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pick up our last paragraph. And in the
vision thus interpreted found it is
found a key to the entire prophecy for
this is the starting point of the whole
seals trumpets and vials set forth a
continuous course of history stretching
to the consummation having as its
commencement the going forth of the
gospel of Christ to accomplish it's
world subduing work. The inference is
unavoidable that the Revelation presents
a prophetic fore-view of the entire
course of Christian history from the
foundation of the church to the end of
the world, nor was any other
interpretation ever known in the
Christian Church till the rise of modern
futurism.
5. The red, black and lived horses, and
their riders, of the second, third and
fourth seals
we're explained by primitive
interpreters as signifying the wars
famines and pestilences which our Lord
had predicted in chapter 24 of Matthew,
as salient events which would occur in
the interval between his departure and
his return. Thus in the
in the commentary of Victorinus, who
died as a martyr under the persecution
of Diocletian, after the application of
going forth of the rider on the white
horse of the first seal to the
victorious kingdom of Christ he adds the
other three horses very clearly signify
the wars famines and pestilences
announced by our Lord in the gospel.
6. The vision under the fifth seal of the
souls of the martyrs beneath the altar
was interpreted by the Church of the
first 3/4 of the first three centuries
as representing the continuous
persecutions and martyrdoms of Christ's
sakes while the sixth seal was regarded
as a vision of the judgments attending
the consummation or close of the age no
other view of the meaning of the seals
is possible
to the early church their skull seemed
to reach to the consummation and it was
most natural that their mysterious
symbols should be interpreted in the
light of the Lord's plain non-figurative
predictions concerning the events whose
occurrence should extend to his second
Advent both prophecies were by the same
divine source and both seemed to predict
the same course of events wars famines
pestilences earthquakes persecutions a
universal proclamation of the gospel a
Great Tribulation and then the darkening
of the Sun and Moon the falling of the
stars and the shaking of the powers of
heaven and the advent of the Son of man
in power and glory in his kingdom
holding this view as regards the first
six seals the early church unable to
anticipate the long course of history
which lay concealed in the future
considered that in the remaining visions
of the book the revealing spirit
retraced the steps leading up to the
consummation in order to fill in the
features omitted by the introductory
sketch
thus Victorina says with reference to
the trumpets and vials which succeeded
the seals quote we must not regard the
order of what is said because frequently
the Holy Spirit when he has traversed
even to the end of the last time returns
again to the same times and fills up
what he had before failed to say to this
interpreter the brief silence under the
seventh seal was the beginning of
everlasting rest while the judgments of
the trumpets represented events
connected with the coming of Antichrist
seven according to victorious the mighty
cloud cloade angel of the covenant of
Revelation 10 is our Lord his position
is standing on the sea and land
signifies that all things are placed
under his feet the command to measure
the temple he regards as relating not to
the rebuilding of the Jewish temple but
to the right ordering of the Christian
Church by the Assembly of its bishops
it's faith was to be brought into
agreement with the teachings of the Word
of God
the slaughter of the witnesses he
explains as representing the slaying of
holy prophets by Antichrist in the last
times the 1260 days of their prophesied
he interprets literally as the period of
three and a half three years in six
months during which the witnesses should
prophesy a nurse a cloth clothes
character as despised and persecuted by
the world to have interpret into 1260
days as symbolically representing 1260
years of a suffering and subjected
condition of witnesses two Gospels two
gospel truth was of course impossible at
that early period of the church's
history the latter view only dawned upon
the minds of apocalyptic interpreters
during the actual fulfillment of the
prophecy in the Middle Ages eight the
woman clothed with the Sun with the moon
under her feet and a crown of twelve
stars of chapter 12 is according to
Victoria's and all of the interpreters
the ancient church of fathers and
prophets and saints and apostles in his
treatise on Christ and Antichrist
Hippolyta says by the woman clothed with
the Sun he meant most manifestly the
church
in dude with the father's word whose
brightness is above the Sun through the
words upon her head a crown of twelve
stars refer to the Twelve Apostles by
truth the church was founded the three
and a half times of her seclusion in the
wilderness is the period of 1260 days or
three and a half years during which the
church seeks concealment in the
wilderness from the persecutions of
Antichrist finding no safety in foot but
in flight number nine the hundred and
forty-four thousand sealed out of the 12
tribes of Israel at chapter 7 and 14 are
interpreted by Tertullian not as Jews
