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Maynman:
The Davidic king is the earthly ruler of Yahweh people. In that capacity he is Yahweh surrogate, the representative of the actual and eternal king of Israel, Israel’s Divine Ruler.

Thus, it is said: “Solomon sat upon the throne of the Lord as king, in place of his father, David, and he was successful” (1 Chronicles 29:23).
Verse 7a, “Your throne, God [’Elohim], is for ever and ever,” is a parenthetical statement placed in the text to explain why verse 8b says, “therefore God [’Elohim], your God [’Elohecha], has anointed you.”

Thanks for this wonderful info. Does this mean the UK Kings are decendants from the House of King David:
Holy oil to anoint King Charles III at his coronation is consecrated in Jerusalem
Source: https://news.sky.com/story/holy-oil-to-anoint-king-charles-iii-at-his-coronation-is-consecrated-in-jerusalem-12824834

SIRTee15:
Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever;
a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.
You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
by anointing you with the oil of joy.
Psalm 45.6-7

13 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man,[a] coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. 14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
Daniel 7.13-14

From your quote in Psalm 45.6-7 when was the invented Jesus Christ anointed with oil and by who?

Also the invented Jesus Christ went up in the clouds but has not come down from the clouds for 2000 years now

By Rachel Russell & Simon Jones
BBC News

The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation after emails containing classified information were sent to a close ally of Russia in a typing error.

The emails were intended for the US military, which uses the domain name ".mil".

But they missed out the letter i, and so the messages went instead to the West African nation of Mali.

Defence officials say the emails did not contain information that could compromise operational security.

The mistake, they said, involved only a small number of emails being sent to Mali, whose email domain is ".ml".

"We have opened an investigation after a small number of emails were mistakenly forwarded to an incorrect email domain," an MoD spokesman told PA news agency. "We are confident they did not contain any information that could compromise operational security or technical data."

The spokesman added that all sensitive information used by the government department was "shared on systems designed to minimise the risk of misdirection".

"The MoD constantly reviews its processes and is currently undertaking a programme of work to improve information management, data loss prevention, and the control of sensitive information," the spokesman said.

Earlier this month, it emerged that millions of US military emails had also been sent to Mali, because of the same typing error.

Some of those emails were believed to have contained sensitive information including passwords, medical records and the itineraries of top officers.

Mali was one of the six African countries promised free grain shipments by Russian President Vladimir Putin after the collapse of the Black Sea deal with Ukraine earlier this month.

Russia's navy blockaded Ukraine's Black Sea ports following its invasion in February 2022, trapping 20 million tonnes of grain which were meant for export and creating food shortages in Middle Eastern and African countries.

Mali is also a close Russian ally because Moscow's Wagner mercenaries have been deployed in the country to fight alongside the army against jihadists.

Earlier this week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Mali's defence minister, air force chief and the deputy chief of staff would be sanctioned for co-ordinating the spread of Wagner in the West African country.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-66333488

petra1:
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This is a foolish question by petra1. Which one is Roman invented Jesus. If you want truth just ask straight. You’re obviously mischievous not reallly seeking an answer.

2 Timothy 2:23
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

We can help you if you reconstruct your question in a sensible and respectful way

That is the purpose of the New Testament so that you keep your brain under your bed. If not you would begin to question all the invented stuff in the New Testament your have been spoon fed with.

swaggerjack:
Isaiah 14 verse 7 is clear he was not just a messenger, but the son of God sent to die for our sins.

The word in Hebrew from which it was originally translated from is Alma meaning a young woman and not a virgin. It was changed to a virgin during the translation to Greek to help with the invention of your Jesus Christ in the New Testament.
Also in the verse you quoted The LORD did not say the child is HIS son. It is the the Greeks and Romans who have the pagen beleive that their gods do mate with their women to bear their kings. The truth is that you are worshiping an occult invented messiah called your Jesus Christ.

Exodus 4:22 Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son

Help me look for where The LORD said in the Old Testament that the Roman empire invented Jesus Christ is His first son or His only begotten son as invented in your New Testament.

kaysho:
Matthew 3:17

16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

Not from the Roman empire invented New Testament

Battlefield2:
John 15 v 2

Not from the Roman empire invented New Testament

Exodus 4:22 Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son

Help me look for where The LORD said in the Old Testament that the Roman empire invented Jesus Christ is His first son.

ArcSEMPECJ:
ArcSEMPECJ Vomiting nonsense .....who was Isaiah prophesying of his coming in ISAIAH 7 vs 14?

If you believe in Old testament God and the scriptures from Old testament , then why will you scrape away this Prophecy found in. The Old testament?

Exodus 4:22 Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son

There is no where The LORD said in the Old Testament that your invented Jesus is my first son

swaggerjack:
New Testament was ordained by God check the real official history and not the occultic one.

You mean the invented New Testament Jesus by the occult that has two different geneologies from the house of David, yet it was an invented god that got Mary pregnant and not Joseph.

swaggerjack:
It is not official history, but concocted to misled gullible people like you.

So the invented New Testament is your official history that was use on gullible people like you.

swaggerjack:
Don't believe conspiracy theories created to misled you. Jesus is the most attacked man in the world, to misled people away from the faith and get them on the wrong path.

War 2000 years ago was by numbers as both sides had swords, bows and arrows so the Roman empire had to add psychological warfare against the Jews that were expecting their Messiah to come and help them to defeat the Romans from their land. Hence the invention of Jesus Christ. Official history is not conspiracy theory.

swaggerjack:
The New Testament was written after Jesus was born. If you deny the New Testatament, you deny Jesus as your Lord and Savior.

The word in Hebrew from which the Old Testament was originally translated from is Alma meaning a young woman and not a virgin. It was changed to a virgin during the translation to Greek to help with the invention of Jesus Christ in the New Testament.
The LORD did not say the child is HIS son. It is the the Greeks and Romans who have the pagen beleive that their gods do mate with their women to bear their kings.

Exodus 4:22 Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son

Help me look for where The LORD said in the Old Testament that the Roman empire invented Jesus Christ is His first son or His only begotten son as invented in your New Testament.

Who wrote the New Testament and when was it written?

God Almighty of the Old Testament is the only true GOD and in the Old Testament.

JESUS Christ was a fictional character invented by the Romans as a form of ‘psychological warfare’ against Jewish people, a biblical scholar has sensationally claimed.

