Forwarded from 70 A.D.
THE CONSUMMATION OF THE AGES
"This Age" - Mosaic Age - Old Heaven and Earth
"The Age to Come" - Messianic Age - New Heaven and Earth
But now He [Jesus] has been revealed once at the consummation of the ages for the putting away of sin by the sacrifice of Himself. (Hebrews 9:26)
These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us [first century Christians], on whom the consummation of the ages has come. (1 Corinthians 10:11)
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. (Hebrews 8:13)
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. (Revelation 21:1)
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17
"This Age" - Mosaic Age - Old Heaven and Earth
"The Age to Come" - Messianic Age - New Heaven and Earth
But now He [Jesus] has been revealed once at the consummation of the ages for the putting away of sin by the sacrifice of Himself. (Hebrews 9:26)
These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us [first century Christians], on whom the consummation of the ages has come. (1 Corinthians 10:11)
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. (Hebrews 8:13)
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. (Revelation 21:1)
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17
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THE TWO WITNESSES OF REVELATION 11
These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. (Revelation 11:4)
Were they literal individuals?
James, brother of Jesus - thrown off the pinnacle of the temple and stoned to death, just before the war.
Jesus, son of Ananus - prophesied throughout Jerusalem for 3.5 years before the war; killed by a stone from a siege engine.
Are the two witnesses symbolic?
Candlesticks represent the church. (See Revelation 1:20)
Olive trees represent Israel.
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree. (Romans 11:17)
The natural olive branches - Old Covenant Israel
The wild olive branches - Spiritual Israel/Gentiles; grafted in.
Nero was the first to persecute Christians for their testimony.
What do you think?
These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. (Revelation 11:4)
Were they literal individuals?
James, brother of Jesus - thrown off the pinnacle of the temple and stoned to death, just before the war.
Jesus, son of Ananus - prophesied throughout Jerusalem for 3.5 years before the war; killed by a stone from a siege engine.
Are the two witnesses symbolic?
Candlesticks represent the church. (See Revelation 1:20)
Olive trees represent Israel.
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree. (Romans 11:17)
The natural olive branches - Old Covenant Israel
The wild olive branches - Spiritual Israel/Gentiles; grafted in.
Nero was the first to persecute Christians for their testimony.
What do you think?
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Forwarded from 70 A.D.
"On the eighth day of the month Xanthicus, and at the ninth hour of the night, so great a light shone round the altar and the holy house, that it appeared to be bright day time; which lasted for half an hour. This light seemed to be a good sign to the unskillful, but was so interpreted by the sacred scribes, as to portend those events that followed immediately upon it." (Josephus, Wars, Book 6, Section 288)
"And when he opened the seventh seal, there came silence in heaven about half-an-hour." (Revelation 8:1)
"And when he opened the seventh seal, there came silence in heaven about half-an-hour." (Revelation 8:1)
The Monuments of Helena, Queen of Adiabene
"And at this time it came to pass that the great famine took place in Judea, in which the queen Helen, having purchased grain from Egypt with large sums, distributed it to the needy.
You will find this statement also in agreement with the Acts of the Apostles, where it is said that the disciples at Antioch, each according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brethren that dwelt in Judea; which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Paul.
But splendid monuments of this Helen, of whom the historian has made mention, are still shown in the suburbs of the city which is now called Ælia. But she is said to have been queen of the Adiabeni."
- Eusebius, Church History, Book II, Chapter 12, Helen, the Queen of the Osrhœnians
"And at this time it came to pass that the great famine took place in Judea, in which the queen Helen, having purchased grain from Egypt with large sums, distributed it to the needy.
You will find this statement also in agreement with the Acts of the Apostles, where it is said that the disciples at Antioch, each according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brethren that dwelt in Judea; which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Paul.
But splendid monuments of this Helen, of whom the historian has made mention, are still shown in the suburbs of the city which is now called Ælia. But she is said to have been queen of the Adiabeni."
- Eusebius, Church History, Book II, Chapter 12, Helen, the Queen of the Osrhœnians