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Absolutely correct. That Sea Beast (the one for whom the "mark" was imposed) is easily identifiable, simply by the fact that Satan's throne IN PERGAMOS (Revelation 2:13) was given to that Sea Beast in Revelation 13:2. This limits the identity of the Sea Beast to a connection with the ancient...

This is true. This is your adding to Scripture. You will not find a chapter and verse for this limitation to ONLY a second coming . Scripture does speak of the ranked order of resurrections in 1 Cor. 15:23. Christ was the First-fruits, and afterward, those who were His at His coming (the...

Why should this presentation of two returns of Christ be so offensive to you? The end results are just the same for both you and me - Christ bodily returns in our future to complete the bodily resurrection the saints, with a planet purified of all human evil from then onward. What is so...

Of course I am looking at the context. I am looking at the Apostle Peter's question in verse 41, "Lord speakest thou this parable unto US or even to ALL?" There was going to be a coming of the Lord for the disciple Peter's generation in the first century, but after Christ's second coming in...

No, the Greek word "kai" never means "or". There are two totally different Greek word options used for the word "or". Look it up. Christ's parable spoke of the Lord coming in both a second "AND (kai)" in a third watch in Luke 12:38. Many translations miss this point. Of course any return of...

Jesus spoke to those in front of Him in Matthew 16:27-28 about His coming return with the angels, to give rewards to all according to their works. Some of these people He promised would still be alive to see that happen. This was a first-century second coming of Christ which would be "in like...

The Greek word there is "kai", which does not mean "or". The word "kai" should be translated as "AND" (meaning in addition to something) or "EVEN" (meaning namely, or specifically). The parable was intended to include TWO comings of the Lord "in the second AND (kai) the third watch" - not...

The "beloved disciple" or "the disciple whom Jesus loved" was referring to the resurrected Lazarus - not John the son of Zebedee. Lazarus went by several aliases in the early church, since he became a target for the Pharisees after his resurrection. His given name was "John Eleazar", and he...

Of course Christ came "in like manner" as He ascended. This was going to be Christ's glorified, resurrected body form that would return to the Mount of Olives. And Zechariah predicted that this would take place "in that day" during the siege period for Juda and Jerusalem that ended in AD 70...

Polycarp knew a different John than the author of Revelation. John was a common name shared by many in the early church. I believe Polycarp's connection was with the young man John surnamed Mark (sister's son to Barnabas). This man remained serving in the early church after Christ's AD 70...

You are making a presumption. The Scriptures in their entirety and especially Christ disagree with you. Just as Zechariah had prophesied about the siege against Juda and Jerusalem in AD 70 (Zech. 12-14), he predicted that Christ would bodily return to the Mount of Olives "in that day". There...

The point you were making is to propose that the second coming was Christ's resurrection. How does the Gospels' date of being written down change what Christ said in Matt. 16:27-28 about some of those He was THEN speaking to at that very moment remaining alive to see His second coming return...

That judgment in Matthew 16:27-28 was the same imminent judgment of both the living and the dead at Christ's appearance and His kingdom. Paul alerted Timothy that this event was "about to be" in his own immediate future. "I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is...

Not possible. Jesus at His resurrection did not come with angels to give a reward to every man according to his works, as He promised to do in Matthew 16:27-28, while some of that audience was still alive to see that coming. Jesus's prediction in those verses makes it sound as if only a very...

Those are both the same thing. No difference whatever. Christ coming in his kingdom with the glory of His Father with the angels to give rewards to each according to his works was spoken of all the way back in the OT by Enoch, the seventh from Adam. Remember? Jude 14-15 quotes this ancient...

Those two texts were already fulfilled back in AD 70 on that year's Pentecost day (the fulfillment of the 1,335th day in Daniel 12:12). You didn't finish the Matthew 16:27-28 text which gives the exact timing for that return, while some of those Christ was then speaking to were still living...

The Scriptures agree with this. God did not create this world in vain. He created it to be inhabited. The Scriptures agree with this also. We already inhabit the New Jerusalem, with its New Covenant realities. Sinners are still operating outside the open gates of this New Jerusalem (Rev...

There is a very simple answer to this question. Look earlier in Matthew 16:27-28. In this text, Christ told the disciples, "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be...

This is where you go off track in your interpretations of the thousand years. You are assuming that the Revelation 13 Sea Beast was the same as the Revelation 17 Scarlet Beast in the wilderness. They are NOT the same. The "mark" was connected with the Rev. 13 Sea Beast alone - NOT the other...

You have missed the intent of my statements altogether. Here it is in very plain terms. •Satan's "little season" aka the "short time" of his release from the millennial restriction put upon him began in AD 33 when he and his devils were cast out of heaven at Christ's resurrection-day...