There are also plenty of evil men who are "wealthy and successful". That means nothing.
The 21st century political state called Israel has nothing to do with "the fulfillment of prophecy." I've explained the status of so-called Jews in my other reply to you. (And point in fact, most Jews today are not religious but completely secular.)
There are also plenty of evil men who are "wealthy and successful". That means nothing.
The 21st century political state called Israel has nothing to do with "the fulfillment of prophecy." I've explained the status of so-called Jews in my other reply to you. (And point in fact, most Jews today are not religious but completely secular.)
What you are doing is what the modern day church has been doing for a long time. They are imposing current events onto Scripture as a means to interpreting Scripture. This is completely erroneous. Scripture must be interpreted with Scripture which requires more study than the modern day church wants to invest.
Daniel 9:26-27 prophesies the coming of the armies to destroy Jerusalem and the Temple. The parallel passage to Matt 24 and Daniel 9 is Luke 21:20-22 which makes clear the meaning of Matt and Daniel. This is the "abomination of desolation" and, as Luke explains, was to be the armed invasion of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple as God brings the Old Covenant to a close. In 68 AD, the Edomites, the age long enemies of Israel, surrounded and invaded the city and slaughtered 8,500 people in the Temple. In the words of Josephus, this was "the beginning of the destruction of the city. From this very day may be dated the overthrow of her wall and the ruin of her affairs." These are "the days of vengeance that all things which are written (in the OT) may be fulfilled" Luke 21:22.
The modern church does not understand these prophecies because they do not understand the economy of God's covenants and their meaning. This was the closing out of the Old Covenant with God's wrath poured out on apostate Israel and the establishment of the New Covenant in Christ's shed blood. Jesus said in Matt 24:21, "For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, NOR EVER SHALL BE." The great tribulation refers to the destruction of Temple in that generation alone (70 AD), an absolutely unique event in history never to be repeated.
There are also plenty of evil men who are "wealthy and successful". That means nothing.
The 21st century political state called Israel has nothing to do with "the fulfillment of prophecy." I've explained the status of so-called Jews in my other reply to you. (And point in fact, most Jews today are not religious but completely secular.)
What you are doing is what the modern day church has been doing for a long time. They are imposing current events onto Scripture as a means to interpreting Scripture. This is completely erroneous. Scripture must be interpreted with Scripture which requires more study than the modern day church wants to invest.
Daniel 9:26-27 prophesies the coming of the armies to destroy Jerusalem and the Temple. The parallel passage to Matt 24 and Daniel 9 is Luke 21:20-22 which makes clear the meaning of Matt and Daniel. This is the "abomination of desolation" and, as Luke explains, was to be the armed invasion of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple as God brings the Old Covenant to a close. In 68 AD, the Edomites, the age long enemies of Israel, surrounded and invaded the city and slaughtered 8,500 people in the Temple. In the words of Josephus, this was "the beginning of the destruction of the city. From this very day may be dated the overthrow of her wall and the ruin of her affairs." These are "the days of vengeance that all things which are written (in the OT) may be fulfilled" Luke 21:22.
The modern church does not understand these prophecies because they do not understand the economy of God's covenants and their meaning. This was the closing out of the Old Covenant with God's wrath poured out on apostate Israel and the establishment of the New Covenant in Christ's shed blood. Jesus said in Matt 24:21, "For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, NOR EVER SHALL BE." The great tribulation refers to the destruction of Temple in that generation alone (70 AD), an absolutely unique event in history never to be repeated.