Yeah, the idea that our Lord was answering questions being asked of Him by His disciples is simply hilarious, innit? No, you lot know that Jesus turned away from His followers to face the cameras, and address His answers to people thousands of years later.
Sure, the Romans carried standards, as did all army units right up until modern times.
You sure you want to admit that? After all, that's history, something you folks appear to view with disgust and horror because it simply refuses to conform to your thunk-up-by-hand doctrinal sillinesses.
And the separate units still have standards
Surely not! And I suppose they make sacrifice to them as don't, don't they? Don't they?
; they just don't carry them into battle too much now.) Whatever reverence the Romans gave them was NOT the AOD.
Of course not! Pagan sacrifice in the Temple was abominable when Antiochus's boys did it, but was altogether harmless when the Riomans did it. Says so right there on your doctrine.
Daniel, Paul, and Jesus in Revelation made it plain the AOD will be done by ONE MAN.
That's what's called "knight jump exegesis", the art of pasting together unrelated Scriptures by taking two jumps this way and one jump that way (or vice versa). Handiest thing since "but what that
really means is..." when you'r trying to shore up a contrived doctrine.
And I strongly suggest you look up the meanings of the Greek word 'genea'.[/quote[
You could profit from doing that yourself. Just sayin'
Just look around you. The world is still going right on, same as it did in 65 AD, 70 AD, & 71 AD.
Except that the Temple had been subjected to the abomination of p[agan sacrifice being performed in it, and had been both desecrated and destroyed. Sacrifice and oblation have ceased. Jerusalem was .sacked by the Romans. The Jews were slaughtered. But to you lot, it "didn't could". Right, and I'm your sainted grandmother.
All that's changed is the inventions & scientific progress that God has allowed man to make. there's not been any worldwide great trib yet and certainly no return of Jesus.
But according to your extraordinarily silly doctrine, nothing of import happened at all. The world chaanged out of all recognition, especially if you were a Middle Easterm Jew, but hey, didn't bother you none so it didn't signify. How obtuse can anyone get?
And prophecy is still being fulfilled right before our eyes.
Oh, of course! Every tornado and earthquake is a Sign of the End. Every economic downturn that affects the price of internet bandwidth in the US is evidence that The Rapture ® is at hand. Trump gets elected? Sign of the End.
Biden gets elected? Sign of the End. The Sanhedrin is reestablished, although no one seems aware of it except Dispensationalist Baptists. The Jews are in a lather to rebuild the Temple, which seems to be common knowledge to everyone but the Jews. There's a giant mainframe computer (a what? in 2023?) called The Beast in Geneva waiting to be used by The Antichrist, and has been for a minumum of 40 years. The Chinese are rebuilding the Silk Road so they can move their 200,000,000 cavalry troopers (seriously?) to attack Israel for not buying enough iPhones; except they weren't, and aren't. The Rapture ® has to occur within one generation of the recognition of the founding of the political State of Israel, and thus must happen before 1988/2000/2011/2012/2023/2056/3034/TBA. But Texas is now chocablock with Red Heifers, so The Time Is At Hand, right? On and on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
travel & knowledge have exploded in the last hundred years, as never before. Many "Christian" nations have made sexual perversions the new normal.
And God knows sin was almost unheard of in the Roman Empire, wasn't it? They didn't abort babys, they just stuck on the exposure wall. And murder was pretty much unknown then. And travel didn't happen then, as obviously St. Paul never made it out of Judea. No sexual perversion then, either. Right.
But prets can't see that.
Could be. But you lot are in the ridiculous position of having to deny that events thst unarguably happened either didn't happen at all or "didn't count". That's pure nonsense.
They disregard reality all around
Yeah, where pretty much everytibng is a Sign of the End, including the things invented from whole cloth. Balderdash. Our Lord will return when it's His good pleasure, and all the rubbish "schedules" contrived by Dispies are just that - rubbish.
them because they're so in thrall to their false doctrine & their gurus that they misinterpret Scripture & don't see the forest for the trees. So I just laugh & laugh at the nonsense you & other prets bring up.
In the end, laughing is about all you've got. that, and a wholly unscriptural made-made addle-pated "end times" doctrine based on nothing at all. Have a good time with it!