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To: PetroniusMaximus
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Friend, consider this, what he is warning them of is an event that, “will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth” That can not describe the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

He was definitely talking to His disciples about 70 A.D. -- and -- he was also talking about the end of the Times of the Gentiles -- both in that entire passage that I gave you, and you can see where He shifts from one to the other.

And you don't take those things, as when Jesus is talking directly to His disciples out of the context of what Jesus was doing exactly at that moment. He was talking directly to His disciples and they were not going to be alive at the end of the Times of the Gentiles.

So, Jesus has shifted from 70 A.D. to the end of the Times of the Gentiles and He comes back to His disciples who are sitting in front of Him. As I said, this is not some esoteric and "detached" paragraph (detached from "reality") but it was given directly to them.

And when Jesus closes up His talk with them, He comes right back to them in the present (present for them, which was a while before 70 A.D.), because it was them who asked Him this question about the Temple in the first place.

Some might also consider this prophetic passage (about the things to come) a "near" and "far" prophecy, in which it does find fulfillment in "near-time events" and "far-time events". Some do take that position on parts of this prophecy. I don't necessarily do that, but some do, and I only mention it here, because you seem to think it has a "far-time fulfillment" in that particular verse. I don't ...

54 posted on 03/12/2010 9:13:46 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

So, have you yet learned the role of the characters Jesus told about in the Good Samaritan story?


55 posted on 03/12/2010 9:15:42 PM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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