And?? Is there a point you are making?
You are correct in that "the end of the age" immediately preceded the "promised and prophesied Millennial Kingdom." You just failed to recognize that we are living in the millennium now and that their age ended in Sept 70 AD. The Mosaic Age officially ended with the fall of the Temple. The Temple had been the symbol of God's dwelling place on earth. With the Temple gone, God's dwelling place on earth is within each of us believers. We no longer have to follow the Law and do sacrifices for salvation. We get salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. THIS IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE between the two ages!!
You need to consider how very different things are today in terms of how God relates to us compared to how He did prior to 70 AD. The other HUGE difference is we no longer wait in Hades for redemption and restoration with God upon death. We go straight to heaven upon our physical death. The '"the restoration of all things" was our re-connection to God that was lost in the Garden.
You might find this interesting, I too am a pre-tribber. But because I understand that the GT was in 70 AD when Jerusalem was surrounded by Titus, my prospective is different from yours. All of the Christians who were in Jerusalem fled before Titus came. They went over the mountains to Pella and thus all of them escaped the Wrath which came to the disbelieving wicked Jews of that generation.
The resurrection occurred in 66 AD and was witnessed by Nero and recorded by two Roman historians. In Rev 12:15, a river pours out of the serpent’s mouth to drown the woman representing the saints in a flood. At the start of the Jewish revolt, Emperor Nero, the beast with the wounded head of Revelation 13:3, was in Greece about to build a canal. This man-made river appears to be referred to in Revelation 12:15. Rivers and floods frequently represent foreign armies in the Bible (Daniel 7; 9:26; 11:10, 40; Psalm 65:7; 144:7, Isaiah 8:7-8; 17:12; 60:5; Jeremiah 46:7-8; 47:1-2; 51:55-56; Ezekiel 26:3; Joel 2:9; Nahum 1:8). Thus the river and resulting flood of Revelation 12:15 are both Biblical symbols of the army Nero dispatched when he heard about the Jewish revolt at the start of the construction of this canal.
As construction of the canal began, Cassius Dio writes, “[W]hen the first workers touched the earth, blood spouted from it, groans and bellowings were heard, and many phantoms appeared. Nero himself thereupon grasped a mattock and by throwing up some of the soil fairly compelled the rest to imitate him.” Recording this event, Suetonius indicates that as Nero broke the ground, the sound of a trumpet was heard. The fact that a trumpet was heard at the time in which the dead appear to have been raised literally fulfills 1 Corinthians 15:52: “For the trumpet will sound, [and] the dead will be raised imperishable. . . .”
Since the resurrection is a spiritual event it would be far more visible in the spiritual realm. Thus the "rapture" is also a spiritual event. The rapture, "catching up to heaven" is for all of us who were alive in 66 AD or were later born after the 66 AD resurrection. 1 Thes 4:17 simply means when we die, we are immediately caught up to heaven without going to Hades first. Thus 1 Thes 4:17 would be better understood if it was written this way:
17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air (after death). And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
I believe this is what Paul was trying to say. Regardless, numerous near death experiences confirm that this is the way of it for the past 2,000 years. This was also the belief since 70 AD until Darby began his nonsensical charade in the 1830s.
Rather than a singular event, the rapture is an on-going event as supported by Rev 14:13 and 21:24. Revelation 14:13 reads, “’Then I ith heard a voice from heaven say, ‘Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.’” Revelation 21:24-26 presents a similar message. According to these verses, the gates of the New Jerusalem are always open in order to forever allow the nations and kings of the earth to “bring their splendor into it.” If the rapture and resurrection occur all at once, as is commonly supposed in futurist circles, how is it that according to Revelation 14:13 and Revelation 21:24-26 people are continuously entering the New Jerusalem long after the resurrection and the rapture? These verses challenge this idea. However, what is stated in Revelation 21:24-26 and Revelation 14:13 are exactly what one would expect if life on earth continues after the end of the age and the saints who have outlived the resurrection are each raised to heaven at the time of death.
The 2nd coming happened in 70 AD at the fall of Jerusalem. There is no future coming of Christ in the Bible, although He can certainly return again if He wants and if He does, it would likely be in judgment again.
