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NASB | Matthew 24:29 ¶ "But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 24:29 ¶ "Immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT PROVIDE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. [Is 13:10; 34:4; Joel 2:10, 11; Zeph 1:15] |
Bible Question:
Greetings kalos, So you mean the 7 years tribulation stated in Daniel 9 has yet to come? Isn't this part of the 2300 years prophecy that was fulfilled for when the Messiah came and the cleansing of the Sanctuary? |
Bible Answer: inheavenseyes (and kalos), let me interupt. There are some who say the tribulation already happened, as well as it will never happen. I believe it has not happened, because of the many Scriptures. The '2300 evenings and mornings' probably point to the period of general persecution which began in 170 B.C. when a representative of Antiochus' regime engineered the assassination of Jewish high priest, Onias. Although Antiochus was not personally involved in this plot it would have been viewed by the Jews as the first step in an ongoing Syrian intrigue to further dominate Palestine. Jerusalem was given a puppet religious leader who was willing to cooperate with Syrian designs. This oppression reached its height sometime in the year 167 when Antiochus issued his decree prohibiting the Jewish religion. Greek soldiers poured into Palestine and some say as many as 70,000 Jews were killed in the persecution that followed. It was at this time that the temple sacrifices were suspended and the sanctuary itself defiled with pagan idolatry. Then, in 164 B.C., God-fearing Jews known as Maccabeans revolted against the Syr-ian army and succeeded in re-capturing and 'cleansing' (or 'restoring' RSV) the temple in December of that year. The following chart pictures the 2300 days as probably understood by Jews before the time of Christ: http://www.goodnewsunlimited.org.au/sda1.htm#E99E5 Some use a starting date of 457 B.C. (Based on Ezra 7:1-27, 7th year of Artaxerxes, the third commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem) for the 2300 day (year) prophecy of Dan 8:14, you arrive at the date 1844. as the date for the start of Judgment in heaven (the cleansing of the sanctuary). ... But, now what? It appears nothing happened in 1844, tho some say the cleansing was in heaven. I wonder was heaven in need of cleansing. Searcher |