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I agree completely. It's sickening to see the obsession with 70 AD that these preterists have. It's very difficult to believe when people like him claim to be a partial preterist rather than a full preterist because he, and the rest of the supposed partial preterists here NEVER talk about the future glorious return of Jesus Christ and the eternal new heavens and new earth where we will dwell.
Amen! They are in love with a doctrine. It is a deceptive spirit. They do not want to talk about the cross or the second coming. They negate these. They divert everything to their imaginary invented coming of Jesus. That is the pivotal moment of history for them. They do not get it! You need enlightened eyes to see the truth.
 

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Amen! They are in love with a doctrine. It is a deceptive spirit. They do not want to talk about the cross or the second coming. They negate these. They divert everything to their imaginary invented coming of Jesus. That is the pivotal moment of history for them. They do not get it! You need enlightened eyes to see the truth.
Right. Not only do they never talk about the future second coming (return) of Christ, but they also invent an imaginary coming of Christ in 70 AD and falsely claim that the imaginary "old covenant age" ended in 70 AD, when we know scripture never refers to a supposed "old covenant age" and we know that the old covenant ended (was made obsolete) when Jesus died on the cross.
 
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You are obsessed with Titus and AD70. You have nothing to say about Christ's future return and the introduction of the NHNE. Get out of the past and get your eyes on Jesus. You are like a broken record.
We are presently IN the NHNE reality. After all, Hebrews 12:22 wrote "But ye ARE COME unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels..." This was an already-established city for the saints. It has already come down from God out of heaven, and all believers are part of this reality. Sinners still live outside those open gates of the New Jerusalem, but with the invitation to enter those gates and drink of the living water coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb. The tree of life exists for the "healing of the nations" at present - which desperately need this. Nothing inside this city is regarded as corrupt, because Christ's imputed righteousness covers all its inhabitants.

LOL Do you really think that this forum is the only one on which I post, and that my subject matter is solely devoted to Titus and AD 70? You don't know me, or what I post on elsewhere. Would you like to have a discussion on the future date of Christ's next return? I'd love to oblige you. I have discussed this elsewhere on other forums, but anybody who does this, as you know, will get accused of "date setting". Scripture never tells us not to study the timing Christ's return. Much less does it say that it is a sin to do so. But to hear others talk, you would think that it is the unpardonable sin. I try not to offend others by speaking that much about it, but if you think this is showing negligence on my part, by all means, jump in and I'll talk dates with you for that coming resurrection in our future. I love this subject.
 

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we know scripture never refers to a supposed "old covenant age" and we know that the old covenant ended (was made obsolete) when Jesus died on the cross.
Yep, this is very true. I press this point on those who think that the Old Covenant was only in a "transition" of sorts until AD 70. That Old Covenant was dead as a doornail on Christ' resurrection day when the New Covenant was launched with a new high priesthood. God was just "taking out the trash" in AD 70 of what had already died and was decaying.
 

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Yep, this is very true. I press this point on those who think that the Old Covenant was only in a "transition" of sorts until AD 70. That Old Covenant was dead as a doornail on Christ' resurrection day when the New Covenant was launched with a new high priesthood. God was just "taking out the trash" in AD 70 of what had already died and was decaying.
I'm almost in shock to see a preterist like you say this. Most preterists believe that the end of the age that Jesus referenced in passages like Matthew 13:40-43 and Matthew 13:47-50 and the end of the age referenced in Matthew 24:3 all refer to the end of the supposed old covenant age. What is your understanding of references to "the end of the age" in those verses?
 
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We are presently IN the NHNE reality. After all, Hebrews 12:22 wrote "But ye ARE COME unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels..." This was an already-established city for the saints. It has already come down from God out of heaven, and all believers are part of this reality. Sinners still live outside those open gates of the New Jerusalem, but with the invitation to enter those gates and drink of the living water coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb. The tree of life exists for the "healing of the nations" at present - which desperately need this. Nothing inside this city is regarded as corrupt, because Christ's imputed righteousness covers all its inhabitants.

