"What did the walls of Jerusalem look like before Suleiman rebuilt them?"

"What did the walls of Jerusalem look like before Suleiman rebuilt them?" 

I’d like you to consider the location, significance and the timing of Suleiman the Magnificent’s efforts to rebuilt Jerusalem’s walls.

Location: According to Dr. James Fleming, he was walking near the Eastern Gate in 1969.

“[he]…was inspecting the gate when it happened to start raining. The ground gave way and he found himself in a pit of bones beneath the gate. He saw the top of another gate beneath the surface. He photographed his discovery, but when he returned the next day, the Arab custodians of the cemetery had sealed it with a cement slab.”

Jerusalem's Golden Gate: A Door of Promise for the Future | United with Israel

This means Suleiman the Magnificent built the new gate over the old gate. This proves where the Temples were located.

Significance: Suleiman the Magnificent was winning battles up near Vienna in 1536–1537 and had no interest in returning to the Middle East. Then, lions chased him in his dreams for a long period of time. A friend told him to ask the lions what they wanted. He was told to send men and money to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and other Muslim cities.

Timing: If you believe in the pattern of Daniel 9:24–27 of seventy times seven, which is four hundred and ninety years, then observe this pattern.

70 CE (fall of Jerusalem) plus four hundred and ninety years brings us to Justinian 1, the Last Roman in 560–565 CE as his Byzantine Nation is faltering and he is dying.

560 CE plus four hundred and ninety years brings us to 1050–1053 CE when the Eastern Orthodox Church split from the Roman Catholic Church.

1050 CE plus four hundred and ninety years brings us to 1540 CE when Suleiman’s troops worked under a Pesach-Sukkot-Pesach-Sukkot Lunar Tetrad Eclipse Pattern sealing the gate so that only the Messiah could enter:

Then he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, the one facing east; and it was shut. ADONAI said to me, "This gate will remain shut; it will not be opened, and no one will go through it; because ADONAI, the God of Isra'el, has gone through it. Therefore, it is to be kept shut. Only the prince, since he is a prince, is to sit there to eat his meal before ADONAI; he is to enter through the vestibule of the gate and leave the same way." Ezekiel 44:1–3 (CJB)

1540 CE plus four hundred and ninety years brings us to 2030 CE. 2023 CE is seven years before 2030 CE. 

What is the most accurate translation of Anti-Christ in your own native frameworks? How do you tell God overcoming anti-Christ stories without quoting from English Bibles?

"What is the most accurate translation of Anti-Christ in your own native frameworks? How do you tell God overcoming anti-Christ stories without quoting from English Bibles?"

I’m assuming you would like me to explain the Antichrist and his system in a secular way?

The first secular source would be George Orwell. “Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...”

https://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934

My second secular source would be all the Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Movies and books being marketed today. There are too many to cite.

https://culturedvultures.com/best-post-apocalyptic-movies/

What I’m telling you is that multiple systems are failing across the world and many are realizing that something horrible is going to happen and change our lives forever.

Let’s address the systems:

Big Tech: Working to stifle freedom of speech and turn you into sheep

Big Satellites: Watching your every move like bytes of data

Big Pharma: Profits from turning people into zombies

Big Media: Government controlled brainwashing

Big Woke: Dismantling Western Civilization until it’s extinct

Big Banks: They win, you lose on every transaction as you go broke

Big Church: Corporate Churchianity, dead like kindling

Big Slavery: We’re slipping into a slave mentality

Big China: Totalitarianism for all as they spread their plagues

Big Cosmos: Solar cycles and space debris affect us personally

I’m arguing that every major system is crashing at an alarmingly increasing rate.

Systematic failures will feed Globalists until they fail. Then, the world will search for one man and his system to save them. This is essentially Antichrist and his system.

I believe he will be anti-your conscience. You know right from wrong. He and his system will beguile you into believing wrong is right and he has all the answers. 

Shalom!

