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It's so true what you say above.When the text is saying all nations like that, I simply take it to mean that it is involving something global since all nations depict something global. Sure, hyperbole might explain some of this, thus it doesn't have to literally mean every single nation on the planet though it could mean that, but even so, all nations still depict global, which then explains blood shed on the earth, the fact saints have been martyred globally rather than just in a specific region on the planet. The reason why they have is because Christianity eventually spread globally and still is. Which means there is always going to be somewhere on the planet where there are those that won't tolerate Christianity.
Why is anything global irrelevant to Preterists when it comes to the Discourse, and the book of Revelation, for example?
"And he says to me, The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues"
-- "And he was given to it to war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given to him over every tribe and tongue and nation."
-- "After these things I looked, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palms in their hands."
-- "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come." -- "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and will kill you. And you will be hated of all nations for My name's sake."
-- "And there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might both speak, and might cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed." -- "Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God." -- "And he opened his mouth in blasphemy toward God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, and those dwelling in Heaven."
-- "Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand). Then let those in Judea flee into the mountains."
Revelation 17:15; Revelation 13:7; Revelation 7:9; Matthew 24:14; Matthew 24:9; Revelation 13:15; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4; Revelation 13:6; Matthew 24:15-16.
"Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, "This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. But in vain they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Matthew 15:7-9.
The Jewish scribes and Pharisees taught for doctrines their twisted versions of the commandments of God,
and the New Testament's scribes and Pharisees teach for doctrines their twisted versions of the return of Christ and what is - or rather Who is - the only holy place or Tabernacle of God - something which is extremely grievous to the Son of God who taught all generations of His disciples to be watching for His return, and extremely grievous to the body of Christ, IMO,
- but they expose their own dishonesty by being not even honest enough to acknowledge it or address it when it's pointed out to them that the very grammar of the passage regarding the tribulation of the saints and the return of Christ says the opposite of what they teach.
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