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Nope. We are in the midst of it. Some (many) manifestations of it are past, some (many) are present, and still at this point, some (many) are future. All this is leading up to Jesus's glorious return. Nope. Satan is currently bound from doing this, as Jesus Himself said in Matthew 12:28-29...

I would argue that He most certainly did, and I'll get to that in a moment. But for now, regarding this foreknowing in Romans 8, when Paul speaks of "those whom God foreknew," it is to be understood very similarly to the following: "Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain...

I wouldn't call what God says (through Matthew) "silly." But to each his own. If God names Him that, then that He is, and He did, as prophesied by Isaiah and referred to directly by Matthew. A man "sees" what he wants to "see," I guess... Grace and peace to you.

Unless, he or she, because of who he or she was ~ because of his or her being in Adam ~ was already guilty? Now, that's getting into Biblical territory, regardless who taught or teaches it. :) God's foreknowledge is not a mere cognitive ("knowing beforehand") action. Paul says in Romans 8:29...

I fully understand that is your opinion. You are more than welcome (again) to call my belief... that being made alive in Christ ~ being raised with Christ in His resurrection ~ is a resurrection... is my opinion. No, but only previously spiritually dead, the state of being on which we agree...

Not in who He was and is and always will be. God speaks in a variety of ways, but in general, as the writer of Hebrews says, "Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, Whom He appointed the Heir of...

So we would agree that the answer to this question is no, but not on the complete understanding. Amillennialists would say that the events of Revelation 13 are not merely past, but presently inclusive of the past, the present, and the future... all times leading up to Christ's triumphant...

LOL! In phase of life, yes, but not in who the Person is. :) He is the Father's Word, Who from the beginning was with God, and from the beginning was God, through Whom all things were made, Who shined ~ and shines ~ in the darkness, and the darkness has not ~ and will not ~ overcome it...

Actually, I would call it a "making far too little of the metaphor" error. But still, metaphor it is; thank you for acknowledging that. I'm... not even sure what you mean by "limited to regeneration or nothing," quite frankly. Not so. I'm... not even sure where this came from. We may...

Ah, but not just in Revelation 19. Yes, Revelation 19:11-21 is a vision of the final battle. There are six other places in Revelation where it is described and/or alluded to. Revelation 20:7-10 is the seventh. :) Hmmm... You're taking both 'destruction' and 'fire' out of context, it seems...

Well, I don't disagree, but actually, Satan suggested to Eve that she could be her own God. You either don't see this discrepancy, or refuse to acknowledge it, even after you yourself state it. In Colossians 1:15, Paul says Jesus is the image of the invisible God, i.e., the visible...

For something to be comprehensible, it depends on both the giver of that something and the hearer of said message. That you draw some kind of difference or distinction between what I said and what reformed1989 said is quite astounding, as there is none, really, aside from the words themselves...

As I said, it's a plurality, a lumping together of all into a singularity. Thinking otherwise is... not thinking. :) Grace and peace!

So you think "yesterday" there means 24 hours ago? LOL! Yeah that's most certainly obstinance, and that's putting it mildly. Wow. No, Hebrews 13:8, that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever," is yet another proof that Jesus is God, because it's a clear reference to...

Sure (as if I haven't before... :) ): "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (new birth) ~ by grace you have been saved ~ and raised us up (resurrected us) with Him and seated...

Well, it does, but also that He possessed, again, the same glory as the Father with the Father. LOL! There is only one eternity, David. We can divide it into eternity past and eternity future, and both the Father and Jesus (along with the Spirit) exist in and throughout both. Okay, I'll...

Um... yes, I did. We can clearly see from John 17:5 that Jesus possessed the same glory as the Father with the Father from all eternity. He was terribly mistaken. And if your "point" is the same as his, then... well, see above. Grace and peace to you.

I'm not assuming that at all. God giving up His glory? Perish the thought. So since you misrepresent my logic ~ what I have said ~ your statement here is dead in the water... non sequitur. Well yes, but we ~ and all God's creation, glory in God, all three Persons of Him. :) Really, as...

Well, it depends on which resurrection you're talking about. With regard to when we Christians are born of the Spirit, we are brought to life in the spirit after having been dead, so yes, that is the spiritual (first) resurrection. It's not "conflation" of two different things, it's the same...

:) I really don't know how you mean this. If you mean ~ as I have said ~ that we are all spiritually dead from birth until we are born again of the Spirit ~ which is another way of speaking of our spiritual resurrection in Christ ~ then yes. But the way you put it here is... well, kind of...