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Don't read Matt. 25.13 without reading Matt. 24.33 and v.42. Therefore, we can know the day "right at the door" though not the hour after Israel becomes a nation. Matt. 25.13 follows v.12 speaking of carnal Christians, "I know you not" that's why they don't know the season or the day. 1 Thess. 5.1-2 says "of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you" because we know, but to carnal Christians unwatchful, He comes like a thief in the night. Acts 1.7 is speaking of the times of the original Apostles; it in no way is saying we can never know. Surely Jesus knows now at the right hand of the Father and has shown His spiritual ones by the Holy Spirit in agreement with the word of God and signs. Matt. 24.32 says, "Now learn a parable of the fig tree [representing Israel]; When his branch is yet tender [1948 Israel a nation], and putteth forth leaves [enters Jerusalem 1967], ye know that summer is nigh." Summer is a season. In short, you can know after 1948, but not before. It was dependent on understanding the connection to and rarity of the Tetrads as the signs in the heavens attached to 1948 and 1967 leading us to 2014/15.Quote:
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The Lord's heart is closely attached to the Temple, for it greatly saddened Him when the 1st and 2nd Temples were destroyed. "But do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months" (Rev. 11.2). Obviously, the Temple is present during the Tribulation. Antichrist even sets himself up in it: "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God" (2 Thess. 2.4). When Jesus returns, making some renovations to the Temple I am sure, He will reign on earth for 1000 years in it.Quote:
And there will not be a tribulation temple of the Lord's on the mount, He would never accept it in the first place let alone reign in it [Revelation 11:2]
When you begin seeing construction begun on the Temple somewhere from 2013 to 2015 and completed by April 20, 2016 during the 4 day inspection of the Lamb so there are 2300 days left in the Tribulation from April 21, 2016 to Aug. 7, 2022 when Jesus steps down, will you believe?
No, the reason His parousia commences at the start of the Tribulation lasting 7 years is because His temple is completed from where He will reign, because of the first rapture according to readiness of overcomers "before the throne" (Rev. 7.9) at the start of the Tribulation and to end the Great Tribulation, defeat Satan, Antichrist and False Prophet. Jesus will not have to wait 2 or 3 years of the building of the Temple to sleep in a bed and reign without His temple. That will never do!Quote:
His temple will not be built until after the coming tribulation of his wrath and for His millennial kingdom on the earth [Ezekiel 40-48]
"Temple of God" (2 Thess. 2.4)-Antichrist will sit in the Temple of God using it for his selfish purposes. There is no "Temple of God" on the mount today.Quote:
And this one will sit in the temple of his "god" which is already on the mount today [2Thessalonians 2:2-12]
I have told you the truth.
