When Was The Revelation Written ?

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

He didn't say that was THE good news. THE good news is what you said, but that does not preclude other events from being good news. Let's not nit pick here ok?

Yes, thanks. The "good news" to which I referred was within the context of Ezekiel's immediate ministry. Today we have the habit of collapsing the timeline of the Old Testament.

Remember later when Daniel "understood by books..." that the time of the exile was to be 70 years? That was "good news" to Daniel - the idea that the exile of his people was not to be forever; so too with Ezekiel's vision of the restoration of the temple. Ezekiel's preaching had an immediate effect upon the people of his time. We tend to over look the importance of that because we are looking for a "greater" fulfillment from the words of the prophets.

Perhaps, in my first post, you misunderstood me to be saying that there is some need in my view for the Jews to be building another temple today. Whether they do build or not has no direct bearing upon the "good news" of the gospel. Christ finished that work of sacrifice, in that we apparently are in agreement.

And so my point at the time, Ezekiel has a vision of a new temple in the wake of the old temple being destroyed. I fit this pattern to John's vision in Revelation 11, where he too sees a new temple. I maintain that John had this vision in the wake, i.e. after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. - thus one (admittedly small) point against a preterist interpretation.

[Bowas]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

He didn't say that was THE good news. THE good news is what you said, but that does not preclude other events from being good news. Let's not nit pick here ok?

I understand that. However, I still fail to see how that is good news. The only good news I believe would be, the good news is that they would turn from seeking after temple building and start seeking after the Good news of Jesus, Now that would indeed be good news!

[pelathais]

hmm... maybe deep is calling too deeply here.

Sorry to be a source of consternation.

[Scott Hutchinson]

Here is a question ,in the book of The Revelation ,John is told to measure the temple what temple was he supposed to measure?