusalem, most of Israel became followers of “the way”. The ones who didn’t followed the Pharisees who created rabbinical Judaism at the Council of Jamnia

[SgtHooper]

Thank you for that! ;-)

[Cronos]

IIRC, the Lord will not come until ALL have heard about Jesus. Given that the world population is a very large number, a good nuking worldwide would radically reduce that number so we could more easily achieve the God-given mandate to get the Word to all people and then get on with the end times! /s

Note that this in the bible refers to the "the whole Roman empire" -- the gospel worldwide.

What did Paul say in Rom 1:8?

First, I give thanks[f] to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is heralded throughout the world

and in Col 1:5-6

First, I give thanks[f] to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is heralded throughout the world

in Paul's mind there was no doubt that the gospel had gone out into the whole world

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Clement wrote in 73 AD that Peter and Paul had been martyred, but not before they "taught righteousness to the whole world, and they came to the extreme limit of the west" -- the word used for "world" is oikoumene - which specifically means the civilized world i.e. the Roman Empire - the Olivet discourse does not use the world "Kosmos" that designates the entire earth.

Kosmos in Matt 24:21 From the beginning of the world (kosmos) until now"

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The Olivet discourse uses the word oikoumene which specifically means the civilized Roman word - in other words "the gospel will be preached throughout the empire"

24:14 does not use the word kosmos which designates the entire physical world but Mathew 24:21 uses it "from the beginning of the world (kosmos) until now"

Since both words kosmos and oikoumene were used in the same passage it is very certain that they were meant to give this distinction -- Jesus said that the preaching would be to the whole Roman empire - THAT was the sign