but Christians with the same anti Dudek
view he marked he markedly speaks of the
apocalyptic New Jerusalem though with
the name of the 12 tribes of Israel
written on its gates as Christian not
Jewish the Jerusalem spoken by Saint
Paul to the Galatians as the mother of
all Christians the same view was clearly
and powerfully advocated by the
celebrated origin and was held by
Methodius and lactantius in fact was the
leading feature a primitive exposition
10 on the important subject of
Antichrist
while there was a universal occurrence
in the general idea of prophecy that
there was in respect of the details of
applications a considerable measure of
difference these differences arising
mainly out of certain current notions of
the coming Antichrist as in some way
Jewish as well as Roman and the
difficulty of combining and adjusting
the two characteristics the Roman view
was derived from the Antichrist being
represented in the prophecy as the Roman
Beast arising after the healing of his
deadly wound his Jewish character bear
held seems to have arisen from his being
regarded as in some sense a false Christ
such as our Lord predicted in Matthew 24
hence I Rene us and Hippolyta's imagined
that the place of his manifestation
would be the Jewish sanctuary and that
it's time would synchronize with the
last half of the 70 weeks of Daniel 9
the whole subject was necessarily
involved in great perplexity to these
early expose eaters no correct
anticipation of the fulfillment of the
predictions related relating to
Antichrist viewed as a whole as possible
in the opening centuries of the church's
history certain points however were
clearly incorrectly seen Justin Martyr
one of the earliest of the fathers
considered the apocalyptic 10 horn beast
or rather it's really head to be
identified with st. Paul's man of sin
and Saint John - Antichrist and irony is
directed his readers to look out for the
division of the Roman Empire into ten
kingdoms as that which was immediately
to be followed by the manifestation of
Antichrist
the man of sin he also remarkably
explained the number of Antichrist named
666 as symbolizing Latinos the Latin men
seem that they who thus held the world's
Empire were Latins 11 - the early church
fathers the Babylon of Revelation
representing Rome this is an important
point
owing to the magnitude of the position
occupied by Babylon the Great in an
apocalyptic prophecy and also to the
fact that the angelic and interpretation
of the vision relating to Babylon makes
it the key to the whole prophecy tell me
blessed john says Hippolyta's vowel
apostle and disciple of the lord what
thou has heard and seen respecting
Babylon wake up and speak for it was she
that exiled thee to Patmos Babylon in
our own John says Tertullian is a figure
of the city of Rome as being equally
great and proud of her sway and
triumphant over the Saints on revelation
17 9 Victorina says the seven heads or
the southern Sill Hills the Seven Hills
on which the woman sitteth
that is the city of Rome on the
apocalyptic babylons meaning Rome all
agreed twelve
the continued existence of the Roman
Empire was commonly regarded by the
early fathers as the let or hindrance to
the manifestation of the man of sin or
Antichrist in his magnificent apology
addressed to the rulers of the Roman
Empire Tertullian says that the
Christian Church prayed for the
stability of the Empire because they
knew that a mighty shock impending over
the whole earth in fact the very end of
all things
threatening dreadful lows was only
retarded by the continued existence of
the Roman Empire we have no desire to be
overtaken by these de dire events and in
praying that their coming maybe delay we
are lending or aid to Rome's duration as
to the let or hindrance of the
manifestation of the man of sin we have
the consenting testimony of the early
church fathers says Elliot from irony is
the disciple of the disciple of st. John
down to Chrysostom and Jerome to the
effect that it was understood to be the
apartment the imperial power ruling and
residing at Rome number 13 the martyr
Church of the first three centuries
interpreted the first resurrection
foretold and the twentieth chapter the
revelation as a literal resurrection of
the dead hence they believed in the
premillennial advent of Christ on no
point of interpretation was their
agreement more remarkable on the
millinery question all primitive
expositors except arising and the few
who rejected the revelation as not
apostolic or pre millenarian and
construed the first resurrection of the
saints
literally
they looked for the appearance of Christ
to destroy Antichrist they believe that
the Roman Empire would fall into ten
kingdoms then Antichrist would appear
then Christ would come in the glory of
his kingdom
thus Latin tias held that after the
destruction of Antichrist the Saints
raised from the grave would reign with
Christ through the world's seventh
chiliad a period to commence that is the
seventh millennium from creation
lactantius judged in about two hundred
years at farthest the Lord alone being
that's forward worshipped in a renovated
world it's still living inhabitants
multiplying incalculably in a state of
terrestrial felicity and the
resurrection Saints during this
commencement of an eternal Kingdom in
nature like angelic reigning over them
unquote at the conclusion of his
treatise on Christ and the Antichrist
