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The coming return of Christ was mentioned by Paul to Timothy in 2 Timothy 4:1 (YLT). "I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is ABOUT TO judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign." James 5:7-9 also said that Christ's coming had drawn near in...

Yes, Satan is a title and not a proper name. The name of Lucifer was alternately applied to both Christ and to the king of Babylon - not as mistakenly applied to the Devil.

John's gospel was certainly written before AD 70. In John 5:2, it speaks of the Bethesda pool which still "IS" in existence along with its five porches. "Now there IS at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches". As this gospel...

The scriptures themselves and Christ's own testimony assert that His second coming would take place before the generation of those He spoke to during his earthly ministry had all died (Matthew 16:27-28). Just because we are presently in the NHNE does not mean that fallen mankind's history has...

You're right - that AD 68 or 69 year is much too close to AD 70 for Revelation's composition. There would be no time for John's letters to circulate among the churches and the believers, warning of an approaching period of disasters of which most were already past at that point. As I've said...

Sure, this makes perfect sense. I also believe that John was not necessarily incarcerated by imprisonment on Patmos, but was sent there to get him out of Ephesus where things were at a boiling point against the believers after the AD 57 Ephesian riot. The citizens of the whole city...

Morning Rella, For this subject of Domitian being assumed to be the author of a great persecution against Christians, I would ask you to do a little research. Try looking at one of Dr. Kenneth Gentry's latest posts titled "Domitian's Persecution of Christians?" in his...

I'm self-employed. I duck back and forth from computer to workroom table.

?? Another subject entirely.

Behold, I have a responsibility to meet deadlines for my workroom clients. Not all of us have unlimited time at our disposal to respond to every single comment. If you want to interpret this as a "dodge", that's on you.

Your vitriol is nothing new to me. I never respond in kind to this type of language. As MatthewG would probably say also, you are kindred in Christ, and that suffices to keep both you and me in the family of God - not whether we see eye to eye on eschatology. We are not eternally saved by our...

What is ugly is to essentially call Christ a liar by denying what He said about His own wicked generation experiencing all those foretold disasters in the Olivet Discourse. What is ugly is to promote such fear-mongering as fact when they are past events fulfilled back in the first century...

LOL, I have the best version of Sci-Fi that I took from my father's collection when he died. Larkin provides some of the most elaborate stuff imaginable. Though I do appreciate his artistic abilities. Too bad it was applied to such mistaken eschatology. It sent so many people off in the...

I am not responsible for the mistaken impressions you get from what I wrote. I can clarify what I wrote, but this is not "walking back" anything. Try not to be so suspicious of people's motives. It's not good for your health to be so cynical.

This presumption of John being on Patmos in AD 96 is what sends your whole interpretation of Revelation off-track. The internal evidence of Revelation and scripture itself denies that late date and requires a date between late AD 59 and early AD 60. And your understanding of which...

YES, we do need the next final (third) resurrection and a final GWT judgment event to bring fallen mankind's history to a close. Even with the NHNE reality which we are currently living in, Isaiah never said that this was the culmination point of all human history. Isaiah's description of the...

Sure, if you are talking about foreknowledge, of course that kind of prophecy is related to the future. But the prophets of the OT were often sent to rehearse people's past sins to them as a rebuke from God. This kind of prophecy was concerning past events. And when the OT temple...

I never said that. The early church fathers mentioned a John the Presbyter as being a separate individual from John the son of Zebedee (Eusebius gives this quote from Papias). Yet John the son of Zebedee is mentioned as being separate from the "beloved disciple" in the book of John. Some of...

Prophecy is not necessarily about future things. Remember, when Christ was on trial before the Sanhedrin, those who struck Him mocked Him, saying, "Prophesy, who was it that smote thee?" (Luke 22:63). This striking of Christ had already occurred, yet they were urging Christ to prophesy...

Wrong. Preteristic teaching was first given by Christ and the disciples. It fills the NT writings. It doesn't matter how the Catholic Church has figured in misusing this truth for their own ends. They will answer to God for their own issues, but it doesn't negate the facts as presented by...