Joseph Atwill, author of ‘Caesar’s Messiah’, claims to have found ancient confessions from the Romans which states authorities created a ‘messiah’ to pacify Jews in Palestine. The American author says Jesus was not based on a historical figure, but the Romans drew inspiration from historical figures from the First Jewish-Roman War. Mr Atwill said: “Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a constant source of violent insurrection during the first century.

“When the Romans had exhausted conventional means of quashing rebellion, they switched to psychological warfare. They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system.

“That’s when the ‘peaceful’ Messiah story was invented. Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to ‘give onto Caesar’ and pay their taxes to Rome.

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar.”

Mr Atwill says he first discovered this revelation when noticing Jesus is “the only fictional character in literature whose entire life story can be traced to other sources”.

By comparing the New Testament to the ‘War of the Jews’ by Josephus – the sole surviving account of first century Judea – he found the parallels between the two.

Mr Atwill: “What seems to have eluded many scholars is that the sequence of events and locations of Jesus ministry are more or less the same as the sequence of events and locations of the military campaign of [Emperor] Titus Flavius as described by Josephus.

“This is clear evidence of a deliberately constructed pattern.

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar.”

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1152674/christianity-news-jesus-christ-hoax-bible-romans-jewish








https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmEScIUcvz0

swaggerjack:
You are misled by false doctrines and false prophets. Read the King James Version of the Bible.

Read official history nd reseach, then you'll know you have being misled by the invented New Testament.

swaggerjack:
Jesus was crucified on the cross to atone for our sins and resurrected after three days.

This was who the Roman empire used to invent your Jesus Christ: Josephus a Jewish priest/Jewish historian, he was the leader of the Jewish rebellion in Galilee against Roman occupation around 66 AD and to save his life had to switch sides to the Roman empire and he was given accommodation in the King's palace in Rome and used him as a tool to help them to invent a gentle messiah called Jesus Christ so that the Jewish zealots can stop waging war against them as there were no Jewish Christians and the Jews were only militaristic and expecting a Messiah like Moses or David to come and help them to defeat the Romans from the land of Israel.

Josephus was born around 37 AD and never saw your invented Jesus Christ, he did not say much about him and this was written long after the invented Jesus' ascension.

You now need to ask yourself how Christianity became the official religion in Rome. It was because your invented Jesus Christ decided to go and appear in Rome 300 yrs later to help a pagan Roman emperor called Constantine to win a Roman civil war that made your invented Jesus Christ the official religion and allowed them to bring your invented Jesus Christ to Africa and the rest of the world through military conquest as you can see in the photos: https://www.nairaland.com/7749251/man-created-concept-god-inorder/5#124431536

This happened just only in the sixties. The story from adults about Oyenusi was that the military then had to remove a pot from his belly as bullets could not enter his body. But the video is now on youtude and there was not thing like that.

If there were video recorders and camera phones during the time of Jesus then all this invented story of Jesus would never have happened.
They Jews know Jesus Christ is an invention of the Roman Empire that's why they will not accept that story.

How to get Rich:

1. The Good Way: Follow the career path you have passion for and then wait and trust God Almighty directly, not through a pastor.

2. The evil way is to join and follow: https://www.nairaland.com/7779228/what-drives-politicians-embrace-occultism#124675567

swaggerjack:
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And this from the head quarters of the invented Jesus Christ. God Almighty of the Old Testament is the only true God

@J3susFr3ak
There was nothing quoted out of context in what I posted. I did not mention about Islam. All the verses quoted are from the Old Testament and show that Jesus Christ has nothing to do with the Old Testament as he was invented by the Roman empire.
This was who the Roman empire used: Josephus a Jewish priest and the leader of the Jewish rebellion in Galilee against Roman occupation around 66 AD and to save his life had to switch sides to the Roman empire and he was given accommodation in the King's palace in Rome and used him as a tool to help them to invent a gentle messiah called Jesus Christ so that the Jewish zealots can stop waging war against them as there were no Jewish Christians and the Jews were only militaristic and expecting a Messiah like Moses or David to come and help them to defeat the Romans from the land of Israel.

Josephus was born around 37 AD and never saw your invented Jesus Christ, he did not say much about him and this was written long after the invented Jesus' ascension.

You now need to ask yourself how Christianity became the official religion in Rome. It was because your invented Jesus Christ decided to go and appear in Rome 300 yrs later to help a pagan Roman emperor called Constantine to win a Roman civil war that made your invented Jesus Christ the official religion and allowed them to bring your invented Jesus Christ to Africa and the rest of the world through military conquest as you can see in the photos: https://www.nairaland.com/7749251/man-created-concept-god-inorder/5#124431536

This happened just only in the sixties. The story from adults about Oyenusi was that the military then had to remove a pot from his belly as bullets could not enter his body. But the video is now on youtude and there was not thing like that.

If there were video recorders and camera phones during the time of Jesus then all this invented story of Jesus would never have happened.
They Jews know Jesus Christ is an invention of the Roman Empire that's why they will not accept that story.

J3susFr3ak:
I think you have still quoted a lot of the Scripture you referenced there out of context MindHacker9009.

You are inferring that any belief system that required any sacrifices that involves a human being is pagan.

Are you also not forgetting that so many pagan world cultures/beliefs in the past and even today also require animal sacrifices too? Does the fact that pagan and occult beliefs require the sacrifice of goats, sheep or even rams make the same Old Testament requirements that used to exist less valid? No!

The same way, even though so many pagan cultures/beliefs had an evil system of human sacrifices does not negate the fact that ONCE and FOR ALL--God Himself took the substitutionary place and position as the ONLY PERFECT SACRIFICE of all mankind --making it very unnecessary for any other animal or human sacrifices ever again only if we believe in Jesus Christ.

You even quoted a FB post from a certain Muslim. Do you not also understand why the Islamic Faith is ever continuously violent and deadly is because of the very FALSE BELIEF that they can wage a Jihad, and TAKE THE LIFE OF AN INFIDEL AS A WAY TO PLEASE THEIR ALLAH AND MAKE HEAVEN? In a way, the Muslim killings of other people who do not share their faith is their own twisted bastardized system of a "substitutionary sacrifice" where the life of the guilty infidel assures the salvation of the blood-thirsty Muslim.

So tell me as we reason this thing together. Which sacrificial system makes more sense to you? Is the One initiated by God as a self-less and sinless sacrifice meant to take the PUNISHMENT (once for all time!) of any guilty soul who believes in Jesus Christ? Or is the one that wants to boast before a certain god that they are zealous enough to kill the soul of unbelievers as a way to assert their own salvation?