Hippolyta's expressed himself as follows
moreover concerning the resurrection and
the kingdom of Saints Daniel says and
many of them that sleep in the dust of
the earth shall arise some to
everlasting life Isaiah says the dead
men shall arise and they that are in
their tombs shall awake for the dew from
B is healing to them the Lord says many
in that day shall hear the voice of the
son of God and they the hear shall live
and the Prophet does awake thou that
sleepest and arise from the dead in
Christ shall give thee light and John
says blessed is holy is he that hath
part in the first resurrection on such
the second death hath no power
concerning the resurrection and
righteous Paul also speaks thus in
writing to the Thessalonians the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a
shout with the voice and trunk of God
and the dead in Christ shall rise first
then we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the
clouds to meet the lord in the air and
so shall we ever be with the Lord
these things then I have set shortly
before the old Theophilus drawing them
from Scripture itself in order that
maintaining in faith what is written and
anticipating the things which are to be
thou mayest keep thyself void of offence
both towards God and towards men looking
for that blessed hope and appearing of
our God and Savior when having raised
the Saints among us he will rejoice with
them glorifying the Father to him be the
glory unto the endless ages of Ages amen
such were the leading features of the
interpretation of the revelation by the
martyr Church of the first three
centuries in the catacombs of Rome there
remains of profoundly interesting and
touching reference to one of the opening
and closing symbols of the revelation
the oft reoccurring monogram of the name
of Christ in which the Greek letters
Alpha and Omega the first and the last
of the alphabet are inserted on either
side of the brief sign standing forth
Zipporah sore Christ the hole being
enclosed in a circle or the symbol of
eternity the following our passages in
the revelation forming the foundation of
the monogram I am the Alpha and Omega
the beginning and the ending saith the
LORD which is and which was and which is
to come all the Almighty I am the Alpha
Omega and as chapter 180 I am the Alpha
Omega first in the last that was
and what they'll see us write in a book
and I am the elf IMF Alpha and Omega the
beginning at the end first to the last I
Jesus the two letters of Greece the
first and the last as Tertullian the
Lord sees himself as figures of the
beginning and end which concur in
himself so that just says alpha roles
until it reaches Omega and again Omega
rolls back till it reaches alpha in the
same way he must show that in himself is
both the downward course of the
beginning on to the end and the backward
course of the end up to the beginning so
that every economy ending in Him through
him it began through the Word of God
that is who was made flesh may have an
end corresponding to its beginning
such was the faith that overcame the
world the place and power of the
apocalyptic prophecy as sustaining in
the martyr church the hope of the speedy
advent of Christ and thus strengthening
that church for its warfare and victory
over the persecuting pagan Empire of
Rome were of the highest practical
importance
the historian given recognizes the
immense influence of the hope of Christ
speedy coming on the church quote the
ancient Christians and says were
animated by a contempt for their present
existence and by a just confidence of
immortality of which the doubtful and
imperfect faith the modern ancient ages
cannot give us adequate notion it was
universally believed that the end of the
world and the kingdom of heaven were at
hand the near approach of this wonderful
event had been predicted by the Apostles
of you productive of the most salutary
effects on the faith and practice of
Christians who lived in the awful
expectation of that moment when the
earth itself and all the various races
of mankind should tremble at the
appearance of their divine judge the
ancient and popular doctrine of the
millennium was intimately connected with
the second coming of Christ as the works
of creation had been finished in six
days their duration in the present state
according to the tradition which is
attributed to the prophet Elijah was six
to six thousand years by the same
analogy it was inferred that this long
period of labor and contention which was
now almost elapsed would be succeeded by
a joyful Sabbath of a thousand years and
that Christ with the triumphant band the
Saints and the elect who had escaped
death or who had been miraculously
revived would reign upon the earth until
the time appointed for the last and
general resurrection
while correct in its historical
principle and leading features the
interpretation or revelation by the
early church was necessarily deficient
in scope it for shorten the prospect to
a narrow margin it knew nothing of the
long centuries which were destined to
elapse before the dispensation had run
its course it knew nothing of the great
apostasy which was to darken the earth
by its long and terrible Eclipse and
nothing of the glorious Reformation
which was to follow although all these
things were foretold in the far-seeing
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history unveiling prophecy talking about
