That too is not true. Even the New Testament itself records the widespead famine in Palestine, remember Paul taking up a collection to take back to Jerusalem? Egypt too experienced a terrible drought that caused a disruption in the grain shipments to Rome causing more civil unrest in the empire. Rome was also plagued by a disease that broke out when foreign armies were occupying the city that caused lesions on the bodies of all those afflicted. And with the opening up and spread of trade made possible by the Pax Romana, diseases were also spread and those in the Mediterranean world were exposed to pathogens they had no immunity to. Just as the first century had dawned with peace and prosperity, it was closing with war and disease. The first case of bubonic plague hit Libya, Egypt, and Syria within a decade of the war.
we take what jesus said (they will deliver you up to tribulation)
We take what we are shown in revelations. all the seals being opened, and all the catastrophic events..
the mere fact jesus said if he did not return no flesh (libing thing.. not just human flesh, but no flesh) would survive.
But you can't just take those verses out of context. There being no flesh saved if the Lord had not shortened those days wasn't speaking of some worldwide event, but of just how nearly complete the destruction of the Jewish nation would be had God not shortened the days: "Isaiah also cried concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved; For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha." Romans 9:27-29 Now notice that Paul said Isaiah said these things "concerning Israel." And he was quoting Isaiah 10:22-23: "For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return; the consummation decreed shall overflow with righteousness. For the Lord God of hosts shall make a conumption, even determined, in the midst of the land." That translation of the Hebrew is a little difficult, but it is basically saying that God would complete the destruction that he had decreed in the the Law. This consumption, or consummation (an end, a full end) that was decreed in the Law is also what Daniel was talking about: "...and for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate, even until the coonsummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." And all of this goes back to what was decreed in the Law, the curse against Israel if they broke covenant with God and turned from him to worship idols, which they did, time and gain throughout their history. God had always warned the Jewish people that he would punish them with destuction so that "ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude."
So this destruction of the Jewish nation, even though they were as numerous as the sands of the sea or the stars of the sky, they would be left few in number, and indeed, had God not shortened the days of the war, there wouldn't have been any Jews left alive. Again Isaiah 1:9: Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a small remnant, we should have been made like unto Sodom, and we should have been made like unto Gomorrah." If God had not shortened the days, no flesh would have been left alive, was speaking of the Jewish people in the sore, bitter judgment that God brought upon that sinful, stiff-necked people.
what happened in ww2 made what happened in 70ad look like a school picnic.
what will happen in this 'great tribulation" will make ww2 look like a picnic.
I just can not with a straight face and clear conscience put these events in 70 ad.. sorry
But you are basing that on an assumption about what God shortening the days else no flesh would be saved means, but can you offer any Scriptural support for making that a prophecy about a worldwide war? Where does the Scriptures say elsewhere anything of the like? Because I have shown you scriptures which speak of it being a reference to the destruction of the Jewish nation.
Yes, what happened was horrible.. But jesus predicted it would happen. Even daniel did.. so it would have been no suprise to them..
But that's not the point. The point is that it is the only prediction of this kind in the Bible and Jesus and Daniel and Isaiah and Moses and the Revelation were all talking about the same thing. And none of them were talking about a world war and a remnant of gentiles being left alive. Throughout the Bible this subject is always about a people who were as the sand and the stars who would be left few in number and that was Israel.
In Christ,
Pilgrimer