Isaiah,
Jeremiah and the Lord all spoke prophecy about the near term (as well
as the distant). The protoevangelium and the seed of the woman, the
Abrahamic promise, blessing upon all the nations, the Davidic promise
and an eternal kingdom through the seed of the woman, Abraham's heirs
and the House of David, the Lord Jesus Christ descended from David
through Mary point to Jesus Christ as the King of kings and Lord of
Lords.
Isaiah 9:6
"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government
shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful,
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
Prince
of Peace."
Jesus
spoke of prophecy that would be fulfilled in the generation of his
day in the first century, and that the kingdom of God was at hand.
The Davidic kingdom in the form the Lord actualized it is eternal.
How so then would it not have started in the first century? It
continues to increase in numbers today. The pre-trib paradigm is just
wrong.
John
too as a prophet spoke to the impending crisis of his day. The beast
was Nero and the tribulation was the persecution of Christians and
impending destruction of Jerusalem. Is their any prophetic tradition,
or a preponderance of prophets whom address solely distant events
without relevant to people living in their generation?
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