We haven't had a really rousing argument...err...discussion in a while, so in the interest of stirring up strife....debate, I mean, what do you make of these:
Rev 9:6 - And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
I've heard some say that during this time no one will die. Since "men shall seek death, and shall not find it", all men shall seek death and shall not find it. But I suppose that if only two men wished for death it would be sufficient.
So is it all men, two men, or some number in between?
Compare to Luke 21:
Luk 21:26 - Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:
Will all men's hearts fail them for fear, or would it take only two, or some other number?
I would think it would include men, women and children.
Have you and/or others read Josephus' holocaust account of the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70ad?
The famine was beyond any horror one could imagine.
REVELATION 9:6 'MEN WILL BE SEEKING THE DEATH, DEATH IS FLEEING FROM THEM"
Revelation 9:6
And in those days the men shall seeking the death, and not no shall be finding it;
and they shall be desiring/yearning to be dying, and the death is fleeing from them.
This verse has the Roman denari and appears to denote the famine that occurred during the 70ad
Roman siege of Jerusalem
Revelation 6
6 And I hear a voice in midst of the four living-ones saying: "choinex of wheat a denari and three choinex of barleys a denari,
Luke 21:23 uses both "destress" and "wrath" concerning the 70ad destruction of Jerusalem.
Matthew 24:19
“But
woe to those who are pregnant and to those
who are nursing babies in those, the days!
Mark 13:17
“But
woe to those who are pregnant and to
those who are nursing babies in those days!
Luke 21:23
“But
woe to those who are pregnant and to
those who are nursing babies in those days!
For there will be great
distress in the land and
wrath upon this people.
Luk 23:28
29 “For indeed the days are coming in which
they will say, ‘Blessed
are the barren, wombs that never bore,
and breasts which never nursed!’
The fulfillment in 70ad:
The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
The day on which
Titus encompassed Jerusalem, was the feast of the Passover
Meanwhile
the horrors of famine grew still more melancholy and afflictive.
The Jews, for of food were at length compelled to eat their belts, their sandals, the skins of their shields, dried grass, and even the ordure of oxen.
In the depth or this horrible extremity, a Jewess of noble family urged by the intolerable cravings of hunger,
slew her infant child, and prepared it for a meal ;.............................
At the recital of this melancholy and affecting occurrence, the whole city stood aghast,
and
poured forth their congratulations on those whom death had hurried away from such heartrending scenes.
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