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Recent content by Houly

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    Is there a break in Daniel's 70 weeks? (Daniel 9:26)

    That would place the AofD in 51/52 BC. Do you separate the AofD of Daniel 9:27 and Daniel 12:11? I consider them the same, so I think the midpoint of the 70th week is tied to the time of great distress, etc. (Daniel 12:1) "There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the...
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    Will there be a false messiah reigning from Israel ?

    Yeah, this exactly. I think he will claim his position in a temple in Jerusalem, but I know that could be wrong. 2 Thessalonians 2 gives us these simple facts: • Before the Day of the Lord, • an individual man • will exalt himself above God, • and he will be worshiped by many. • That...
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    Is there a break in Daniel's 70 weeks? (Daniel 9:26)

    Ok, could you explain how it would line up? So the first 'seven' would start with Cyrus, 538 BC?
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    shorten the days

    16 hours right? It could mean individual days (maybe the result of the several unprecedented earthquakes in Revelation), but I think it means the total time of tribulation. If Jesus did not return exactly when He will, there would literally be no one alive on the earth. Here are other...
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    Talk of possible war with Syria.

    No.. how do you get that from the NT? Christians, like Jesus, are to be lambs to the slaughter. Would you have encouraged Christians to kill Paul when He was an enemy of Jesus? Paul's many victims were meant to die at his hands exactly when they did, as saints, never resorting to violence. Paul...
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    Talk of possible war with Syria.

    That's not a sword made of metal. That argument is used to justify just about every war: "God wants us to kill these evil people, His enemies," and the other side makes the same argument. They are both wrong. Every single person that uses violence thinks it's in a good cause, and it never is...
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    Talk of possible war with Syria.

    We should be fully willing to sacrifice, even our lives, for another person by putting ourselves in their place. We should realize who is in the wrong and preach and stand against their actions, but we should NEVER use deadly force, even against an "evil enemy." Jesus came to redeem that enemy...
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    Talk of possible war with Syria.

    Yeah, Gog and Magog and everything else happens and will happen exactly as God planned out long ago. All wrath is His; none is ours. Christians need to be preaching and practicing nonviolence. Many "Christians" and others try to do the work of God by waging "righteous" wars, and they could not...
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    Question for preterism: When did this happen?

    That doesn't mean every time the word "sea" is used it refers to a multitude of people. Sometimes "sea" means the actual sea. Consider that John was prophesying a literal object ("something like a huge mountain all ablaze") being thrown into the actual sea, killing a third of all actual sea...
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    Question for preterism: When did this happen?

    Ok. This is the verse we're looking at: The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. (Revelation 8:8)
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    Question for preterism: When did this happen?

    "The turning of a 1/3 of the sea into blood" has definitely not happened. "The death of a third of all sea life" has definitely not happened. Same for the rest, but they will all be fulfilled at some point.
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    Question for preterism: When did this happen?

    I updated the original post. It's now an excerpt from a work by Charlie Campbell: The Book of Revelation. It's a list of seven judgment events prophesied in Revelation that were definitely not fulfilled in the first century (or any time since).
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    Is there a break in Daniel's 70 weeks? (Daniel 9:26)

    Then that would be the midpoint of the 70th week. The AofD is "set up in the temple" at the midpoint of the 70th week by "he," who is the ruler/prince that confirms the seven-year covenant. Is the AofD in Daniel 9 the same as in Daniel 12? I definitely think so. "From the time that the daily...
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    Is there a break in Daniel's 70 weeks? (Daniel 9:26)

    Alright, the KJV translation for Daniel 9:27 ("for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate") sounds like the doing of Christ. The NIV translation I believe is right ("and at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation") sounds like the doing of an...
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    Anyone know anything as to FEMA area 3 and Octocber 1st of this year?

    Kicking Out the Homeless in Downtown Columbia, South Carolina | TIME.com Police Oppose Criminalizing Homelessness In Columbia, South Carolina: 'I Can't Do That. I Won't Do That' Police will be responsible for rounding up homeless people on the street and sending them to the shelter. Once...