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If you think so, then you are the same as those which Christ spoke about who would be willing to kill His own disciples, still thinking they were "doing God service" by doing so. Paul did this same thing before Jesus met him on the road to Damascus and made him a "chosen vessel". There is...

You are misunderstanding what Paul meant by "flesh and blood" in this verse. Paul's greatest fight during His ministry was against the ethnic Israelites who thought that their natural bloodline of ethnic descent from Abraham was what entitled them to be sons of God. Those who were "born after...

I would agree that Old Jerusalem as "Mystery Babylon" should serve as a warning example and admonition for how God judges religious corruption. The church today is not immune to the same level of corruption, for certain. But I think it is a mistake to carry the specific label of "Mystery...

This made me laugh, since it is so true of humanity in general when it comes to their default method of religious practices. When we "lift up our tool upon it", we have polluted it, just as God told the ancient Israelites not to hew the stones for the altars they made for God (Ex. 20:25). The...

I just gave you the proof taken from Josephus Wars 2.17.8-9 of Menahem's actions which duplicated that of Paul's Man of Lawlessness in 2 Thess. 2. And I quoted the 1 & 2 John texts which give you a specific definition of what an antichrist was. The Zealot ideology in first-century Israel...

Of course not all Rome's prisoners were accused of being a Zealot. But this is not an argument from silence that I am making. I quoted Mark 15:7 which spoke of Barabbas being held along with the others guilty of insurrection along WITH HIM. Barabbas was the only one in this group said to...

Barabbas had operated in conjunction with the two thieves being held by the Romans. All of them had participated in the insurrection, with Barabbas having additionally murdered someone in that insurrection. All of them were Zealots, called "the lawless". Thievery was only one of their...

You still refuse to admit that 1 & 2 John's given definition of what an antichrist is does not match the papacy. Show me proof that the papacy has denied that Jesus was the Messiah that came in the flesh in fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy. Show me proof that the papacy has denied the...

No, you haven't given the right kind of evidence, according to John's definition of what an antichrist is. "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son" (1 John 2:22). "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who...

No, these two "lawless" ones crucified beside Christ were Zealots who had committed insurrection against Rome along with Barabbas. Mark 15:7 tells us, "And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound WITH THEM that had made insurrection WITH HIM, who had committed murder in the insurrection."...

You are asking the wrong question. The question should be: How many does the scripture say that the single Antichrist would annihilate? And don't substitute the Sea Beast for this Antichrist role, because the Rev. 13 Sea Beast was another character altogether different from the Antichrist...

On the contrary: Paul recognized that it would be dangerous for him to say anything opposing the high priesthood in Israel (particularly Ananias) who had been restraining the rise of the Zealot leader Menahem, the Man of Lawlessness. Ananias was the pro-Roman high priest which had Paul struck...

EXACTLY. It was not going to be the coming return of Christ in the clouds that would destroy the Man of Lawlessness. The language in 2 Thess. 2 shows that it would be the very brightness of the way the Man of Lawlessness "exalted himself" when he came into power that would be responsible for...

Paul's and John's statements concerning the Antichrist / Man of Lawlessness hold precedence over any church father or apologist's opinion. Paul and John wrote that these antichrists and the Antichrist and the restrainer of the Man of Lawlessness were all in existence then in the first-century...

The "First resurrection" was the one which included "Christ the First-fruits" and the 144,000 First-fruits (the Matthew 27:52-53 resurrected saints which were the Rev. 20:5 "remnant of the dead" which "lived again" as being part of the First resurrection event shared with Christ). This happened...

That "image of the heavenly" is described in Philippians 3:21. "Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body..." That change will render our vile body forms so that they become fashioned exactly like Christ's resurrected body of flesh and bones which the...

Oh, I am very certain about scripture's timing of the Olivet Discourse events. Christ and the scriptures are very clear concerning the timing when these would be fulfilled. These events Christ said were for the "end of the AGE" (aionos) - not an end of this global world (oikoumenen or kosmos)...

A "spiritual body" is still a body; a body with tangible substance to it, just like Christ's glorified, resurrected body of flesh and bones. And it is the same body which goes into the ground which is also raised in a changed condition. "IT is sown in weakness, and IT (the same body) is raised...

You are confusing Jerusalem's torn down condition at the end of the war in AD 70 with whatever was built in Jerusalem during the following centuries since then. At the close of the AD 70 war in Jerusalem, there was no stone inside the city left on top of another; all was made "even with the...

"He is AT HAND that doth betray me", Christ said in Matthew 26:46 as Judas was then approaching His location that night in the garden, and would come on the scene, even while Jesus was still speaking (Matt. 26:47). "Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread" the disciples prepared the...