//Ezekiel 38 and 39 must happen before antichrist
comes and the final 7 years. The Ezek.
prophecy is not ready to happen yet.//
Ezekiel 39 happens after the literal Millinnial Messanic
Kingdom that a-mills don't beleive in.
Ezekiel 38 & 39 are two seperate prophecies
of invations of Yisrael at least 1,000 years apart.
Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Called the great tribulation by Jesus, it starts when the antichrist places the abomination that makes desolate spoken of in Daniel, 3.5 years before the end.
It is the last 3.5 years; last half of the 70th week in Dan. 9.
Amen, Brother antiaging - Preach it!
//Matt. 24:31 is the rapture and it happens after the great tribulation period spoken of in Matt. 24:21//
Yes, you already said that and we believe that you
believe that. It is wrong, but we allow that liberty
in Christ to you - you can be wrong about that
as often as you wish and under whatever circumstances
you wish. Meanwhile, you fail to support anything counter
to what I'm saying
//Matthew 24:29 (KJV1769 Ediion):
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Matthew 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
//They never happened yet.//
I agree it has not happened yet.
It will happen at least 2 times 3½-year periods from now
(7 years for the mathematicaly dis-inclined).
Only the pretribulation rapture2 can be signless --
happening in a time unknown to us but in our
future.
//He gave the signs of the end of the age,
they are the same signs of His coming.//
Then you misunderstand the signs of Matthew 24:4-14.
These are signs of the continuing Church Age we are in.
This is a common mistake of those you figure the
rapture2 has to be a post-tribulation ONLY event.
There will be a rapture1 before the Tribulation period
and one after (and as many more as God wants to have,
He doesn't limit himself to one and only one resurrection.
In fact, here is a nice resurrection story in the next post.
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Matthew 24:14 (HCSB = Christian Standard
Bible /Holman, 2003/ ):
This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed
in all the world as a testimony to all nations.
And then the end will come.
Items quoted from THE ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD,
1991-1992 Edition (Tyndale, 1990), page 305+.
AD0061 - Colossians 1:6 (HCSB):
the gospel that has come to you. It is bearing fruit
and
growing all over the world, just as it has
among you since the day you heard it and recognized
God's grace in the truth.
c.
AD0140 - Hermas writes: "The Son of God ... has
been preached to the
ends of the earth" (Shepherd
of Hermas).
AD0197 - Tertullian (c160-222) ... writes ... "There
is no nation indeed which is not Christian" ...
c.
AD0205 - Clement of Alexandria (c155-215) ... writes
"The whole world, with Athens and Greece, has already
become the domain of the Word."
c.
AD0310 - Eusebius of Caesarea (c265-339) writes ...
"The doctrine of the Savious
has irradiated the whole Oikumene
(whole inhabited earth)"
AD378 - Jerome (c345-419) writes: "From India to Britian, all
nations resound with the death and resurrection of Christ".
estimates 1.9 million Christians to have been marytred
since AD33 (out of 120 million Christians). ...
etc.
This prophecy concerns the Full Church Age!
The word of Jesus has been spreading
to the rest of world and will continue to
do so as long as the Lord tarries.
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This can only be a prophecy that is being continously as
long as the Church Age continues.
The Church age lasts from the Day of Pentecost to
the pretribulation rapture2.
Peter calls it 'the last days' iln Acts 2:17.