Truthnightmare
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The abomination of desolation shall be seen.Dear Truthnightmare,
You asked:
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand.
Is this a spiritual event? When you see…
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Are these wars spiritual events?
Yes, the Abomination of Desolation and the wars are spiritual and they happen within a believer.
Under the New Covenant, a believer becomes the temple of God after they receive the Early Rain of the Spirit. But when the spirit of anti-Christ enters the believer, a spiritual war will develop between the two.
Rev 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
Since the Early Rain of the Spirit is given in measure (a small amount), the child of God within the believer will lose the spiritual war. This will cause the believer to "fall away" and become "worse than the first" (Mat 12:43-45). This is when a believer becomes a man of sin/Seven Headed beast (Rev 13).
Please read my last post above. I present a little more on this subject there.
You said:
But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Where the days of Noah spiritual events?
No. All the events of the Old Testament were actual physical events. But as Paul says, those events are "types" which teach spiritual truths that are fulfilled under the New Covenant.
1Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened to them (this includes Noah) as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
The reason Christ mentions Noah in Mat 24 is because the story of Noah is a type for how Christ spiritually converts his Elect.
When Noah received his commission to build the ark, that event represented the Early Rain of the Spirit when a believer is called out from the world. The work of building the ark represents the time when a believer will "work" for his salvation rather than trust Christ to do all the work (faith). When Noah and his family (eight people; eight is the number for a new spiritual condition) entered the ark, it represented when a believer receives the Latter Rain of the Spirit and when they enter into the rest of Christ. The ark represents Christ who will protect the believer during their time of judgment. In other words, the believer will not experience wrath during their time of judgment. The flood represents the judgment of the believer which will destroy the spirit of anti-Christ and the believer's worsened carnal nature (the world). After the flood ends, all that will remain is the new child of God in the ark (Christ).
The story of Lot teaches the same conversion event and that is why Christ also mentions him. Lot's wife represents Lot's carnal nature and that is why she is destroyed.
Joe
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
If this is spiritual, why would you need to flee? And where do you flee to? A different part of your own mind.
You are spiritualizing the Bible away.