Here’s a hint for you.
Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Has knowledge been increased in the last 70 years?
Daniel 12: 8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
God caused people to not understand at times didn’t He?
Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Many of the words of scripture have been hidden from people “till the time of the end”. The meaning of the “world”, “the whole earth”, and much of prophecy were not understood fully “till the time of the end”.
Now take into consideration how anyone could fully understand not only the meaning of some words but prophecy in general before an event in history that could not possibly be expected in the carnal logic.
Ezekiel 34:13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
Which writers understood prior to 1948 that Israel would again be a nation in the same land as God gave them originally after nearly 2000 years? Now look at the nations that are against Israel today. Compare that with the old Roman Empire region and much of the old understanding of prophecy and exegesis gets turned on its head.
The same holds true for your belief that AD70 was the fulfillment of much of prophecy. The re-gathering of Israel as a nation is not a coincidence.
CB: >>>Here’s a hint for you.<<<
You are providing no hints, whatsoever. Your pretense was that there was a major difference in the variations of the Greek word, γῆ, which is not the case. THERE ARE NO USABLE DIFFERENCES. That is why both Strong's and Young's concordances lump them together.
This is just another instance of misdirection by dispensationalists to lure you away from the truth.
I will comment on your misdirections, shortly.
Philip
>>>Has knowledge been increased in the last 70 years?<<<
More meaningless misdirection. What does any of this sleight-of-hand have to do with your pretense that those minor Greek word variations were of earth-shaking importance? None.
But these are good things to bring to light. Did knowledge increase during the 500-600 years from the time Daniel wrote the book until the time of Christ? I imagine so.
>>>Daniel 12: 8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.<<<
>>>God caused people to not understand at times didn’t He?<<<
More meaningless misdirection. Did Jesus tell John NOT to seal the book of prophecy? Yes. Daniel sealed it; and Christ unsealed it, beginning in Revelation 6, shortly after his resurrection.
>>>Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.<<<
>>>>Many of the words of scripture have been hidden from people “till the time of the end”. The meaning of the “world”, “the whole earth”, and much of prophecy were not understood fully “till the time of the end”.<<<
More meaningless misdirection. No one knows what that means. No one. That is why dispensationalists use verses like that, because no one can prove them wrong (or right.) It is that kind of obfuscation that has led to a different "Antichrist" every week, and a zillion dollar "Christian" book industry based on scaring the daylights out of people: all by dispensational false prophets.
We do know that Jesus was only sent to gather the lost sheep of the house of Israel; and he sent his disciples to the same people. Only a remnant was saved, and they became the "144,000" of all the tribes sealed as servants of God and of the Lamb. That is found in Revelation 7 and 14.
And don't believe any of the dispensational spin relating to the the Jews rejecting Christ as their king. Christ rejected them, as prophesied in Jeremiah; and he rejected an earthly kingdom early in his ministry. This is the prophecy of Jeremiah:
"But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate." (Jer 7:28-34 KJV)
Notice how that passage correlates to the Great Whore, Babylon the Great of the Revelation.
This is Christ's rejection of an earthly kingdom:
"Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." (Mat 4:8-10 KJV)
Dispensational doctrine is all made up out of thin air.
>>>Now take into consideration how anyone could fully understand not only the meaning of some words but prophecy in general before an event in history that could not possibly be expected in the carnal logic.<<<
>>>Ezekiel 34:13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.<<<
>>>Which writers understood prior to 1948 that Israel would again be a nation in the same land as God gave them originally after nearly 2000 years? Now look at the nations that are against Israel today. Compare that with the old Roman Empire region and much of the old understanding of prophecy and exegesis gets turned on its head.<<<
"The mountains of Israel by the rivers?" Which rivers? How about this one?
"And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." (Rev 22:1 KJV)
That is the river that procedes out of throne of God and of the Lamb, which is in heavenly Jerusalem, which is the Church. Also, there is this passage in the gospel of John referring to the Day of Pentecost:
"In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)" (John 7:37-39 KJV)
The rivers of living water flowed out of the mouth and by the works of the apostles and others who received the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost.
And what about verse 23 of that chapter in Ezekiel, and a corresponding passage in Hosea?
"And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the Lord have spoken it." (Eze 34:23-24 KJV)
"For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days." (Hos 3:4-5 KJV)
David has been dead for a long time; so that prince and king has to be a spiritual prince and king. The only way one can derive a physical reign on earth from those passages is by spiritualizing the scriptures.
Ezekiel does write about the tribes returning to their own land in chapter 47. This is from a recent article by a dispensationalist author, posted on a recent thread:
"The first section, Ezekiel 47:13-14, states that the division of all of the Promised Land will be the final fulfillment of God’s covenant promises. The second section, Ezekiel 47:15-20, deals with the boundaries of the Land in the Millennium. In verses 15-17, the northern boundary will extend from the Mediterranean Sea, incorporating much of modern-day Lebanon and parts of modern-day Syria over to the Euphrates River. The eastern border will move south from the Euphrates River, incorporating the Golan Heights and portions of Syria almost up to Damascus, and continue south to the Jordan River where it exits from the Sea of Galilee."
"The third section, Ezekiel 48:1-7, describes the northern division of the Land as subdivided for seven of the Twelve Tribes. The tribes will be settled running north to south in the following order: Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, and Judah. The western and eastern borders will parallel each other. . . Then the fifth section, Ezekiel 48:23-29, describes the division of the Land for the remaining five tribes. Again, running from north to south, the tribes will be settled in the following order: Benjamin, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulun, and Gad; running along the southern border in verses 28-29." [The Land Promise of the Abrahamic Covenant, Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Pre-Trib Study Group]
There is only one problem with Fruchtenbaum's analysis. In Revelation 7:5-8, the tribes listed are: Reuben, Gad, Juda, Aser, Nephthalim, Manasses, Levi, Simeon, Issachar, Zabulon, Joseph, and Benjamin. Something doesn't fit. Two of those tribes Ezekiel listed, Dan and Ephraim, have not existed for over 2000 years; nor do they match the tribes listed in the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Where did the tribe of Dan and Ephraim come from, and what happened to Joseph and Levi?
That can only mean one thing: Ezekiel was writing about the restoration of land to Israel after their return from Babylon: not 2500 years in the future; and, according to the author's interpretation, that was the final fulfillment of God's covenant promises.
There are a myriad of misinterpretations by dispensational "literalists."
>>>The same holds true for your belief that AD70 was the fulfillment of much of prophecy. The re-gathering of Israel as a nation is not a coincidence.<<<
Maybe the regathering was a scheme created by wealthy influential men, such as Samuel Untermyer, a good buddy of Cyrus I Scofield, of Scofield Reference Bible fame. Untermyer was one of the nastiest, most deceitful people, that ever lived. Check him out.
Philip