solid_core
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1. Why do you accept Josephus as an accurate and complete record about Titus but reject the same Josephus' record about the second coming of Christ in clouds in 70 AD?Josephus, in his book; the Wars of the Jews, gives an accurate and vivid account of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem. Titus never entered the Temple before it was burned and destroyed.
Titus doesn't fit the way this future man will gain power. Revelation 17:12-13
The sitting of a man in the new Temple, claiming to be God, is yet to happen, You may see it, why not be aware of and prepared for all that is prophesied to happen then?
You must have a very elastic imagination, to think 2 Thessalonians 2:4 is a spiritual event.
Such a belief simply isn't logical and conflicts with all the other information we are given about this man; wickedness in human form, the man doomed to destruction. 2 Thessalonians 2:3
Who will desecrate a literal Temple, as Jesus says: Matthew 24:15
2. Jesus clearly said that everything will happen in the generation he lived in and then the end will come.
If Paul said something what is difficult to understand, thats another thing, but he was talking about the temple they had standing in their time. Not about some 2000 years possible temple later. This is a too much of a stretch.
There will be no third temple. His kingdom is spiritual now. Church is his temple now.
We cannot twist everything just because of one unclear sentence of Paul.
The most probable and the most simple explanation that does not twist everything else we know about what Christ and Paul said is that the abomination of desolation was brought forth by Romans and Roman emperors killed many Jews and Christians because they rejected worship them as gods. Nero especially was the one the first Church dealt with.
If Paul put it both into one sentence, ok. As Peter said, Paul's lettter are hard to understand.
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