Biblical Facts
God does not give knowledge beyond our willingness to obey Truth presented to us. Our fellowship with God depends upon our walking with Him in Truth. 1 John 1:7 This is why what we are taught affects the way we live and our lifestyle so much. When the teaching of Truth is diluted with man-made ideologies, it produces weak and unstable faith in God.
To be truly Apostolic, we must teach and preach what the Apostles of Jesus taught. John 17:20, 1 John 4:6
Many Churches today teach traditions that contradict the Word of God. Traditions are the handing down orally of stories, beliefs, and customs from generation to generation. They are a long-established custom or practice and have the effect of an “unwritten law”.
All knowledge is the acquaintance with facts for Bible believers. These facts are statements of Truth from God and are recorded in Book, Chapter, and Verse in the Bible.
The inspired Scriptures are the source of the knowledge of God. 2 Timothy 3:16 Knowledge will bring grace and peace into our lives. 2 Peter 1:2 We are told to grow in grace and in knowledge. 2 Peter 3:18
The new born-again believer is renewed in knowledge. Colossians 3:10 We are transformed by the renewing of our mind. Romans 12:2 As we continue to grow in knowledge and are renewed in knowledge, we learn that the perfect will of God and the perfect Word of God are the same. To misinterpret one is to misinterpret the other.
A thing cannot be said to be “Biblical” unless there are Biblical statements in the same terms to declare it so. The measure of Biblical reality is the correspondence between a man-made statement and Biblical fact.
For example, 2,000 years can only be Biblical if a chronological term equal to 2,000 years is observable in the Bible. Many Churches today hold on to the belief of Futurism.
Futurism is the belief that all end-time events are yet to happen in our future. Does the assertion of Futurism correspond with Biblical facts? No, not at all.
There are no 2,000-year facts observable in the Scriptures. The concepts of personally, physically, and visibly are all assertions that futurism places on the Return and Reign of Jesus Christ on the Earth; yet the words “personally, physically, and visibly occur nowhere in the Scriptures.
Futurism places “gaps” between verses and passages but no gaps are anywhere stated by Bible authors. The statement that Jesus is “literally” coming occurs nowhere in the Bible. There is not a physical temple in Jerusalem that exists today that is waiting to be destroyed.
There must always be a Biblical correspondence with prophetic fulfillment assertions. Things promised to that generation had a first-century meaning to them.
All things were to come upon the generation of Jesus. Matthew 23:36, Luke 21:32 The Temple in Jerusalem and the End of the Age occurred at the same time. Matthew 24:1-3
The Old Covenant of Moses was located in that Temple in Jerusalem. 1 Kings 7:51 Recorded historical fact is that the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70.
The Jewish historian Josephus recorded this in his book titled War of the Jews. The Roman historian Tacitus recorded the same event in his book titled History of Rome. This means that we have correspondence between historical statements and Biblical facts. When the Temple was destroyed, the Old Covenant Age came to an end.
Conclusion
It is obvious that Biblical facts are embarrassingly absent in every assertion made by Futurist while first-century fulfillment statements are based on historical observation and legitimate statements of Biblical authors.
Futurists may believe they are right, but anyone can choose to believe anything. True facts are the only measure of objective knowledge. Without Biblical facts to measure statements, there can be no objective knowledge. When the context is correct, the content of Biblical facts will always be right.