How did we get here? The concept of "substitutionary sacrifice" is as old as the Fall of man in the Garden of Eden. When man sinned and discovered they were naked and hid in shame from the presence of God...they covered themselves with "fig leaves". Fig leaves connote every man-made attempt to assuage their guilt or ease their shame with false beliefs. God decided to kill an animal and use the skin of the animal to clothe Adam and Eve. This one action was to tell Adam and Eve the severity of their sins. It created the consequence of introducing death into this world. God killing that first animal to clothe Adam and Eve was a type to show that for every sin, there is a serious consequence of death but to cover Adam and Eve in their sins, the blood of an innocent animal was shed. The Bible says Life is in the blood.

Even after Moses introduced the Law, so many animal sacrifices were made to signify the seriousness of every sin. To mark the seriousness of any violation of said law, the blood from innocent animals was made to cover the shame and unclothedness of the sins of Israel in God's eyes.

Yet...all the blood of animals that was shed under the law could NEVER transform the spirits or hearts of those who kept those laws. It is because the blood of animals under the Law could not fulfill the promise and requirement of the New Covenant. Only the sinless Blood of God Himself could guarantee this much inner transformation and genuine forgiveness of sins. This is why Jesus came. This is why Jesus died...and rose again.

"While God didn’t kill Adam immediately, the breaking of the Edenic covenant brought death. Something had to cover humanity’s sin to restore the broken covenant. The Mosaic covenant provided some relief; it was what Matthew Henry calls “a covenant of grace” where the Israelites shed animals’ blood to cover their sins.

However, the old covenant’s solution wasn’t enough. The high priest had return each year to the tabernacle to make another blood sacrifice and intercede for the people. Also, as Hebrews 8 explains, people kept breaking the covenant. Something more permanent, something higher, had to fulfill all the old promises and create a new agreement. Since Jesus was God’s Son, fully God and fully human, his shed blood could cover all of humanity’s sins throughout all time. Through Jesus’ shed blood, God himself paid the deadly price for humanity breaking the covenants.

When Jesus’ blood was shed on the cross, it not only set up a new covenant. It showed what all the old covenant sacrifices had been trying to show: that sin required a perfect sacrifice to cover the sinners’ actions. Nothing from the natural world could be that perfect, so God became the sacrifice himself, fulfilling his promise to save the lost.

“All the blood on Jewish altars for thousands of years pointed to Him. It proclaimed that what God said, He would also do. When Christ died, the Word was clear. God’s own heart was revealed. He lifted up his hand and made an oath for all heaven and earth to witness.” Robert E. Coleman,

-- https://www.christianity.com/wiki/bible/why-hebrews-922-say-without-the-shedding-of-blood-there-is-no-forgiveness.html

You need to start by reading this:

sonmvayina:
DEAR CHRISTIANS WHAT IS A SACRIFICE?

1) Lev 4:32
A sin offering had to be a FEMALE GOAT OR SHEEP! Last I checked Jesus pbuh was a MALE HUMAN!

2) Lev 22:22
A sin offering could NOT be INJURED or have WOUNDS or SORES on it's body! According to the so called "gospels" Jesus pbuh aledgedly had multiply bloody wounds on his body before his aledged death on a cross/stake etc

3) Lev 22:25
A sin offering could NOT have ANY INJURIES or DEFECTS on it's body. Jesus pbuh was aledgedly BRUTALLY BEATEN, WHIPPED & PIERCED prior to his aledged death on a cross/stake etc.

4) Deut 12:13-14
A sin offering had to be taken to the priest & sacrificed on the ALTAR in the TEMPLE OF GOD.
To offer a sacrifice ANYWHERE ELSE was a sin & would make the sacrifice UNACCEPTABLE to God.

Jesus pbuh aledgedly died on a cross/stake on a hill.

5) Deut 12:31 & 18:10 + Ezek 16:20,Jeremiah 19:4-5

The Bible speaks about HUMAN SACRIFICE of ANY KIND is an ABOMINATION to God! This idea comes from the pagans, idolators, polytheists etc that did this to please their false gods!

The days of sacrifice have come. Let us sacrifice good fat animals in large numbers.

Meanwhile it is very sad that Christian insist on sacrificing a human being. Pagans are one who were sacrificing innocent sons.

Deautronomy 12:30-31. Deautronomy 18:9-10, Jeremiah 19:4-6.
God do not allow to sacrifice a human being.

He already ransomed Abraham AS. And gave him a ram.

And Abraham sacrifice was part of test .to see his faith not sins sacrifice.
Moses practiced sins sacrifice by sacrificing animals.

Not human beings.
Bible condemned sons sacrifice its a pagans way. God never commanded or knew it or came into his heart. According to Jeremiah 19:4-6

Plus an animal to be sacrificed is not brutally beaten or tossed . so Christianity has no knowledge what a sacrifice is.

It is high priests who were tasked to do sacrifice not dirty people like Plato, herod.
Sacrifice is a peaceful process. Not paying Judas Iscariot to go and arrest Jesus and u call it a sacrifice. .

Have u seen A son Abraham was sacrificing to be tortured or beaten? .

And Abraham sacrifice was not part of sins cleansing .
Abraham sacrifice was to test his faith. And he passed the test .
And he was about to slaughter his son and God stopped him.

That is to tell us that God don't allow shedding a blood of a human being as a sacrifice.
If it was allowed. Then God would have let Abraham to proceed.
But God stopped it and later on hr condemned such practices as pagans evil practices.
Deautronomy 12:30-31!
God already warned the Jews before entering Canaan not to follow such evil practices.
Such evil practice was already happening in cannaan.
Worshippers of Baal were sacrificin their sons.
Deautronomy 18:9-10
Shedding blood of innocent sons. Jeremiah 19:4-5 .
And Jesus confirmed that he was a human being. John 8:40! Luke 24;39

Killing Jesus is evil and break of major law as well.
Thou shall not kill.
Exodus 20:13
So do u mean God led people to break his own major law thou shall not kill?

Thou shall not sacrifice a son?

So such is evil practice from pagans and Paul copied such faith as we know Paul moved around among the pagans .all teachings of Paul contradicted the laws of Moses.
Even Jews condemned him. Acts 21:21

U have created falsehood against God in all department of your faith
Shame on Christianity
So Christianity faith is pagans founded.

May be u will say no Jesus is a lamb/sheep not a human.
Let look into that.
Bible also call people as sheeps.
My sheep hear my voice. John 10:28-29

Mathew 15:24! I was sent to the lost sheep's.
So the question is u mean when are called as a sheep we can kill u?
Can we kill u in regard that u are called a sheep.?
Why u fail to understand anything?
Bible address people as sheep's/lamb /sharped /snakes /vipers etc.

