Acts 2:16-20 has not been fulfilled yet. Only a small precursor was. Proved by how God's Spirit was not poured upon all mankind, then.
Peter declares that it was being fulfilled right before their eyes. You don't have the authority to contradict him. Yes, God's Spirit was poured upon all mankind. On the Jews at Pentecost and on the Gentiles in Acts 10.
Most of the OT Prophets, are about events for the end times,
Almost all of them, I would argue. But the "last days" of Israel, not the last days of the universe.
We have not had anything like what is so often and clearly described.
When was the sun darkened and the moon as bright as the sun? Isaiah 30:26a
In apocalyptic texts, celestial bodies like the sun and moon represent leaders such as the king of Israel, the high priest, etc. (e.g. Isa. 1:2, 10) Thus, the sun being darkened, as Peter said was happening then, was the end of the Herodian line of kings when Herod Agrippa II fled Jerusalem during the Zealot uprising in 66 AD. He was the last king of Israel/the Jews. The moon turning to blood was the death of the high priest, Ananus son of Ananus, during 68 AD.
Jesus (Yeshua), the Son of God, was King and High Priest under the New Covenant which began at the cross. Once the wicked Jews were overthrown (which is what Isaiah 30 is talking about) then the New Jerusalem was left as the only spiritual power that had its source in God. We read in Revelation how there was no need of the sun because Jesus was now the Sun (King) and as High Priest, He would also be considered the Moon and able to give light as the Sun because they are essentially the same person.
It does to me. Many other prophesies say how the Day of the Lord's fiery wrath will strike suddenly and be all over after one day.
Great. You aren't the standard of authority. Scripture is. John's primary readers in the first century would not have understood it your way and it would have made no sense to them when viewed in that manner. It is in answer to the question by the martyrs under the altar "how long?" The answer was "quickly" meaning "soon".
Joke! The Christians then had the terrible persecution of Nero and all the horrible martyrdom then. After that, the Roman Catholic Church had no compunctions about cruelly killing anyone who didn't kowtow to the Pope. Now: Muslims behead Christians.
Actually, Nero died before the Jewish persecution ended and his persecution was limited to Rome at best. The RCC isn't in view in scripture because Israel was already removed per OT prophecy and the church of Christ fully established. Neither is Islam. Yes, both of those groups do persecute Christians, but they do so outside of the establishment period of the church and thus outside of the reference time for the writings of the NT.
These are beside the point anyway since I said they "no longer had to contend with the persecution
by the Jews, the spiritual Egypt." The RCC, Islam, Nero, atheists, etc. aren't "Jews, the spiritual Egypt" and so do not pertain to my comment.
The final destruction of Jerusalem in 135 AD, by Emperor Hadrian's orders, marks the end of the Roman/ Jewish war.
That was when all the Jews were forcibly exiled from the Land of Israel.
No. The Jewish-Roman war in view in scripture that was during the establishment period of the church ended in 74 AD. The remnants of the Jews almost 2 generations later that fought again have no bearing on the church. The Temple had already been destroyed and the Jews weren't persecuting Christians anymore. The Bar Kokhba Revolt was not the same war and had no relationship to Christianity at all.
Your beliefs, KR; contradict much scripture and it leaves you without any clues of what God actually has planned for the future of His People.
This is a baseless assertion. My beliefs do not contradict a single scripture, only your millennial eisegesis of them.
