Nothing new under the sun...
It is cycles... written ‘in the stars’ and the awesomeness of prophecy from our Creator is that we can see the past fulfillments, present applications and warnings and future unfulfilled..
Revelation 18 is tough to see as Jerusalem in 70 AD as the place merchants of the world would ‘weep’ over...
As for ‘come out of her My people... I can see that being a warning for people to flee Jerusalem physically as much as it could be to get out of NY physically or the command to not participate in the ways of Satan and his provinces of bBylonian religion, business or economics...
If revelation 18 isn’t speaking of the future city that houses the political power of the world (UN) , the economic center of the world ( wall street) and a center of the religion of ‘secular humanism’, which is the state religion of this ‘heritage’ nation, I would be the first to admit, I was wrong...
PS.. some read Daniel 9 and think it speaks directly to ‘His people’ and Jerusalem’s specific destruction but not just in 70 AD as scholars note, but on a 70 jubilee scale as Israel was decreed out of mankind’s 120 jubilees ( genesis 6).. I do not know where people stand on where we are on the 70 jubilees scale but 3450 years is 69 of those jubilees..
We are all still here and so is sin- so the kingdom hasn’t come on earth as it is in heaven..that is an unfulfilled prayer and prophecy.. and it will be answered and fulfilled..
when?
No idea - I just prayer I am wake to see the signs of times and seasons and be one of the wise virgins if it occurs in my lifetime..
>>>Revelation 18 is tough to see as Jerusalem in 70 AD as the place merchants of the world would ‘weep’ over...<<<
Before we take this debate any further, I recommend you do two things:
1. Read the works of the Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus. You will be astonished at what you learn about the city of Jerusalem in the mid-first century, before its destruction. It was a very extravagant, expensive city: the showcase of the middle east. No exaggeration necessary.
2. Learn what the New Testament considered to be the “whole world” in those days. Start with Luke 2:1.
Thanks,
Philip