No.
Doesn't meet the Biblical Criteria.
1st Corinthians 2:14-16
- "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
- For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ."
I KNOW the mind of Christ involves "following The word of God." Because that is the revealed mind of Christ that instructs us. Not Josephus nor his merry band of Historicists.
The problem is, every gospel that is not the true gospel, does this dance called the "half-step." They refuse to receive "some particular truths of scripture," and others want to simply chalk our difference in methodology to a difference of opinion when it's not really that simple. Whether Free Willism,
Premillennialism, Roman Catholicism,
dispensationalism, Mormonism,
Preterism, Ecumenism, Liberalism, whatever! They all come to their conclusions based upon the flawed premise that they can interpret the scriptures when only God can interpret scripture. Not Josephus, Not John Darby, not the Pope, not Joe Smith, not John Calvin, Not FoxNews, Not JPost, not any rabbi in Jersualem, and not even any man, including myself.
Interpretations belong to God. Thus the fall of the Temple
is defined by the mind of Christ, not by the vain imaginations of a man looking at history.
What is the difference you ask? The difference is that "GOD SAID" that He destroyed Israel, took the Kingdom from her, and gave it to another nation who would bring forth the fruits. By everyone's account, this spoke of the Church. This Church of the kingdom of God started at Pentecost, not AD 70. What further witness do we need than that of the Bible? Josephus? Other Jewish historians? Rabbi? Traditions? No, it's just common sense that we simply "RECEIVE" if we have ears to hear. But I think that it was Francois Voltaire who said, "common sense is just not that common!" Oh, how right he was. What he (and most of the rest of mankind) didn't understand is the reason for this. It's because man is a sinful creature, desperately wicked, and he wants "his will" to be done rather than God's. Another way to describe irrational behavior is sin.