It is faulty exegesis to use Old Testament scriptures to define New Testament figures when there are New Testament definitions that fit perfectly.
Revelation 11:3
[/B] "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth."
Then God through the prophet Ezekiel tells that a prophetic day should be understood as a year . . .
Ezekiel 4:6
"And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year."
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It is faulty exegesis to use Old Testament scriptures to define New Testament figures when there are New Testament definitions that fit perfectly.
Ezekiel 4 c. 593 BC.
Seige of Jerusalem foretold.
are you seriously going to just excise everything out of History and drag it forward to our future?
OH MY STARS...
how can people continue to do this in good conscience?
Ezekiel was a prophet to the israelites in Babylon ellis.
The siege is a calamity of 390 days, in which God reckons for the iniquity of 390 years; justly therefore d they acknowledge that God had punished them less than their iniquity deserved,
Ezra 9:13.
why did you just severe Judah's punishment, ellis, and bring it forward int time like that?
this sleight-of-hand is unacceptable.
BOTH Houses returned from captivity exactly as Daneil 9 says they would. they were in place, in the land, in time for Jesus.
both the penitent remnant AND the cult of the Pharisees (with their Oral Traditions) - who would conspire with Pilate to Crucify Jesus.
ezekiel's prophesies of the return HAPPENED already. his visions of his temple are the church, new jeruslame, the same city John saw. the assembly of the faithful enrolled in heaven.
this tricky business of separating the ten tribes from the other two (Benjamin and Judah) is horrible.
here's what we ended up with - white-skinned 'jews' and 'non-jews' all claiming to be Israel or Judah.
its' completely unacceptable, and outrageous on every level.
how is it we just skip over the Greatest Time in the History of Mankind - the Incarnation; Life; Death and Resurrection of the Lamb of God according to God's timeline.....we just ignore it! we brish it aside, or cut it in half...we undo what He did - FOR SOME.
for no good reason.....
although there is a reason - 100% carnal:
Islam began building the blasphemous Dome of the Rock on Gods Temple Mount in 688AD. The new nation of Israel was established in 1948 . . .
688+1260=1948
ANY Temple on the Mountain will be a blasphemy ellis.
anything there at all.
It is Finished. for people to say it is not, for jews, is the
A-word on steroids.
John 2
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
13The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” 17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 19Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Jesus is The Temple; His people are the Temple; Jesus is The Stone which the builders rejected; He is The Stone cut without hands that smashed Daniel's matel-man for all who will have Him as King; His temple is the Mountain that is covering the whole earth - the Church, jew and gentile - no difference.
The 1260 days started AFTER 688AD. Why? Because prior to the construction of the Islamic Dome of the Rock, both Jews and Gentiles could could have worshiped on the Temple Mount. In fact, Jerusalem was the home of the great Coptic Church. Only after the Islamic Jihad of the 7th Century were Christians and Jews prevented from worshiping on the site.
how is it we just deny what is written?
John 4
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
1Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4And he had to pass through Samaria. 5So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.a
7A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.b The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
