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    Understanding PARABLES

    Dear ScottA, I don't see how Paul's experience of being caught up to the third heaven as anything to do with each Elect person keeping the sayings of the book of Revelation. Joe
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    Understanding PARABLES

    Dear ScottA, The bodily resurrection mentioned in the book of Revelation occurs at the end of this age. Until that event occurs, every person who has ever lived & died is still in the grave and has no consciousness. Paul's comments to the Thessalonians in 1Thes 4:13-18 confirms this truth...
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    Understanding PARABLES

    Dear ScottA, I no longer get offended when anyone disagrees with me so you can speak freely to me in your posts. In your understanding of Rev 10 and all the other teachings of the book, you must apply these two scriptures that begin the book and end the book. Rev 1:3 Blessed is he that...
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    Understanding PARABLES

    Dear ScottA, Sorry for the misunderstanding. I looked at your webpage a second time but I still can't say that I agree with what I read. I noticed that you mentioned Rev 10 and the Seven Thunders and the "little book". I will briefly explain what that chapter is teaching. Here are the first...
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    Understanding PARABLES

    Dear ScottA, I looked at the website you posted. However, there is nothing there that is true. The end-time prophecies presented in Mat 24 and the book of Revelation are spiritual teachings that present the steps of the pathway to salvation that all the Elect (since Paul's death) will travel...
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    Understanding PARABLES

    Dear ScottA, The scripture below gives us additional information on why Christ taught in parables: Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts (converted believers). 10 For precept must be...
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    24 elders in Heaven

    Dear Truly, The verses you quoted strengthen my understanding. When a person finds a verse that contradicts their understanding, they have a problem. Sometimes it can be the translation of the verse that is causing the issue but sometimes its the person's understanding of truth. I am always...
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    24 elders in Heaven

    Dear Truly, I will respond to the scriptures you quoted, but before I do, I want to make two important points that may help with your understanding: 1). The writers of all the NT letters were writing to converted believers (saints/Elect) and to unconverted babes (called to be saints/the...
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    24 elders in Heaven

    Dear keithr, I learned it by the guidance of the Spirit of Truth. There is no other way to learn it. In the three verses that you quoted on the great tribulation, they are teaching about the time an Elect person spends in a spiritually worsened condition with the spirit of anti-Christ...
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    24 elders in Heaven

    Dear FredJ, I can't help you if you won't accept scripture as your source of truth. This is my last post to you. Joe
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    24 elders in Heaven

    Dear keithr, You said: So all Christians have become apostate and no Christians will be saved - we're all doomed! Wrong! Paul warned, verse 30, "Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them". That doesn't mean that everybody will be...
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    24 elders in Heaven

    Dear Fred J, God's Word is NEVER a waste. This is a blasphemous statement. Concerning Elijah, when he was transported into the heavens in a chariot of fire, he did not die nor did he leave the earth. He was transported to another location. How do we know? Because of what chapter 21 of...
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    24 elders in Heaven

    Dear FredJ, To believe that Enoch and Elijah never died is to deny many other teachings of scripture. Scripture teaches that death passed down from Adam to all men and that includes both Enoch and Elijah who were sinners just like all of Adam and Eve's offspring are. Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as...
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    24 elders in Heaven

    Dear Davy, The spirit phrase "last day" is when the spiritual resurrection occurs within a person. The spiritual resurrection is the First Resurrection. The First Resurrection is also said to occur when the "end of the ages" comes upon a person: 1Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened to them...
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    24 elders in Heaven

    Dear keithr, Scripture is written in "another language". This language uses spirit words which have meanings that are different than what man's wisdom teaches. Since babes are spiritually blind, they cannot understand this language - and purposefully so. Due to a babe's inability to...
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    24 elders in Heaven

    Dear keithr, You are confusing the spiritual resurrection with the bodily resurrection from the grave. They are two separate events. The spiritual process of conversion is what gives a new birth to an individual. Conversion will cause a spiritually dead person (all mankind) to become a...
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    24 elders in Heaven

    Dear Fred J, Christ's New Covenant teachings are taught using "spirit" words (John 6:63). Spirit words carry meanings that are different than how man's wisdom defines them (1Cor 2:13). The number 2 and number 12 are spirit words. The number 2 means the witness of God. In this world, they are...
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    Eat of My flesh and drink MY blood ?!? Jesus's flesh is *Word*, His blood is *Spirit*! (trusting?)

    Dear Gottservant, The spirit word "flesh" is represented by bread. Bread is a spirit word that represents truth (Christ is truth). The spirit word "blood" is represented by wine. The Old Wine represents the Old Covenant which is founded upon man's works. The New Wine represents the New...
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    Are We in the End Times? How Long Do We Have?

    Dear Kor4e, The prophecies presented in Matthew chapter 24 and in the book of Revelation are presented in Christ's spiritual language. Those prophesies foretell the spiritual signs that precede an Elect person's moment of conversion. Those spiritual events have applied to all the Elect since...
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    THE PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND TARES IS NOT ABOUT US

    Doug, The word "heaven" is a spirit word which represents the spiritual world. The spiritual world is "within" a person. When Christ is revealed to a person after their spiritual blindness is healed, it means that they can now understand Christ (see Him) through scripture by the guidance of...