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I believe scripture's record of a past, Preterist fulfillment of the following:' Rev. 20's millennium 1 Thess. 4 "rapture" of the resurrected saints who had died up until AD 70 Christ's bodily return at the second coming, with a GWT judgment The first and second bodily resurrection events in AD...

Satan falling from heaven like lightning happened in real time at Christ's resurrection-day ascension to the Father, when this "accuser of the brethren" was cast out of heaven down to earth. Christ was prophesying to His disciples of this coming event when He said "I beheld Satan as lightning...

There is no need to debate the meaning of "genea", when we have Christ speaking clearly about who would see Him returning in the glory of His Father, and with the holy angels, to give rewards according to every man's works. He said in Matthew 16:27-28 that some of those He was directly speaking...

I totally agree with this. The wickedness of humanity actually exceeds that which the Devil and the demonic realm used to exercise, since we sin against God's grace extended to the human race. God never took up the cause of the celestial angels by extending redemption to those who had fallen...

Rella, the consensus is wrong on a post-AD70 writing of the Johannine epistles. The beloved disciple (Lazarus / John Eleazar) wrote them all, and he said in 1 John 2:17-18 that "The world is passing away, and the lust thereof...Little children, IT IS THE LAST HOUR: and as ye have heard that...

MatthewG, the "spiritual wickedness in high places" is an indication that scripture was speaking of God's celestial angelic order of created beings. "The host of the high ones that are on high" in Isaiah 24:21 was speaking of the evil celestial angels which had fallen who were going to be...

My intelligence or lack thereof is not the focal point. It is the texts themselves which were very plain to those who were reading or hearing them in the first century. John's commission in Revelation was to show unto God's servants in his own generation the things which were shortly to come...

Christ's bodily return in AD 70 was to gather and bring all the bodily-resurrected saints back with Him to heaven. Everyone who had died up until then who was a child of God was included in that rapture, from Creation forward until AD 70. Some of them had already been resurrected, and had been...

The coming return of Christ was mentioned by Paul to Timothy in 2 Timothy 4:1 (YLT). "I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is ABOUT TO judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign." James 5:7-9 also said that Christ's coming had drawn near in...

Yes, Satan is a title and not a proper name. The name of Lucifer was alternately applied to both Christ and to the king of Babylon - not as mistakenly applied to the Devil.

John's gospel was certainly written before AD 70. In John 5:2, it speaks of the Bethesda pool which still "IS" in existence along with its five porches. "Now there IS at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches". As this gospel...

The scriptures themselves and Christ's own testimony assert that His second coming would take place before the generation of those He spoke to during his earthly ministry had all died (Matthew 16:27-28). Just because we are presently in the NHNE does not mean that fallen mankind's history has...

You're right - that AD 68 or 69 year is much too close to AD 70 for Revelation's composition. There would be no time for John's letters to circulate among the churches and the believers, warning of an approaching period of disasters of which most were already past at that point. As I've said...

Sure, this makes perfect sense. I also believe that John was not necessarily incarcerated by imprisonment on Patmos, but was sent there to get him out of Ephesus where things were at a boiling point against the believers after the AD 57 Ephesian riot. The citizens of the whole city...

Morning Rella, For this subject of Domitian being assumed to be the author of a great persecution against Christians, I would ask you to do a little research. Try looking at one of Dr. Kenneth Gentry's latest posts titled "Domitian's Persecution of Christians?" in his...

I'm self-employed. I duck back and forth from computer to workroom table.

?? Another subject entirely.

Behold, I have a responsibility to meet deadlines for my workroom clients. Not all of us have unlimited time at our disposal to respond to every single comment. If you want to interpret this as a "dodge", that's on you.

Your vitriol is nothing new to me. I never respond in kind to this type of language. As MatthewG would probably say also, you are kindred in Christ, and that suffices to keep both you and me in the family of God - not whether we see eye to eye on eschatology. We are not eternally saved by our...

What is ugly is to essentially call Christ a liar by denying what He said about His own wicked generation experiencing all those foretold disasters in the Olivet Discourse. What is ugly is to promote such fear-mongering as fact when they are past events fulfilled back in the first century...