04-13-2014, 11:12 AM
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Re: Outer darkness: A thousand years? or for eternity?
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Originally Posted by Friedel
"For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives" (Hebrews 12:6, ESV). The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed us from all sin. We are forgiven and cleansed. Why do we have to be punished again?
Consider this.
The biggest difficulty for most people starts with Matthew 24 (as well as Mark 13 and Luke 13), known as the Olivet Discourse. I am not going to expound it here but the Olivet Discourse in its entirety focuses on the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. It does not speak about some future, postponed events 2,000+ years later.
No, the Olivet Discourse is about what was going to happen to Jerusalem and the temple 40 years later (that generation, as the Lord Jesus Himself predicted, and a generation in the Bible is taken as 40 years). And it all happened as the Lord Jesus Himself prophesied.
Interestingly, although John was also present when the Lord gave the Second Sermon on the Mount (as the Olivet Discourse is sometimes also referred to) he curiously made no mention of it in his gospel narrative. Instead, he wrote a long epistle about the destruction of the temple and the city (plus many other things). We know that as the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the last book of the New Testament.
John Nelson Darby and the Brethren (also those of Benjamin Wills Newton) popularized the teaching of dispensations so that this whole system is known as Dispensationalism. For good measure it has a firm footing in Daniel 9 and the Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks with the last “week” (seven years) even more curiously postponed to some indeterminate seven years in the future. It also hooks on Zechariah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Nehemiah and others.
Then about a century ago there came a man with a dishonorable personal history, Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, who published the Scofield Bible, incorporating all the Brethren teachings and leading millions astray.
Then came Witness Lee… (and many other Dispensationalists) teaching all this grandiose nonsense.
And in the process the Bible and the teachings of God’s Word have become secondary even if none of these teachings make sense.
Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21 and the Book of Revelation were fulfilled in 70 AD.
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Just to be clear, this is a Preterist<-click view.
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