Phoneman777 said:
Yes, these verses apply to "the Israel of God" which heeded Jesus' warning in 70 AD while Christ's enemies fell to Titus' sword. And apply also centuries later, when "the Israel of God" fled from demonic Papal persecution for exactly 1,260 prophetic days (literal years from 538 AD - 1798 AD) while the Papacy hunted them like animals until the deadly wound of 1798, which is now healed and now all the world including the Protestant world wondering "after the Beast". (Revelation 13:3 KJV)
The end has not come yet, the six seals, rapture and fig tree are all future along with Matt 24:15 NIV. The Olivet Discourse as a whole is all future.
Matt 24:14 NIV And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations,
and then the end will come.
Matt 24:29-31 NIV “Immediately after the distress of those days “ ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ 30“
Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. 31And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Matt 24:32-34 NIV “
Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. 34Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
Matt 24 & Rev 6 Parallel
1st Seal - Matt 24:4-5 NIV, Rev 6:1-2 NIV
2nd Seal - Matt 24:6 NIV, Rev 6:3-4 NIV
3rd Seal - Matt 24:7 NIV, Rev 6:5-6 NIV
4th Seal - Matt 24:6-7 NIV, Rev 6:7-8 NIV
5th Seal - Matt 24:9 NIV, Rev 6:9-11 NIV
6th Seal - Matt 24:29-31 NIV, Rev 6:12-14 NIV
Phoneman777 said:
Something you've never been taught - please consider: As you know, the Feast of Trumpets signaled the approach of the Day of Atonement
There's a rapture on two different days?
Lev 23:24 NIV “Say to the Israelites: ‘
On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.
Lev 23:27 NIV “
The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present a food offering to the Lord.
Rom 11:25-31 NIV
25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited:
Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the
Gentiles has come in,
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and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,
29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.
30 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,
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so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.