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Does This Event Fulfill Most Biblical End Times Prophecies?
People erroneously believe that these things have yet to pass
A giant pagan army marching through the streets of God’s City hellbent on slaying God himself sounds like an image out of a prophecy about the end of the world. In fact, many Christians still buy into such language about a coming apocalypse in which the forces of darkness will rise up to overwhelm God’s elect. However, this image is not about some future catastrophe but a past one.
General Titus, a future emperor of Rome, the world’s greatest pagan empire, marched through Jerusalem killing, looting, raping, and burning. He strode into God’s city and was responsible for over a million deaths, most of them Jews. These images reflect many end times prophecies that Christians pine for today. But did they already happen?
Some people say yes. In fact, there is an entire school of thought called preterism that believes that many of the end times prophecies found in the Bible were resolved by the Destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
The sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple can mark the end of an age. It fulfills the prophecies about the Abomination of Desolation, wars, and rumors of war, famine, rape, violence, and utter destruction. It also split once and…
