This was written by a friend of mine, and most of it I agree with.
1. Jesus' prophecies of Matt. 24, Luke 21 and Mark 13 have already happened. They happened in that generation and were fulfilled in AD70. His prophesies were about the destruction of Jerusalem, the temple and the old covenant system and priesthood.
2. The book of Revelation, for the most part, was a prophecy about a coming war that took place between AD66 and AD70, and possibly to AD73. It also, was about the destruction of Jerusalem, the temple and the old covenant system to make way for the fullness of the new covenant and the kingdom of God on earth. The last few chapters of Revelation speak of the new covenant kingdom of God on earth which we live in right now.
3. AntiChrist was never a person, but a false teaching.
5. Nero was 666. He and the Roman Empire was the beast which came out of the sea. The religious leaders in Jerusalem were the beast which came out of the earth. These are prophetic symbols shown in the book of Revelation.
6. The great tribulation happened in AD70. We do not await some future, destructive event that the church needs to be rescued from. What we commonly think of as "rapture" is simply "resurrection" where the dead in Christ will rise first with a new body and then those of us who are alive will be changed in an instant with a new body (Philippians 3:20-21, 1 Cor. 15:50-52).
7. The man of sin, or lawlessness, was a zealot named John Levi, who took over the temple, killed the priest and acted like God in the temple. He is the main reason that Titus destroyed the temple in Jerusalem during the war of AD66 to AD73.
8. We currently live in the age of the kingdom of God, not the church age. We are to be "making all things new" with Jesus and advancing His kingdom throughout the whole earth. His kingdom, as He said, is to grow from a seed to a bush to a large tree, or as leaven spreading throughout the whole lump of dough, or throughout the whole earth.
9. The new heaven and the new earth is the church, the new Jerusalem. The old heaven and the old earth (or region of land) was the temple and the old city of Jerusalem. We are the new temple, new creations in Christ, under a new covenant, the new heavens and the new earth
Its times for a paradigm shift in what we believe and how we live out our faith. There is no fear, we are the kingdom of God. We have the power and authority of Jesus Christ, our High Priest and King! We are His body and His temple in the earth.
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