31 “Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
36 “This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. 37 Your Majesty, you are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; 38 in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
39 “After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. 40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. 41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. 42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay. (<------ WE ARE HERE)
44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces."
Verse 41 through 43 refer to the USA. Look at this description. This is 100% US. As we get close to November, keep in mind that not only is our Country in a physical war with ourselves but we are in a spiritual war. Christ is coming back. Ready your hearts and minds!
Absolutely no written proof Jesus has already had His Second Coming. None. This is a distraction to convince us all that we are in "Satans little time" before the judgement seat. End times are playing out exactly like the Bible foretold. And you stated that "This is what Christian's traditionally believed and understood for over 1800 years UNTIL" There is no until. I do not know a single fellow Christian, teacher, or Prophet that believes or talks about that.
You are confusing Christ coming on the clouds in judgment in 70AD with a final judgment.
You're trying to squeeze a rapture in there. There is no rapture.
Most Baptists, all reformed Baptists, many Presbyterians, Protestants and a number of other Christian sects either hold to post-millennialism or al-millennialism eschatological positions.
Before the publication of the Schofield reference Bible about 200 years ago you wouldn't find anyone that held to your position. You're eschatological position is referred to as darbyism or premillennial dispensationalism.
In my opinion it's the greatest lie the devil's ever interjected into the church. You practically get giddy when you see signs of things getting worse in the short term because you think you're going to get yeeted up to heaven and in the meantime you're not out there taking Dominion as the Great commission commands you, over every sphere of society. You're not starting projects that you're great great grandchildren will have to finish. Basically nobody polishes brass on a sinking ship.
Unfortunately the Schofield Bible was essentially the first Bible that had footnotes in it that explained different passages and offered interpretations. It had this very French position of darbyism in it and sadly this Bible was widely adopted by both pastors and seminaries because of the useful footnotes. This rapidly changed the landscape of the eschatological views of Evangelical churches throughout the country and the world in just a couple generations.
I'll take $1,800 years of what's the church traditionally believed over something that requires me to look predominantly towards the future to the things that have happened almost 2,000 years ago in the past and make ridiculous sleeps like lotuses being Apache helicopters.
Take your seven-headed 10 horned beast surrounding the holiest of holies for example. Rome had seven hills with 10 governors and when it's surrounded Jerusalem the Christians fled to the mountains just as instructed and they were the only ones that were saved from the siege when Rome destroyed the city.
Everything there lines up perfectly with historic events. But your tradition has you looking towards recent events and towards the future because you haven't taken the time to look at the history and world events going on alongside scripture at those times and think like a Jew in those days.
Have a good day.
What about the King James Bible of 1611? Does it corroborate what you have stated as well?
Yes. As well as the original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic.
This isn't a translation issue, it's an interpretation of passages issue mixed in with a teaching tradition and modern Christianity's general lack of knowledge and understanding of historical events around biblical times. i.e. Histories of Josephus