You are correct in that "the end of the age" immediately preceded the "promised and prophesied Millennial Kingdom." You just failed to recognize that we are living in the millennium now and that their age ended in Sept 70 AD. The Mosaic Age officially ended with the fall of the Temple. The Temple had been the symbol of God's dwelling place on earth. With the Temple gone, God's dwelling place on earth is within each of us believers. We no longer have to follow the Law and do sacrifices for salvation. We get salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. THIS IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE between the two ages!!
You need to consider how very different things are today in terms of how God relates to us compared to how He did prior to 70 AD. The other HUGE difference is we no longer wait in Hades for redemption and restoration with God upon death. We go straight to heaven upon our physical death. The '"the restoration of all things" was our re-connection to God that was lost in the Garden.
You might find this interesting, I too am a pre-tribber. But because I understand that the GT was in 70 AD when Jerusalem was surrounded by Titus, my prospective is different from yours. All of the Christians who were in Jerusalem fled before Titus came. They went over the mountains to Pella and thus all of them escaped the Wrath which came to the disbelieving wicked Jews of that generation.
The resurrection occurred in 66 AD and was witnessed by Nero and recorded by two Roman historians. In Rev 12:15, a river pours out of the serpent’s mouth to drown the woman representing the saints in a flood. At the start of the Jewish revolt, Emperor Nero, the beast with the wounded head of Revelation 13:3, was in Greece about to build a canal. This man-made river appears to be referred to in Revelation 12:15. Rivers and floods frequently represent foreign armies in the Bible (Daniel 7; 9:26; 11:10, 40; Psalm 65:7; 144:7, Isaiah 8:7-8; 17:12; 60:5; Jeremiah 46:7-8; 47:1-2; 51:55-56; Ezekiel 26:3; Joel 2:9; Nahum 1:8). Thus the river and resulting flood of Revelation 12:15 are both Biblical symbols of the army Nero dispatched when he heard about the Jewish revolt at the start of the construction of this canal.
As construction of the canal began, Cassius Dio writes, “[W]hen the first workers touched the earth, blood spouted from it, groans and bellowings were heard, and many phantoms appeared. Nero himself thereupon grasped a mattock and by throwing up some of the soil fairly compelled the rest to imitate him.” Recording this event, Suetonius indicates that as Nero broke the ground, the sound of a trumpet was heard. The fact that a trumpet was heard at the time in which the dead appear to have been raised literally fulfills 1 Corinthians 15:52: “For the trumpet will sound, [and] the dead will be raised imperishable. . . .”
Since the resurrection is a spiritual event it would be far more visible in the spiritual realm. Thus the "rapture" is also a spiritual event. The rapture, "catching up to heaven" is for all of us who were alive in 66 AD or were later born after the 66 AD resurrection. 1 Thes 4:17 simply means when we die, we are immediately caught up to heaven without going to Hades first. Thus 1 Thes 4:17 would be better understood if it was written this way:
17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air (after death). And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
I believe this is what Paul was trying to say. Regardless, numerous near death experiences confirm that this is the way of it for the past 2,000 years. This was also the belief since 70 AD until Darby began his nonsensical charade in the 1830s.
Rather than a singular event, the rapture is an on-going event as supported by Rev 14:13 and 21:24. Revelation 14:13 reads, “’Then I ith heard a voice from heaven say, ‘Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.’” Revelation 21:24-26 presents a similar message. According to these verses, the gates of the New Jerusalem are always open in order to forever allow the nations and kings of the earth to “bring their splendor into it.” If the rapture and resurrection occur all at once, as is commonly supposed in futurist circles, how is it that according to Revelation 14:13 and Revelation 21:24-26 people are continuously entering the New Jerusalem long after the resurrection and the rapture? These verses challenge this idea. However, what is stated in Revelation 21:24-26 and Revelation 14:13 are exactly what one would expect if life on earth continues after the end of the age and the saints who have outlived the resurrection are each raised to heaven at the time of death.
The 2nd coming happened in 70 AD at the fall of Jerusalem. There is no future coming of Christ in the Bible, although He can certainly return again if He wants and if He does, it would likely be in judgment again.
In Josephus wars 2,chapter 18,,7th line,,,fifth word "Pella" Josephus states that "Pella" (among other cities) was laid waist at that time http://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/war-2.html ...
You are saying that Christians fled to there who is correct you or Josephus and why do you think this?