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The Olivet Discourse included Christ's pronouncement of judgment against the physical structure of the Old Jerusalem temple which the Jews were so proud of. All of that grandeur for which Herod had spent so lavishly would not endure past that generation. It was destroyed down to the last stone...

The Roman army coming against Jerusalem was leading a multi-national coalition with auxiliary armies joined to the Roman legions. Josephus lists them in Wars 3.4.2 as coming from King Antiochus, Agrippa, and Sohemus, and the king of Arabia, as well as troops of horsemen from Syria. The...

It was BOTH physical armies AND spiritual armies that were arrayed against Old Jerusalem in the AD 66-70 period. Jerusalem became "a prison for every unclean spirit" (Rev. 18:2) during those tumultuous years when Jerusalem was besieged by both physical and spiritual armies fighting against it...

Oh, I agree that this was a severe problem within the city of Jerusalem in the AD 66-70 period. The city of Old Jerusalem became a prison for every unclean spirit in existence (Rev. 18:2 and Isaiah 24:21-23). The entire demonic realm was gathered together and "shut up in the prison" of...

But John's messenger NEVER described Mystery Babylon as being a "spirit". He called it a literal city. That city of Old Jerusalem was guilty of the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus. The Jerusalem religious leadership killed many in the early church, beginning with Stephen, and going...

It's true that corruption inevitably keeps cropping up in the church body, since it is composed of erring humanity. We are a work in progress. And I agree that at the final return of Christ, all remaining human evil will be dealt with permanently. But I disagree with using the title of...

Well, it's verifiable in scripture that the "disciple whom Jesus loved" (Lazarus) was different from John the son of Zebedee. Very easy to prove. John the fisherman, son of Zebedee, was not "known to the high priest" with direct access to the high priest's palace trial of Christ, and intimate...

LOL, that is mild compared to what I have been called many times before. It's all in the family....

He sure did. John Eleazar (Lazarus) supplied the material for the gospel of John, the epistles of 1, 2, and 3rd John, and the book of Revelation. Also, once John Eleazar's (Lazarus's) task of caring for Mary before she died in the 40's was finished, he was then commissioned by the early...

This statement is a bit simplistic, since it lumps all those of every variety of Preterism into one basket. There is as much variety in Preterism as there is in any denomination. Just as there is error found in every single denomination as well. To accuse Preterism of teaching lies is too...

Of course Jesus didn't lie. That "disciple whom Jesus loved" in John 21:22 was Lazarus - NOT John the son of Zebedee which Christ had predicted would die a death like the Master's. Lazarus died and Jesus resurrected him, changed into an immortal, glorified body, just a little while before...

You are fighting against the Greek language itself by trying to make the word "aion" for "age" mean the same thing as "oikoumene" or "kosmos" which means "world". Scripture presents the continuation of regular human history progressing even AFTER Christ's bodily return to the Mount of Olives...

If you think so, then you are the same as those which Christ spoke about who would be willing to kill His own disciples, still thinking they were "doing God service" by doing so. Paul did this same thing before Jesus met him on the road to Damascus and made him a "chosen vessel". There is...

You are misunderstanding what Paul meant by "flesh and blood" in this verse. Paul's greatest fight during His ministry was against the ethnic Israelites who thought that their natural bloodline of ethnic descent from Abraham was what entitled them to be sons of God. Those who were "born after...

I would agree that Old Jerusalem as "Mystery Babylon" should serve as a warning example and admonition for how God judges religious corruption. The church today is not immune to the same level of corruption, for certain. But I think it is a mistake to carry the specific label of "Mystery...

This made me laugh, since it is so true of humanity in general when it comes to their default method of religious practices. When we "lift up our tool upon it", we have polluted it, just as God told the ancient Israelites not to hew the stones for the altars they made for God (Ex. 20:25). The...

I just gave you the proof taken from Josephus Wars 2.17.8-9 of Menahem's actions which duplicated that of Paul's Man of Lawlessness in 2 Thess. 2. And I quoted the 1 & 2 John texts which give you a specific definition of what an antichrist was. The Zealot ideology in first-century Israel...

Of course not all Rome's prisoners were accused of being a Zealot. But this is not an argument from silence that I am making. I quoted Mark 15:7 which spoke of Barabbas being held along with the others guilty of insurrection along WITH HIM. Barabbas was the only one in this group said to...

Barabbas had operated in conjunction with the two thieves being held by the Romans. All of them had participated in the insurrection, with Barabbas having additionally murdered someone in that insurrection. All of them were Zealots, called "the lawless". Thievery was only one of their...

You still refuse to admit that 1 & 2 John's given definition of what an antichrist is does not match the papacy. Show me proof that the papacy has denied that Jesus was the Messiah that came in the flesh in fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy. Show me proof that the papacy has denied the...