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It's all about the blood
I personally think that Revelation 11 is the most important chapter in the book of Revelation. Chapter 11 is the key to the book of Revelation; the book of Revelation is the key to the Old Testament; the Old Testament is the key to the New Testament.
Here's a good one to make my point.
If a person believes the book of Revelation, as it stands, when you get to Rev. 11:1-3, you will have to believe in the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem.
1And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
This "reed like unto a rod" is a measuring stick. Notice, too, that this "temple of God, and the altar of them that worship therein" to be measured, is not the heavenly temple referred to in Rev. 8:3-5. The temple that is mentioned in Rev. 8:3-5 is found mentioned again in Rev. 11:19; the temple that is measured in Rev. 11:1-2 is on the earth.
In this passage the Holy Spirit speaks about a literal temple on this earth which the Gentiles are going to tread under foot for 42 months, and it is not talking about Herod's temple in 70 A.D. In 70 A.D. Jerusalem was not "tread under foot" 42 months. Herod's temple had 4 courts, but this one here has one court.
That isn't all. You find a rapture in 11:12
12And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
A "catching up" of somebody who was killed. (This takes place long before the White Throne Judgment) In 11:8 you are told that Jerusalem is called "Sodom" and "Egypt" in this dispensation, and yet, is going to be restored. This statement gives the key to the Church Age, in which Israel and the Jew are in temporary rejection, and it tells you that they are going to be restored later and come back into political power under the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
This, in turn, gives the PRE-Millennial system of interpretation and opens up alot of verses in the Bible that otherwise would be shut.
Any thoughts?
What do our Jewish friends think about this temple rebuilding?
Here's a good one to make my point.
If a person believes the book of Revelation, as it stands, when you get to Rev. 11:1-3, you will have to believe in the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem.
1And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
This "reed like unto a rod" is a measuring stick. Notice, too, that this "temple of God, and the altar of them that worship therein" to be measured, is not the heavenly temple referred to in Rev. 8:3-5. The temple that is mentioned in Rev. 8:3-5 is found mentioned again in Rev. 11:19; the temple that is measured in Rev. 11:1-2 is on the earth.
In this passage the Holy Spirit speaks about a literal temple on this earth which the Gentiles are going to tread under foot for 42 months, and it is not talking about Herod's temple in 70 A.D. In 70 A.D. Jerusalem was not "tread under foot" 42 months. Herod's temple had 4 courts, but this one here has one court.
That isn't all. You find a rapture in 11:12
12And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
A "catching up" of somebody who was killed. (This takes place long before the White Throne Judgment) In 11:8 you are told that Jerusalem is called "Sodom" and "Egypt" in this dispensation, and yet, is going to be restored. This statement gives the key to the Church Age, in which Israel and the Jew are in temporary rejection, and it tells you that they are going to be restored later and come back into political power under the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
This, in turn, gives the PRE-Millennial system of interpretation and opens up alot of verses in the Bible that otherwise would be shut.
Any thoughts?
What do our Jewish friends think about this temple rebuilding?