You know how we pre millenialists say how the temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem and antichrist will set up his abomination in there half way through the week of years prophesied in Daniel, check this out:
Hippolytus on Antichrist (Died 235 ad):
5. But as time now presses for the consideration of the question immediately in hand, and as what has been already said in the introduction with regard to the
glory of
God, may suffice, it is proper that we take the
Holy Scriptures themselves in hand, and find out from them what, and of what manner, the coming of
Antichrist is; on what occasion and at what time that implores one shall be revealed; and whence and from what I tribe (he shall come); and what his name is, which is indicated by the number in the
Scripture; and how he shall work
error among the people, gathering them from the ends of the earth; and (how) he shall stir up tribulation and
persecution against the
saints; and how he shall glorify himself as
God; and what his end shall be; and how the sudden appearing of the Lord shall be revealed froth heaven; and what the conflagration of the whole world shall be; and what the
glorious and heavenly kingdom of the
saints is to be, when they reign together with Christ; and what the punishment of the
wicked by fire.
6. Now, as
our Lord Jesus Christ, who is also
God, was prophesied of under the figure of a lion,2 on account of His royalty and
glory, in the same way have the
Scriptures also aforetime spoken of
Antichrist as a lion, on account of his tyranny and
violence. For the deceiver seeks to liken himself in all things to the
Son of God. Christ is a lion, so
Antichrist is also a lion; Christ is a king,2
John 18:37 so
Antichrist is also a king. The Saviour was manifested as a lamb;2
John 1:29 so he too, in like manner, will appear as a lamb, though within he is a wolf. The Saviour came into the World in the
circumcision, and he will come in the same manner. The Lord sent
apostles among all the
nations, and he in like manner will send false
apostles. The Saviour gathered together the sheep that were scattered abroad,2 and he in like manner will bring together a people that is scattered abroad. The Lord gave a seal to those who
believed on Him, and he will give one like manner. The Saviour appeared in the form of
man, and he too will come in the form of a
man. The Saviour raised up and showed His
holy flesh like a temple,2
John 2:19 and he will raise a temple of stone in Jerusalem. And his seductive arts we shall exhibit in what follows. But for the present let us turn to the question in hand.
Just thought it would make an interesting read.
Oh yeah and this quote was interesting too:
How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
Seems he had the right translation. (I know it's off topic)
27. As these things, then, are in the future, and as the ten toes of the image are equivalent to (so many) democracies,6 and the ten horns of the fourth beast are distributed over ten kingdoms, let us look at the subject a little more closely, and consider these matters as in the clear light of a personal survey
See also how the Daniel prophecy is regarded as future:
For he says, "And one week will make9 a covenant with many, and it shall be that in the midst (half) of the week my
sacrifice and oblation shall cease."9
Daniel 9:27 By one week, therefore, he meant the last week which is to be at the end of the whole world of which week the two
prophetsEnoch and Elias will take up the half. For they will preach 1, 260 days clothed in sackcloth, proclaiming repentance to the people and to all the nations.
47. For John says, "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth."10
That is the half of the week whereof Daniel spoke.
64. These things, then, being to come to pass, beloved,
and the one week being divided into two parts, and the abomination of desolation being manifested then, and the two
prophets and forerunners of the Lord having finished their course, and the whole world finally approaching the consummation, what remains but the coming of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ from heaven, for whom we have looked in hope
And of course the catching up of the living (THE RAPTURE):
66. Concerning the resurrection of the righteous,
Paul also speaks thus in writing to the Thessalonians: "We would not have you to be
ignorant concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not even as others which have no hope. For if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive (and) remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice and trump of
God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive (and) remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord."17
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