PTERIST:
Hats off to you Lars your prolific writing is only second to your entertainment value in a Garry Busey sort of way. However, the book of Hebrews shows that Jesus fulfilled ALL OT cerominal requirement and details first time round. It's obvious you welcome these challenges as it gives you a platform to propagate your perceived messiah-ship. Thank you for your courtesy responses, however, I will refrain from further rebuttals with you as it only giving you the oppurinity to push your agenda regardless of Biblical truths and topics being addressed on this forum.
LARS:
Thanks, but I do not agree with that blanket statement. Of course, you're a preterist and so lean toward everything being fulfilled the first time. But, in fact, Christ fulfills everything, but some things at the first coming and some things at the second. Case in point is the reason why some come up with "the gap" theory. Have you heard of "the gap" theory. It relates to Daniel and how a great tribulation and "extermination" and war are mentioned in connection with the "70 weeks." It is very basic to link the 70 weeks to when Christ is baptized in 29 CE and show the 70 weeks begin in 455 BCE. The witnesses as well use this reference. But the wars and the tribulation, etc. did not happen before 29 CE. Clearly this would be a major event and Jerusalem was not destroyed until 70 CE.
So those trying to see this as being fulfilled by the fall of Jerusalem invent "the gap" theory where you count down to 29 CE and then they put a huge gap in the 70 weeks and have it include 70 CE somehow. This is a JOKE! What's the point of having chronology if you have to twist it around to make it work? No. Instead, the "great tribulation" is clearly something that happens as part of the end-times and just before the Jews are restored to their homeland and the end of the gentile times occurs. Thus the "70th week" is a double fulfillment, one that is applied to both the 1st coming and the 2nd coming!
The 70th week of the first coming does not include the "great tribulation" because that occurs after the 62 weeks of the 2nd 70 weeks and it is a reference to the "worst event in human history," which is the HOLOCAUST!. So there is no "gap theory" but there is a double fulfillment for both the first and second coming during the 70th week! The 70th week of the first coming is 29-36 CE, where Christ fulfills the first half of the 70th week. We count down 70 weeks down to our time (4 x 490 = 1960 + 36 CE = 1996). Thus the 70th week of the 2nd coming is 1989-1996 where Christ arrives at the middle of the week to fulfill the second half, and thus within less than a year of Passover of 1993, which is the mid-week passover. So this prophecy shows us within a year when Christ will appear at both the 1st and 2nd coming. \
So you aredefinitely WRONG about Christ fulfilling everything the first time. Even the "7 times" prpohecy shows the stump is banded with two bands, one iron and one copper. This represents the 1st and 2nd coming in connection with the 2520 years. The first time Christ arrives he is a Jew and thus a white man -- that's the band of iron. Now Paul was not considered a Jew by appearance but Egyptian, because he was dark. So the Jews were fair-skinned. But the second band on the tree is "copper" which relfects the copper complexion of the messiah at the second coming, the Ethiopian eunuch! So Jesus fulfilling evrything in the OT the first time is definitely a false teaching.
I'm sorry this is exhausting you. Plus I'm surprised how some think I'm obviously intelligent since usually they claim I'm crazy. But the fact is, I was just thinking how much this fulfills prophecy. Lazarus, though having serious difficulties and sexual issues forcing him to be disfellowshipped and thus outside the gate of the rich man, who represents the GB, is still a lover of knowledge. When later on he repents and actually is chosen to be the messiah, the Bible describes him as having lots of knowledge and being very happy....
