Douggg
anytime rapture, non-dispensationalist, futurist
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David, why create those kind of rules? None of the end times prophecies are stand alone.Let's assume that all we had was Ezekiel 38 and 39. Thus no other Scriptures to consider. Who in either of these chapters is Ezekiel 39:17-20 being applied to? In order for there to be two battles here, you should be able to show this from these two chapters alone. How does it make good sense to get to verse 17 in Ezekiel 39, then have no one in that chapter nor chapter 38, to even apply this to?
There is an entire picture painted by the time of the end, latter days, latter years, prophecies in Daniel and Ezekiel. None of those are stand alone.
Even in Ezekiel itself, for example, Ezekiel 38-39 is not stand alone, that it relies from other chapters in Ezekiel... In Ezekiel 39,
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
The basis for that verse goes back to Ezekiel 36, when the Jews were scattered into the nations. It had the effect of disgracing God's name, because it made it look like to the heathen that God was incapable of not letting it happen. The heathen were saying - these are the people of the LORD, and gone forth out of his land?
20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
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