Not just you, we're all living in the rebellion that comes first, before that man of lawlessness is revealed.
There you go, I rest my case. David wanted to build the Temple, but God said Solomon would do it. It's God that gives the go ahead for Temple building projects. If he didn't let David build one for Him, a man after His own heart, why would he want the people living in Israel right now to build Him one. And let me ask you this, if they went ahead and did build one right now without Authorization, would it meet the criteria to be called a "holy place"???
"But God said to me, ‘You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.’
“And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it… And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.”
This is a funny little thread. This thread has more action.
He was right about what he was right about. He was right about the Gospel. He was right about fighting the Gnostics. He was right about the book of Matthew being the only book in the new testament having been originally written in Hebrew. But he wasn't right about the end times. He was way off. But he never claimed to be dogmatic. He said something about the prophetic scriptures being tricky. "But when the time has arrived, and the prediction has come to pass, then the prophecies have a clear and certain exposition"
I can't figure out why anyone would think Irenaeus would be in the know. Polycarp would have known more, he was a disciple of John. But neither Polycarp OR Irenaeus could know what the AofD would be. Daniel was sealed until the time of the end.
Remember knowledge would be increased???
People would run to and Fro???
Hello???
