What that means is, not acknowledging God's nature at stake with the 70 weeks in the 70 week prophecy, but agreeing with your interpretation. Or is giving my interpretation. And I have told you, and did tell you, that I am not going to give my interpretation since you and I have already been through that in another thread and it was fruitless for me to do so then, and it will be again. It is completely within my rights for me to do that. And it is the reason I gave for what you are calling "moving the goal posts". That is not what the OP is about.
Wow. Um... I'm not fighting with you on that. It isn't my interpretation about the 70 weeks in the 70 week prophecy. We have ON RECORD the exact fulfillment of the 69 weeks. And, surprisingly enough, it was EXACTLY 69 sets of seven years. No interpretation necessary. Except, apparently, the Jews DID reinterpret it, and completely missed Jesus first coming because of it. I mean, not this prophecy alone, but if they had actually taken this prophecy as given, they could have easily counted off the 69 weeks, and then have seen what happened on that day. What we have is one last decreed week. DECREED. God is being very direct and clear. Given what is said to happen after the 69th week, and given that we know exactly when those events occurred, we can know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there
has to be a gap between the 69th and 70th weeks. Full Stop. Please stop with the, your belief. My belief is what I do with this decree. How long the gap is, how it fits to my belief of eschatology. This prophecy is as God decreed, because God, through Gabriel said it is a decree/command. Therefore, just as Darius couldn't change his decree for Daniel spending a night with some lions, I can't change God's decree, and God won't. There is a gap that just doesn't want to go away. I have dealt with the gap in my belief, because I have to. The gap is there.
DO NOT GO CHANGING DECREES OF GOD. And no,
pretrib is not a decree of God. It is how people have fit God's decrees and prophecies into the rest of scripture, and into actual history. That is my only point. Do not change the nature of God.
No you were not and I showed you why. For the sake of not derailing the thread into an endless, fruitless, discussion of the different interpretations of OT prophecy and using OT prophecy to interpret NT passages. That is improper Bible hermeneutics. It is the NT that reveals the mysteries in OT prophecy, Therefore, if one cannot support their claim of a seven or 31/2 year tribulation, and a pre-trib rapture of the church, and a thousand year reign of Christ on earth without the church present, from the NT, it indicates that not even the dispensationalist can do so.
You can see it in my other thread. Matthew 24 is not dealing with AD 70, while Luke 21 is dealing with AD 70. We don't have anything to argue with about your last sentence, because that isn't what the thread is about. That isn't even what I have been trying to talk about. However, I will say we are dealing with a seven year period, the 70th week, and that there is a distinct 3 1/2 year period spoken of directly by God through Gabriel to Daniel. I'm not going to argue with God. If my belief contradicts what God said here, then I either reinterpret what God said, such as to remove the last week and say it is an indeterminate amount of time, for instance, or, fix my belief. I choose fix my belief. Which is why I am where I am right now. Different from where I was just two or three years ago. (That could be off by a couple/few years, because time has kind of melded together for me.)
You should not need that premise. See above. Even though I told you that in my post #47 where I defended myself against your claim that I moved the goal posts. And I also told you why I restricted the question which was an amended question, not a different question, and why it needed to be amended. I already knew why you said I moved the goal posts. I gave my defense. Your counter here is merely stating what you already said. Not addressing my defense.
Shifting the goal posts is a stupid fallacy, that is, it is so simple to make, and not even realize it. If the question is changed, you saying amended, after an argument is put forward, that is automatically shifting the goal posts. I called it just to point something out. I'm not sure why you made a big deal about it.
None of your posts were deleted. My guess is you wrote it, didn't save it, and didn't post it even though you thought you did. But if, as you say, it would take three hours to rewrite, there is no reason that it should, unless it contained irrelevancies such as repeating your interpretations of OT prophecy.
My point was, I don't know what happened. I don't believe it was deleted, but it may have been. (Again, I said all fingers point at me.) The system I was on is... different. It is a fight sometimes just to get things to work right. I thought something may have gone wrong that night, but I didn't dig into it. I guess something did. I don't want to go through the pain of writing something new, as I don't remember what I wrote the last time. That is the curse of rewriting things multiple times.
