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Here is what Irenaeus wrote that was partially quoted before.Are you saying that Irenaeus taught the GAP theory of the 70 week prophecy of Daniel?
This statement is Hearsay "And he called this period in which the Antichrist would destoy the world the “great tribuation.”
It is clear in the Bible that The LORD will destroy this earth, not the antichrist, and return it back to the way it was prior to the Creation week at his second coming.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
"Those nations however, who did not of themselves raise up their eyes unto heaven, nor returned thanks to their Maker, nor wished to behold the light of truth, but who were like blind mice concealed in the depths of ignorance, the word justly reckons "as waste water from a sink, and as the turning-weight of a balance-in fact, as nothing; " so far useful and serviceable to the just, as stubble conduces towards the growth of the wheat, and its straw, by means of combustion, serves for working gold. And therefore, when in the end the Church shall be suddenly caught up from this, it is said, "There shall be tribulation such as has not been since the beginning, neither shall be." For this is the last contest of the righteous, in which, when they overcome they are crowned with incorruption."
He says that the unjust are of use to the purifying of the saints, serving for the working of gold. His point is that tribulation is to refine the Church for he goes on to say the this tribulation will be the final contest that the righteous will overcome before being changed from corruptible to incorruptible, body, soul and spirit as Paul says.
If he means that the Church (who are the righteous) will be caught up before tribulation against them, how can tribulation be their last contest. It just wouldn't make any sense.
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