God prohibited shedding blood of a human being.
God condemned the Jews for killing his prophets.
1 king 19:10, Mathew 23:31-33, Mathew 23:37
So do u mean same God sent one of his beloved servant to be killed as well!!!!?-

Lastly let u know that sacrifice is not a top priority to God.
God's top priority is in obeying his commands turning away from wicked ways.2 chronicles 7:14 .

. ARE WE SUPPOSE TO APPEASE GOD FOR OUR SINS OR HE IS SUPPOSE TO APPEASE US AFTER WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM........?
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Repeating the question, may I please know if we the sinners are obliged to appease GOD for our sins and iniquities OR He God is rather obliged to appease we who have SINNED!......? Zaynab Bello

In the past generations when the SIN OFFERING system was active, was it GOD who was sending the rams & goats down from Heaven to be used in appeasing Him OR the sacrificial animal was meant to

come from the flock owned by the SINNER or TRANSGRESSOR to serve as a form of punishment for Him who Might have been rearing that animal for so long a time to sell and raise some money for family upkeep....................?

Since when did God now decide to appease the one who has SINNED AGAINST Him by giving away Someone that precious to Him to be KILLED by the SINFUL hands of the SINNER before He GOD can FORGIVE the SINNER............?

But the funny aspect is, considering all the goats, rams and pigeons used by the SINNERS as a form of appeasing God, this is what He said about them.............Listen carefully Kofi Atta Djan:
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◄ Isaiah 1:11 ►
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"The multitude of your sacrifices-- what are they to me?" says the LORD. "
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Hosea 6:6 Living Bible (TLB)
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6. “I don’t want your sacrifices—I want your love; I don’t want your offerings—I want you to know me.
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Psalm 40:6-8
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In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
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1 Samuel 15:22
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And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
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#Why would Such ☝ a God who takes NO delight in SINNERS constantly appeasing Him with offering of goats, Rams e.t.c.....instead of obeying His command take the trouble of appeasing the SINNER rather with one of His beloved!....................................................................?abomination.

sonmvayina:
The above post was copied from a colleague wall on Facebook

J3susFr3ak:
If you truly understand the basis and roots of Christianity, you will understand that it had its core foundations in the writings of the Prophets in the Old Testament affirming to a coming new promise from God for a New Covenant or New Testament. This New Covenant was predicted by Jeremiah the Prophet:

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” -- Jeremiah 31:31-34

But if you noticed the last line of the Scripture above talked about forgiveness of sins. Yet even the Jews knew that without the "Shedding of blood, there cannot be forgiveness of sins!"
Hebrews 9:22 says, “In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.”

And the blood of sheep and goat in the Old Testament was never perfect enough to wash away the guilt and sins of the people who made those sacrifices. This is why God Himself chose to be the PERFECT SACRIFICE for the sins of all mankind by dying on the Cross. This is why anyone who chooses to believe in Jesus and ask for forgiveness will experience the thorough cleansing of their consciences and souls from the deadliness of sins to the true Life that is only found in Jesus Christ. This forms the basis of the New covenant Prophets like Jeremiah foretold in the Old Testament. No other blood in this world can wash away your sins and guilt when you confess and ask for God's Mercy. And God will only respect or hear your prayers if you ONLY pray in the name of Jesus Christ and trust ONLY in His Death and Resurrection for your sins.

The Romans DID NOT invent any "Jesus" for any psychological warfare. Stop believing confusion and lies by silly so -called scholars headed for hell.

One of the prominent non-Christian account about the person and existence of Jesus Christ came from a Jewish man called Josephus. Josephus was a Pharisee who participated in the violent revolt against the Roman Empire. But right before the Romans ravaged and sacked Jerusalem, Josephus surrendered to the Romans and his life was spared. He was later tasked to write about the History of the Jews in his large writings on Jewish Antiquities. There, we noticed that someone who even hated the Romans and initially fought against them--who was a staunch Jewish person and may have met and probably disliked a lot of Jewish Christians who did not think they should fight the Romans (heeding to Jesus' warnings in Matthew 24) went about to give an account of the existence of Jesus Christ.. https://www.thefaithexplained.com/blog/ancient-evidence-for-jesus-flavius-josephus/ and https://www.jonathanmorrow.org/what-did-the-jewish-historian-josephus-really-say-about-jesus/

No. The Romans did not "invent" Jesus as a means of Psychological warfare. The same God of the Old Testament through His Supernatural Wisdom and Power humbled Himself to become a human being (the Word become flesh according to John 1:1-5) so that only HE alone as a human being (Jesus Christ) can become the perfect sinless sacrifice for the sins of all mankind who believe in Him--so that they can all be a part of the New Covenant (Jews and Gentile alike) foretold by God through Jeremiah in the Old Testament.

Please stop believing lies. Jesus loves you and wants you to embrace the Truth. Jesus is Lord and Truth!

J3susFr3ak:
Good grief dude!! I know there were always false prophets and there are false prophets today who use the name of Jesus Christ with another evil intent.

But the existence of EVIL or DARKNESS does not NEGATE the existence of GOOD and LIGHT!!

You have to go back to the Scripture...the Bible. The Bible itself bears witness of the Power it has whenever the name of Jesus Christ is spoken in Truth and Sincerity....no need to consult any other extra dark power....the Power of God in Jesus Christ can prove Himself to anyone.

I am a witness to the Mercy and Grace that is in the Gospel of JEsus Christ...that same Grace that was able to save me from my sins, and heal my sicknesses...and comfort my spirit through the Holy Spirit...were all very Powerful witnesses to me that the Word of God is REAL!! And that JEsus Christ is who He says HE is.

There was a time I was so ill...no medicine could help me. I was shivering with a high fever and blistering headache. It was only when someone I knew sat beside me and simply READ a Chapter from the Bible to me about God's Love and Healing....that I gradually began to recover. After reading, the same person prayed for me in the name of Jesus Christ....then read more of the Bible to me. By the time the friend finished reading the whole Chapter...I was completely healed. Before that, I thought I was on my death bed. So tell me ....what other evidence do you need to be convinced of the fact that the Bible is REAL. Jesus is REAL. And all that HE says He is is very true!!!

