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Futurist seem to dislike Josephus and I am finally beginning to know why. He is the nail in the coffin for them..........So the over 100 passages in scripture that speak of the nearness of the return relative to the apostles themselves can be thrown out of our Bibles as meaningless because of how you interpret the one single passage of 2 Peter 3:9?
There is only one coming of Christ as a thief taught in scripture, and the Glorified Jesus applied that one and only thief's coming to 1st century peoples.
Your presuppositions require there be multiple Comings of Christ as a thief but scripture again, simply does not allow for it.
Rather, it's demonstrably your futurist presuppositions that have blinded you to the truth about these things.
Revelation and the 70ad Olivet Discourse go together like white on rice....
Jer 2:26
“As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, So is the house of Israel ashamed;
They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their prophets,
Zec 5:4 “I will send out the curse,” says the LORD of hosts;
“It shall enter the house of the thief, the house of the one who swears falsely by My name.
It shall remain in the midst of his house And consume it, with its timber and stones.
Mat 23:38
“See! Your house is left to you desolate;
Luk 13:35
“See! Your house is left to you desolate;
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Rev 3:3
“Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.
Rev 16:15
“Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”
The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
Thus they cut the very sinews of their own strength. At this critical and alarming c onjuncture, intelligence arrived that the Roman an army was approaching the city. The Jews were petrified with astonishment and fear ; there was no time for counsel, no hope of pacification, no means of flight:-- all was wild disorder and perplexity :- nothing was to be heard but "the confused noise of the warrior, " -- nothing to be seen but garments rolled in blood," -- nothing to be expected from the Romans but signal and exemplary vengeance. A ceaseless cry of combatants was heard day and night, and yet the lamentations of mourners were still more dreadful. The consternation and terror which now prevailed induced many inhabitants to desire that a foreign foe might come, and effect their deliverance. Such was the horrible condition of the place when Titus and his army presented themselves, and encamped before Jerusalem ; but, alas ! not to deliver it from its miseries but to fulfill the prediction, and vindicate the benevolent warning of our Lord : "When ye see (he had said to his disciples) the abomination of desolation, spoken or by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place, [11] and Jerusalem surrounded by armies (or camps,)
The day on which Titus encompassed Jerusalem,
Nevertheless, the city was at this time crowded with Jewish strangers, and foreigners from all parts, so that the whole nation may be considered as having been shut up in one prison, preparatory to the execution of the Divine vengeance ; and, according to Josephus this event took place suddenly ; thus, not only fulfilling the predictions of our LORD, that these calamities should come, like the swift-darting lightning" that cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the West," and " as a snare on all of them (the Jews) who dwelt upon the face of the whole earth " (Matt. xxiv. 27, and Luke xxi 35,) but justifying, also, his friendly direction, that those who fled from the place should use the utmost possible expedition.
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Revelation 18:
9 And shall be lamenting<2799> over Her and shall be grieving/smiting selves<2875> over Her the kings of the earth,
those with Her committing whoredom and indulging
whenever they may be beholding<991> the smoke of Her burning.
10 From afar<3113> having stood because of the fear of the tormenting<929> of Her saying
"Woe! woe! the great City Babylon! the strong City!
That to one hour came the judging<2920> of Thee.
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