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Human history on this planet has continued to flow after Christ's second coming, as it is presented in scripture. Have you never recognized these texts? A third coming of Christ is absolutely essential so that those saints who live and die in this period after Christ's second coming will also...

You are free to disagree as much as you wish, but that doesn't change Christ's words about the timing of His second coming return before that first-century generation had passed away. As He said in Matthew 16:27-28, there were some of those standing in front of Him who would not have died...

The phrase "days of vengeance" tells us that this passage in Luke 21:20-22 was fulfilled in judgement against the first-century generation of Israel which were the "betrayers and murderers" of Christ in their days. God took vengeance against that generation of Israelites which killed His Son...

The particular phase of salvation which the 144,000 ethnic Israelite tribal members experienced was their bodily resurrection. They were preserved in that glorified resurrected state - "sealed" - as a symbol that their eventual transport to heaven in those glorified bodies was reserved in the...

The Satanic realm of evil angels aren't in existence anymore. God took out the evil angels back in AD 70, as well as the Devil and every unclean spirit, which all "passed out of the land". Zechariah 13:2 had predicted this would take place along with the siege against Judah and Jerusalem...

This increase in thievery is not a novelty of our times, and neither is it particularly prophetic. There is nothing new under the sun, after all. Solomon gave the cause of this long ago in Ecclesiastes 8:11. "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the...

Acts 8:1 (YLT) tells us about the great persecution against the church starting the very day of Stephen's martyrdom. "And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came IN THAT DAY a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and...

The Lord's supper is a symbolic act; one which "shows the Lord's death until He come". The act and the elements provide the symbol, but what they portray is the literal shed blood and broken body of the Lord back in AD 33. Just like the harlot Mystery Babylon also provided a symbol of...

The rite of the Lord's supper was given to "show the Lord's death till He come" - a symbol of the literal body and blood of the Lord being sacrificed. Just as Mystery Babylon was a symbol, "showing" to the servants of Christ the approaching fate of the literal city of Jerusalem who had slain...

If the interpreting angel took the time in Rev. 17:8 to explain and define just who Mystery Babylon was, then we are obligated to go by that definition. The angel was not attempting to "fool" us by defining Mystery Babylon as a literal city. He meant exactly what he said. We are not permitted...

Of course this miracle took place in AD 33. And the persecution of the disciples by the Jewish religious leadership started some 50 days afterward. Satan wasted no time in starting a war against the early church. Scripture says that the very day Stephen was stoned to death, a great...

Babylon is defined by the angel as being a literal city in Revelation 17:18. Satan and his angels are not a city. Therefore, Satan and his angels are not Mystery Babylon.

All of mankind without exception is responsible, each for their own sins, but not all of mankind committed the particular sin of betraying and murdering the Savior in AD 33. The blood guilt for that particular crime fell on only that single generation of adult Jews and the children of their...

"His blood be on us and our children" didn't mean the same thing as "His blood be on us and all our future descendants for all time". Luther, I believe, was of the opinion that this self-imposed blood-guilt curse extended to all time for the Jews, but this kind of thinking can lead to a...

The responsibility of "believe or perish" actually extends to everyone who hears the gospel. I should probably emphasize that I do NOT see that blood guilt of killing Christ being imposed on every future generation of anyone calling themselves a Jew. It was only those Jewish leaders in...

But TS, I agree with this statement of yours above. That's my point. The physical bodies of the 144,000 First-fruits (Matt. 27:52-53) coming to life again in their glorified, incorruptible bodies was a sign and an example of what we all as believers can expect for ourselves as part of our...

Christ was the representative of all those who were "IN Christ". If someone kills the ambassador of a country, they have committed an offense against the entire country which that ambassador represented. It was the same with the Jews in Jerusalem who the martyr Stephen called "the betrayers...

The "First-fruits" was not composed of every bodily-resurrected saint. It was only the first group of saints to be raised in a glorified, incorruptible body in the "First resurrection" bodily "harvest" of the dead saints in AD 33. While it is true that all believers share together in the...

No, they aren't. Not all believers are called "First-fruits". This was an Israelite agricultural term referring to a harvest, and there were three harvest seasons in Israel. Scripture quite often refers to the resurrection of the bodies of the saints out of the ground as a "harvest". Such as...

That isn't what John wrote. The 144,000 are the First-fruits (Rev. 14:4). This is an Israelite harvest term for the First bodily resurrection event (Christ and the Matthew 27:52-53 resurrected saints) to be followed by the next bodily resurrection at Christ's coming. The four living...