In response to Disillusioned JW and a few other comments,
...some who are TV evangelist theologians, say that in our modern times the temple will be rebuilt and later be destroyed by the anti-Christ. They thus teach that conditions will exist for a second fulfillment in regards to the temple being destroyed. I've seen a number of movies (which I think are based upon books by Tim Francis LaHaye, who was a baptist evangelical Christian minister, but is now dead) which depict this idea.
Dispensationalism is the driving force behind most of evangelical Christianity. They say the Temple will be rebuilt is because the AC claims to be God "in the Temple of God".
They use 2 Thes. 2, Daniel 9:24-27, and Daniel 11 for support.
"Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."
The dispensational scenario looks something like this.
There's a pre-trib rapture of the 'saints' where the holy spirit is removed from the earth followed by a 7 year tribulation. They call the final 3 1/2 years 'the Great Tribulation'.
The antichrist - a global dictator, then comes to power and unites the world. He makes a peace treaty with Israel and its neighbors - the first man to ever do it, allows them to build their temple and resume animal sacrifices, only to double-cross them have them cease in the Middle of the week/7 year tribulation....etc.
There's are and have been a host of powerhouse dispensationalist. Lahaye, Jenkins, Tom Ice, Jimmie Deyoung, John MacArthur, David Jeremiah, Jack Van Impe, Perry Stone, etc. The whole thing goes back to John Darby. It gained a lot of steam back in the 60's & 70's and has become the dominate mindset of most evangelical, Baptist, and Pentecostal people today.
Mathew 24 is Jesus's reply to Israel's plight during the final days of this 'age/world'.
There are several prophecies both in the Old and New Testament that have never passed in the 1st century and even up to today. Celestial events are mentioned to occur during this time period that never have. We live in a technocratic age of artificial intelligence, a coming digital society. The great reset is underway ushering in the globalist agenda of the New World order. Digital ID's and currency are around the corner. Not to mention we live in an age of nuclear weapons.
This is todays Joseph Mercola "Story at a glance"...
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- The Great Reset involves the demolition and radical overhaul of several interlocking pillars of civilization: technology, society, economy, environment and geopolitics. Food and health also fall within these categories
- Through control of these core pillars, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its globalist allies intend to seize control of all the nations of the world and centralize all power and wealth
- The WEF is an organization that profits from famine and disease; it uses tragedies and fear to further its own agenda. It intends to dictate what you eat, what you own and what you think, under the guise of building a “sustainable future”
- The WEF-led cabal believes in transhumanist and technocratic principles, and the technocratic system requires extensive surveillance and artificial intelligence-driven technologies to keep everyone in check
- Technocrats actually believe they’re better, more evolved than the rest, and this superiority gives them the right to decide the fate of mankind. They also reject the notion of free will. Once you understand this basic mindset, it’s easier to understand why they think nothing of stripping you of your freedom and ability to make choices for yourself
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I think this is prophesied in Daniel 7:7-8 which is NOT the antichrist...
"After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things."
The 7 headed 10 horned beast of Revelation 13 and 17 are 'different' end-time beast.
"For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." Mt 24:21
1. Are you saying verse 21 applies to the 1914 generation exclusively?
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Mt 24:34
2. Are you saying verse 34 applies to the 1914 generation exclusively?
I am in a way but not totally. 1914 was around the time the New World Order began gaining steam. I understand a generation in this context the way Vines Expository Dictionary of New Testament words explains...
The whole multitude of men living at the same time, Mat 24:34; Mar 13:30; Luk 1:48; 21:32; Phl 2:15, and especially of those of the Jewish race living at the same period, Mat 11:16, etc.
