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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: Concerning A False Prophet [Hagee's Rapture Cult Must Read] ".....Book VI, Chapter V, Section 2 (Entire) Concerning A False Prophet 2. And now the Romans, judging that it was in vain to spare what was round the holy house, burnt all those places, as also the remains of the cloisters and the gates, two excepted; the one on the east side, and the other on the south; both which, however, they burnt afterward (1). They also burnt down the treasury-chambers, in which was an immense quantity of money, and an immense number of garments, and other precious goods, there reposited; and, to speak all in a few words, there it was that the entire riches of the Jews were heaped up together, while the rich people had there built themselves chambers, [to contain such furniture.] The soldiers also came to the rest of the cloisters that were in the outer [court of the] temple, whither the women and children and a great mixed multitude of the people fled, in number about six thousand. But before Caesar had determined anything about these people, or given the commanders any orders relating to them, the soldiers were in such a rage, that they set the cloister of fire; by which means it came to pass that some of these were destroyed by throwing themselves down headlong, and some were burnt in the cloisters themselves. Nor did any one of these escape with his life. A false prophet* (2) was the occasion of these people's destruction, who had made a public proclamation in the city that very day, that God commanded them to get up upon the temple, and that there they should receive miraculous signs of their deliverance. Now, there was then a great number of false prophets suborned by the tyrants to impose upon the people, who denounced this to them, that they should wait for deliverance from God; and this was in order to keep them from deserting, and that they might be buoyed up above fear and care by such hopes. Now, a man that is in adversity does easily comply with such promises; for when such a seducer makes him believe that he shall be delivered from those miseries which oppress him, then it is that the patient is full of hopes of such deliverance (3). Whiston's Footnotes 1 Reland here justly takes notice that these Jews who had despised the true Prophet, were deservedly abused and deluded by the false ones. PRETERIST PERSPECTIVES 1. Isaiah 1:7; 26:11; 33:12; 66:15; Jeremiah 5:14; 7:20; Matthew 3:11-12; 13:40, etc. Matthew 24:4-5 "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many......." EXCERPT: VISUAL TIMELINE OF THE ROMAN-JEWISH WAR TRACKING THE FIRST JEWISH REVOLT FROM AN THEOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW POV: Administrative | Factional | Military | Theological INVESTIGATING CORRELATIONS BETWEEN JOSEPHUS' ACCOUNT AND THE FIRST CENTURY FULFILLMENT OF BIBLE PROPHECY "And all this prophecy of what would result from their insolence against the Christ has been clearly proved to have taken place after their plot against our Saviour. For it was not before it, but afterwards from that day to this that God turned their feasts into mourning, despoiled them of their famous mother-city, and destroyed the holy Temple therein when Titus and Vespasian were Emperors of Rome, so that they could no longer go up to keep their feasts and sacred meetings. I need not say that a famine of hearing the Word of the Lord has overtaken them all, in return for their rejection of the Word of God; since with one voice they refused Him, so He refuses them." (AD 310s - Eusebius, Demonstratio Evangelica, X) Jesus Predicting Fall of Temple in Word "Behold, Your House is Left to you Desolate" Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 39.
#27. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#0)
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Christians put a lot of crosses up, but no, by some sort of miracle it is supposedly not a death cult. Not an honest one, anyway. Maybe someone will come up with another bogus miraculous non-death-cult religion, perhaps one that uses a gallows as a symbol.
In a way, you make a point, somewhat, and unintentionally I am sure. Wearing a cross is the same as wearing a jeweled mini-gallows, and a cross hung in a church is like having an electric chair on the stage, and the catholics would actually have a depiction of Christ sitting in that electric chair. People keep crucifying Him. What is done is done.
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