Please repent. Accept God Almighty into your life today and not the pagan idol called Jesus Christ. Time is running out for J3susFr3ak! if you do not repent

God Almighty in the Old Testament has not changed. A Jew today too can tell you how he prayed directly to God Almighty and he was healed.
Jesus Christ was used as a psychological warfare against Jewish people about 2000 years ago when Rome were occupying Israel. Then when Africa colonized it was Jesus Christ was forced on Africans as psychological control.

God Almighty of the Old Testament is the only true GOD and in the Old Testament.

JESUS Christ was a fictional character invented by the Romans as a form of ‘psychological warfare’ against Jewish people, a biblical scholar has sensationally claimed.

Joseph Atwill, author of ‘Caesar’s Messiah’, claims to have found ancient confessions from the Romans which states authorities created a ‘messiah’ to pacify Jews in Palestine. The American author says Jesus was not based on a historical figure, but the Romans drew inspiration from historical figures from the First Jewish-Roman War. Mr Atwill said: “Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a constant source of violent insurrection during the first century.

“When the Romans had exhausted conventional means of quashing rebellion, they switched to psychological warfare. They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system.

“That’s when the ‘peaceful’ Messiah story was invented. Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to ‘give onto Caesar’ and pay their taxes to Rome.

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar.”

Mr Atwill says he first discovered this revelation when noticing Jesus is “the only fictional character in literature whose entire life story can be traced to other sources”.

By comparing the New Testament to the ‘War of the Jews’ by Josephus – the sole surviving account of first century Judea – he found the parallels between the two.

Mr Atwill: “What seems to have eluded many scholars is that the sequence of events and locations of Jesus ministry are more or less the same as the sequence of events and locations of the military campaign of [Emperor] Titus Flavius as described by Josephus.

“This is clear evidence of a deliberately constructed pattern.

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar.”

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1152674/christianity-news-jesus-christ-hoax-bible-romans-jewish







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmEScIUcvz0

God Almighty of the Old Testament is the only true GOD and in the Old Testament a man can have more than one wife.

JESUS Christ was a fictional character invented by the Romans as a form of ‘psychological warfare’ against Jewish people, a biblical scholar has sensationally claimed.

Joseph Atwill, author of ‘Caesar’s Messiah’, claims to have found ancient confessions from the Romans which states authorities created a ‘messiah’ to pacify Jews in Palestine. The American author says Jesus was not based on a historical figure, but the Romans drew inspiration from historical figures from the First Jewish-Roman War. Mr Atwill said: “Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a constant source of violent insurrection during the first century.

“When the Romans had exhausted conventional means of quashing rebellion, they switched to psychological warfare. They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system.

“That’s when the ‘peaceful’ Messiah story was invented. Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to ‘give onto Caesar’ and pay their taxes to Rome.

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar.”

Mr Atwill says he first discovered this revelation when noticing Jesus is “the only fictional character in literature whose entire life story can be traced to other sources”.

By comparing the New Testament to the ‘War of the Jews’ by Josephus – the sole surviving account of first century Judea – he found the parallels between the two.

Mr Atwill: “What seems to have eluded many scholars is that the sequence of events and locations of Jesus ministry are more or less the same as the sequence of events and locations of the military campaign of [Emperor] Titus Flavius as described by Josephus.

“This is clear evidence of a deliberately constructed pattern.

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar.”

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1152674/christianity-news-jesus-christ-hoax-bible-romans-jewish






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmEScIUcvz0

God Almighty of the Old Testament is the only true GOD and in the Old Testament a man can have more than one wife.

JESUS Christ was a fictional character invented by the Romans as a form of ‘psychological warfare’ against Jewish people, a biblical scholar has sensationally claimed.

Joseph Atwill, author of ‘Caesar’s Messiah’, claims to have found ancient confessions from the Romans which states authorities created a ‘messiah’ to pacify Jews in Palestine. The American author says Jesus was not based on a historical figure, but the Romans drew inspiration from historical figures from the First Jewish-Roman War. Mr Atwill said: “Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a constant source of violent insurrection during the first century.

“When the Romans had exhausted conventional means of quashing rebellion, they switched to psychological warfare. They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system.

“That’s when the ‘peaceful’ Messiah story was invented. Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to ‘give onto Caesar’ and pay their taxes to Rome.

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar.”

Mr Atwill says he first discovered this revelation when noticing Jesus is “the only fictional character in literature whose entire life story can be traced to other sources”.

By comparing the New Testament to the ‘War of the Jews’ by Josephus – the sole surviving account of first century Judea – he found the parallels between the two.

Mr Atwill: “What seems to have eluded many scholars is that the sequence of events and locations of Jesus ministry are more or less the same as the sequence of events and locations of the military campaign of [Emperor] Titus Flavius as described by Josephus.

“This is clear evidence of a deliberately constructed pattern.

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar.”

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1152674/christianity-news-jesus-christ-hoax-bible-romans-jewish





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmEScIUcvz0

MaxInDHouse:
Guy follow your Judaists to eat isiewu and take two bottles of dagogo so you can sleep i'm not interested in your nonsense today!

Your own statement is now nonsense to you, it means you still have those charms under your bed or in your wardrobe and you are not allowed to talk about them for fear of what they will do to you as you know your invented Jesus Christ cannot save you from those charms, yet you don't want to turn and follow God Almighty of the Jews in the Old Testament Who alone can save you from those charms.

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@MaxInDahouse you said before you saw charms while in the army, tell us about these charms and what they were used for please.

FairlyUSEDpussy:
Imagine........

Every religion is always up against christian........

if only we followed mosaic law na "EYES FOR AN EYES".......and not this weak defenseless laws of Jesus.......

First.....twas was Jews burning bible, now Hindu worshippers.........not to talk off Muslims

God Almighty of the Old Testament is the only true GOD.

JESUS Christ was a fictional character invented by the Romans as a form of ‘psychological warfare’ against Jewish people, a biblical scholar has sensationally claimed.

Joseph Atwill, author of ‘Caesar’s Messiah’, claims to have found ancient confessions from the Romans which states authorities created a ‘messiah’ to pacify Jews in Palestine. The American author says Jesus was not based on a historical figure, but the Romans drew inspiration from historical figures from the First Jewish-Roman War. Mr Atwill said: “Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a constant source of violent insurrection during the first century.

“When the Romans had exhausted conventional means of quashing rebellion, they switched to psychological warfare. They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system.

“That’s when the ‘peaceful’ Messiah story was invented. Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to ‘give onto Caesar’ and pay their taxes to Rome.

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar.”

