Jesus and all the NT writers and Apostles were Amillennial. If you study them and let the "rapture" books go for awhile, the NT will make sense and the time line I provided will cut through all the malarkey.
I do not know what amillennial means. I do not worry to much about the rapture. I plan to be here until 2029. I will be 77 and I do not know if I will life much longer but it would be nice to make it to my 80th birthday. That would be quite an achievement.
There is some dispute as to whether Titus wanted the temple preserved or destroyed. Some say he wanted it preserved but the mercenaries got carried away. When the city was destroyed he is reported to have said to God that the terrible nature of what had happened was not because of him but that God had done this, so aweful was the result. The description of the events of that and the surrounding cities matches that in the Bible. ANd it fits perfectly into the words of Jesus. There was not one stone upon another and the place was plowed under. This was the wrath of God against them. The Christians, btw, had left town after they saw Jerusalem surrounded by armies. They remembered the words of JEsus and left so that they did not partake of the wrath poured out upon the evil city.
The old covenant was a real covenant between God and the Jews, not between God and the whole world. That was ended in 70 AD. Just and the old covenant was never offered to all mankind, but only those who entered into it, so the new covenant is not between God and all mankind but only those people who are willing to enter into it. It has its requirements as well. Those in the new covenant are not lawless.
The tax level is pretty low. Have to be living on others to live and avoid taxes and those who work so you can eat are paying taxes.
It is very encouraging to me to read of more and more people thinking the above as I do. It is very encouraging. Dispensationalism has gutted the church of its drive to spread the good news leaving instead those just waiting for Jesus to come and get them before all hell breaks loose. It robbed them of a hope and a future and the joy of being a part of the spreading of the rule of Christ throughout the earth and where they live. I am glad to read this in your post and others.
The changes that have to be in the world are not close to being reached. Besides, isn't it better to be working like there is still work to do for Him than wait for him to come doing nothing because he is coming soon and it is all for naught?
As instructed.
Jesus and the Apostles were Amillennial before John wrote Revelation. Truth does not change. If you make Revelation conform to the NT instead of the other way around, you will understand Revelation as John did.
What changes? According to the bible. What is your timeframe - from the bible of when those "changes", which you have said are not close to being reached, will take place?
I don't know of a single person advocating to stop serving Jesus...except them opposed to Christianity and/or who have left Christianity.
Ah, but believing Jesus is coming any day now is more exciting. Doesn’t make it true but does excite the senses more than serving him day after day until one dies.
The futurist view, the preterist view, the amilennial view are so far in conflict with one another - there should be separate forums, just like this site has separate forums for Catholics and protestants. Let everyone go their own way.