LUKE 15:19 “But a certain man was rich, and he used to deck himself with purple and linen, enjoying himself from day to day with magnificence. 20 But a certain beggar named Laz´a·rus used to be put at his gate, full of ulcers 21 and desiring to be filled with the things dropping from the table of the rich man. Yes, too, the dogs would come and lick his ulcers. 22 Now in course of time the beggar died and he was carried off by the angels to the bosom [position] of Abraham. “Also, the rich man died and was buried. 23 And in Ha´des he lifted up his eyes, he existing in torments, and he saw Abraham afar off and Laz´a·rus in the bosom [position] with him. 24 So he called and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Laz´a·rus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this blazing fire.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you received in full your good things in your lifetime, but Laz´a·rus correspondingly the injurious things. Now, however, he is having comfort here but you are in anguish. 26 And besides all these things, a great chasm has been fixed between us and YOU people, so that those wanting to go over from here to YOU people cannot, neither may people cross over from there to us.’ 27 Then he said, ‘In that event I ask you, father, to send him to the house of my father, 28 for I have five brothers, in order that he may give them a thorough witness, that they also should not get into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to these.’ 30 Then he said, ‘No, indeed, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them they will repent.’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’”
So the "comfort" I have is that now I have all this knowledge. I can explain how to correct the Persian timeline, using C14 and astronomicakl texts! I can harmonize the dating of the 2nd coming to 1992! So I am having great comfort and joy for all the knowledge I have now, knowledge that is tormenting the GB! But YOU want to back off now because you see where this is leading. The more you talk to me to more you are learning and the more you learn the more you will be convinced that I must be the Christ! There is no way around this but to "see no evil, hear no evil and you will speak no evil!" The quest of those who love darkness is to hide from the light.
Now the WTS would just love to sponsor me as the Christ! I think they included the "sign of the son of man" the face of the sleeping black child and other pictures of the 2nd coming Christ as being BLACK, so they could backtrack. That is, if it turned out I was the true Christ, they'd love to sponsor me and have me use the Watchtower to put out all the new truths! But God has decided otherwise. For them to openly embrace me as the Christ, they'd have to be exposed as the "evil slave" and the "man of lawlessness." So they are in torment and they want just a little break, like a drop of water on their tongue, so that they can stop publishing so many false teachings! But this is prevented. I cannot decide to help them and they cannot use my truths without exposing themselves. Now we are all human. To make sure there is no cross-over between the secret world of Lazarus and the public world of the WTS, a "chasm" has been created between us, so that I cannot go over to them and they cannot come over to me. What is this "chasm"? It's the Law Code! God has removed the Law Code for the secret elect but not for the public elect. Without law there is no "sin." So I can no longer sin. Sins in the Bible are no longer sins to me, but instead, "Jehovah Is Our Righteousness." We are like secret, underground drug agents who buy, sell and even use drugs in order to nab a drug dealer, but the law does not indict us. To make sure this is not just believed but worked out, I end up having to have sex with both men and women. So it is very difficult to claim "Im the true Christ" in person when everybody around me knows I have lovers and am sexually active. That's the "chasm" that has been created. So even if the WTS wanted to publicly explain the scriptures and correct the timeline and then point to me as the Christ, they can't, because no one will accept me as the Christ if I'm out there giving blow jobs to half the men in this town (well, it's not really that bad, but it involves more than one man, plus at least one woman). So in no way does anyone who knows me personally take me seriously as the Christ they worship in their church. I've told a few people I'm the Christ, but I don't push it. It's a detail. One best friend of mine just came out and said he knows I'm not the Christ because he knows I'm out here sinning. Period. My parents are the same way. For whatever they might stop to listen for from the scriptures, they know a little bit of what I'm doing and so they stop listening based on my conduct.
But this was designed by God to keep the two world's separate I drink, I gamble, I have sex, I smoke -- all the things the WTS focusses on as sins. Of course, smoking and gambling are not sins, but still, it's the appearance of the Christ, a holy and sinless person now engaging in these sins. Only it is not a sin for me and the others in the "JIOR" because we are no longer under Law. Satan cannot tempt us into some sin after we have been sealed because we are no longer under law. So this is the "chasm" that is created. They cannot come to me and I cannot go to them. I have the light and they are dwelling in spiritual darkness as was prophesied!
You cannot defeat what I know, so you must run and shut your eyes and ears so you do not hear. But reality will catch up with everybody, sooner or later, at Armageddon. When God chooses to "reveal" me to the world as the Christ via some miracle or event, then Armageddon will closely follow. That's where we are in time now. The 2nd coming was 20 years ago on December 25, 1992!
