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It sounds as if you are trying to use this text as it is typically used - in a sense of an overbearing "authentein" over womankind in general. Paul is here in 1 Cor. 11:2-3 referring to the ORIGIN of things. The "head of every man is Christ" is meant in the sense that Christ was the creative...

Surely you have a familiarity with the "early" and "latter rain" seasons in Israel and their connection with the three required harvest festivals under Mosaic law. And surely you have noticed the "harvest" imagery in scripture when discussing the theme of a bodily resurrection of the saints...

As I have already said - the only "authority" we have over us in the assembly is Christ, who is "the head over ALL THINGS to the church". Male elders do not have this authority over others in the assembly, and neither do women serving as elders. Nobody gets to upset Christ's role as the ONLY...

This comparison of the bodily resurrections of the saints with the three agricultural harvests in Israel is not my personal invention - it was spoken of in James 5:7-9. The seasons of the "early and latter rain" were what the timing of the three harvest festivals in Israel were linked to...

You're right - Full Preterists deny a future return of Christ - especially one involving His resurrected body. The Full Preterist makes a great effort to emphasize the OT examples such as God's symbolic "coming on a cloud into Egypt" judgments, and then say that Christ's second coming was...

Many years ago, I lived for 16 years under a cult-like church environment where there was an overwhelming and continual emphasis on the supreme authority of the single man in the pulpit, and the squelching of women, wives, and daughters into a totally inferior category. It was a poisonous...

Errrr, not true. Peter said that all the prophets, as many as had spoken, had ALL foretold something about those last days in which Peter was living concerning "the restitution of all things" (Acts 3:21-24) . The prophets knew that what they were writing was not about themselves, but about a...

No, the Full Preterists vehemently deny that Christ intended to bodily return to the Mount of Olives. They flatly deny any bodily resurrection whatever, and the main proponents of Full Preterism also deny that Christ Jesus still retains today His glorified resurrected body that left the planet...

All I know is that you can't seem to comprehend the Israelite concept of the "First-fruits" harvest - the FIRST of three harvest seasons celebrated in Israel at Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. The wave sheaf of the barley harvest along with the single he-lamb at Passover was...

You misread God's statement. God was not dictating a command for the husband to rule over the wife. He was warning the original couple of the sad results which their fall into sin was going to bring upon themselves. The unfortunate result was that men would end up dominating women, and that...

Well, that would be the "presbyteros" men elders and the "presbyteras" women elders which Paul wrote about. But really, all in the assembly are required to be exercising judgment on what they hear spoken concerning scripture - not just the elders. Christ designed the church to be reflective...

Not in the translation I am reading for Revelation 20:4-5. I believe you are reading a translation which says "...and they came to life and reigned with Christ the thousand years...". The translation I am reading simply says "...and they lived and reigned with Christ the thousand years..."...

Since Jerusalem is situated next to a seismic fault line, this was a quite literal earthquake predicted which would break apart the crest of the Mount of Olives at Christ's second coming return, with the resulting rubble falling downhill in all directions - north, south, east, and west. The...

The Zechariah 12:4 set of horses is discussing Old Jerusalem of the first century in the process of being judged. The Zechariah 14:20 set of horses is discussing the NEW JERUSALEM conditions of blessing in the history "from year to year" after Old Jerusalem's destruction. We are still currently...

There is just one particular resurrection event being spoken of in Revelation 20:4-5. And that resurrection involved the "remnant of the dead" coming to life again. That was the "First resurrection".

Yes, this also tells us that we are dealing with a period in Israel's history when the Sabbath rules of locking the gates of the city were still in operation in Jerusalem. The prayer also included that this flight be "not in the winter". Fortunately, this AD 66 flight from Judea and Jerusalem...

You're right that Christ did not deny Satan's statement in Luke 4:5-7. Ever since Adam and Eve obeyed Satan's temptation, they both abdicated their dominion over the planet and became the servants of sin. "His servants ye are to whom ye yield yourselves to obey." This put Satan in the...

The "remnant of the dead" coming to life again WAS the event of the "First resurrection". John called the resurrection of the "remnant of the dead" by this title. This took place when the millennium was finished. All of that "remnant of the dead" coming to life again was called "blessed and...

I've not read the contents of this entire post, but has anyone made comment on the "elect lady" that John was commending in 2 John? She and her "elect sister" both had "children" who were walking in truth, and who were also commended by John for their faithfulness in following the commandments...

Is your position that the "first resurrection" event is only the spiritual awakening to eternal life which all the elect experience? If so, then you are essentially saying that this "spiritual awakening to a state of eternal life" was also shared by Christ Jesus, since we are "joint heirs"...