That is absurd! Jesus does not say "time" but "times" and the times of the Gentiles dominance over the Jews and Jerusalem did not cease in A.D. 70 but continued until 1948.
Straining at a gnat. "Time, times, and half a time" refer to 42 months. What is the problem? You are reading your futurist assumptions into the text.
Nowhere is a long period of centuries implied.
Note the contrast between Jews and Gentiles. The Jews went into servititude under whom? Answer: the Gentiles and the Gentile dominion did not cease in A.D. 70 but had its beginning in A.D. 70 with regard to the trodden down of Jersusalem and subjugation of Jews to Gentile dominion.
Once again. You are reading into the text
more than is there. And you are
not seeing all that is in the text. There are three things that happen here:
"And they shall [1] fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be [2]led away captive into all nations: and [3]Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."
If you read Josephus (and I hope you have) you would have no problem seeing all three of these points fulfilled. Don't get hung up on that phrase "all nations". It is not a global captivity, but the Jews were paraded through cities throughout the οἰκουμένη (Oikoumene - the Roman Empire):Caesarea, Antioch, Cyrene, Ephesus, Alexandria, Rome. Almost all were either killed or reduced to slavery.
The treading down is of the city of Jerusalem, not of the Jewish people. And that ended when the city was demolished and the Roman legions left.
Your interpretation is complete nonsense both contextually and historically as you must ignore the natural reading of the text and force your view on it. The trodding down of Jerusalem occurred in A.D. 70 but it REMAINS in that condition under Gentile dominance until 1948.
Blustering aside, biblical context and early history both combine to prove my point.
Only by a complete and wholly perverted interpretation of this text that ignores all chronological and tense factors.
Oh please. You are going overboard.
BTW, by saying all of that you are saying that several commentators over the centuries also "wholly perverted" the text. My view is not peculiar to my preterism.
These signs in the Old Testament are predictive of the end of the world event - taking near events at hand as teaching lessons for end time events.
There are serious flaws in your scenario. Here are just two that come to mind:
1. It totally ignores the dozens of time-limiting passages in Scripture that show that all these things would happen in the 1st century generation of Christ's audience.
2. It assumes that there can even be a temple in the future that matters one whit in the eyes of God. For something to be abominated in the
eyes of God - and that is
exactly what we are talking about - it has to first be valid and valuable. But we know from Scripture that Christ deprecated the last valid Temple on Earth. His sacrifice put an end to all that.
Humans can do things, commit sins that are abominations. That is because we were created in the image of God. When Christians, especially commit gross sins they may be called abominations, because we are the temple of God.
But no stone temple can ever
again be abominated. The last one that was was in AD 70.
I don't doubt that some group might actually build a temple. But it will have
zero relevance to Biblical theology.
