What Are The Implications of difference of Timing?

MF Blume

There are many misconceptions about those who feel Revelation is not about our position now in the Spirit.  I wish to point out my personal beliefs about prophecy, and false accusations of this system of interpreting prophecy. I will be the first to admit I still need more answers to some questions. I am open for Christian-spirited correction and kind-hearted discussion of the issue. And I am ever open for God to correct any misunderstandings I may have. May God continue to lead us all into all truth.
 

WERE NOT MANY OF THE STONES OF THE TEMPLE LEFT AND NOT THROWN DOWN IN 70 AD, NECESSITATING A FUTURE DATE WHEN JESUS' PROPHECY OF MATTHEW 24:2 WILL BE FULFILLED?

DO YOU TEACH THAT THE MIDDLE OF THE SEVENTIETH WEEK OF DANIEL OCCURRED AT THE CROSS, WHEN SACRIFICES CEASED, OR IN 70 AD BY ROMAN GENERAL TITUS?

The middle of Daniel's seventieth week occurred when Christ was crucified.  I teach that the last half of the 70th week of Daniel occurred for the next 3.5 years following the cross, at which time the first Christian was slain by Jerusalem, and Paul came into the picture, and was converted and preached the Gospel.  I preach that the turning of the Gospel to the Gentiles, due to Jerusalem 's wickedness was the ending of the last half of the 70th week of Daniel.  70 AD has nothing to do with the 70th week of Daniel in any way, shape or form.

Do you TEACH THAT THE LAW ENDED IN 70 AD?

WAS SALVATION BY LAW CARRIED ON UNTIL 70 AD?

DID PETER AND PAUL'S GOSPEL CONTINUE PAST 70 AD?

DID THE KINGDOM CEASE IN 70 AD?

DID THE GENTILE CHURCH BEGIN IN 70 AD?

DID A SECRET RAPTURE OR RESURRECTION OCCUR IN 70 AD?

WILL THERE BE A FUTURE ANTICHRIST?

DO ALL PROPHECIES DEMAND A MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION?

IS THIS "KINGDOM NOW" DOCTRINE?

DOES THIS PROMOTE RACISM AGAINST JEWS?


DO YOU BELIEVE NERO WAS THE ANTICHRIST?
No.  There was never a "the Antichrist" nor ever shall be.  The Bible says there are many antichrists, and there is the spirit of antichrist.  But it never says there will be "the antichrist".  The Beast is never called "the antichrist".  Nero was the beast. Sometimes BEAST refers to ROME and other times NERO, th eleader of ROME at that time.  He was "an antichrist" as was Hitler, and anybody else who persecuted the church of God or who touted the idea that Jesus did not come in the flesh.  Nero was the beast as much as Nebuchadnezzar was the head of gold in Daniel's interpretation of the king's dream
DO YOU BELIEVE THE TWO WITNESSES OF REV. 11:1-6 ARE JOSHUA AND ZERUBBABEL OF ZECHARIAH'S PROPHECIES?
No.  These two men were identified as two witnesses, and there is similarity in typology to them in Rev. 11:1-6.  But they were not the two witnesses Revelation 11 was speaking about.  

DO YOU BELIEVE THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO THE WHOLE WORLD BY 70 AD?
No, not in the sense people think of the world today.  The gospel was preached to all nations which refers in the Greek to TRIBES, speaking of the tribes of Israel, by 70 AD.   Matthew 24:14 is speaking of the term WORLD as follows.   "All the world" is a term used in the New Testament as the then-known world.  

It was as much of the whole world as much as this reference was....

Acts 17:6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

Gen. 41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

Col 1:5-6 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

The Bible often refers to the then-known world , as all the world. Acts 17:6 and Col. 1:5-6 is the fulfillment of Matthew 24:14. ...using the Bible's own words.


Was Paul lying when he said the Gospel went into all the world?  No.  He meant the then-known world as much as Matthew 24:14 meant it.  The term "WORLD" in Greek here is not the same term WORLD in verse 3.  
Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world (AION -- meaning AGE)?

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world (oikoumenē -- meaning GLOBE or PLANET) for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come .
And Paul used a term connected in thought to oikoumenē, in Colossians:

Col 1:5-6 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world (kosmos); and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

Kosmos means by implication the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively [morally]), and is translated in the KJV as "adorning" and "world".  

Oikoumene means "land", that is, the (terrene part of the) globe; specifically the Roman empire, and is translated in the KJV as "earth", and "world."  Oikoumene and Kosmos are more similar in the idea of the actual earth, and Aion is not at all similar to these points.