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-accurate-translation-of-Anti-Christ-in-your-own-native-frameworks-How-do-you-tell-God-overcoming-anti-Christ-stories-without-quoting-from-English-Bibles/answer/Joel-Blackford?prompt_topic_bio=1

Is Idolatry and Heresy the same?

 

Yes.

We should define heresy:

Heresy, theological doctrine or system rejected as false by ecclesiastical  authority. The Greek word hairesis (from which heresy is derived) was originally a neutral term that signified merely the holding of a particular set of philosophical opinions. (Brittanica)

I’m arguing that most societies view marriage as a lifelong commitment involving monogamy. Both parties and their families agree to these terms and then the couple is married.

Let's say you marry someone and commit to them forever. You establish a contract between you two that you will be monogamous. Then, one of you has an affair. That’s heresy in regards to your contract and public promises that are contrary to your society’s philosophical opinions.

Per idolatry, I’m arguing that everyone, including islanders or isolated groups without a written code, have a knowledge of right and wrong. Universally, everyone realizes that if you marry your sister, your children will be deformed. There are other caveats generally accepted. Every competent civilization has some level of morality.

In the Bible, Paul explains it this way:

For God does not show favoritism. All who have sinned outside the framework of Torah will die outside the framework of Torah; and all who have sinned within the framework of Torah will be judged by Torah. For it is not merely the hearers of Torah whom God considers righteous; rather, it is the doers of what Torah says who will be made righteous in God’s sight. For whenever Gentiles, who have no Torah, do naturally what the Torahrequires, then these, even though they don’t have Torah, for themselves are Torah! For their lives show that the conduct the Torah dictates is written in their hearts.[b

] Their consciences also bear witness to this, for their conflicting thoughts sometimes accuse them and sometimes defend them on a day when God passes judgment on people’s inmost secrets. (According to the Good News as I proclaim it, he does this through the Messiah Yeshua.) Romans 2:11–16 (CJB)

Although most modern civilizations don’t understand ancient idolatry, it is prevalent in many tribal circumstances.

In all cases, people realize figurines of wood and stone can’t create the heavens and the earth, but some people worship these figurines anyway.

Replacing an all powerful God with one that is formed out of wood and stone is the same thing as replacing the one you promised to be faithful to for your whole life.

Some call it guilt. Some call it conscience. Whatever it is, we all have it.

Remote islanders have an ethical code, and they will be judged by that code. We, who read the Bible will be held to a higher code.

Shalom!

Everyone has an eschatology (study of end days). Even a-millennial adherents have an eschatology. Please note, most Roman Catholics and Lutherans teach an a-Millennial eschatology, meaning they believe we’re in the one thousand year millennium right now (I don’t believe them either).

Most Christians across the world ignore Revelation. Most Lutherans and Roman Catholics impugn it.

I find it interesting that two of the experts that have posted answers are Lutherans. Luther loathed Revelation and Jews. His followers have regarded it as unreadable Chiastic Poetry. Luther wanted Revelation banned from the Bible.

Luther regarded the Book of James (a Jew named Ya’akov) as an: “epistle of straw,” because it sounded too Jewish.

Germans celebrated Luther’s Birthday by burning Jew’s home and synagogues in Germany on Nov. 10, 1938. Luther wrote, “Jews are a serpent's brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them.”

Luther’s Jewish Problem

Another Jew named Yochanon wrote a few Bible Books, including Revelation.

Revelation begins with a description of Yochanon being called to heaven for a meeting. Then, it describes seven Messianic Fellowships. Afterward, the storyline reverts to heaven where the Seven Seals need to be opened to release the Seven Trumpet (judgements) and the Seven Bowls (judgements). At the end, the good and the bad are judged and everyone receives what they deserve as they move into a new age.

There are no exact biblical descriptions of when these events occurred or will occur.

Most modern eschatologists regard a time where nothing needs to occur (Doctrine of Imminence) and then the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, followed by the Seven Seals, Seven Trumpets and Seven Bowls opening during the final seven years of this present age, preferably during the Time of God’s Wrath, that in their estimation is close to the end of the final seven years.