LOL Do you really think that this forum is the only one on which I post, and that my subject matter is solely devoted to Titus and AD 70? You don't know me, or what I post on elsewhere. Would you like to have a discussion on the future date of Christ's next return? I'd love to oblige you. I have discussed this elsewhere on other forums, but anybody who does this, as you know, will get accused of "date setting". Scripture never tells us not to study the timing Christ's return. Much less does it say that it is a sin to do so. But to hear others talk, you would think that it is the unpardonable sin. I try not to offend others by speaking that much about it, but if you think this is showing negligence on my part, by all means, jump in and I'll talk dates with you for that coming resurrection in our future. I love this subject.
You are living in denial!

Hello!
  • Sin still exist!
  • Sickness still exists!
  • Decay still exists!
  • Death still exist!
  • The curse still exists!
You are clearly denying reality! That is not a good place to live.

Perfection is coming. Glorification is coming. Why you would not see that or want that is breathtaking.
 

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I don't know if anyone knows this. But the verb most associated with the afterlife in Greek is eigerw. It means to wake something into activity. It is mistranslated 'raise'. Paul even says Felix why it is incredible to him that the God would wake the dead. [Act 26:8 KJV] 8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
 

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We are presently IN the NHNE reality. After all, Hebrews 12:22 wrote "But ye ARE COME unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels..." This was an already-established city for the saints. It has already come down from God out of heaven, and all believers are part of this reality. Sinners still live outside those open gates of the New Jerusalem, but with the invitation to enter those gates and drink of the living water coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb. The tree of life exists for the "healing of the nations" at present - which desperately need this. Nothing inside this city is regarded as corrupt, because Christ's imputed righteousness covers all its inhabitants.

LOL Do you really think that this forum is the only one on which I post, and that my subject matter is solely devoted to Titus and AD 70? You don't know me, or what I post on elsewhere. Would you like to have a discussion on the future date of Christ's next return? I'd love to oblige you. I have discussed this elsewhere on other forums, but anybody who does this, as you know, will get accused of "date setting". Scripture never tells us not to study the timing Christ's return. Much less does it say that it is a sin to do so. But to hear others talk, you would think that it is the unpardonable sin. I try not to offend others by speaking that much about it, but if you think this is showing negligence on my part, by all means, jump in and I'll talk dates with you for that coming resurrection in our future. I love this subject.
When did he say anything about date setting? Nowhere. You're not able to talk about His future return without trying to set the date of His return? What verses in scripture do you think refer to His future return?
 

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What is your understanding of references to "the end of the age" in those verses?
Well, it was a bit more than just a single "end of the age" that the NT writers discussed. Paul wrote about "the ENDS (PLURAL) of the AGES (PLURAL) that had come upon them at that time (1 Cor. 10:11 - "Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ENDS of the AGES have come.") That was Paul referring to his own time frame. A set of multiple ages was coming to an end for them at that point on the timeline. These "other AGES" in the past (Eph. 3:5) had not understood the "mystery of Christ" - that the Gentiles were fellow-heirs of the same body with the Jews if they were children of faith. But since the New Covenant had been launched by Christ's resurrection, that "mystery" had then been revealed to the Apostles and prophets by the Spirit.

But beyond those past AGES, Paul wrote about multiple AGES yet to come for the church (as in Ephesians 2:7 - "...That in the AGES to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus". And in Ephesians 3:21 - "Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout ALL AGES, world without end. Amen."

I believe those multiple AGES which were then coming to an end in Paul's days (including all the Matthew references you listed above regarding the completion of an age) were referring to the time when all the elements of Daniel 2's statue were broken to pieces "together" at one time by the single blow of Christ the "stone" kingdom. The entire statue would come down all at once, and would turn into dust on the wind. That was God getting rid of all the wicked dead up to that point in a judgment - burning up and consuming the "tares" - as well as getting rid of all the members of the Satanic realm which had been working behind the scenes of all those pagan empires over the past ages of history - trying to disrupt God's redemptive plans for mankind. This single blow to the statue happened in AD 70, and Christ's kingdom has continued to grow in size, and will eventually fill the world with its effects by the final judgment and resurrection. Satan had done his best to ruin the past ages for humanity, but in the ages that were coming after AD 70, the world would not be in subjection to their influence or presence anymore (Heb. 2:5).
 
