Timtofly
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Except you specifically point to Revelation without one single verse and then turn to Isaiah to make a point.Mystery Babylon rides the beast for a while, then the beast turns on her, and that is God's judgment.
Some parts of what is written might only apply to the church in the end - prophecy can be alluding to more than thing at the same time, kind of woven in together. Like Jesus prophesying tribulation and Jerusalem's soon to come destruction, there seems to be two threads woven into the same prophecy so to speak, some of it refers to the church in the end and some of it refers to both the church as well as Jerusalem/Israel and some of it may only be for Jerusalem. Same with some parts of Rev.....some of it refers to what was soon to happen to Jerusalem as well at the same time being an allegory for what will happen to the world and apostate church in the end. Like the woof and waffle of a weave. I'm not carving anything into stone, but it seems to make sense and I'm trying it on for size.....in light of the word as well as what happened historically and how current events seem to be shaping up. My personal background as well as what the Lord has shown me personally all fit too.
The temple in Jerusalem cannot be a good thing spiritually. It's like the "build back better" attitude in Is. 9 in defiance of God's judgment, instead of repenting.....and so it will be judged again.
Isa 9:8-13
The Lord sent a word against Jacob,
And it has fallen on Israel.
All the people will know—
Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria—
Who say in pride and arrogance of heart:
“The bricks have fallen down,
But we will rebuild with hewn stones;
The sycamores are cut down,
But we will replace them with cedars.”
Therefore the LORD shall set up
The adversaries of Rezin against him,
And spur his enemies on,
The Syrians before and the Philistines behind;
And they shall devour Israel with an open mouth.
For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them,
Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.
We as believers must not embrace this temple or have anything to do with it,. It's not our business. We have the true substance of what that temple was just a shadow of.
No one is denying an event in 70AD.
You have not proven Revelation is written about a past event including the Babylonian exile when Jerusalem was destroyed.