no man knows when the end is coming.for there is no date given for it
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21416459 Exactly.
"It is an article of faith that Christ will return at the end of time to judge the living and the dead. But the time of His second advent is unknown. "But of that day and hour no one knoweth, no, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone" (Matthew 24:36). It would appear, and is so held by many that the Christians of the Apostolic age expected that Christ would return during their own lifetime or generation."
The often worried about "Abomination of desolation" occurred in 70 A.D. Fit than into the Roman Emperor's. The People of the Prince that shall come of Daniel Nine pertains to the Romans and their Prince.
By the end of that destruction of the Temple and the destruction of Jerusalem, the population of Jews in Jerusalem and Judah were vastly reduced, to the point the region, but especially the Temple and Jerusalem was without any Jews, completely desolate, hence a Desolation.
70 A.D. was the 69 1/2th Week of Daniel. The full end of that Daniel 70 weeks would have had fulfillment at 73 1/2 A.D.
In Daniel, the Messiah is seen destroying the Temple and Jerusalem. Jesus warned the Chief Priests and the Pharisee many times Woe, Woe, Woe, you Generation of Vipers. In the Olivett Discourse, Jesus was speaking directly to those Disciples and Apostles when He said, ".. and when you shall hear of the abomination of desolation... " He was telling those very disciples what they themselves were supposed to do and what they were going to be going through, not some vastly time distance down the road nearly 2,000 years later. And He brought it to pass as He had prophesied -- He brought it to pass behind the scenes after His ascension. He was seen coming in power and glory within that time frame. Those that deny that Jesus the Christ was raised from the dead and ascended into heaven, fall into the great delusion of looking for some later date from that Olivett Discourse's instruction and make the mistake that it was for some vastly distant in time generation of people rather than the same exact generation that Jesus had grown up with.
Evangelicals in particular have apparently warped their understanding about many things especially pertaining to the Book of Daniel and the Book of the Revelation because they have not handled the Gospels and Paul's and Peter's and John's Epistles cleanly. The virus of the Roman Catholic Dominicans had infected the Evangelicals of the Protestants.
Why is there no continuing church of any of the Seven Churches in Asia Minor spoken of in the Book of the Revelation. Where did they disappear too?
Babylon, the City, was destroyed long ago, and is still mainly a heap, not something that is from our time frame, 'yet to come'.
There are yet things to come to pass even forward from this time frame of this year 2012 A.D.
As to the Gathering Together... pay very close attention to the grammar and the nouns and pronouns of Paul's Epistles on this, and the time in which he was writing.. that was written even before the 70 A.D. event of the Abomination of Desolation of the Temple and of Jerusalem.. and before the 73.5 A.D. end of Daniel's 70 Weeks.
Do not confuse the Kingdom of God that is within you (who are born again of God's Spirit) with the Kingdom of Heaven.