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Hello!
  • Sin still exist!
  • Sickness still exists!
  • Decay still exists!
  • Death still exist!
  • The curse still exists!
If you check Isaiah 65's description of the New Heavens and the New Earth, it INCLUDES sinners, the righteous and sinners dying, curses, the birth of offspring, planting, harvesting, building houses, praying to God. There are some things in this list that cannot possibly describe the after-life existence of eternity.

Likewise, the NHNE conditions found in Revelation 22 also include the presence of sinners and sinful activity still going on outside the open gates of that New Jerusalem city. The nations outside the New Jerusalem gates in Rev. 22:2 still need healing, so we are not being presented with the after-life existence of eternity here either.

Perfection is coming. Glorification is coming. Why you would not see that or want that is breathtaking.
Of course perfection and glorification is coming for you and me in the future. But that perfection and glorification is not what is described in the NHNE conditions as found in either Isaiah 65 or Revelation 22. God is going to do even better than that for us in the final resurrection and judgment to come.
 

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When did he say anything about date setting? Nowhere. You're not able to talk about His future return without trying to set the date of His return? What verses in scripture do you think refer to His future return?
There is a verse in Revelation that the Full Preterists tend to ignore, and it is Revelation 10:4 - the prophecies that the seven thunders uttered which John was forbidden to write down, but was to "seal up" for times to come later on. This information was not needed for John's immediate first-century audience, because these unwritten prophecies did not concern them or what they would be facing soon. The seven thunders' "sealed up" prophecies concerned FUTURE generations after AD 70, including our own future today.

I believe Rev. 10:4's seven thunders and their prophecies were indicating a pattern of seven total millennial ages of fallen mankind's history on this planet until God brings fallen mankind's history to a close. I am certainly not unique in thinking this. Many before me have caught the symbolism of a total of seven thousand years of history being a type which the seven days of Creation week prefigured. God's particular creative acts during each day of Creation week actually are a match for the prevailing theme of God's redemptive activity for each of the seven millennial ages of fallen mankind's history up to its culmination.

I have also included other texts before that address a future bodily resurrection for us, but they were dismissed, so I won't take time to list them again unless requested.
 

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If you check Isaiah 65's description of the New Heavens and the New Earth, it INCLUDES sinners, the righteous and sinners dying, curses, the birth of offspring, planting, harvesting, building houses, praying to God. There are some things in this list that cannot possibly describe the after-life existence of eternity.

Likewise, the NHNE conditions found in Revelation 22 also include the presence of sinners and sinful activity still going on outside the open gates of that New Jerusalem city. The nations outside the New Jerusalem gates in Rev. 22:2 still need healing, so we are not being presented with the after-life existence of eternity here either.


Of course perfection and glorification is coming for you and me in the future. But that perfection and glorification is not what is described in the NHNE conditions as found in either Isaiah 65 or Revelation 22. God is going to do even better than that for us in the final resurrection and judgment to come.
So there are 2 new heavens and new earths now?

Please furnish us with all the scriptural references to your second perfect new heavens and new earth?
 

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If you check Isaiah 65's description of the New Heavens and the New Earth, it INCLUDES sinners, the righteous and sinners dying, curses, the birth of offspring, planting, harvesting, building houses, praying to God. There are some things in this list that cannot possibly describe the after-life existence of eternity.
It describes no more sound of weeping and crying. No weeping or crying, but sinners dying and no one mourning for them? You are missing the symbolism there and you are causing Isaiah 65:17-25 to contradict 2 Peter 3:13 and Revelation 21:1-5.

Likewise, the NHNE conditions found in Revelation 22 also include the presence of sinners and sinful activity still going on outside the open gates of that New Jerusalem city.
No, it does not! Where do you get that nonsense from?

The nations outside the New Jerusalem gates in Rev. 22:2 still need healing, so we are not being presented with the after-life existence of eternity here either.
You are completely lacking in discernment. That's not talking about literal healing, that's talking symbolically about eternally maintaining the perfect sinless conditions of the new heavens and new earths.

Of course perfection and glorification is coming for you and me in the future. But that perfection and glorification is not what is described in the NHNE conditions as found in either Isaiah 65 or Revelation 22. God is going to do even better than that for us in the final resurrection and judgment to come.
Why are you comfortable interpreting Isaiah 65 and Revelation 22 in a way that blatantly contradicts the description of the NHNE in Revelation 21:1-5 and 2 Peter 3:13?
 

