Last updated on: February 7, 2017 at 5:30 pm
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If the book of Revelation was written between A.D. 90 - 100, well after the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, it seems extremely unlikely that John would not make even a single mention of those events. Even though this point does require arguing from the silence of Scripture, as R.C. Sproul puts it, "the silence is deafening" (Ibid.). Not only is the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D. never mentioned, the book of Revelation repeatedly refers to the temple as still in tact. If this is so, then it is only logical to conclude that much of the prophecy in the book has nothing to do with a tribulation coming in our future, but with a tribulation that was close at hand at the time John penned these prophecies Read more