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There’s

ABSOLUTELY NO POSSIBLE WAY

the bulk of the END TIMES prophecies

were fulfilled in AD70 or any other time between Christ and now.

No way.

The violence one has to do to

A) SCRIPTURE

and

B) TRUE HISTORY

is INCREDIBLE.

Even a giant shoehorn wouldn’t work.

It truly boggles my mind that folks who are otherwise literate and informed on some things can remotely believe even a fraction of such garbage.

Christ smashed The Roman Empire. Judeo-Christian civilization conquered the world. The Church replaced The Roman Empire and exceeded its accomplishments. By The Church, I mean the whole of Christianity — Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal.

Why is the time of tribulation shortened to 3 1/2 years? FOR THE SAKE OF THE ELECT. Those are believers who are present during the time. Believers have always suffered for their faith. God has always made a distinction between His people and those of the devil. Some of the 10 Plaques in Egypt did not affect the children of Israel. The plagues of flies, livestock, hail, darkness, locusts, and firstborn did not affect them.

oops, I spoke too soon, Judges gives a sober, detailed statement

The Second Coming and The Rapture are not two separate events. The Church, The Olive Tree, The Bride, however you designate it, is not separated between Jew and Gentile.

In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek. Christ will not return until the man of sin is revealed. That would be the Antichrist, whose number is 666, (or 616), in some manuscripts. Nrw Qsr (Nero Caesar) is 616 in Hebrew Gematria. Nrwn Qsr is 666.

The ten kings were Roman emperors. The first seven were Julio-Claudians — Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberias, Caligula, Claudius, Galba, and Otho. These seven Roman kings were replaced by a dynasty of three — The Flavians, who were Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. The “little horn”, who exalted himself above all other gods was Domitian. He preferred to be addressed as ‘Our Lord and God’. He worshipped ‘a god of fortresses’, which was Minerva, or Athena, for the Greeks.

The Seven Churches of Asia were, or would soon be, at the time of John’s writing, centers of the cult of emperor worship. Everyone, except the Jews, were required to sacrifice to the emperor.

To one of the churches Jesus said, “I know where you live, where Satan has his throne.” This was one of the emperor temples.

The ‘synagogue of Satan’ was a synagogue that had banished believers in Jesus from their midst, and was working with Roman authorities to identify these people.

Christians were tempted to return to Judaism to escape persecution by the authorities. This was the backdrop of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

The message of Jesus, given to the churches by John in Revelation had immediate relevance to the church(es).

Eventually, emperor worship became universal throughout the Roman Empire, under Diocletian, around A.D. 300. During his reign was the most systematic and terrible persecution of The Church, called ‘The Great Persecution’. (Kind of sounds like The Great Tribulation, huh?)

A nice, sobre, solemn statement and does he get any refutation as a response? no. He gets only hot-air

absolutely no possible way, blah, blah, blah. No way, blah, blah, True History, blah, blah... , blah, blah, it truly boggles my mind that people... , blah, blah, blah

It seems like your opponents are incapable of debating with your points and can only toss insults, silly pictures and blah-blah at you.