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Well, it was a bit more than just a single "end of the age" that the NT writers discussed. Paul wrote about "the ENDS (PLURAL) of the AGES (PLURAL) that had come upon them at that time (1 Cor. 10:11 - "Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ENDS of the AGES have come.")
Don't change the subject. I am asking about the end of the age that Jesus referred to in Matthew 13:43, Matthew 13:50 and that is referenced in Matthew 24:3. Jesus spoke in Luke 20:34-36 in terms of this age when people get married and die and the age to come when people no longer get married and no longer die. So, with that context, the end of the age refers to the end of this temporal age. But, tell me how you understand it instead of offering a big word salad instead.
 

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There is a verse in Revelation that the Full Preterists tend to ignore, and it is Revelation 10:4 - the prophecies that the seven thunders uttered which John was forbidden to write down, but was to "seal up" for times to come later on. This information was not needed for John's immediate first-century audience, because these unwritten prophecies did not concern them or what they would be facing soon. The seven thunders' "sealed up" prophecies concerned FUTURE generations after AD 70, including our own future today.

I believe Rev. 10:4's seven thunders and their prophecies were indicating a pattern of seven total millennial ages of fallen mankind's history on this planet until God brings fallen mankind's history to a close. I am certainly not unique in thinking this. Many before me have caught the symbolism of a total of seven thousand years of history being a type which the seven days of Creation week prefigured. God's particular creative acts during each day of Creation week actually are a match for the prevailing theme of God's redemptive activity for each of the seven millennial ages of fallen mankind's history up to its culmination.

I have also included other texts before that address a future bodily resurrection for us, but they were dismissed, so I won't take time to list them again unless requested.
Are you for real? I asked you what verses in scripture do you think refer to His future return? Did you answer some other question instead for some reason? Or are you saying you think Revelation 10:4 is the only verse in scripture that refers to it?
 
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You keep misidentifying the creatures in that Rev. 9 prophecy. They weren't scorpions. They were called "locusts" who had tails like scorpions. All that symbolic language describes the torment caused by the soldiers under Gessius Florus the Judean governor who was doing his best to incite a rebellion against Rome in AD 66. The helmets, the field weaponry called "scorpions", the five-month time restriction on that torment given to those in the land of Israel - all of this was fulfilled in that AD 66 period.


You are right - the Romans were NOT the fulfillment of the Antichrist. This was the Jewish Zealot leader Menahem in AD 66 who actually got into the second temple dressed in Herod's royal regalia, "showing himself" and "exalting himself" as being the "King of the Jews" in the temple itself - a title reserved only for Christ Jesus. That "Man of Lawlessness" died in AD 66.


The "mark" imposed by the Judean Land Beast of Rev. 13 giving homage to the Roman phase of the Sea Beast of Rev. 13 is a matter of ancient history. The "mark" was the abominable Tyrian shekel which the high priesthood required as the only coin allowed for sales and purchases of sacrificial items for worship. Anybody from any nation coming to worship at the second temple was required to exchange their foreign currency for the high-priesthood-approved Tyrian shekel with its forbidden pagan images and inscriptions which gave homage to Rome and its gods before they could buy or sell any sacrificial items in the temple. And they had to pay a fee for the exchange process. The money-changers were collecting this fee for the high priests - rather like a temple ATM machine. This is why Christ was so enraged at these money-changers who had turned His Father's house into a "den of thieves".


Yes, that "mark" has happened, as a high priesthood requirement that lasted from 19 BC until AD 66 when the Zealots began the rebellion against Rome and chucked this former high priesthood requirement to use only the Tyrian shekel for temple transactions. The Zealots started minting their own coinage then in AD 66 as an independent nation.

People were supposed to use this abominable Tyrian shekel to also pay the yearly Temple Tax. Also, women wore a set of ten of these coins on the forehead portion of their draped headdress, which denoted their marital status. The woman in the parable that Christ gave who lost one of these coins was panicked, because this loss was the equivalent of a woman today losing her wedding ring somewhere in the house.


