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That is "Gehenna" in that Matt. 5:22 verse - not the eternal state for the wicked dead, which is to perish in the judgment - both body and soul. Gehenna was a garbage dump in the Hinnom Valley outside Jerusalem. The word "Hades" which is also translated as "Hell" simply means the grave. The...

The prophet Isaiah said that God's "fire is in Zion and His furnace in Jerusalem." (Is. 31:9).

There were no Christians in Jerusalem or around it in AD 70 to be eye-witnesses who could make such a report. Remember, Jesus was going to bodily return to the Mount of Olives location, and in the same glorified body in which He left this planet back in Acts 1. That means it was going to be...

No, the comparison was between the mocking being done to Paul's comments at Mars Hill, and with your own mocking of Paul's quotes. I don't enter into the offended category in this situation at all. Your offense is against Paul's words. The "mello" term is not my own imagination. The Greek...

Only someone who is trying to make another person "an offender for a word" would think that my comment was giving self-praise. You are presuming to assign a heart attitude to me that you have absolutely no way of knowing is true or not. I have also been praying for many years that God would...

I'm disappointed that you think I am comparing myself to Paul. Actually, I am attempting to emulate Christ, which is a duty we are all called to do. I was QUOTING Paul, which we are all entitled to do. That is not what Paul was saying to Felix in Acts 24:25, "...as he reasoned of...

This is exactly the response which Paul received from some of those at Mars Hill in Acts 17:31-32. "Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he is ABOUT TO judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath...

Good. Then you understand that "kai" has more than just one meaning. "Kai" can be used in an explanatory sense, meaning "namely" or "even", which is the way Revelation 1:7 should be translated in order to match how Zechariah originally prophesied that it would be the tribes of the land of...

You are inventing a "one return ONLY", which is an artificial limitation that is never stated as such in Scripture. Since you were not alive in AD 70 to disprove Christ's second coming return back then, your statement has no ground to stand on, since all the Scripture authors contradict you. I...

Revelation 1:7 does not exist on its own; it is quoting Zechariah 12:10, whose context specifically limits that mourning of the tribes to those "IN JERUSALEM" - not the entire world. The word "also" is NOT THERE - it is inserted in italics, which means the translators are simply adding it by...

I would say it is the "miserable focus" of those who mistakenly and stubbornly insist on placing all these Revelation disasters into our future when all the Scriptures clearly tell us that those disasters were "at hand" for the first-century generation to experience. Anything "at hand" is NOT...

This is incorrect. Scripture never tells us that an Antichrist would require every human to take a mark. It was the "Beast from the land" with its two-horned power structure in Revelation 13 which required the mark giving homage to the ancient Sea Beast (the Sea Beast which was given the...

The translation you are using which says "and they also" is inserting those words in italics that aren't even there in the original. There is only the word "kai" which has been mistakenly translated as the word "and" when it really means "every eye shall see Him, NAMELY (kai) they which pierced...

A matter of your personal opinion only. When I read in Luke 13:26 that those weeping and gnashing their teeth at Christ's return would be saying, "...we have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets...", this is something that only a first-century Israelite could...

To make a clear demonstration to fallen mankind that our exercise of a free will choice to perform evil is not such a wonderful thing as it has been presented to be. The ability to make a free will choice while in a fallen state can yield more destructive effects than anything we can imagine.

The proud and the wicked are still present outside the gates of the New Jerusalem in Revelation 22:14-15 in the New Heavens and New Earth reality. "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For...

What is so "lunatic" about a bodily resurrection in our future at the "END" when Christ delivers up the kingdom to God and puts down all rule, and all authority and power? You yourself believe this is scheduled for our future, do you not? But by the manner in which Paul enumerates his list in 1...

The souls of all the dead in the OT times were retained in what Scripture called Sheol. When Christ arose, He left Sheol and took a "multitude of captives" with Him (as in Ephesians 4). I believe from Scripture that this means all the souls of the righteous dead were raised from Sheol to be...

No, I would hardly call a simple list of over a hundred Scripture quotes that speak of a first-century coming without any commentary "other people's imagination". The "First-fruits" group WAS bodily resurrected to bodily immortality. But it wasn't composed of a single person. It was a...

It's too bad that you don't wish to take seriously the Scripture references I am submitting. Jerusalem was the site for the "furnace of fire" / "Lake of Fire" / "second death". God said through Isaiah 31:9 that His fire was in Zion and His furnace in Jerusalem. Death and Hell were thrown into...