Excalibur, understand this. To understand that the time of Jacob's trouble is past and the great and terrible day of the Lord has already occurred takes downplaying what the prophets say about these times. The preterist position consistently interprets the OT prophets as being hyperbolic, describing things in descriptive and imaginative language, like saying that this isn't literal about the sun and luminaries:i
6In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle.
7For it will be a unique day which is known to the L
ORD, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light.
8And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.
Yes, there are some pictures of this in the return from captivity, but the futurist position says that the prophets meant what they said, it isn't just a picture, the luminaries really will dwindle, there is real meaning here. To interpret this way, there must be gaps in the prophecy, like looking at a mountaintop and seeing several mountains but not seeing the valleys between. This may seem like inconsistency but here's the issue.
The Preterist sees fulfillment, but not literal fulfillment, just a picturesque spiritualized one that seems to diminish the intensity of what the prophets saw.
The Futurist sees real literal fulfillment, and to do so has to interpret gaps in the prophecy, which raises chronological questions.
The Preterist has interpretive problems, the Futurist has chronological problems. Satan may well have his hand in stirring the pot, but human fallibility probably also has a lot to do with it.
Your putting your words in my mouth, and your twisting the prophetic words of the Ancient Prophets of Israel!
But that is what you people do.
All of these prophecies of Jacob's Trouble; and the Great And Terrible DAY of the Lord,
was aimed at the prophetic time of Jesus and the Early Church, 4bc to 70ad.
This was the prophetic timeline in the history of the world that changed everything!!!
Take your blinders off!
There is another prophetic timeline in the future of the Church, but you will never see it coming.
because your to busy trying to compromise, while speaking of things you know nothing of!
There is no gap, in the fulfilling of these certain prophecies of Ancient Israel.
You have been taught a LIE, through dispensationalism that there is a gap!
There is no gap! There is no supernatural GAP!
God does not work that way in prophetic things in His Word.
Isaiah, prophesied that Cyrus, would set captives free to return to Israel,
and 400 years later that's exactly what happened.
Jeremiah prophesied the Jews captivity for 70 years; and that's what happened.
Daniel prophesied 70 wks until Messiah, and destruction of the Old Way!
and that's exactly what happened.
All 3 of these prophecies were tied together through out a certain time period.
The only gap was between 30ad and 70ad;
between the 1st 31/2 yrs and 2nd 31/2 yrs of Dan 70 week.
and between this small gap was the fulfilling of other prophecies.
You cannot be this ignorant with all the tools available to you today,
that God would not leave something like this,
to test those in this hour who say they are of God, but are not!?
and there is yet prophecy to be fulfilled so don't put your words in my mouth.
There is no Gap!
many blessings
