i never addressed your searching out a certain time period and/or "year" = and find no fault in that = shalom
GOD, on the Right Hand , has Placed His Word Above ours
IMPORTANT: No fault blaming here = we are to be yielding ourselves to " It is Written" = every word of it
Please go back and read my responses to you in the LIGHT of = "IT is WRITTEN"
David =
"It is written" that your writing and rebuttals are disturbing. I am sure that those words can be found in scripture.
To me you are just a young pup trying to justify your own understanding without the leading that you claim.
In the Parable of the Ten Virgins, Jesus was indication to His audience, listening to Him, that there was a long period of time, i.e. two ages, that had to be provisioned for, before Christ came for His Bride.
Scripture in the OT also clearly shows that Israel has to complete the visitation of the father's iniquities until the end of the fourth age of their existence before God will begin gathering them to Himself once more.
Yes, Christians today are a part of His body, and we will be fashioned into His Temple after three days of the Lord has past, after the Israelites causes the existing Temple, during Jesus' first advent, to be destroyed around 70 AD.
Jesus also told that Israel will attempt to rebuild the Temple, but they will not have the means with which to complete this work and that they will become the laughingstock of the world and that the result of this is the gathering of the kings of the earth to put a stop to Israel's foolishness.
However, Jesus also told the crowd listening to Him at that time, that a King will come who is dealing with the Kings of the earth and that they, the Israelites, will have to decide at that time if they can defeat this king judging the kings of the earth, or whether or not they should seek out His terms of peace.
The above is exactly what we are seeing unfolding before us today, after which "all" of Israel will be saved. Sadly, many Christians want to enter into a great theological discussion over what the word "all" means in this statement.
Those with ears to hear and eyes to see will know what is going to actually happen in our near future.
Goodbye