Mr Atwill says he first discovered this revelation when noticing Jesus is “the only fictional character in literature whose entire life story can be traced to other sources”.

By comparing the New Testament to the ‘War of the Jews’ by Josephus – the sole surviving account of first century Judea – he found the parallels between the two.

Mr Atwill: “What seems to have eluded many scholars is that the sequence of events and locations of Jesus ministry are more or less the same as the sequence of events and locations of the military campaign of [Emperor] Titus Flavius as described by Josephus.

“This is clear evidence of a deliberately constructed pattern.

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar.”

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1152674/christianity-news-jesus-christ-hoax-bible-romans-jewish




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmEScIUcvz0

mariovito:
For a company as big as Twitter, you'd expect that they'll have some of the best corporate legal counsel.

How can you go ahead to execute such an action with far reaching consequences without first carrying out appropriate due diligence and paperwork?

Musk might just be digging Twitter's grave and also driving the nail into the coffin.

Dey play

.

They should let Ibori rest please!

AD 1844 - Seventh Day Adventists (Millerites)
William Miller (1782-1849), farmer from Western Massachusetts. After 14 years of intensive Bible study, he calculated the second coming in 1843 or early 1844. After it didn't happen during that period, he re-calculated dates to 22nd October 1844. Many people were waiting in church on 22nd October, absolutely convinced that the Lord would appear during the service for all to see. His followers stayed together after the failed prediction and formed into the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. (Latourette p.1259)

His calculations were quite elaborate, but his key was Daniel 8:14, the 2,300 days before the sanctuary will be cleansed. He said this described the second coming of Jesus, which would purge the world of evil and usher in the millennium. Miller took the 2,300 days to mean 2,300 years starting from 457 BC, when Ezra and 1,700 Jews returned to Jerusalem. This linked with the seventy weeks of years in Dan 9:24, so he counted back 490 years from AD 33 (the crucifixion) to arrive at 457 BC. Miller added 2,300 years to 457 BC to reach 1843. (Kyle p.89-93)

AD 1860's - Hatley Frere
Frere taught that the Jews would be back in Palestine with a rebuilt temple in 1865, and that Roman Catholicism would be destroyed by 1864. He identified Louis Napoleon as the Antichrist. (Armerding/Gasque p.54)

AD 1874 - Jehovah's Witnesses
Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916), was the founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses. He believed that Christ came in invisible form in 1874, and millennium had begun. (Latourette p. 1260)
The Jehovah's Witnesses are the most persistent date setters. The following years have been set by their leaders: 1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925 and 1984 (Kyle p.93)

AD 1940's - Leonard Sale Harrison
Harrison (c.1875-1956) was an Australian Bible teacher, who wrote a book titled 'The Resurrection of the Old Roman Empire' published in 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War. From the statue in Daniel chapter 2, he identified the Italian Government as a revived Roman empire, the final empire represented by the feet of the statue. He claimed that the clay represented the democratic socialists and the iron represented the fascists, calling for strong law and order, who would call for a strong ruler.

Mussolini was identified either as the Antichrist or as one who would precede the Antichrist. Harrison suggested that Mussolini's territorial conquests were an attempt to revive the Roman empire, and that Mussolini was copying Julius Caesar, attempting to establish a state cult with himself as the god. Even though he claimed not to approve of setting dates, he believed that the end would come in 1940 or 1941. (Armerding/Gasque p. 33-36)

AD 1988 - Edgar C. Whisenant
Whisenant wrote a book titled, '88 reasons why the rapture will be in 1988' which sold two million copies. He predicted the date of the rapture as being between the 11th and 13th September 1988. He reasoned that even though Jesus said that no one can know the day or the hour of his return, we can still know the month or the year. He even predicted the date of the beginning of World War III as 3rd October 1988.

He later wrote another book titled 'The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989. What went wrong in 1988', explaining errors in his calculations.

AD 1988 - King Juan Carlos
Also in 1988, it was stated that King Juan Carlos of Spain would rise and lead the revised Roman Empire

AD 1992 - Dami Church Korea
Lee Jan Rim of the Dami Church in Korea predicted that the rapture would occur on 28th October 1992 when 144,000 believers would be taken up to heaven.

AD 1994 - Harold Camping
Harold Camping was the president of Family Radio in USA, predicted the world would end in September 1994. His book '1994?', and its sequel 'Are You Ready?' used his own elaborate, rather unorthodox, system of dating, numerology and allegory pointing to the second coming being in September 1994. Even after the date, Camping still believed that Christ would return soon.

AD 1997 - Mary Stewart Relfe
Relfe claimed that God spoke to her through dreams, and on his instructions she released a chart spelling out the divine timetable. World War III would break out in 1989. The great tribulation would begin in 1990. The United States would be totally destroyed several years before Armageddon, and Christ would return in 1997. She had a mid-tribulational plan, that the church would witness the rise of the Antichrist before being raptured midway through the tribulation. (Kyle p.121)

Sources:
Carl E Armerding and W Ward Gasque - Handbook of Biblical Prophecy (Armerding/Gasque)
Richard Kyle - The Last Days are Here Again (Kyle)
Latourette - The History of Christianity (Latourette)
J.W.C. Wand - A History of the Early Church to AD 500 (Wand)

Dec 06, 2016 to date - MrPresident1 on Nairaland
Jesus is coming soon. This thread is for faithful watchmen by MrPresident1
https://www.nairaland.com/3504125/jesus-coming-soon-thread-faithful

Here are different dates which have been predicted for the Second Coming. These stretch from the first century to the 21st century. The sobering thought is that every single one of these was incorrect, as Jesus has not come back yet.

The First Century
There was a sense of the imminent second coming in the first century. Paul warned the Thessalonians around AD 50 not to be shaken or alarmed if they hear that the day of the Lord is already here (2 Thess 2:1-2). Peter described people as 'scoffers' in the mid 60's who questioned why the coming of Jesus was taking so long (2 Pet 3).

AD 180's - Montanists, or New Prophecy
Montanism grew from the teaching of Montanus in Phrygia as a reaction against a growing laxity in the established church. Two women, Priscilla and Maximilla left their husbands to follow him. They desired to see the use of spiritual gifts to continue, emphasising tongues and prophecy. Initially they were accepted as part of the church and later considered as heretical.

