Revelation Rebuttal M.O.T. The War No 6

Then he gets to the war in Revelation chapter 11 and verse 2, which he says he didn't know what war I was talking about. Well, I made it very clear in the video that I was talking about the war of the Gentiles who came against the city of Jerusalem and Judea and who destroyed the temple and the city in the first century in 70 AD. The scripture says, you know, John was told by the temple and the altar and those who worship in it, but the court that was outside the temple do not measure it for it is given to the Gentiles and they will tread it underfoot for 42 months. Now, Rome destroyed the city and the war and the siege against Jerusalem lasted for three years, for three, basically three and a half years. That's the 42 months, 1260 days, which he admitted, he agreed to it and by calling it the court, that's just sort of a metonymy or a synecdoche where a part stands for the whole. So the court represented the entire Jewish temple and the city that the Romans were going to come and destroy. It is parallel to Matthew 24 and verse 3, where he said not one stone would be left here upon another that shall not be thrown down, but also particularly Luke chapter 21 verses 20 through 24. Now let's look at that text. Luke says, and when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the midst of her depart and let not those who are in the countries enter her. For these are the days of vengeance, a quote from Deuteronomy 32, 43 and following, for these are the days of vengeance that all things which are written may be fulfilled. Now notice Jesus, not me, said that when Jerusalem was surrounded by these armies, all things written would be fulfilled. Well, Rome is not still surrounding Jerusalem, is it? That was the destruction that happened in the first century and that's when all things written would be fulfilled, which would include the book of Revelation. And in verse 24, now he goes on and he says in verse 23, but woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days, for there will be great distress in the land, we'll come back to that great distress in the land, that's Jacob's trouble, and wrath upon this people, speaking specifically of those Jews in the first century. And then in verse 24, he says, and they will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away captive into all nations, Josephus describes this captivity, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Now when you go back and you study the book of Ezekiel, the book of Ezekiel talks about the times of the Gentiles as referring to the Chaldean army, the Babylonians who came and sacked the city in the sixth century. It's the same situation here, it's the Romans who come and do it in the time of the first century. They use the word trodden down, both in Revelation 11 and verse 2, and also in Luke 21-24. It's from the Greek word pateo, and it means active military warfare. So the Gentiles were going to siege and war against Jerusalem in active military warfare until the city was destroyed. They used the same methodology and strategy and tactics that the Babylonians did. They surrounded the city until the people began to starve with famine and then pestilence. They killed those with the sword and then they burned the temple to the ground. That's exactly what they did in both cases. Study the book of Ezekiel and you'll see it. I've got videos on it on the channel. And so the time of the siege for Jerusalem lasted for three and a half years, not six months as he tried to say. As a matter of fact, there is a quote from the Jewish virtual library on the great revolt from 66 to 70 AD. So the Jewish virtual library even says that it was three and a half years, just like the Bible says. Well, he tried to extend it out to the time of the Bar Kokhba revolt for this particular text, but that's not what it says. It says when the temple was destroyed, that's when all things written would be fulfilled. Now, if we go on, they said, indeed, the great revolt of 66 to 70 followed some 60 years later by the Bar Kokhba revolt were the greatest calamities in Jewish history prior to the Holocaust. Well, even though they mentioned that they give 66 to 70, that's three and a half years for the destruction of the city and the temple. And that harmonizes with what's taught in the book of Daniel, which he also admits that the text 1260 days and the war as a time, times and half a time equates with Daniel 725, where the beast persecutes the saints for 1260 days until the ancient of days came and the kingdom was given to the saints of the most high. And also when the power of the holy people was shattered in revelation, excuse me, in Daniel chapter 12 and verse seven, which correlates and parallels with revelation chapter 12 and also chapter 13. So Daniel 12, seven says this would occur when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered. And that's the same time, times and half a time that he said is three and a half years. So that corresponds with Daniel 70 weeks that were determined for your people. That was the Southern kingdom of Judah. That was Israel and the holy city. And then he enumerates all those things that would end with destruction of the sanctuary. So that again, takes us to 70 now he fails to grasp the symbolism of revelation, which speaks about the war in heaven. Heaven simply refers in this context to a sphere of authority and power. Let me give you some examples from the old Testament. The king of Babylon was called Lucifer in Isaiah 14, verse two, where the Texas old Lucifer son of the morning, how are you fallen from heaven? Well, the king of Babylon was not in heaven, but he was in a realm of authority and power where he ruled the world. So that was his