That is not what Christ and all the Scriptures have said. The "rapture" to heaven of ONLY the bodily-resurrected saints occurred back on AD 70's Pentecost day, according to the very precise prediction in Daniel 12:11-13. The second coming of Christ has come and gone. We are presently waiting for the third bodily resurrection in our future, as the third event on Paul's list of resurrection events found in 1 Cor. 15:22-24.
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"You keep misidentifying the creatures in that Rev. 9 prophecy. They weren't scorpions. They were called "locusts" who had tails like scorpions. All that symbolic language describes the torment caused by the soldiers under Gessius Florus the Judean governor who was doing his best to incite a rebellion against Rome in AD 66. The helmets, the field weaponry called "scorpions", the five-month time restriction on that torment given to those in the land of Israel - all of this was fulfilled in that AD 66 period."

OK , let's call them, "locusts", ( making the name of them some doctrinal pivotal non point) .ahem...since they look nothing like locusts.

I think it is yet another stumbling block for the historic view, since you can not adequately ascribe some historic signifigance. ( to the "locusts")
The Holy Spirit describing them as something you can not remake in fabrication.
But yes let's examine your efforts.

You have not demonstrated a mark required to buy and sell.
Where are the millions martyred for refusing the mark?
 
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if we were to look back in time to perhaps when an unprecedented event happened, the first world war .Jesus said there would be war ''For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.'' that first war started in 1914 and as far as you are concerned its a so what event ?? it was never said how long his presents would be before Armageddon would happen .
the separating work continues until the beast has removed the harlot from its back. that event will be marked by the removal of religion . God could give a rip about false religion going quietly into the night . yet when the peoples of the earth see that there is still a people holding on to there faith ,refusing to worship the beast . then its more than God will allow .then Armageddon happens.
thus far it has been 111 years since the year 1914 and there are many saying where is this promised presents . its staring you right in the face .
Dear JW locust,
The Parousia did not occur in 1914 as you falsely teach. There is one 2nd Coming and it did not happen invisibly in 1914.
The Watchtower's false prophecies just die out quietly when you guys finally realize they are wrong- but until you understand they are wrong- you insist on teaching them as FACT - straight from God.
Then they distort their own history to cover it up.. This is called false prophesying.

What Watchtower said prior to 1914--


"The year A.D. 1878 … clearly marks the time for the actual assuming of power as King of kings, by our present, spiritual, invisible Lord - …" ----The Time is at Hand (1911 ed) p 239-

"But bear in mind that the end of 1914 is not the date for the beginning, but for the END of the time of trouble.

--Zion's Watch Tower 1894 Jul 15 p 226-
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What Watchtower claims it said prior to 1914--------

"The Watchtower has consistently presented evidence to honesthearted students of Bible prophecy that Jesus’ presence in heavenly Kingdom power began in 1914."---Watchtower 1993 Jan 15 p 5-

"Jehovah's witnesses pointed to the year 1914, decades in advance, as marking the start of "the conclusion of the system of things." Awake! 1973 Jan 22 p 8

Current Watchtower publications are not transparent about the history of their interpretation of 1914. Russell and Rutherford taught that Jesus' invisible presence started in 1874. The end of the Gentile times in 1914 was to signify God's visible rulership returning to earth.
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"Our Lord, the appointed King, is now present since October 1874, A.D., according to the testimony of the prophets, to those who have ears to hear it: and the formal inauguration of his kingly office dates from April 1878, A.D." Studies in Scriptures Series IV (1897) p.621

"The Scriptural proof is that the second presence of the Lord Jesus Christ began in 1874 A.D." Prophecy (1929) p.65

"From 1874 onward is the time of the Lord's second presence, as above stated his circumstantial evidence fulfilling prophecy is what constitutes the physical facts, and is proof corroborative of the Lord's presence since 1874. ... His presence beginning in 1874, he has carried on his harvest work from 1874 forward" Our Lord's Return (1929) pp.27, 33, 37

"… from the beginning of the Lord’s presence in 1874 the Devil used the Papal system as the chief opposing instrument of God’s kingdom …" Watchtower 1930 Sept 15 p 275


It was not until the Golden Age 1930 p.503 that Rutherford stated for the first time that Christ's return and "presence" were 1914, instead of 1874. Knowing this, the Watchtower articles dishonestly claim that the Organization always understood that 1914 was the year that began Jesus presence and rulership.