They expected the imminent end of the age and establishment of the millennium in Pepuza, a small village in Asia Minor. They had no hope for the current world and looked with contempt at efforts to change the present order. Maximilla, who was the last of their three prophets to die in AD 179, stated, "After me there is no more prophecy, but only the end of the world". (Armerding/Gasque p. 28)

AD 180's - Bishop in Pontus
Around the time of Montanus at least two bishops, one in Pontus and one in Syria, were expecting the early return of Christ. One bishop in Pontus declared that the last judgement would come in two years and those who believe him ceased to cultivate their fields and rid themselves of houses and goods. The other led his flock into the wilderness to meet Christ. (Latourette p.128-129). In Syria, the bishop led his flock out into the wilderness to meet Christ.

AD 202 - During reign of Roman Emperor Septimus Severus
The Emperor Septimus Severus (193 - 211) made a decree in 202 forbidding people to become either Jews or Christians. The persecution was so strong in Egypt that many thought it was a sign of the last Antichrist.

AD 250 - Commodianus
Commodianus, who lived in Palestine, saw prophetic overtones to the persecution commanded by the emperor Decius (249-251). He listed seven persecutions that the church had suffered and likened them to the seven last plagues in the book of Revelation. The end of the world is at hand. Rome is the Antichrist, and this is the last persecution which represents the return of Nero. But Nero will be destroyed by a Jewish antichrist marching at the head of a Persian host. He in turn will be slain by angels and cast in to the lake of fire. The lost tribes will then return to Zion and God will come for judgement and to destroy the wicked. (Wand p.101)

AD 500 - Hippolytus and Augustine
Both Hippolytus (c 170 - c 236) and Augustine (354 - 430) believed in the 'Cosmic week'. Jesus had come in middle of sixth millennium, so they expected the end in AD 500.

Second coming in AD 1000
There are various legends about events leading up to the year 1000, but it is not easy to verify them.

One legend was that there was a mass conversion of whole population of Iceland at Midnight on 1st January 1000 to survive the expected judgement day. Another legend was that thousands sold their possessions and headed to Rome to await the end.

An ancient chronicler tells us that it was widely believed that Jesus would return at the end of the first 1000 years of Christianity. As the last decade of the first millennium dawned, there was great apprehension and anticipation. With the birth of the year AD 999 certain amazing things began to happen. People began to listen to their church with whole-hearted seriousness. There was no stealing; cheating became almost unknown; bakers gave their bread away free of charge, and there was a constant cycle of confessions, absolutions, and communion.

Another story, which may or may not be true, was that in Rome, as midnight neared on the last night of AD 999 masters and servants embraced. Offenders forgave each other. There was open repentance and godly sorrow for sin. In the old basilica of St. Peter, Pope Sylvester II performed midnight mass in silence. The church was crowded. Inside, a huge clock ticked once each second. The Pope prayed in silence. The worshippers lay face down, afraid to look up. Suddenly the clock stopped ticking. Hundreds shrieked. Some died of fright. The bell began to strike the midnight hour. Pope Sylvester raised his hands. All the bells rang at once. From the choir loft came the Te Deum Laudamus - to God be the glory!

AD 1147 - Gerard of Poehlde
Gerard taught that the thousand year reign of Christ began when the emperor Constantine came to power. From that he predicted that in 1147 Satan would be released from bondage and would conquer the church.

AD 1260 - Joachim of Fiore
Joachim (1132 - 1200) was from Calabria in Italy and became the abbot of the Cistercian Abbey at Corazzo, where he developed into a Bible teacher. He wrote a number of books including, 'The Book of the Harmony of the New and Old Testaments', 'An Exposition of the Apocalypse', and 'The Psaltery of Ten Strings'.

In his books, he divided history into the following three epochs based on the number 1260 from Rev 11:3 and 12:6:

1) The age of the Father (Petrine) - Creation to the birth of Christ
2) The age of the Son (Pauline) - the birth of Christ to 1260
3) The age of the Holy Ghost (Johannean) - beginning in 1260

The third epoch was to be a time of contemplation when all the world would become a vast monastery. This age would be preceded by the Antichrist, who he identified as the Papacy, which would be destroyed by the emperor. The empire would then be destroyed by the Saracens, who were the ten kings from the East, who would then be destroyed by the Tartars. An order of contemplative monks would take charge of the church and introduce a reform programme which would usher in the millennium, a time of rest and peace for all. (Armerding/Gasque p. 29)

AD 1186 - The Letter of Toledo
This letter was claimed to have been written by the astrologers of Toledo and addressed to Pope Clement III. It predicted the end of the world would occur in September 1186. It said there would be wind and storms, drought and famine, pestilence and earthquake. The air would grow dark and a dreadful voice would be heard that would destroy the hearts of men. Coastal towns would be covered with sand and earth. All this would be triggered by a rare conjunction of the planets in the sign of the Scales and in the tail of the Dragon. People were advised to flee their homes and find safety in the mountains.

After AD 1260 - Peter John Olivi
Olivi (1248-98), a teacher and theologian belonging to the Spiritual Franciscans, wrote a 'Commentary on the Apocalypse' in 1297, which was based on Joachim's works. The year 1260 had passed without incident, but some had seen Francis of Assisi as the leader of the new era of the Spirit, so Joachim's writings were revived and new dates calculated, especially after the Franciscans were persecuted by the church. (Armerding/Gasque p.30)

AD 1420 - The Taborites
These were extreme followers of Jan Hus from Bohemia. They took their name from Mount Tabor, where they believed Jesus foretold his second coming. They waited for the expected the end in 1420. When this failed to happen, they became a revolutionary movement, calling themselves the warriors of God. They controlled many towns in Bohemia until they were finally crushed in 1434. (Kyle p.52)

AD 1490's - Savonarola
Savonarola (1452-98) was a wandering prophet in Italy, predicting an imminent improvement on the earth before the final judgement. The social and political turmoil in Italy caused Savonarola to see the world as a battleground between good and evil. The last days were approaching with disaster for Florence and Italy, which would be averted if the people of Florence would repent. The coming antichrist would be defeated and the Turks and pagans would be converted. He saw Florence as Zion, the city of God, and himself as its prophet. He thought that Charles VIII of France was the last world emperor. He took control of Florence in 1494, before being defeated by the Medicis and being executed in 1498. (Kyle p.53)

AD 1528 - Hans Hut
Hut predicted the return of Christ at Pentecost in 1528. He gathered 144,000 elect saints to prepare for this.

