Historical fact: Nero persecuted the church for 3.5 years.
John was told Revelation's events were at hand from the point of the writing. Jesus said great tribulation would occur and be the cause for those in Jerusalem and Judaea to flee to the mountains. Not for believers across the world to flee. And Jesus said the generation who would see ALL the events listed in Matt 24 would see this, including the temple destruction that occurred in AD70. History says that Christians who saw Cestius Gallus retreat from his siege against Jerusalem took that as Jesus' signal to flee, and did. Not one Christian perished in the siege as a result. Thank God they were not futurists! Drop the fellowship party line and accept Jesus' words instead of filtering everything through predetermined lenses of looking for your belief rather than allow scripture to relate truth to you.
. Admit you were wrong as a futurist, as I did, and recognize the present rule of Jesus.
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