the infant church the martyr Church of
the first first three centuries when
pagan Rome was ruling and persecuting
and wiping out as many Christians as
possible we were getting a view of
prophecy of the revelation from their
viewpoint and it's an eye-opening view
so try to put yourself in the seat of
the early church and to see what they
saw and how they would interpret the
scripture for their own benefit in that
century it is quite eye-opening and
something that futurists will never talk
about history and the history or the
historicist method of interpretation but
I I was looking at this this book here
and commented briefly on it in my
regular segments that they never
mentioned historicism they always bring
up opposing false views and say because
this other false view is absolutely
false and I can prove that
therefore my false view is correct but
they don't see there for you as false
but my view is correct er than this one
so believe it trust me and how many more
times I read and a little bit of reading
I did in this one futurist book the guy
actually said trust me hmm
I don't think I would ever write that
into one of my books I would say read
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too while correct in its historical
principle and its leading features the
interpretation of the revelation by the
early church was necessarily deficient
in scope it for shortened the prospect
to a narrow margin it knew nothing of
the long centuries which were destined
to elapse before the dispensation had
run its course it knew nothing of the
great apostasy which was to darken the
earth by its long and terrible Eclipse
and knew nothing of the glorious
Reformation which was to follow although
all these things were foretold in the
far-seeing
prophecy pagan Rome in her declining
dominion and proximate doom filled the
scene on which the early Christians gaze
one bright star shone in their sky
burning with intense and pristine
splendor the halt of the speedy coming
of Christ but for that great event they
watched and waited they believed that to
suffer with Christ was a prelude to
reigning with him and that his kingdom
was at hand and this conviction nerved
them to adorn the utmost torment which
heathen Rome had power to inflict in
this conviction they lived and died more
than conquerors
chapter three post Constantine the
imperial church the great historic event
which immediately succeeded the
Diocletian era a persecution was the
fall of paganism and the establishment
of Christianity as the religion of the
Roman Empire its internal character and
far-reaching effects this revolution is
one of them greatest and most remarkable
that has ever taken place in the history
of the world the ruin of paganism has
given but pointed out is perhaps the
only example the total extirpation of
any ancient and popular superstition
during the long period of a thousand
years the dark shadow of paganism had
covered the city and entire of Rome its
temples were innumerable and adorned
with the utmost magnificence its wealth
and accumulate the accumulation of Ages
was fabulously great its priesthood was
established and endowed by the
government the Roman Emperor himself
occupying the position of supreme
pontiff of the hierarchy in the 4th
century this monstrous system was
brought to ruin working upwards from the
lowest strata of society the belief in
the unity of the godhead and the
divinity of the Christian religion a
belief commended by the lives and sealed
by the blood of the martyrs had
gradually reached the highest classes in
the community
and affected the conversation of the
Roman Emperor the conviction that I the
idolatrous worship of fabulous deities
and real demons the most abominable
crime against the supreme majesty of the
creator led to the subversion of the
temples of the Roman world and the total
suppression of paganism Maxentius the
last persecuting pagan Emperor was
overthrown by Constantine at the
memorable battle Milvian bridge and his
legions drowned in the waters of the
Tiber the Christian religion liberated
from persecution became the religion of
the state the suppression of paganism
gradually followed and within less than
a century it's faint
and mind you but vestiges
we're no longer visible in this
memorable event apocalyptic prophecy was
strikingly fulfilled a fact clearly
recognized and openly confessed by the
leading Christian writers of the period
and even celebrated by Imperial
enactment the fall of paganism shed a
flood of light on the apocalyptic vision
in which the issue of the deadly
conflict between the Christian Church
and the Imperial Roman power is
represented by the casting down of the
Dragon from his lofty position of ruled
and authority the conflict and its
issuer thus symbolically described in
Revelation 12 7 through 11 and there was
a war in heaven Michael and his angels
fought against the Dragon and the dragon
fought and his angels and prevailed not
neither was their place any more found
in heaven and the dry Great Dragon was
cast out that old serpent called the
devil and Satan which deceiveth the
whole world he was cast out into the
earth and his angels were cast out with
him and I heard a loud voice saying in
heaven now is come salvation and
strength and the Kingdom of our God and
the power of his Christ for the accuser
of our brethren is cast down which
accused them before our God day and