AD 1533 - Melchior Hoffman
Melchior Hoffman (1498 - 1543) came from Swabia in south-western Germany was an Anabaptist missionary, who preached around Europe, including the Baltic region, Scandinavia, Holland. He was imprisoned in Strassburg for many years. He predicted that after his death, he would return with Christ in clouds of heaven in 1533, the wicked would be judged, and that the New Jerusalem would be set up in Strassburg. However, 1533 passed, with Hoffman still in prison. (Latourette p.781,783)

AD 1534 - Jan Matthys
Jan Beukelssen was an Anabaptist baker from Harlem in Holland, who believed that he was a prophet and that Münster, in Germany, where the Anabaptists had taken control and were attempting to establish a Christian society, would be the site of the New Jerusalem (Latourette p.783)

AD 1550's - Michael Servetus
Servetus (1511-53) was a Spaniard, and is primarily remembered for his conflict with Calvin. Because he denied the Trinity and rejected infant baptism he was condemned to death, and was burned at the stake in 1553. He also denounced predestination and believed that the millennial reign of Christ was about to begin. (Latourette p.759)
AD 1583 - Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

This conjunction made the two planets appear to become one much brighter body, and produced many end-time anxieties (Kyle p.65)

AD 1694 - Johann Heinrich Alsted
Alsted was a German Calvinist, who was Professor of Theology at Herborn, and a reformed representative at the Synod of Dort (1618). In his book 'The Beloved City', he calculated 1694 as the start of the Millennium and declared that the Thirty Years War, which had just started, signified the end of the age. His book had great influence in the reformed countries and on the Puritan revolution, particularly in England. (Armerding/Gasque p.30-33)

He calculated that adding 1290 (from Dan 12:11) to the date of the Fall of Jerusalem (AD 69) gave the year 1359. He then added 1335 (from Dan 12:12) to give the end of the millennium in 2694, which meant that the start of the millennium would be in the year 1694.

AD 1652 - Total eclipse of the sun
This was predicted to happen in March 1652, and sent apocalyptic shudders throughout Europe (Kyle p.65)

AD 1650's - Fifth Monarchy Men
During the rule of Oliver Cromwell (1649-1660), several groups existed who desired more radical reform than had existed under the Puritan government of Cromwell. The Fifth Monarchy Men believed that according to Biblical prophecy Christ was soon to return to establish on earth the 'Fifth Monarchy' in succession to the Assyrian, Persian, Greek and Roman empires, and that he would reign, with his saints, for a thousand years. They differed greatly among themselves, some wished to use force to establish the Fifth Monarchy, others wished to wait quietly for the coming of Christ. (Latourette p. 822)

They believed that the fifth and last monarchy, the reign of God would begin in England. The antichrist would be destroyed, England purified, and the kingdom of Christ would spread throughout the world. The English armies led by Oliver Cromwell would sweep through Europe and defeat the Pope. The Jews would return to the Holy Land and defeat the Turks. These events would happen between 1655 and 1657. (Kyle p.67)

One group tried to hasten the second coming by attacking the restored Stuart monarchy to prove to God that there was faith on earth, so Christ would return and establish the millennial reign in London. The attempt failed, the leaders were jailed or beheaded and the movement fizzled.

AD 1650 - Christopher Columbus
Columbus’s motivation for exploration was partly religious. He wanted to sail west across the Atlantic Ocean in order to reach Asia directly. He did not know that America was in between. Inspired by the earlier crusades, his plan was to conquer Asia and take wealth from there to finance a crusade to the Middle East to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims, which he will lead himself.

In order to persuade King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to finance his fourth voyage to the 'Indies' he presented them with his 'Book of Prophecies'. From the Bible, he had predicted that the world will end in 1650, and before then he would lead a crusade to liberate Jerusalem.

The year 1666
Many combined 1000 (the millennium) with 666 (the mark of the beast) to arrive at the date 1666. 1666 was the year of the plague followed by the Great Fire of London. The Quaker George Fox wrote that in 1666, every thunderstorm aroused end-time expectations (Kyle p.67-68).

AD 1694 - John Mason
John Mason was an Anglican vicar, who used the writings of Archbishop James Ussher and Johann Alsted to calculate that the millennium would begin in 1694. Later he based his end-time predictions on the voices and visions that came to him. As time went on, he became increasingly bizarre, even insisting that he would not die. When he did die, his followers believed that he would rise on the third day. (Kyle p. 72)

AD 1697 - Thomas Beverly
Thomas Beverly was an Anglican vicar, who predicted the end would come in 1697. (Kyle p.72)

AD 1697 - Cotton Mather
Cotton and his father Increase were American Puritans, who considered the American Indians as being in league with the Antichrist. Basing his calculations on activities of the Turks and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he first calculated the end to come in 1697. When this date passed, he quietly adjusted the time, first to 1736, then back to 1716. He naturally believed that the New Jerusalem would be located in New England, USA. (Kyle p.78-79)

AD 1700 - A French Prophet
A French prophet predicted the coming of Christ in 1700 to destroy Catholicism.

AD 1757 - Emanuel Swedenborg
The well-known Swedish mystic and scientist (1688-1772) claimed to have had a vision which carried him in to the spiritual world, where he had been able to see eternal truths. He believed that his writings were the dawn of a new age in the history of the world. He declared that the last judgement had occurred in 1757, and that the second coming had already been fulfilled spiritually.

AD 1789 - The French Revolution
Many English Bible interpreters thought that the French Revolution was the prophecies of Daniel chapter 7 and Revelation chapter 13 being fulfilled before their very eyes (Kyle p.72)

AD 1795 - Richard Brothers
Richard Brothers became convinced that God was speaking to him, and wrote several prophetic works in the 1790's, predicting that the millennium would begin in 1795. He believed that his lineage was divine and that he would lead the ten lost tribes back to Israel. In one prophecy he said that God wanted him to wear the crown of England. The government arrested him, and he spent the rest of his life in a lunatic asylum, where he planned the New Jerusalem (Kyle p.73)

AD 1830's - Catholic Apostolic Church (Irvingites)
Edward Irving (1792-1834) was a Presbyterian clergyman from Scotland, who preached in the Presbyterian church in London. He believed that the apostolic gifts of the early church were being revived, including speaking in tongues and healing. He also believed that the second coming of Christ was imminent. He was ejected from the Presbyterian church for heresy, but his views found a home in the Catholic Apostolic Church, founded in 1832. (Latourette p. 1184)

Continued below..................

Yes Jesus Christ the Field Marshal from the clouds is coming soon with his legion of angels and horses for the final battle, so just relax and see Jesus Christ lead from the front of the battle field as he becomes the ruler of the whole world with his head quarters here on Nairaland Religion section and he makes Righteousness2 the moderator.