Right, made for man, are you a man? If so the sabbath was created for you. God never blessed and sanctified another day.That's an argument pushed especially by Messianic Jews. Are you Jewish? I didn't know Christians were not allowed to worship any other day but only on Saturday. If we meet in worship on any other day of the week than Saturday, then that is false religion? Is that what you're saying? Christ made the Sabbath for man, not man for the Sabbath, as written.
In understanding that prophecy is the foretelling of the history before it happens it is easy to see how history has proved the prophecies of God to be true. As for the Christ and mammon comment I don't know where that came from.I believe that. But how does that align with the doctrines of Historicism that you follow? Can you truly listen to Christ in His Word and mammon too?
I would beg to differ. The 70th week was fulfilled when the Christ was "cut off" in the middle of it and when Christ was anointed...just like Daniel 9:24 said He would be.Actually, if we allow God's Word to interpret itself, we see clearly that the final "one week" of the 70 weeks Daniel has NOT been fulfilled yet.
The prophecy never says anything about Antiochus Epiphanes. The fourth beast comes out of Rome not Greece. He never ruled a kingdom and was easily overthrown by the Romans. Daniel 10 & 11 give the history of the rise of Rome and chapter 12 refers to the last days.The Romans in 70 A.D. certainly did not fulfill it, for they weren't able to get inside the Jerusalem temple to setup an abomination of idol worship, which is what the "abomination of desolation" is about. And, we were already given a pattern for it with Antiochus Epiphanes before Christ's first coming. Antiochus did make it inside the Jerusalem temple, sacrificed swine upon the altar and spread its broth around inside the temple, and even setup an altar to Zeus. Those who treat the 70 weeks prophecy as fulfilled often omit the Dan.11 & 12 chapter events which are linked to the Dan.9:27 "one week". How does doing that show the ability to let God's Word interpret itself?
You get a clue! The tabernacle/temple and all its attendant services represented Christ. When He compared His physical body to the temple He was speaking prophecy before it happened. He compared the two, His body and the temple both being destroyed.Then you would be saying that the physical temple standing in Jerusalem at Christ's first coming was literally Jesus. That's not the temple our Lord was referring to there in John 2 was it? He was referring to His Body and His crucifixion and Resurrection which was to happen. That's why He contrasted the Temple of His Body that would be destroyed and raised again in three days, vs. the physical temple that could not. I mean really, get a clue!!
This is why the insistence by the dispensationalist crowd really does a butchering of the fact that even if Jews do build another temple and sacrifice therein in means absolutely nothing. There is no need nor any prophecy that says another temple will be built. The temple is Christ and each individual believer is a stone therein.
There is no prophecy that says a third temple will be built.What do you mean; are you trying to say the Jews building another temple in Jerusalem matters to me JUST BECAUSE I WARN OTHERS ABOUT IT FROM PROPHECY?
Re-read what I wrote. People that think the Jews need to build another temple because prophecy says so are missing the boat and believing a lie. No temple needed. Christ is the temple.How could you come to such a crazy conclusion as that, unless YOU are the one trying to defend those Jews in doing that?
Of course not! I'm not a dispensationalist, Tim LaHaye/Darby/Dallas Theological parrot.I'm starting to think that you are actually in favour of their building another temple to start up sacrifices again. I'm aware there's some Christian groups in America that have been sending heifers for sacrifice to the orthodox Jews in today's Jerusalem, thinking that's a way to bring Christ's second coming in faster. You're not in one of those deceived groups are you?
Because it doesn't! The last sacrifice has been offered and accepted.Wait a minute. Why would you say that the orthodox Jews in Jerusalem building another temple doesn't mean anything for today?
If Jerusalem fell off the earth tomorrow it wouldn't make a difference to my theology. What happens in Israel doesn't affect me.That's like saying 'turn your head, don't watch what's going on in Jerusalem, you don't need to know'.
Christ is the temple so then it must mean that someone attempts to replace God and call himself 'God on earth'. Know anyone like that? I do.That temple for the end is about prophecy in the last days, the very prophecy Paul gave in 2 Thess.2 about a false one coming to sit in it, and set himself up as God.
"The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth." Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, "Cities Petrus Bertanous"
“...We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty..." Pope Leo XIII, in Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae (The Reunion of Christendom), Encyclical promulgated on June 20, 1894.
"The pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man, but as it were God, and the vicar of God...
"The Pope alone is called most holy...
"Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as king of heaven and of earth and of hell.
"Moreover the superiority and the power of the Roman Pontiff by no means pertains only to heavenly things, but also earthly things, and to things under the earth, and even over the angels, whom he his greater than.
"So that if it were possible that the angels might err in the faith, or might think contrary to the faith, they could be judged and excommunicated by the Pope....
