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The Source of that "everlasting fire" is the constant stream of fire issuing and coming forth from the throne of the eternal Ancient of Days in Daniel 7:10. Those "everlasting burnings" and that "devouring fire" are what the RIGHTEOUS are to dwell with on high as they "see the King in His...

A promise of Satan's soon destruction is found in Romans 16:20. "And the God of peace shall crush Satan under your feet SHORTLY..." The destruction of the evil angelic oppression over all the planet in the age that was soon coming in the first century is found in Hebrews 2:5. "For unto the...

Believing Jesus is not the same as believing your particular interpretation of what Jesus said. Did you not notice that both day and night are still going on in this Revelation 20:10 verse? This is NOT the afterlife existence being described. It is ordinary earthly progression of time with...

I'm evading nothing at all. I'm saying you have imposed the usual improper understanding of the terms scripture uses. If we are both looking at a different "dictionary" when reading the scriptures, then of course we will not agree. I prefer to look at the scriptures content paying close...

You are imposing the usual misunderstanding on the terms the translators chose to use. And you are not addressing the other scriptures I brought up that show how the Lake of Fire is NOT the location of eternal conscious torment for the wicked dead, as is the usual presumption. The physical...

You are unfortunately operating under the usual confusion of how the different words in scripture are all translated by the same word "Hell". The KJV translators just threw up their hands and translated all the terms as being "Hell", when they really mean different things. "Sheol", "Hades"...

Quoting scripture directly word for word is not "playing word games" with it. We are told that Death and Hell would be cast into the Lake of Fire, which is another name for the second death. (And nobody experiences the physical death process twice - that would contradict Hebrews 9:27 where it...

You are making the mistake of identifying the "Lake of Fire" as being the same thing as Hell. These are NOT the same thing. Hell (Hades) is simply the grave, unto which all of mankind descends by physically dying the one time. Christ Himself descended into Hades by physically dying the one...

Absolutely yes. Also true. Free will is too dangerous for mankind to be entrusted with this potent power. The reason why God gave this gift to the original couple was to prove to us that no created being can ever be trusted not to eventually abuse that free will choice to perform a...

There certainly IS a resurrection that the 144,000 experienced. The 144,000 being "redeemed from the earth" is speaking of the "redemption of the body" out of the ground in the bodily-resurrection process. They were "without fault", and there was "no guile" in their mouths, which is only...

The Lord Jesus used "flaming fire" to take vengeance on those who had been shedding the blood of His servants, and who did not obey the gospel (2 Thess. 1:7-8). Isaiah had once said that the Lord's fire was in Zion, "and His furnace in Jerusalem" (Isaiah 31:9). The city of Jerusalem turned...

The term "First-fruits" as related to the 144,000 is connected with a bodily resurrection event - namely the FIRST group resurrection event in AD 33 (aka "the FIRST resurrection" of Rev. 20:5). "But NOW is Christ risen from the dead and become the FIRSTFRUITS of them that slept" (1 Cor...

I'll throw in my two cents' worth. You are quite right to put special emphasis upon the phrase "They will be tormented with burning sulfur IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY ANGELS AND OF THE LAMB." If I'm not mistaken, the Greek term for this indicates "before the face of" or "in the eyesight of"...

There is a reason why natural rainfall can "green up" a lawn or our gardens so much better than our watering them with a hose. Natural rainfall has nitrogen in it. Long ago, the Psalmist spoke about this in Psalms 135:7. "He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh...

Back to the point of the OP... Perhaps when it comes to understanding what the "second death" is, we should clear up what the "second death" DOES NOT consist of. We are told in scripture in Hebrews 9:27 that "it is appointed unto men ONCE TO DIE, and after that the judgment." Therefore, the...

Christ cursed the fig tree in that first-century generation saying, "no man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever". And no one did.

For us Revelation is almost entirely historical. For John's audience, some of these prophecies were things that had already taken place, were presently taking place, or were about to take place after John wrote (Rev. 1:19). That means Revelation was speaking of first-century events. The...

The sixth trumpet judgment is also ancient history. Not intended for our future at all. Remember, the entirety of the sixth trumpet judgment begins in Rev. 9:13 and finishes up in Revelation 11:14, with some parenthetical, explanatory material sandwiched in between. The supposed "200 million...

But which particular battle? The battle taking place with the sixth trumpet was NOT the Romans coming against Jerusalem. It was the Idumean army coming to Jerusalem in either late AD 67 or early AD 68, fighting against the moderate priestly faction that had been governing the city up to then...

Christ disagrees with you on this. To avoid the Great Tribulation that would be coming to Judea and Jerusalem, Christ warned His disciples to flee to the mountains immediately when they saw Jerusalem surrounded by armies. By the casualty records coming from this period of AD 66-70 compared to...