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I remember my own father expressing this very sentiment. Presuming that overwhelming love for his wife caused Adam to take the fruit and eat what was forbidden. This is totally mistaken. Adam put his love for Eve before his love for his Creator and His commandment. THIS IS IDOLATRY TO THE...

You're right - life is brief enough that we need to concentrate on the essentials. The reason why I belabor such points as this one above is in an effort to dispel the weight of fear that most people live with when they think of end times themes. This fearful attitude has been conditioned...

I did notice that in what you posted, thank you. And I have read others who also think that Revelation was broken up into more than one portion - some even proposing several authors for Revelation (which John does not allow for Revelation's contents in Rev. 22:18). The reason why I believe...

Sorry, MatthewG, but that isn't possible that it could have been written some thirteen years earlier. The reason for this is the identity of the sixth and seventh "kings" on the Scarlet Beast, which was "ABOUT TO arise" in Revelation 17, and was also ABOUT TO "go into destruction". There was a...

Tell that to Paul and his companions who had the screaming Ephesian mob of approximately 25,000 people in the theater protesting their teaching in Acts 19. Tribulation indeed. Ephesus was the capital of Asia at the time. Any persecution against the believers in that city spread throughout...

I have mentioned two passages in Revelation already above which prove an early date of AD 59 / 60. You and I have gone over these texts and many others before on GCF in my comment # 14 for the topic "When was Revelation Written?" at the following link...

Tradition is not proof. Never has been. And there was more than one "John" in the ministry in the early church (John surnamed Mark, for instance). John in writing Revelation says he was presently at that time a "companion in tribulation" along with his brethren (Rev. 1:9). Combined with...

It depends on which "last days" you are referring to, Hobie. The "last days" before Christ's second coming return were in Peter's days, when he wrote that "the end of all things is at hand" (1 Peter 4:7). The "last days" in our future before the next resurrection event and a final judgment...

Additional internal proof for Revelation's early date... John's readers were told to "calculate" the number of the Rev. 13 Sea Beast. They were to do this by counting backward in time 666 years from that time when Revelation was written to them, going back all the way to when that ancient Sea...

Sure, I agree that this is one solid fact that denies the late dating. But it is certainly not the only one. There is no way that Revelation's letter to the Laodicean church (reproving them for their smug, self-satisfied attitude) could have been written to them AFTER the AD 60 disastrous...

Sorry, but that is too late to match with the internal evidence within Revelation. Revelation can't possibly be written any later than early AD 60, or any earlier than late AD 59. There are datable events in Revelation that prove this.

Then you haven't yet studied Revelation's content carefully enough. The proof for the very precise early date of AD 59-early AD 60 is there.

The Revelation 13 Sea Beast and the Rev. 13 Land Beast were long since destroyed back in AD 70. They are both ancient history. The entire image of Daniel was then brought down by the single blow of Christ the "stone" kingdom which has continued to steadily grow in size since then, and will...

No, let's not talk Josephus. It's not necessary to quote Josephus to determine when Revelation was written. All that is necessary is scripture's own internal witness with its own language. THIS is what gives solid proof for an early date anywhere from late AD 59 until no later than AD 60...

Not according to all of Revelation's internal evidence. All of it combined narrows down Revelation's composition date to a period between late AD 59 and early AD60, just prior to the disastrous Laodicean earthquake.

The "sun" and the "moon" in this text have to be understood in Biblical terminology. In Joseph's dream, the sun and moon represented his own father and mother - the origins of the nation of Israel - along with the stars representing all the sons of Jacob / Israel (Genesis 37:9-10). To have...

YES. Totally agree with you on this, along with the scriptures that back it up. Satan is dead as a doornail since AD 70. God predicted in Isaiah 27:1 that He would slay that ancient serpent, the dragon. He accomplished this by burning Satan to ashes on the earth, as Ezekiel 28:18-19 also...

TS, if you can't see Christ and His disciples all casting out devils from all those cities they went to, then you have a serious problem with reading comprehension. The context surrounding this Luke 10 chapter is replete with the subject of devils being cast out of individuals in Israel. Even...

Sorry, but Matthew disagrees with you. The "Great Tribulation" which Christ described in Matthew 24 would not take place at the end of the world. That is because Christ said that there would not be a comparable tribulation such as that "great tribulation" either before or afterward in history...

The scriptures show us just how demonic possession had saturated the nation of Israel in the first century. Christ sent out 70 individuals into the various cities of Israel to which He would be coming, and they ALL returned rejoicing with the news that the demons were subject to them in...