“Clearly 70 AD was not a time of tribulation such as the world had never seen before or would ever see again.”
The Great Flood left only 8 survivors on the whole Earth. Do you think the “Great Tribulation,” according to dispensationalists, will be worse than that?
Have you ever heard of apocalyptic hyperbole? It’s in the Bible and that type of phrasing was used in other places, for example:
Ezekiel 5:9: Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.
Daniel 9:12: ...Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
Yes. Many more people will perish in the Great Tribulation than perished in the flood. Additionally the Great Tribulation will be strung out for years. Most everyone who perished in the flood died within minutes of the first drop of rain.
Have you ever heard of apocalyptic hyperbole?
Are you saying that Jesus was a liar?
Ezekiel 5:9: Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.
Who's the Hyperbole Czar??? Who decides??? You???
Some religious people think this is hyperbole...Do you think this is hyperbole???
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Or how about this??? Is this hyperbole???
Act 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
The context is the Jews and their suffering, and only 1/3 survive to see Christ return in His glory. (Zech 13:9)
Ahhhhh yes . . .
The GREAT REPLACEMENTARIAN RUBBER FACTORY STRIKES AGAIN:
1. Rubber Bibles now stretch further than Pluto and back.
2. Rubber dictionaries are stretched beyond the fantasies of Alice In Wonderland.
3. Rubber logic has stretched that linear wisdom so far out of whack as to make it the cogitations equal to words joined together a la egg salad upset.
4. And now, HYPERBOLE has been stretched so far out of comprehension as to equal whatever Replacementarians dreams consist of after a 6 pack. . . . or . . . more usually—whatever the opposite of Dispies assertions would be at the moment.
Such admirable routes to Biblical Truth.
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I have heard of hyperbole, but not Apocalyptic hyperbole.
Moreover, Ezek.5:9 is not hyperbole, it is the fulfillment of the curses of the Palestinian covenant as stated in Lev.26 and Deut.28
Ezek speaks to the fact that Jewish People would be cursed for 3,000 years and while Gentile nations are destroyed, the Jews still continue as a people.
Thus, their symbol of a burning bush, burning, but never consumed.
This type of judgment would never be seen again in history, where an entire people were considered an example to the nations for God's wrath (Deut.29:24-28)
Deut 28: 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
Daniel says what was true when considered in light of the judgment given out to wicked Gentile cities, such as Sodom and Gomorrah (Lam.4:6)