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I'll throw in my two cents' worth. You are quite right to put special emphasis upon the phrase "They will be tormented with burning sulfur IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY ANGELS AND OF THE LAMB." If I'm not mistaken, the Greek term for this indicates "before the face of" or "in the eyesight of"...

There is a reason why natural rainfall can "green up" a lawn or our gardens so much better than our watering them with a hose. Natural rainfall has nitrogen in it. Long ago, the Psalmist spoke about this in Psalms 135:7. "He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh...

Back to the point of the OP... Perhaps when it comes to understanding what the "second death" is, we should clear up what the "second death" DOES NOT consist of. We are told in scripture in Hebrews 9:27 that "it is appointed unto men ONCE TO DIE, and after that the judgment." Therefore, the...

Christ cursed the fig tree in that first-century generation saying, "no man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever". And no one did.

For us Revelation is almost entirely historical. For John's audience, some of these prophecies were things that had already taken place, were presently taking place, or were about to take place after John wrote (Rev. 1:19). That means Revelation was speaking of first-century events. The...

The sixth trumpet judgment is also ancient history. Not intended for our future at all. Remember, the entirety of the sixth trumpet judgment begins in Rev. 9:13 and finishes up in Revelation 11:14, with some parenthetical, explanatory material sandwiched in between. The supposed "200 million...

But which particular battle? The battle taking place with the sixth trumpet was NOT the Romans coming against Jerusalem. It was the Idumean army coming to Jerusalem in either late AD 67 or early AD 68, fighting against the moderate priestly faction that had been governing the city up to then...

Christ disagrees with you on this. To avoid the Great Tribulation that would be coming to Judea and Jerusalem, Christ warned His disciples to flee to the mountains immediately when they saw Jerusalem surrounded by armies. By the casualty records coming from this period of AD 66-70 compared to...

The 5-month period of "locusts" tormenting people cannot be the same as that occurring in AD 70 when Titus came to Jerusalem and took the city after his 5-month siege. There is a problem with that interpretation, because the 5th trumpet judgment has TWO MORE WOES that follow after it (Rev...

You are misunderstanding my reply, TS. The 5-month period of the Roman soldiers under Gessius Florus harassing and tormenting the Jews in Judea was NOT - repeat - NOT the "Great Tribulation". Those 5 months were the period of May through September in AD 66, which was just prior to that "Great...

This 5th trumpet judgment is ancient history. None of it is destined for our future. Typically in Israel for the five summer months running from May to September, literal locusts often arrive to plague the landscape. John was borrowing from this literal locust phenomenon and using that as...

Your soteriology is hopelessly twisted, and reduces the significance of Christ's sacrifice of Himself for His elect to nothing.

No, none of those texts are describing conditions of the Millennium. That is only your assumption. You are missing the symbolism of the conditions of the New Jerusalem portrayed in Zechariah 14:16-21. We the believers are occupying the New Jerusalem at present - which has been the case for a...

If the 144,000 were to be Jews at the end times in the future, then that would make them the "LAST-fruits", wouldn't it? But that isn't what they were called. "First-fruits" is a Jewish harvest term that was used for the barley harvest at Passover. Back under Mosaic law, there was a sheaf...

This is actually quite simple. John told us exactly who those 144,000 of Rev. 7 & 14 were. The 144,000 were called "the FIRST-FRUITS unto God and to the Lamb" in Revelation 14:4. This title of the 144,000 being the "First-fruits" is also a title shared by "Christ the First-fruits" (1 Cor...

ABSOLUTELY FALSE. "But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins FOREVER, sat down at the right hand of God." (Hebrews 10:12)

If you subscribe to the idea that this was supposed to be a total of 2,300 literal 24-hour days, that was not what Daniel wrote. The word "days" never appears in this particular prophecy. There was a morning and an evening oblation for each of 1,150 days, which totalled 2,300 of those...

These things have ALL been fulfilled. ALL of Daniel's prophecy is ancient history by now. The 2,300 mornings and evenings (a total of 1,150 literal 24-hour days, each with a morning and evening oblation) was fulfilled by the time the victorious Maccabees had cleansed the temple after the...

You yourself are stubbornly refusing to read all of Ezekiel chapter 44, where it describes how none of the idolatrous Levites from the Babylonian exile period except for the faithful family of Zadok were going to be allowed access into "the MOST HOLY PLACE" (Ezekiel 41:4 and 44:13) of Ezekiel's...

You are totally missing the point I am trying to make. Which is easy to do on a forum where we are merely looking at the words and not a person's facial expressions and manner of speaking. I am NOT saying that people should avoid taking medicine and visiting doctors to help with their...