"...the Pope is as it were God on earth, sole sovereign of the faithful of Christ, chief of kings, having plenitude of power." Lucius Ferraris, in "Prompta Bibliotheca Canonica, Juridica, Moralis, Theologica, Ascetica, Polemica, Rubristica, Historica", Volume V, article on "Papa, Article II", titled "Concerning the extent of Papal dignity, authority, or dominion and infallibility", #1, 5, 13-15, 18, published in Petit-Montrouge (Paris) by J. P. Migne, 1858 edition.
"[Pope] PIUS XI, Pontifex Maximus." Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (The Promotion of True Religious Unity), Encyclical promulgated on January 6, 1928.
Nope. What is important for Christians is that instead of encouraging Jerusalem to build a temple they need to firmly say it doesn't matter. Jesus is the temple.That's why... it's an important event for ALL Christians to note!
So we should start wars by building a temple that doesn't matter so Christ can come? Oh, I get it now. Loopy.But what you're saying is that people should remain blind to that event!! That's not what God's Word tells us to do; we're commanded by Christ to stay in Him 'watching'. Paul even gave more of the end time events in 1 Thess.5 when they shall say, "Peace and safety", and then "sudden destruction" comes upon them.
You're simply rambling, not making any sense, because it sounds like you are against Christian Churches to me. Who do you make yourself out to be?
Hardly. I asked a simple question. Do you really think not telling people, whether they be Jew or gentile, that the type of the temple that Christ represented in anti-type does what exactly? In other words what benefit is it when people like John Hagee don't tell Jews that building another temple means nothing because Christ is the temple? None of these fundamentalist like John Hagee, David Jeremiah, Tim LaHaye, Hal Lindsay, Jack Van Impe, etc., ever make mention of this obvious Biblical fact and that should be a great concern to anyone that attends any church that spouts such doctrine.
Yes you are! You're a classic dispy at that. You believe in the rapture (the silent one), that the 70th week is going to be fulfilled later (after the church is raptured), and that a new temple will be built.Bottomline to you, I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST.
Then why do you spout their doctrines?I agree the doctrines of men called Dispensationalism are dangerous,
Then how do you discern Bible prophecy?likewise are the doctrines of men called Preterism, Historicism, and Futurism are all dangerous.
See Rome. They have set themselve over the Christian church and most Christians follow their doctrines and don't even know it. Sunday is their day and in keeping Sunday you agree with Rome whether yoy choose to believe it or not.What you are denying are the very signs of the end our Lord gave us in His Word to be watching, particularlly the evidence of the building of another temple in Jerusalem for the "abomination of desolation" to take place just prior to Christ's second coming.
Look again at those quotes. Rome proclaims the Pope is God on earth.If my fellow brethren in Christ listened to you, they would miss what that event is about with a false messiah coming to proclaim himself as God,
"The Pope takes the place of Jesus Christ on earth...by divine right the Pope has supreme and full power in faith, in morals over each and every pastor and his flock. He is the true vicar, the head of the entire church, the father and teacher of all Christians. He is the infallible ruler, the founder of dogmas, the author of and the judge of councils; the universal ruler of truth, the arbiter of the world, the supreme judge of heaven and earth, the judge of all, being judged by no one, God himself on earth." Quoted in the New York Catechism.
"Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God....dissolves, not by human but rather by divine authority....I am in all and above all, so that God Himself and I, the vicar of God, hath both one consistory, and I am able to do almost all that God can do...wherefore, if those things that I do be said not to be done of man, but of God, what do you make of me but God? Again, if prelates of the Church be called of Constantine for gods, I then being above all prelates, seem by this reason to be above all gods." Decretales Domini Gregori ix Translatione Episcoporum, (on the Transference of Bishops), title 7, chapter 3; Corpus Juris Canonice (2nd Leipzig ed., 1881), col. 99; (Paris, 1612), tom. 2, Decretales, col. 205 (while Innocent III was Pope).
That's right. The world has already 'wondered after the beast'.with the majority of the world bowing down to worship that false messiah in place of Christ (Rev.13; Matt.24; Mark 13; 2 Thess.2). THAT is a warning our Lord Jesus gave us in His Word. But, you don't care to heed that warning, but instead are busy telling others such an event means nothing.
Take a good long look at these pictures where all the world gathered to wonder after the beast.
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/pope/galleries/dignitaries_at_the_funeral/


See this whore even tells you who she is!
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And the longer it leaves you denying that Christ is the temple and the last sacrifice and that building another temple or sacrificing another cow means absolutely nothing! You should be willing and ready to convey this to Jews readily. Of course it helps if you keep the sabbath, don't eat pigs, and understand the tabernacle services. Are you serious equipped to tell a Jew that they no longer have to keep the sabbath? I got news for you, they'll chew you up and spit you out. Peace out Vet. God bless.But that's alright, the longer you keep wanting to argue against those written prophecies linking to the building of another temple in Jerusalem, the more opportunity it gives me to warn my fellow-Christian brethren about it.