There are many Pre-Wrath adherents. They believe in a Rapture before the Wrath of God hits the earth.

According to Post-Tribulation Rapture-adherent Irvin Baxter, “The book of Revelation is not in chronological order. The seals are the long story, the trumpets are the short story, and the vials are the real short story.”

My feeling is that Yochanon wrote the Book of Revelation as mostly chronological with narrative breaks. It reads like Moses wrote Torah.

Six of the Seven Seals open like the Matthew 24 Birth Pangs before the final seven years. The 144,000 are sealed and set aside and consecrated like First Fruits are in the Bible. Then, the Seven Trumpets open with a narrative break from Revelation 10 to 11:14–19 and resume from chapter 12 to 15. Chapter 16 releases the Seven Bowls and chapters 18–22 describe the final details.

Why does any of this matter? Because the world has been falling apart for over fifty years, but our implosion seems to be hastening. Rather than preaching that Revelation is silly Jewish poetry, we should be aware the Bible is becoming very real and personal.

I believe its time to wake up and smell the coffee. The Third Seal of Revelation seems to be increasing and the Forth Seal is set to open soon.

What has been regarded as chiastic fairy tales may drop like burning asteroids into your laps. What happened to Sodom and Egypt could occur again. 

Shalom!

https://www.quora.com/How-could-you-compare-and-contrast-the-7-Seals-7-Trumpets-and-the-7-Bowls-of-the-Book-of-Revelation

"Why do people say that Jesus Christ is returning in 2030?"

"Why do people say that Jesus Christ is returning in 2030?"

Assuming His death and resurrection in 30 CE, then two thousand years later would be 2030 CE.

Come, let us return to ADONAI; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck, and he will bind our wounds. After two days (the Hebrew letter aleph can mean 1 or 1,000), he will revive us; on the third day [millennium?] he will raise us up; and we will live in his presence. Let us know, let us strive to know ADONAI. That he will come is as certain as morning; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rains that water the earth. Hosea 6:1–3 (CJB)

You bring frail mortals to the point of being crushed, then say, "People, repent!" For from your viewpoint a thousand years are merely like yesterday or a night watch. When you sweep them away, they become like sleep; by morning they are like growing grass, Psalm 90:3–5 (CJB)

It is by that same Word that the present heavens and earth, having been preserved, are being kept for fire until the Day of Judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed. Moreover, dear friends, do not ignore this: with the Lord, one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some people think of slowness; on the contrary, he is patient with you; for it is not his purpose that anyone should be destroyed, but that everyone should turn from his sins. 2 Peter 3:7–9 (CJB)

“The New Covenant Scriptures record that Yahushua was sentenced to death on the charge of his claiming to be Yahueh on Passover Eve 3790, Hebrew Calendar [or 30 CE]

The year 3790 fell within range of the most recent Shnat Shmitah=Year of Release, Sabbatical Year 3787]: It is truly amazing that Yahushua's final year fell within a 45-month range of the most recent Shnat Shmitah=Year of Release, Sabbatical Year] on 10th Tishrei [Yom Kippur] 3787 (Monday, 29th September 26 CE) and was preceded by the Shabbath Shuva [Sabbath of Return]. Yahushua was “about” 30 years old (Luke 3:23) at this time and it is probable that the Scripture passage He read was chosen to synchronize with the Shnat Shmitah (Yeshayahu 61:1, 2a, Luke 4:16-22). Thus the commencement of His ministry at Rosh Ha Shanah in the year 3787 would place the ministry of Yahushua as occurring within a historical time-frame to synchronize with the terminus ad quem of the final 69th week of Daniel 9:24-27 within which the unique Pesach-HaMatzah week would fall.” Merlin Houzet

https://www.facebook.com/iamthatiamsabbathkeppersassembly/posts/1223831044348331

Shalom! 

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-say-that-Jesus-Christ-is-returning-in-2030/answer/Joel-Blackford?prompt_topic_bio=1

"Why is this person Jenni Jones saying the rapture is in 2021?"