night and they overcame him by the blood
of the Lamb and by the word of their
testimony and they loved not their lives
unto the death several points in this
remarkable prophecy should be especially
noticed
the dragon is the 10 form beast power of
the revelation whose identity with the
fourth or 10 horn beast of the
prophecies of daniel was recognized by
the church of the 2nd 3rd and 4th
centuries of the fourth beast dreadful
and terrible in the lightest sense
who are these of the romans the kingdom
which is now established john in the
revelation says ironies teaches us that
the 10 horns
shall be which were seen by daniel 2
this ruling powers represented
represented as satanic li inspired the
Crown's upon his heads in this first
phase of the beast power 3 the dragon is
described as great the power of he's in
rome was then the greatest in the world
it had conquered and crushed the
nation's as for as red red with much
bloodshed of war and persecution as
wearing crowns which symbolise its rule
not on the ten horns which had not been
arisen 6 as first standing before the
woman who represented as the fathers
clearly saw the primitive church to
devour her child as soon as it was born
and then warring against her and her
seed 7 the conflict is described as
fierce as a fierce and obstinate
eight the army of the just under its
heavenly leader is victorious over the
dragon nine the victory is celebrated by
saw and appraised in which the event is
regarded as a signal triumph of the
kingdom of God now is come salvation and
strength and the Kingdom of our God in
the power of his Christ 10 the victors
are declared to have overcome by the
blood of the Lamb and by the word of
their testimony not by sword or spear as
a mere carnal conflict but my moral
spiritual and Christian weapons 11 the
martyr character of the conquerors is
touchingly described in the concluding
sentence they loved not their lives unto
the death in connection with the
application of this remarkable prophecy
it should be observed that the figure of
the dragon was used as an ensign by the
armies of heathen Rome a maintenance
Marcellinus thus describes the heathen
Roman Standard the dragon was covered
with purple cloth and fastened to the
end of a pike with gilt
and adorned with precious stones it
opened its wide throat and the wind blew
through it and it hissed as if in rage
with its tail floating in several folds
through the air it was first used as an
ensign near the close of the second
century of the Christian era in the
third century it had become almost as
notorious among Roman Anson's as the
eagle itself and is in the fourth
century used by Prudentius veggetti 'as
Chrysostom emmaus etc in the fifth
century by Claudia and others
two stages in the casting down of
rolling paganism should be distinguished
first its primary dejection was headed
by maximum and life's Aeneas and
secondly its final overthrow has headed
by the apostate Emperor Julie the
persecution under Diocletian was the
most prolonged and severe of those
endured by the early church under
maximum this persecution reached its
climax before the decisive battle says
Milner maximun vow to Jupiter that if
victorious he would abolish the
Christian name the contest between
yahuwah and jupiter was now at its
height and drawing to a crisis the
defeat and death and maximum says given
was delivered delivered the church from
the last and most implacable of her
enemies the effort of the apostate
emperor julian thirty years later to
restore paganism throughout the roman
empire was similarly defeated by the
wonder-working hand of god
it was the design of Julien's has given
to deprive the Christians of the
advantages of wealth of knowledge and a
power they were condemned to rebuild at
enormous costs the pagan temples which
had been destroyed by these rash edicts
the whole empire and particularly the
East was thrown into confusion the
persecution which broke forth afresh
against the church was terminated by the
tragic death of Julian on the field of
battle in AD 363 Theodoric tells us that
as soon as the death of Julian was known
in Antioch followed by the accession of
the Orthodox jovian public festivals
were celebrated and not in the churches
of martyr chapels only but even in the
theatres of the victory of the cross was
extolled and Julian's Oracle's held up
to ridicule they explained us with one
voice where are now thy predictions o
foolish
Maximus God and His Christ have gotten
the victory Bishop Gregory the vanes in
in a public discourse delivered on the
occasion says hear this all ye nations
all that are now and all that shall be
Hereafter here every power in heaven
even all ye angels whose office was the
destruction of the tyrant not a Zion
King of the armor eyes nor of aughh King
of Asian rulers of little importance and
their afflicted Israel a small people
only of the end of the habitable earth
but the destruction of the dragon the
apostate
man of great mind the common enemy and
adversary of all who madly did and
threatened many things on the earth and
spake and devised great wickedness
against the height above who shall
worthily celebrate these things who
shall declare the power the Lord and
speak all his praise who shivered the
armor the sword and the battle who broke
the head of the heads of the dragon in
water it is the Lord mighty and powerful
the Lord mighty in battle later on
