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!!!
All of Israel: all twelve tribes. And it was Peter, not Paul. Paul's conversion isn't until Acts 9.
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.
I hearken to the Word of God just fine, I just don't hearken to your distortion of it.
You've got to be kidding. 99 % of all Bible scholarship says 95 AD.
Placing the word of men above the word of God? I repeat: the book itself says that it describes things that must shortly take place. "Shortly" means "shortly," not "2000 years from now". Incidentally, when Daniel was given his prophetic revelation of the Messiah's coming, God told him to seal the book up, because it was for a distant time. Since when is 2000 years "shortly" and 500 years "a distant time"?
Oh, and St. Irenaeus merely says that that St. John was exiled to Patmos during the reign of Domitian. That does not mean that he was not exiled to Patmos at any point before that time.
O ye of little faith. God actually tells John (in Revelation) to MEASURE the coming Temple!!
That's the old temple, not the new one. It was destroyed in AD 70.
Amazingly, the courtyard which "has been given over to the gentiles" is where the DOME OF THE ROCK stands today!!!
Wrong again. Amazing how far off you are. The Dome of the Rock stands on the eben shetiyah, the foundation stone, which is where the Holy of Holies stood. I believe Josephus describes this stone in some detail.