Mr Rutherford also prophesied that the end was coming in 1925! He had mansions built in California to house the "worthies- Abraham Isaac and Jacob.."
Rutherford lived in them instead. This was during the Depression. Rutherford lived like a king while everyone else struggled. Rutherford had a terrible drinking problem.

1925 - "Millions Now Living Will Never Die!"

"Millions now living will never die!" exclaimed Rutherford in a series lectures starting 1918. This was his prophecy that the earthly resurrection would begin 1925, with the return to life of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This was the central focus of the Jws in the following years. Expectations for 1925 included:

  • the end of Christendom
  • the return of earth to a paradise
  • the resurrection of the dead onto earth
  • the Zionist teaching of the reestablishment of Palestine

Of course that prophecy failed-- why?

Jesus taught that Abraham etc would be in heaven.
“I say to you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;-- Matt 8:11

Rutherford was a false prophet. Period. The Watchtower condemns false prophecies of others but never themselves. They use a different uneven scale to measure themselves. That is called hypocrisy. Jesus had quite a bit to say about false teachers/ false prophets.

Read Matt 7 in context. - "Workers of lawlessness" is directed to false prophets.

Next we can go to 1975. I don't know if you were a JW then but my parents were studying then. It was indeed also indeed FALSE PROPHECY.

Watchtower claims- Jehovah’s Witnesses as the Prophet of God

Watchtower 4/1/72, pages 197-198

“They shall know that a Prophet was among them.”

“So, does Jehovah have a prophet to help them, to warn them of dangers and to declare things to come? These questions can be answered in the affirmative. Who is this prophet? . . . This “prophet” was not one man, but was a body of men and women. It was the small group of footstep followers of Jesus Christ, known at that time as International Bible Students. Today they are known as Jehovah’s Christian witnesses . . . Of course, it is easy to say that this group acts as a “prophet” of God. It is another thing to prove it,” (Watchtower, Apr. 1, 1972, p. 197).

Measuring pyramids and falsifying the date of the destruction of Jerusalem and convoluted math problems is no way to predict a thing. It is called, false prophecy. The evidence proves beyond doubt that the destruction of Jerusalem occurred between 586 and 587 B.C.
An objective reading of the Bible and history accepts that without issue.
The Watchtower Society has a heavily vested interest in 1914 and 607 B.C., and so they attempt to dismiss all evidence to the contrary, but anyone who seeks truth can clearly see this error of 607. I advise you to do some real research on this. It is CLEAR.
 

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So there are 2 new heavens and new earths now?
NO, there aren't two. The Isaiah 65 description of the New Heavens and the New Earth is the SAME conditions as the NHNE of Revelation 21-22, as well as being the SAME conditions of the NHNE that 2 Peter 3:13 said his own audience was then expecting in their days.

It is the SAME description that Hebrews 12:26-27 made with God "NOW" promising for that generation that He would shake not only the earth, but also the heavens, so that whatever could be shaken would be REMOVED. Once that first-century shaking process had taken place back then, the unshaken NHNE "remained". And we are still living in that unshaken NHNE reality today.
 
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Don't change the subject. I am asking about the end of the age that Jesus referred to in Matthew 13:43, Matthew 13:50 and that is referenced in Matthew 24:3.
I didn't change the subject. I wrote that all the Matthew references you gave concerning a "completion of the age" were just one of the multiple ages that were then coming to an end in Paul's days.

Jesus spoke in Luke 20:34-36 in terms of this age when people get married and die and the age to come when people no longer get married and no longer die. So, with that context, the end of the age refers to the end of this temporal age. But, tell me how you understand it instead of offering a big word salad instead.
Paul spoke to Felix about a resurrection of the just and the unjust that was "about to be" in his own time frame. It would happen in a judgment at the end of that age. Those worthy saints who had died up until then were bodily resurrected and ushered into the eternal state in the age that was coming. On earth, history continued, while the glorified saints in heaven had entered into their deathless existence face to face with their Creator.

Or are you saying you think Revelation 10:4 is the only verse in scripture that refers to it?
No, Rev. 10:4 is not the only text that applies to our own future. I wrote that I had given a list of Scriptures earlier that addressed a future resurrection for us, but they were dismissed.
 
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