"Why is this person Jenni Jones saying the rapture is in 2021?"

In 1833 a pastor named John Nelson Darby fell off his horse, hit his head, and created the Doctrine of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Saints.

According to theologian John MacArthur, there are no verses that directly state a Pre-Tribulation Rapture, but he fervently believes it will occur that way.

Since 1833, many groups have predicted Rapture dates to no avail.

In 1843 and 1844 a group called the Millerites determined the biblical Rapture would occur. They waited patiently and nothing happened. That group disbanded, but some kept up the end time’s postulating becoming known as the Seventh Day Adventists (SDA’s). Their prophet was Ellen White.

The term “Investigative Judgment” is the SDA’s way of blaming God for missing their prediction.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses have many failed predictions, including 1874, 1914, 1925, 1938, 1942, 1975, 1984 and before 2000. They were wrong each time.

Edgar Whisenant predicted the rapture would occur in 1988, based on forty years from 1948 (when Israel was founded), sometime between September 11 and the 13th. Edgar doubled down in 1989, but was wrong again.

I saw billboards paid for by Harold Camping that the Rapture would occur May 21, 2011.

There are many predicting a Pre-Tribulation Rapture will occur nearly every day of the year. They drive us to distraction. Please don't give these errant date setters any money.

When things get bad, please don’t listen to those people, and take this advice:

Your dead will live, my corpses will rise; awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the morning dew, and the earth will bring the ghosts to life. Come, my people, enter your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past. For see! ADONAI emerges from his place to punish those on earth for their sin. Then the earth will reveal the blood shed on it and no longer conceal its slain. Isaiah 26:19–21 (CJB)

The picture on the top shows ancient Jewish graves designed like the ancient altar because they believed their souls were kept under the Altar of Heaven. The picture above shows how modern Jews are buried on the Mount of Olives to await the resurrection.

When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for proclaiming the Word of God, that is, for bearing witness. They cried out in a loud voice, “Sovereign Ruler, HaKadosh, the True One, how long will it be before you judge the people living on earth and avenge our blood?” Each of them was given a white robe; and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow-servants should be reached, of their brothers who would be killed, just as they had been. Revelation 6:9-12 (CJB)

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-this-person-Jenni-Jones-saying-the-rapture-is-in-2021/answer/Joel-Blackford?prompt_topic_bio=1

Shalom!

 

"Is it also possible that the two witnesses will also be appearing soon?"

"If the time of the Antichrist is drawing near, is it also possible that the two witnesses will also be appearing soon, or is there time for only after the beginning of the Great Tribulation?"

Everyone has an eschatology (study of end times); whether their version of death is a dirt nap, some celestial consciousness or a biblical explanation. I cite biblical eschatology like an ancient Jew would view it, but I could be wrong too.

Most Jews refuse to read Daniel and most Christians refuse to read Revelation as scripture, so both miss the mark. Some people overly spiritualize Daniel or Revelation or consider them to be chiastic poetry. That’s sad.

Let’s start out with the Christian version of the Antichrist. He’s anti-nomos (man of sin) in the scriptures, which means he loathes God’s Torah (Moses’ Writings). Christians don’t understand that. Most Christians don’t read the Tanakh, their Old Testament. That’s like building a building without a proper foundation. They tend to dwell on him and omit other key end time’s players. The supposed Antichrist is described vaguely in the Bible, and is listed as a Beast, a man of sin or a Little Horn in Daniel.

At times, the Bible is referring to the Beast or Little Horn as a man, but he seems to rule a system too. We should always consider that the language is purposely vague, so it could be either.

