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OT,
Other than the Gospel event of 0-33 AD, there is the coming in a judgement in 66+. But this 2nd sometimes blurs with the final day of judgement. Only afterward were they distinct.
So: 1.5 comings other than the Gospel.
No more than you and your most likely hero...John Hagee.Or maybe if Ebed and the other preterists consider all of the cloud comings.. I'd imagine that they're up to a dozen or so comings of Christ..
No more than you and your most likely hero...John Hagee.
OT,
you could call the DofJ a coming because of the inference of Lk 19:44. It must be allowed at least that he meant the whole saying about the DofJ. Ie, besides being a coming himself, he has already warned of the DofJ and will even more. But they aren't taking the warning seriously. When Lk 17 is compared with Mt 24, and it is understood that the destruction there is the DofJ, Luke shows a warning about the DofJ even earlier than the others. (the taking is not the "rapture" lol, it is taking to destruction by the zealots of Judaism).
He also warned of the house being desolated back in 13:35. Because the leaders would not sing Ps 118 about him. there is more but I'll stop.
No more than you and your most likely hero...John Hagee.
Most dispensational leaders consider John Hagee an heretic for teaching that Jews can be saved without trusting in Jesus.
I have only listened to him a few times, and never heard him say such an exceedingly false doctrine, but it is widely reported that he does teach this.
There are accounts from Josephus that defy normal categories; in his signs of destruction (a thread here) they are too poignant to have been invented. He does speak of signs in the sky of clouds, and of a large sword appearing to be hanging over the city.
Chariots in the Clouds - As Recorded by Josephus, Tacitus, Eusebius, and Others
This event satisfies acts 1:11
Preterist Perspectives on Josephus' Wars of the Jews @ PreteristArchive.com, The Internet's Only Balanced Look at Preterist Eschatology and Preterism
This second link recounts the tale of a man named "jesus" of all namea; who had roamed the city proclaiming its woe shortly before the seige. This and the voice heard coming from the temple aatisfy the prophecy of Is 66:6.
I find it amazing that someone who regularly denies that things will happen, even when the Bible explicitly says they will happen, would believe such nonsense coming from a non-inspired source.
The concept of a modern Israel as a fulfilled prophecy is very weak because it is not open to objective questions from the NT. It sidesteps them and thus just becomes 'a belief.'
Amen.OT,
I don't think Josephus knew whether the things/signs he saw were clouds; he just knew there were images in the sky.
A source doesn't have to be "inspired" to record something true. There are true things outside of the Bible. It is when we realize that the Bible is one of the things that is objectively true "because it is true to what is there" (--Schaeffer) that we have a strong concept of truth; otherwise all types of knowledge weaken by just being privately true. The concept of a modern Israel as a fulfilled prophecy is very weak because it is not open to objective questions from the NT. It sidesteps them and thus just becomes 'a belief.'
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