The “Why” questions in Christian theology, especially those pertaining to time, are mostly unanswerable. This presents a problem for the western mind, because we are trained to expect answers to all questions. But on these questions, we should adopt an attitude of unknowability. Some things are not meant to be known. A concept alien to westerners.
Still pimping your blog?? Why not just post your answers here for all to read.
If the Millennial Kingdom is here, why are Christians still persecuted and why is sin rampant?
Thanks for wrestling with this - Revelation is the one book with a promise (Rev. 1 vs. 3): Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.
The enemy knows this, thus he has confused the church so that many do not want to deal with Rev. in any meaningful way - certainly not as “truth”. I believe that it all happened as presented - and “soon” as predicted. Even the 1000 has been fulfilled - look it up. 1000 years after the destruction of Jerusalem (that would be 1070 AD) Jerusalem was overrun by Muslims from Turkey (Gog). Until then they had had remarkable freedom and Christianity dominated the world.
Stick with it - you are on the right path.
Pease and Blessings
These are not questions. They are statements.
Statements you will answer for.
18. If Jesus was to return in a physical, visible appearance to the whole world, why did He tell his first-century disciples that the world would never see him again (John 14:19)?
Now...the passage in context.
16“I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
18“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19“After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also.
20“In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 21“He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.” 22Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?” 23Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. 24“He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
16“I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
There is also this:
After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;
1 Corinthians 15:6 NASB 95
And this....
After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. 1 Thess 4:17
*****
You, sir...are accused of the very thing you attempt to accuse others of...being a false prophet.
Quote
20. If the prophetic passages were fulfilled once in the first century, and then again thousands of years later, why is there no hint of this by Jesus and the biblical writers?
.....
Oh, but there are hints of this...
Discrepancies between the gospels, even discrepancies in the Old Testament.
But those hints are for eyes that see and ears that hear.
Just like His Parables
Now, here's the pot talking....
Except for the Bible, God is done warning about the future of mankind? No heads up when you see this…or that.happening? No mark of the beast or signs of the end?
Useless questions that do NOT disprove normal, commonly accepted interpretation of prophecy in Scripture.
Excellent list of questions. Ultimately one concludes that the pre tribulation rapture philosophy is a modernist philosophy dating to the early 1800s and contradicts what Christians have believed for 2000 years
He never said His generation. It says in that generation.
bkmk
29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s Kingdom.”
#4 -— the Greek words translated, soon or shortly, are not even the same words, and they obviously have different meanings, therefore, the arguments are spurious. Without looking it up, I wouldn’t doubt it’s the same case with several of these examples.
The same reason Ezekiel talks about the Temple as if it were still standing.
It’s taking you this long to post the answers????