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Why in the world would there be a thousand years where people get a better chance of being Saved?
Does anyone get how ridiculous it is to want a physical Kingdom just like the Jews overlooked? JESUS said He went to prepare a place for us ...He didn't say it was here for the infinite afterlife.
Please stop with this nonsense of a 1000 years where people have direct proof of GOD ...that's not how this works. This reality is built on the Free Will Choice to Choose GOD'S Plan of SALVATION. There is no choice if you can see GOD.
Jeremiah 31:36-37
IF those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, THEN the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they
Man does not STOP being a man, because he is saved or quickened.
Earth was created for mans habitat.
That has not changed. Earth will Always be mans Habit. (But in the big picture, a I believe a few exceptions, but another topic all together.)
If you STAY in the Order and Way....it is Jesus (with Power), that shall reign 1,000 years ON EARTH, while Mortals, and Spiritually Quickened men occupy the Earth.
NO MORTAL “sees” God, not now, not during the 1,000 yr reign.
So your implication of .... people seeing God, so then choose to believe is MOOT.
Even when they read Amos the veil is still upon their hearts . They seek the natural kingdom and not the heavenly one .Yeah, it's easy for Christ's elect faithful servants to recognize the 'crept in unawares' that don't represent Him. Just think of it too, some of the orthodox unbelieving Jews try to make out like today's nation state of Israel is... the FINAL RETURN per Old Testament Scripture! That would mean exactly what these cats here are saying, that Israel has already been restored, even though the majority of Jews in today's nation state of Israel still treat Jesus of Nazareth as a seditionist.
And on earth, in each and very true believer in Christ...WHEN IN TRUTH ITS ALL ABOUT THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM
which is above .
Yes indeed my friend . Notice it says in revelation that GOD and the LAMB are the temple .And on earth, in each and very true believer in Christ...
If they won't see GOD ...then what it preventing It from being right now?
Even when they read Amos the veil is still upon their hearts . They seek the natural kingdom and not the heavenly one .
Seek that which is above which cometh from the Father of lights . True jerusalem is above
and the temple of it , IS GOD and the LAMB .
Speaking again about amos , i will now quoate a certain verse .
Remember where it speaks about them returning and they will build again the waste places and etc ,
many orthodox jews , as well as many even within christendom are applying this
to the natural . They are being taken into the end time snare .
Can i prove that amos was speaking about a spiritual Kingdom and the building in it has to do with the preaching of the gospel .
I CAN . GO to acts , PETER quaotes amos . HE QUAOTES AMOS and PETER is speaking spiritual , about Christ
about the gospel and etc . TOO MANY are being woven and have been woven into the kingdoms of this earth
this hope in the kingdom of natural jerusalem . WHEN IN TRUTH ITS ALL ABOUT THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM
which is above .
Do you still have the Reborn Kingdom Image if you can't see JESUS as a King today?
If they won't see GOD ...then what it preventing It from being right now?
That's maybe one of you major assumptions that rules your thoughts...your 'Day of the Lord' as a one time action and one event. This expression is used for multiple ideas in scripture...
Let me go on in Zechariah again if you do not have an objection?...(rhetorical)
Zechariah in Chapter 14:4 pointed to a dual prophecy: The actual splitting of the Mount of Olives as I've already mentioned during the times of the Maccabean Was and also when Christ died on the Cross.
Some if not many scholars believe that Christ was crucified on the mount of Olives directly in line of sight with the east gate of the Temple in Jerusalem opposite of the mount of Olives on Mount Zion. So when Christ gave up his own spirit, the veil of the Temple was split as recorded in Matt 27:51. Even if the place of death was not exactly on this Mount, the earthquake was sufficiently extensive to further divide the Mount of Olives across the East West direction.
Zechariah 14..
Verse 9...when Christ died on the Cross and was resurrected and ascended into heaven, he became the only ONE true King of this world.
Verse 11: Jerusalem will always be inhabited henceforth. A triple prophecy of the physical destruction and plundering of Jerusalem during the 2nd Century BC and when it was utterly destroyed by 70AD, by the Roman army. And then later inhabited, or occupied, although never by the ethnic house of Israel anymore.
The New Jerusalem since Christ as King is scheduled to be inhabited by the Body of Christ when the King returns to bring them home. The Body of the King are its true inhabitants, the true Israel of the New Jerusalem. They will never leave.
Verse 12 addresses at least Antiochus Epiphanies, who died from a disease that caused his flesh to rot off.
Verse 14: the Maccabees (Machabees) or Judahite rebels seized vast amounts of plunder.
Verses 16-19: the Judahites are called to hold to the Feast of Tabernacles. And a new Feast of Tabernacles was instituted during the Maccabean Wars to celebrate the miracle that occurred at the rededication of the Temple. Called the Feast of Tabernacles in the 'Book of Maccabees,' and better known as the holiday today as Hanukah. The Judahites in Egypt were to continue to celebrate this new Feast of Tabernacles.
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Even paul spoke of a day in which we would SEE GOD . No one here has seen GOD face to face . And if any says otherwiseYou mean....why are some NOT already “glorified” and can “see God NOW”, even though others can not?
Even when they read Amos the veil is still upon their hearts . They seek the natural kingdom and not the heavenly one .
Seek that which is above which cometh from the Father of lights . True jerusalem is above
and the temple of it , IS GOD and the LAMB .
Speaking again about amos , i will now quoate a certain verse .
Remember where it speaks about them returning and they will build again the waste places and etc ,
many orthodox jews , as well as many even within christendom are applying this
to the natural . They are being taken into the end time snare .
Can i prove that amos was speaking about a spiritual Kingdom and the building in it has to do with the preaching of the gospel .
I CAN . GO to acts , PETER quaotes amos . HE QUAOTES AMOS and PETER is speaking spiritual , about Christ
about the gospel and etc . TOO MANY are being woven and have been woven into the kingdoms of this earth
this hope in the kingdom of natural jerusalem . WHEN IN TRUTH ITS ALL ABOUT THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM
which is above .
Ps dont hold your breath , dont even think this is manifest in this world . Dont heed narGod Pleasure of when things shall be known, and shall be manifested.
YOU OVER THINKING . WHERE does what i said disagree with a FUTURE TIME WHEN THE ACTUAL KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ,I can't agree with all that. God said He did not create the earth tohu ("without form", "vain" in Isaiah 45:18 but same word as in Genesis 1:2), but to be lived upon. And that is how His future Eternity of the new heavens and a new earth will be. As He said in Isaiah, we will build houses and plant vineyards in His future Kingdom. And Apostle Paul said those of Faith inherit with faithful Abraham (Galatians 3). That means the holy lands God promised Israel's fathers, here on earth. Even Revelation 5:10 shows those in Christ will reign on the earth.
Why then, do so many brethren not understand what Paul was talking about when he pointed to Heavenly Jerusalem for during this present world time, when he never disagreed with Revelation 21 that shows the Heavenly Jerusalem is going to come DOWN to this earth out of Heaven in the future?
After all, Genesis 2 shows us God's Garden of Eden, His Paradise, was once upon this earth. And He walked in that Garden.