Posted by Farmer on March 22, 2011 at 15:48:56
In Reply to: Re: I actually didn't want to comment on this tragic topic posted by long time exer on March 22, 2011 at 10:40:04:
-LTE...sorry for abbreviating... a bit quicker...you kind of catch me a bit...not off guard...but a bit "out of shape"...what the latest detailed prophecy analysis is concerned (was once more in the detailed know, but it's hard to pinpoint everything anyway, even if some claim, the've "made it")...of course the major verses I have "burned into my memory"...but there are different takes not only as far as the "rapture" is concerned...also as far as the endtime is concerned in general...
the pretaerist-take/or historicist one I cannot understand...we would have to be then in the millenium...thousand years would be allegorically no literal 1000 years and sometime then the judgement...if I get them right
So I have the premillenialist take...as many others
I always thought, that we live now in times...since the last century...where the gospel is preached in all the world...as a testimony for all nations ..even if not every individual might have heard it in detail
The generation which sees all that, shall not pass away before all that is said be fulfilled.As far as I know, there are two ways etymologically to see that...either that generation or that nation...I guess Israel is to be understood.
"Strange" the refounding of the nation of Israel in that historiy-laden location.
So my eyes are regularly focussed on what happens in Israel.
A literal temple is IMO also fairly likely...unless the verses have an allegorical
meaning
Last not least...take the 6 days of creation...Jesus appeared on the 4th day...creation of light...that equals 4x 1000 years...4000 years after Adam...a foreshadow of Christ (put to sleep= death...to gain his wife/bride)...we're "2 days" = 2000 after the appearance of Christ...truly the last days...the millenium would be the 7th day...kind of the "rest day"...the eight everything will be new then after judgement
Kind of my "timeline"
What I am personally amazed about is the uproar in northern Africa...which used to be part of the Roman Empire...things are toppling there.Even the CIA claims to have had no clue about it ; )
could be...who knows...
more later may be