Appendix 8 Footnotes
[1] 2 Peter 1:20-21
[2] Luke 13:34
[3] Revelation 19:8
[4] Revelation 13:8
[5] Revelation 9:10
[6] Isaiah 46:10
[7] Isaiah 9:6
[8] Isaiah 9:7
[9] Daniel 11
[10] Exodus 15:7, where Moses sings of the destruction of Pharaoh.
[11] Jeremiah 51:45
[12] Zephaniah 3:8
[13] Christ’s prophecy of “the times of the Gentiles” (Luke 21:24), for example, appears to have both a near and a far-term fulfillment. Many evangelicals believe the “times of the Gentiles” began with the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and that the recapture of Jerusalem in 1967 means the “times of the Gentiles” are either over or nearly so. This would be the “near fulfillment”. It is likely the 3½ year period during the Seventieth Week (Revelation 11:12) when Gentiles control Jerusalem is a far-fulfillment of the same prophecy. If so, some details of the second trampling may be deduced from the first. Thus, the Antichrist’s armies will probably surround Jerusalem in such a way that believers will have a chance to escape, as Christians did in the days of Titus. There, the parallel probably ends, since, for example, Titus destroyed the Temple, while the Antichrist will only desecrate it.
[14] e.g. Chapter 51
[15] Jeremiah’s prophecy has such a second fulfillment which is seen by its close resemblance to the prophecies of Babylon’s fall in Revelation 17 and 18.
[16] Revelation 17 and 18
[2] Luke 13:34
[3] Revelation 19:8
[4] Revelation 13:8
[5] Revelation 9:10
[6] Isaiah 46:10
[7] Isaiah 9:6
[8] Isaiah 9:7
[9] Daniel 11
[10] Exodus 15:7, where Moses sings of the destruction of Pharaoh.
[11] Jeremiah 51:45
[12] Zephaniah 3:8
[13] Christ’s prophecy of “the times of the Gentiles” (Luke 21:24), for example, appears to have both a near and a far-term fulfillment. Many evangelicals believe the “times of the Gentiles” began with the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and that the recapture of Jerusalem in 1967 means the “times of the Gentiles” are either over or nearly so. This would be the “near fulfillment”. It is likely the 3½ year period during the Seventieth Week (Revelation 11:12) when Gentiles control Jerusalem is a far-fulfillment of the same prophecy. If so, some details of the second trampling may be deduced from the first. Thus, the Antichrist’s armies will probably surround Jerusalem in such a way that believers will have a chance to escape, as Christians did in the days of Titus. There, the parallel probably ends, since, for example, Titus destroyed the Temple, while the Antichrist will only desecrate it.
[14] e.g. Chapter 51
[15] Jeremiah’s prophecy has such a second fulfillment which is seen by its close resemblance to the prophecies of Babylon’s fall in Revelation 17 and 18.
[16] Revelation 17 and 18
