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The angel Gabriel told Daniel, “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression…” (Daniel 9:24; NASB). The transgression has not been finished. Biblical scholars have determined that each of Daniel’s 70 weeks is made up of seven years or 7×70. In other words, 490 years were [...]
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When you are in Christ, you are in Israel because Jesus’ name is Israel.
July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
When you are in Jesus, you are in Israel. How can this be? Read on. The word “Israel” has at least five different meanings.The first is the land which is called Israel, the ground. The land that was promised to Abraham. The second Israel is the people who are called Jews. They are the ethnic [...]
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Is the Fig Tree: Israel?
July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Another false teaching the pretribbers teach is that Israel is the fig tree in Matthew 24:32. Grant Jeffrey, a pretribbers, explains it like this: One of the last prophetic signs announcing His return was the sign of the fig tree. Six times in the Old Testament the fig tree is used as a symbol of [...]
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Different Dispensations? Yes and No
July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Pretribbers are dispensationalist. Dispensationalists believe that the church age will end when the Tribulation Period begins because God is going back to the Old Covenant to deal with Israel under the seventieth week of Daniel. Just like water and oil don’t mix, they believe that the Old and New covenants don’t mix. Therefore the purpose [...]