Recent content by Wick Stick

I applaud the research, but it doesn't address the idea that the book may be two works. Revelation is organized strangely. Critically, it appears that John may have started with an apocryphon, and he is revealing the meaning of the symbols there (or rather, the angel is revealing them to John...

Oh, I'm going to get myself in trouble with this answer. Oh well... "Son of God" is originally a regnal title of the Canaanite and Amorites. When a new Canaanite king ascended to the throne of a city, they held an adoption ceremony where the new king was adopted as a son of El, one of their...

I do prefer my kool-aid cold.

I don't have visions, and I didn't receive a prophetic word of interpretation for this, but I am familiar with symbolism in the Bible, and some of the symbols here are known to me. A white shawl with blue trim is an Israeli prayer shawl. Orthodox Jews still use them to this day. Animals...

Dating Revelation is complicated. There is a very real possibility that part of the book was written earlier and part of it later.

I'm not sure if it's "futurists" that are mistaken here or ChatGPT. I feel like "futurist" is kind of an insulting label - one that people with that belief system don't embrace.

Do you know the interpretation?

The souls of the martyrs crying out for justice is a reference to another Hebrew book that is not part of the Bible. In that book, they are the souls of ALL the martyrs from the beginning of time, starting with Abel. Matthew 23 and Hebrews 12 also make allusions to this story. It was...

Not cocky. They leave me and mine alone, and I know why. I think I have. And if anybody is masochistic enough to read back through all this contentiousness, I'm happy enough with the case I made. Well... it tells you someplace I've been. I had a couple brushes with "deliverance ministries"...

Your argument here boils down to "don't study the Bible." :confused You call me powerless, but you seem to struggle with this. I don't. Unclean spirits actively avoid me. They leave places that I enter. That isn't meant to be a boast... it isn't because of anything I've done/did. I just...

You're a study in contradictions. After all your posts decrying the use of Greek, and reference works, here you are making an argument using Greek and a lexicon. Maybe practice what you preach... you aren't any good at this type of argument. You object to the use of the King James Bible...

Specifically, it's "Do not give place to the devil." You argued that the word translated "place" means "beachhead." It does not. More generically, my Bible of choice is the KJV. Who, Hobie? I've been interacting with him for over 15 years. I know his theology reasonably well. Do you? I...

When I explained why the Greek interpretation you introduced in this thread didn't work grammatically, I said "the verse as translated is correct." It's not me correcting the text - I argued FOR the standard translation. You were the one arguing for something else. Why do you accuse others of...

Well, if the trees are kings/kingdoms, then I think it says that Adam made an alliance with one of them. The wrong one, it turns out.

Most of these are subjective. The only ones with ANY merit are #3 (the church says...) and #5 (the Bible says...) As you point out, those come with their own issues. There are many churches who do not agree with each other. The Bible is subject to differences in interpretation. How about...