“While I was considering the horns, another horn sprang up among them, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. In this horn were eyes like human eyes and a mouth speaking arrogantly. “As I watched, thrones were set in place; and the Ancient One [God] took his seat…

…Then the court was convened, and the books were opened. “I kept watching. Then, because of the arrogant words which the horn was speaking, I watched as the animal was killed; its body was destroyed; and it was given over to be burned up completely. As for the other animals, their rulership was taken away; but their lives were prolonged for a time and a season. Daniel 7:8–9a, 10b-12 (CJB)

Daniel’s other version of the Little Horn:

Out of one of them came a little horn which grew extremely big in the directions of the south and east, and in the direction of the Glory. It grew so great that it reached the army of heaven; it hurled some of the army and the stars to the ground and trampled on them. The first said to me, “Two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings, after which the sanctuary will be restored to its rightful state.”

Yes, it even considered itself as great as the prince of the army; the regular burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was thrown down. Through sin, the army was put in its power, along with the regular burnt offering. It flung truth on the ground as it acted and prospered.

The first said to me, “Two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings, after which the sanctuary will be restored to its rightful state.”

The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but you are to keep the vision secret, because it is about days in the distant future [today?].” Daniel 8:9–10, 11–12, 14, 26 (CJB)

It is my opinion that the Beast or Little Horn will arrive during the last three and one-half years of the final seven years, and that the False Prophet will arrive and coalesce the peoples years before his arrival. The Two Witnesses arrive before the final seven years and exit just prior to the Seventh Trumpet blast close to the mid-point of the seven years in Revelation 11:14 The second woe has passed; see, the third woe is coming quickly. They will verbally joust with the False Prophet, but not overlap with the Beast.

Who are the Two Witnesses? I would say they are literal or figurative Moses and Eliyahu (Elijah). They are mentioned first as two pillars and two olive trees:

As for the capitals on the two columns, there were 200 pomegranates in rows around each capital near the molding by the netting. He erected the columns in the hall of the temple; on erecting the right column he gave it the name “Yakhin,” and on erecting the left column he named it “Bo‘az.” On the tops of the columns were shapes like lilies; thus the work of the columns was finished. 1 Kings 21:20–22 (CJB)

In front of the house he made two columns sixty-one-and-a-quarter feet high, with a capital of eight-and-three-quarters feet on top of each. He made chains in the sanctuary and added them to the tops of the columns, and he made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains. He erected the columns in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left; the one on the right he called Yakhin, and the one on the left he called Bo‘az. 2 Chronicles 3:15–17 (CJB)

Next to it are two olive trees, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left.” I then asked the angel speaking with me, “What are these, my Lord?” The angel speaking with me said, “Don’t you know what these are?” I said, “No, my Lord.” Then he answered me, “This is the word of Adonai to Z’rubavel: ‘Not by force, and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot. ‘What are you, you big mountain? Before Z’rubavel you will become a plain; and he will put the capstone in place, as everyone shouts, “It’s beautiful! Beautiful!” Zechariah 4:3–7 (CJB)

The Bible requires two or three credible witnesses testify in a court. Since no one on earth is biblically Tahor (ritually pure), we need two men that have no corpse contamination or other issues to restart the Temple Mount prayers and other end time’s requirements. They must arrive before the final seven years.

It is my belief that the Abrahamic Accords will strengthen over time and become a major diplomatic force. The Two Witnesses should arrive just a few days or months before the Abrahamic Accords are finalized. They will preach for 1,260 days until just prior to the mid-point of the seven years.

“Also I will give power to my two witnesses; and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two menorahs standing before the Lord of the earth. If anyone tries to do them harm, fire comes out of their mouth and consumes their enemies — yes, if anyone tries to harm them, that is how he must die. They have the authority to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the period of their prophesying; also they have the authority to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want. Revelation 11:3–6 (CJB)

Just as we aren’t sure of when the actual decree was given by Medo-Persia to rebuild the “streets and walls of Jerusalem,” (Daniel 9:25) because there were three decrees, we may not realize which Abrahamic Accord kicks off the final seven years.

https://www.quora.com/If-the-time-of-the-Antichrist-is-drawing-near-is-it-also-possible-that-the-two-witnesses-will-also-be-appearing-soon-or-is-there-time-for-only-after-the-beginning-of-the-Great-Tribulation

Shalom!