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The prevailing four kingdoms had dwindled down to the two Greek kingdoms of the Ptolemies and the Seleucids before Rome swept in and overtook those two kingdoms in the person of Pompey the Great (he became the Roman "king of the north" in Daniel 11:40-45). The "little horn" of Daniel 8:9 (aka...

It sure does. It makes all the NT authors and Christ Himself a liar and a false prophet if Christ did not return in that generation as scripture testifies in many places. And Christ is not limited to only one return to this planet. There are NO scriptures that forbid this happening more...

Your quote from Irenaeus is not quite correct. Something or someone was "seen" almost in Irenaeus's time, which was toward the end of the reign of Domitian. However, the sentence translated from the Greek as Irenaeus wrote it doesn't specify whether that something or someone was the one...

@ TLHKAJ, have you any thoughts or scriptural solutions for this dilemma that I mentioned above? Ideally, that would be the case, but setting up multiple separate homes all in one setting is not an automatic possibility, either financially or space-wise in all cases, I am sure. But certainly...

The anointed cherub "Prince of Tyre" described in Ezekiel 28:11-19 was "PERFECT IN THY WAYS from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee." (Ez. 18:15). This is not a statement that can be made about the human "Prince of Tyre" as described in Ezekiel 28:1-10. This man...

This statement gave me pause for thought. We know that the gospel is making inroads within Muslim countries, where multiple wives is not only practiced but is the usual case. Suppose the husband becomes converted to Christianity. Now he must make a decision concerning his multiple wives...

I read all of your comment, and your point about the 4 winds of heaven only serves to bolster my position. The 4 directions of the compass were linked with Alexander's entire kingdom being split up into four kingdoms located in roughly all four directions on the map. This is pretty clear when...

Paul was martyred in AD 67, and Revelation was written somewhere between late AD 59 and early AD 60. So it was possible for Paul (and other authors) to have quoted from John's Revelation.

The "Great Tribulation" was prophesied for those in Judea and Jerusalem to flee from those coming disasters. There was going to be 'great distress in the land and wrath upon THIS people", which was those living in Judea at the time (Luke 21:23). Christ forewarned of these coming disasters when...

You are only making my point for me. The direction of the "four winds of heaven" in Daniel 8:8 corresponded to the time that the four horns in that verse were in power because Alexander's vast Greek kingdom eventually became divided into four kingdoms located generally in the four points of...

You aren't even bothering to read the companion text of Mark 13 which is found in Matthew 10:16-23. This prophecy dates these words of Christ to a time period which would end with His first-century coming return in the generation of His own disciples. You are mistaken: it was NOT at the "end...

Jesus's vision of Satan falling like lightning was indeed prophetic, but it was a prophecy to be fulfilled very, very soon in His disciples' near future on Jesus's resurrection-day ascension. This same kind of prophetic language was used in the OT when the prophet Micaiah said, "I saw all...

I have not said that Satan's fall like lightening took place "at or before the crucifixion". It took place when Satan was cast out of heaven after the newly-resurrected Christ had ascended to heaven on His resurrection day. Once Christ was anointed by God as our Great High Priest that morning...

I believe in the Scriptures. If you want to put a Preterist label on what I quote from scripture, that is your prerogative. But I am not like any brand of Preterist you have probably encountered before.

But I do agree that Satan's deception of the nations was not operating during Isaiah's time in Isaiah 14. The deception that Israel was experiencing at that time was due to the idols which the people and the prophets had set up in their own hearts (Is. 14:4). Because of the prophets'...

You are misquoting scripture here. The little horn was said to arise in the "latter time" of the FOUR KINGS who had "stood up" and taken power in Alexander's divided Greek nation. The pronoun in the phrase "THEIR kingdom" refers back to THE FOUR INDIVIDUALS - NOT TWENTY. The origin of the...

I see a clear break in the chronological timeline starting in Joel 2:28. That phrase saying "And it shall come to pass AFTERWARD" tells me that whatever prophecy came before Joel 2:28 was separated in time from what was going to happen "afterward" in Joel 2:28-32. Peter told us when Joel...

The falling of Satan like lightning happened at Christ's ascension on the morning after His resurrection. Because of this, the loud voice in heaven declared at that time, "NOW is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our...

You are missing the point scripture is making. At "the latter time of THEIR kingdom" when ALL FOUR rulers had been in power, the little horn then arose in the person of Antiochus Epiphanes IV. This was "not in his own power" (Daniel 8:24). Antiochus Epiphanes IV took advantage of the power...

Do you suppose Joel's mention of the fires could be the Assyrian army pursuing a sort of "scorched earth" tactic of subjugation of Israel? Perhaps either that or just the ordinary needs of a large army on the move needing firewood for their campfires, especially with the Assyrian king...