You don't know what you're talking about. Israel -- the Northern Kingdom -- utterly ceased to exist after its conquest by the Assyrians in 722 BC. The Israelites who weren't simply killed were forcibly dispersed and the few who remained were intermarried with pagans. They were the origin of the Samaritans, who were considered to be half-breed apostates by the priests in Jerusalem. According to at least some of the Rabbis, the Samaritans "have no place in the world to come".
To say that mere men did their will regarding Israel while God stood idly by watching, is beyond the bounds of contempt for God's Sovereignty.
I made no such assertion. God is in complete control. Your ideas about what God is doing are completely unfounded in any correct exegesis of Scripture.
The Book of Revelation was written in 95 AD
Prove it. The book itself says it describes things which must shortly take place.
John prophesies that the anti-christ will proclaim himself "god" in this very temple built on the Temple Mount.
And where does John say that?
Now watch, as the Temple gets rebuilt against all odds.
I'll watch, all right. It won't happen. It won't even begin to happen.
Who then was Paul talking to when he said
Act 2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Your hair-splitting "depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-Israel-Is" :-) is a fruitless clintonian effort to win an argument, instead of harkening to the word of God.
The Book of Revelation was written in 95 AD Prove it. The book itself says it describes things which must shortly take place.
You've got to be kidding. 99 % of all Bible scholarship says 95 AD. Here's one of many thousand of examples:
Time and place of writing. --The date of the Revelation is given by the great majority of critics as A.D. 95-97. Irenaeus says: "It (i.e. the Revelation) was seen no very long time ago, but almost in our own generation, at the close of Domitian’s reign. Eusebius also records that, in the persecution under Domitian, John the apostle and evangelist was banished to the Island Patmos for his testimony of the divine word. There is no mention in any writer of the first three centuries of any other time or place, and the style in which the messages to the Seven Churches are delivered rather suggests the notion that the book was written in Patmos.
Now watch, as the Temple gets rebuilt against all odds. I'll watch, all right. It won't happen. It won't even begin to happen.
O ye of little faith. God actually tells John (in Revelation) to MEASURE the coming Temple!!
Rev 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. Rev 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty [and] two months.
Amazingly, the courtyard which "has been given over to the gentiles" is where the DOME OF THE ROCK stands today!!!