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Sorry, but that's impossible. Those in Revelation 5:9-10 singing that new song were said to be the 4 living creatures and the 24 elders, taken out of every kindred, people, tongue and nation. The number of 144,000 found in Rev. 7 & 14 was not equal to 24 elders. Those 24 elders were never...

Rella, I'm sure you remember the "elect" which were said to be crying day and night for vengeance for their shed blood. Christ said in Luke 18:7-8 that God would avenge his elect "speedily", which happened in that first-century generation before it had passed. That was the "days of vengeance"...

I never wrote that the 144,000 First-fruits were resurrected at the Cross. These 144,000 First-fruits Matthew 27:52-53 saints came out of their graves AFTER Christ's resurrection, on that same day that He arose. The resurrected Christ resurrected them all out of their broken-open graves around...

Nobody except the RESURRECTED saints were taken away with Christ back to heaven at His bodily return on AD 70's Pentecost day. Those believers who had never died yet before that point stayed on earth to keep building the kingdom of God. That was the whole reason why Christ warned His disciples...

No, it was eye-witnesses in besieged Jerusalem, most of whom died in the city in the weeks immediately after seeing that AD 70 Pentecost day return of Christ. The few 97,000 or so in Jerusalem who survived to the end of AD 70 were made prisoner and scattered among the nations of the Roman...

Some of the ethnic Israelites in the besieged city of Jerusalem repented when seeing Christ's AD 70 bodily return to the Mount of Olives. Some didn't repent. But they were all in great mourning because they missed participating in the bodily resurrection and transport to heaven of the...

Oh, of course, I have no doubt that many of those inside Jerusalem who saw Christ's bodily return in AD 70 repented for the wrong they had done. That would have been the reason for the great weeping, as if for the death of an only son, that Zechariah 12:11 said the tribes of Israel would be...

There were to be no Christian believer witnesses to the return of Christ, since they had obediently fled Judea and Jerusalem, just as Christ had told them to do when they saw Jerusalem surrounded by armies (Luke 21:20-21). The witnesses of Christ's return to the Mount of Olives were those...

A Preterist understanding of scripture's content does not change the scriptures - it acknowledges the time-relevant terms that scripture contains, and the language of imminence indicating Christ's bodily return to that first-century generation before it had passed away. Just as Peter wrote in 1...

Scripture in Leviticus 23:9-17 refers to the grain offerings of barley and wheat as "First-fruits". The sheaf handful of barley grain offered at Passover was called the "First-fruits", and the Pentecost offering 50 days later of two loaves baked with leaven was also called the "First-fruits" of...

Josephus did not write anything about the day of Christ's AD 70 return to the Mount of Olives. When he mentioned the signs that were prevalent in Jerusalem and Judea just before the AD 66-70 war commenced, (the comet, the great light around the altar at night, the heifer giving birth to a lamb...

You have a misunderstanding of who the "rapture" was supposed to include. Because of this misunderstanding, you think that an AD 70 "rapture" with a returning Christ would have removed both the living believers and the dead saints from this world, leaving it without any Christian witness at...

I'm not certain why you would think the origins and legitimacy of the historical church post-AD 70 would be in question, if Christ bodily returned in that first-century generation as He promised. The progress of the "rock" kingdom of Christ was going to be inevitable in this world. It would...

Christ's role as the anointed Great high priest King over His kingdom was inaugurated on His resurrection-day ascension to the Father. I believe we both agree on this, yes? The "change in the law" mentioned in Hebrews 7:12 was launched with the New Covenant change in the high priesthood, with...

The Matthew 27:52-53 saints resurrected from their graves on the same day that "Christ the First-fruits" arose were meant to be the fulfillment of the OT First-fruits wave sheaf offering of barley grain back in Leviticus 23:9-12. That sheaf of First-fruits barley grain was to be offered in the...

You are presuming that Christ "coming IN His kingdom" is the same thing as Christ coming "into" His kingdom with an inauguration of that kingdom. It's not the same thing at all. When Matthew 16:27-28 speaks of Christ "coming IN His kingdom", that means Christ comes while still being IN His...

That is incorrect. The Matthew 16:27-28 verses specifically mention Christ coming in the glory of His Father with the holy angels, when He would give rewards to everyone according to what they had done. Some of those people of Israel which Christ was speaking to at that time would not die...

The 144,000 are called "the Firstfruits" in Rev. 14:4. Christ was also called the "First-fruits" in 1 Cor. 15:20 & 23 after He had risen from the dead physically. That means both "Christ the First-fruits" and the 144,000 First-fruits shared the same title because they shared the same First...

Of course, Jesus was talking about the Revelation 12 description of Satan and his devils being kicked out of heaven after the war with Michael and his angels. But that war in heaven with Satan's eviction was an event future to the time Jesus said "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from...

How did Christ return in the glory of His Father with all the holy angels and give out rewards to everyone according to their works at His crucifixion and resurrection following? (whether AD 30 or AD 33) At this coming of Christ in glory with all the holy angels, He would sit on the throne of...