H.E. Eickleberry, Jr. wrote:
[snip]
>> When Jerusalem was being destroyed with the temple in 70 AD that was
>> the end of the world for the Jews !
>
>
> No, that was the second of three iterations of the same prophecy.
>
> First iteration, temple destroyed by Nebudchadnezzar in 587 BC.
>
> Second iteration, temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.
>
> Third iteration, ?
>
> And it hasn't been rebuilt yet, which means that we are always at least
> 70 years from the End of the Age, and it will remain that way until it is.
>
> So much for your "grand" false calculations.
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God's Word proves such absolutely wrong. It is all man's conjecture
without the Word of God for any foundation.
I do to point out your 70 years idea is also not proven anywhere.
People get so caught up "watching" for the end that they ignore that
Lord Jesus was not referring to watching for the end but watching
ourselves so that no matter when it comes (or if we fall asleep before
it comes) we will be found pleasing in His sight and be able to stand in
that day.
Luke 21:33-36 (KJV)
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
[34] And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be
overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life,
and so that day come upon you unawares. [35] For as a snare shall it
come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. [36] Watch
ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape
all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of
man.
Just as He also said,
Matthew 5:17-20 (KJV)
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am
not come to destroy, but to fulfil. [18] For verily I say unto you, Till
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from
the law, till all be fulfilled. [19] Whosoever therefore shall break one
of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called
the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach
them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. [20] For
I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter
into the kingdom of heaven.
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