alluding to the frustration of Julian's
attempts to rebuild the Temple of
Jerusalem and to destroy the very name
of Christians he says what will be the
end of the heathen if they turn not to
Christ now would that they would consent
to be ruled not with the rod of iron
but with that of the Good Shepherd to
commemorate the fall paganism the
Emperor Constantine caused metals to be
struck representing the event under the
semble to the Dragon precipitated into
the abyss as we see on the coins of
Constantine's as ranky the labrum with
the monogram of Christ above the
conquered dragon even so did the worship
of the name of Christ and triumphant
above prostrate heathenism
in his defeat in his epistle to youth of
this and other bishops concerning the
edifying and repairing of churches
Constantine said Liberty now being
restored and that dragon being removed
from the administration of public
affairs by the Providence of the Great
God and by my ministry I esteem the
great power of God to have been made
manifest even to all the Emperor
Constantine says use of us caused to be
painted on lofty tablet and set up in
the front of the particle of his palace
so as to be visible to all a reference a
representation of the salutary sign
placed above his head and below it that
hateful and savage adversary mankind who
by means of the tyranny of the ungodly
and wasted the Church of God falling
headlong under the form of a dragon to
the abyss of destruction for the sacred
Oracle's in the book of God's prophets
have described him as a dragon any
crooked serpent and for this reason the
Emperor thereby publicly displayed a
painted resemblance of the dragon
beneath his own children's feet stricken
through with a dart and cast headlong
into the depths of the sea this
triumphant celebration of the victory of
the early church overall antagonism was
anticipated in the words of the
apocalyptic prophecy now has come
salvation and power and the Kingdom of
our God and the authority of his Christ
therefore rejoice ye heavens and ye that
dwell in them the very greek word says
Elliot
uses the apocalyptic prophecy to wish
the Christian professors joy was the
identical word addressed more than once
to them
in the appear you lead ik of Constantine
or in page 23 the exaltations the
Christian religion to the position of
the religion of the state under constant
eg while productive of great advantages
especially in the cessation of
persecution led to serious declension
not only in the spiritual life of the
church but also in her views as to the
teachings of prophecy concerning her
relations to the Roman Empire and to the
world the divine weapon placed in the
hand of the church to preserve her from
apostasy fell from her grasp
she lost the resemblance of her position
as a pilgrim and stranger on the earth
seeking a celestial City which hath
foundations whose builder and maker is
God the transformation of the martyr
Church of the early centuries into the
Kris
and wages involve the change of
apocalyptic interpretation as to the
reign of Christ and it sings in a post
Advent Kingdom into a predicted
prediction of romanized Christianity
ruling after the fashion of the Caesars
and the people's Caesars the peoples of
the world the great Constantine
Revolution says Eliot could hardly fail
of exercising a considerable influence
on apocalyptic interpretation a
revolution by which Christianity should
be established in the prophetically
denounced Roman Empire was an event the
contingency of which had never occurred
apparently to the previous exponents of
Christian prophecy and I think God we're
going to pick up there next time across
the border so make sure you come back
next week we'll back up a little bit to
make sure we get that complete thought
and I want to thank you all for showing
up and maybe Almighty bless you as you
continue to walk in his kingdom until he
comes we'll see you next time
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today much of the evangelical Christian
world has their eyes on Israel waiting
and watching to see when the Third
Temple will begin to be built the plans
are drawn the Jewish people are eager
most evangelical Christians today
believe that the rapture will happen
before the third temple is built hi I'm
Michael Eugene I was taught that Daniels
70th week was in the future is that
really what the Bible teaches have we
searched the Scriptures and found this
to be true why is it so important for a
reestablished Israel to build a Third
Temple in Jerusalem is it necessary to
build a temple on the same location
already occupied by the Dome of the rock
is it necessary for sacrifices to take
place in the temple on Temple Mount is
there really a rapture followed by seven
years of tribulation what is the New
Testament temple can we identify history
and prophecy who is the first beast in
Revelation chapter 13 who are the seven
kings in revelation 17 I have asked all
these questions and I have found
nicholas arthur's new book when the
third temple is built answers all these
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interpret scripture the Bible says that
no prophecy of Scripture is of any
private interpretation Nicholas shows us
in his new book when the third temple is
built how the Bible interprets prophecy
and not man's private interpretation
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