heaven, but he was deposed when he was destroyed through the Medo-Persian invasion and deposed from his throne. And therefore he was cast out and he died just like a man Bible talks about the worms covering his body, et cetera. Then you have the city of Capernaum in Matthew 11 and verse 23 that Jesus said had been exalted to heaven, but would be cast down to Hades. Well, again, Canaan, I mean, excuse me, Capernaum wasn't in heaven, but they were a city that had ruling authorities, et cetera. And because of their pride, they were lifted up and Jesus called it in heaven. You see how figuratively he's using these, these concepts in Luke 10 in verse 18, he says, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. But here's another point in the Exodus, when God descended on Mount Sinai in Exodus 19, in order to meet with the people and have Moses come up to him, the scripture says in Exodus 20 in verse 22, that the Lord spoke to them from heaven. Yet he had come down to the earth. Moses went up the mount into the cloud where the presence of God was. And if God spoke to him from heaven, Moses went to heaven. That's the way these terms are being used in the scripture. Heaven is the most holy place. And that's a temple concept. And yet people don't understand it. Now here's another point. When the Bible, he said, this was a spiritual thing. It was taking place in heaven, not on the earth. Well, let's see if that was the case. When you read Ephesians chapter six, verses 11 and 12, Paul told the Ephesians to put on the whole armor of God in order that they could be able to withstand the wiles of the devil, to stand against the wiles of the devil. So they're going to put on the whole armor of God, which means that they're preparing themselves for warfare that they could withstand the wiles of the devil. He says, well, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood. See, there's the battle that they're engaged in. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age. And by the way, second Corinthians four in verse four says that Satan was the God of that age. And it was because of sin. And he says against spiritual hosts of wickedness. Now watch where they are in the heavenly. So you got saints in Ephesus, same people that were written in the book of Revelation. You have the saints in Ephesus warring against the devil in the heavenlies. And yet all these saints are on earth. Now ask him if they had been raptured at this point, ask him if this were the church in Ephesus who were doing this and see what he has to say about it. And they were warring with Satan and the host of wickedness in the spiritual realm while they were still on earth. Here's what the Bible says. You who were dead in trespasses and sins, he has made alive, having forgiven you all your trespasses. And then in verses four through six, he says, and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ. Do you see where the heavenly places are? They're in Christ. These saints at Ephesus had armed themselves to fight against the wiles of the devil. Yet they were still on earth, but they were fighting in heavenly places. You see, ladies and gentlemen, what happens when you don't read the scriptures, you don't understand, and you got a theory that you're trying to prove and just won't stand when you look at this. And so the text is showing how Satan was actually losing his power, losing his authority. He was being cast out of that place where he could rule over men through sin and death. Remember, he had the power of death and death comes as a result of sin. When Jesus died to put away sin, he was destroying the power of Satan and the saints by participating and appropriating the gospel to themselves were likewise reigning with him in that defeat of death. And all you got to do is read Ephesians two, and you will see the Bible says in Ephesians two and verse two, that they had once walked according to the power or the authority of the rulers of the air, ruler of the air. Well, that's a reference to Satan. Okay. And whatever you want to make him, but he said they had once walked that way. That means they were no longer walking that way children or rather the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience. So what has happened is his power has been restricted. He's only able at the time he was only able to work in the sons of disobedience. He couldn't work in everybody anymore because they had been raised up in the heavenlies. They were reigning with Christ. They were no longer under his authority. That's why Peter could write and say, resist the devil and he will flee from you. At least John James said that in James four, seven, but Peter said that who resist in the faith being who resists being steadfast in the faith. So they could resist him by being steadfast in the faith, which means his power couldn't affect those who were faithful. And thus his power had been a curtailed and bound. So from that perspective, we need to see exactly what's happened. He's been kicked out of the air, air, just being another term for being thrown out of heaven. That's that's one of the figurative designations for the realm of authority. And that's why it's used in first Thessalonians four as well. It didn't have anything to do with the Ephesians having a state from the earth. And yet they were the church at Ephesus who speak were flat on the ground. Yet they were in the heavenly places. Ladies and gentlemen, he's just making mistakes all over the place and claiming the three and a half year period had not come. It's just basically saying that the 70 weeks of Daniel hadn't been fulfilled, but they were only going to continue until the holy city and sanctuary was destroyed. That was 70 AD. So you can't get around it either way.