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The true enemy we have left to contend with is the human "children of the devil", as Christ termed the hypocritical Pharisees of His days on earth. That, and our own hearts' evil impulses which are responsible for all manner of wickedness which is presently being manifested in the world today...

If you are going to quote me, please do it accurately. The literal past millennium years ended in AD 33 when "the remnant of the dead came to life again" as the "First resurrection" on the same day as Christ arose. Counting backward in time from the First resurrection in AD 33, a literal...

Of course the First resurrection was of Christ (and also the resurrected Matthew 27:52-53 saints). All of those were given the title of the "First-fruits" raised to life again on the same day. During their natural lifetimes on earth, they each had "lived and reigned with Christ" at varying...

Romans 16:20 says that Satan would be crushed by God - not the Roman believers. Satan as the formerly "anointed cherub" was to be turned into ashes upon the earth, as predicted by Ezekiel 28:18-19. Satan's fate was complete destruction so that "never shalt thou exist anymore" after God burned...

Those conditions you are listing were not included in the Revelation 20 description of the millennium.

The word "nation" or "nations" in scripture is also applied to districts in the land of Israel. The "nation of Samaria", for example. "Galilee of the nations" for another. The word "ethne" or "ethnos" simply applies to people groups as opposed to leadership. This can and is applied to Israel...

Of course Satan was walking about as a roaring lion in Peter's days. That was because Satan had then been released from his millennial "chain", and was once again deceiving the nations. But that time of release was only predicted to last "a little season". That "little season" was the...

The purpose of Satan being "chained" with a "seal" put upon this condition for a literal thousand years John said in Revelation 20:3 was to keep Satan from deceiving the nations until that literal thousand years had been fulfilled. This is a pretty clear statement. The fact that Christ and...

The bottomless pit - the "abysson" - is not a location one can locate on a map. It is a condition or a state of being, just as Christ was said to be in the abyss while His body lay in the tomb for three days and three nights in a non-functioning condition (as in Romans 10:7). Satan was placed...

I appreciate that - it's all anybody can ask of another person. Just remember, in Esther's time, God was arranging for His defense of the people of Israel, but in Gog's battle, God was coming against His land and the people of Israel at their "latter end".

I get it that this caught your attention. Just recently, I was at Aldi's getting hamburger, and every one of the packages I picked up were marked as costing $6.66. Made me laugh. Somebody in the packaging department was playing with things. But your concerns are groundless about seeing the...

I agree that the "last days" Jacob spoke about and the "latter days" of Ezekiel 38:16 were NOT referring to a future end of the world fulfillment as it is usually thought to be. It was actually the "latter end" of Israel as a people that both Jacob and Ezekiel 38 were speaking about. This was...

I've read others viewpoints before that also thought Gog was a battle taking place in Esther's time, but when you inspect the language in Ezekiel 38-39, this connection of Gog with Esther's time becomes impossible. That is because Gog's battle was said to develop in the "latter days" (Ez...

The gathering for the battle of Gog was going to take place for the nations which were in the "four quarters of the earth", which was specifically the four corners of the land of Israel - not the world at large (as Ezekiel 7:2-3 defined this term). The Gog conflict originated with Zealot armies...

Also a good question. The answer is that the bottomless pit (the abysson) is not a particular location but a condition or state of being. Just as Christ was also said to be in the abyss while His body was in the tomb in a non-functioning condition of the grave (as Romans 10:7 describes the...

Good question, grafted branch. The timing of the "henceforth" term in Rev. 14:13 was a question I also asked our Sunday school teacher years ago. He had no answer for me back then. But after studying much more on this, I know exactly when that "henceforth" time started. And it was NOT at...

This statement is also true of those who were faithful to God in their lifetimes during the past millennium years from 968-967 BC until AD 33 (when that millennium ended). By faith, they lived and reigned with Christ during that literal thousand years, and shared in the benefits of having...

You have fallen for the mistranslation that Scofield's study Bible invented out of thin air for the Greek term "genea". This word "genea" typically speaks of all those living at a certain point of time - in other words, contemporaries. Jesus spoke of "this generation of the wicked" out of...

This Luke 21:3536 text is better translated in the literal versions such as the YLT, which reads, "For as a snare shall it come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land" (tes ges - the land of Israel). "Watch therefore at every season praying, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape...

Wrong. "Christ the Firstfruts" and the 144,000 First-fruits with Him were those who composed the "First resurrection" event at Passover in AD 33. And yes, it only included those "blessed and holy" saints in that particular event, which included only the Matthew 27:52-53 resurrected saints...