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No, you haven't given the right kind of evidence, according to John's definition of what an antichrist is. "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son" (1 John 2:22). "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who...

No, these two "lawless" ones crucified beside Christ were Zealots who had committed insurrection against Rome along with Barabbas. Mark 15:7 tells us, "And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound WITH THEM that had made insurrection WITH HIM, who had committed murder in the insurrection."...

You are asking the wrong question. The question should be: How many does the scripture say that the single Antichrist would annihilate? And don't substitute the Sea Beast for this Antichrist role, because the Rev. 13 Sea Beast was another character altogether different from the Antichrist...

On the contrary: Paul recognized that it would be dangerous for him to say anything opposing the high priesthood in Israel (particularly Ananias) who had been restraining the rise of the Zealot leader Menahem, the Man of Lawlessness. Ananias was the pro-Roman high priest which had Paul struck...

EXACTLY. It was not going to be the coming return of Christ in the clouds that would destroy the Man of Lawlessness. The language in 2 Thess. 2 shows that it would be the very brightness of the way the Man of Lawlessness "exalted himself" when he came into power that would be responsible for...

Paul's and John's statements concerning the Antichrist / Man of Lawlessness hold precedence over any church father or apologist's opinion. Paul and John wrote that these antichrists and the Antichrist and the restrainer of the Man of Lawlessness were all in existence then in the first-century...

The "First resurrection" was the one which included "Christ the First-fruits" and the 144,000 First-fruits (the Matthew 27:52-53 resurrected saints which were the Rev. 20:5 "remnant of the dead" which "lived again" as being part of the First resurrection event shared with Christ). This happened...

That "image of the heavenly" is described in Philippians 3:21. "Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body..." That change will render our vile body forms so that they become fashioned exactly like Christ's resurrected body of flesh and bones which the...

Oh, I am very certain about scripture's timing of the Olivet Discourse events. Christ and the scriptures are very clear concerning the timing when these would be fulfilled. These events Christ said were for the "end of the AGE" (aionos) - not an end of this global world (oikoumenen or kosmos)...

A "spiritual body" is still a body; a body with tangible substance to it, just like Christ's glorified, resurrected body of flesh and bones. And it is the same body which goes into the ground which is also raised in a changed condition. "IT is sown in weakness, and IT (the same body) is raised...

You are confusing Jerusalem's torn down condition at the end of the war in AD 70 with whatever was built in Jerusalem during the following centuries since then. At the close of the AD 70 war in Jerusalem, there was no stone inside the city left on top of another; all was made "even with the...

"He is AT HAND that doth betray me", Christ said in Matthew 26:46 as Judas was then approaching His location that night in the garden, and would come on the scene, even while Jesus was still speaking (Matt. 26:47). "Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread" the disciples prepared the...

No, the Western Wall was part of the foundation of the Roman Antonia Fortress on top of it where the Roman troops were garrisoned. It did not support the Temple. All those buildings were razed to be laid "even with the ground", as Christ foretold in Luke 19:44. The Western Wall is similar...

Thank you, but these are not the ones to depend on if God already chose to define His own terms concerning when an "at hand" prophecy is fulfilled in Ezekiel 12:21-28. Everyone else who differs with God's definition should not be trusted with their "fuller meaning". Oh, but it did happen in...

I agree with this. That is why the Sea Beast had those "lion, bear, and leopard" features of all the pagan, Gentile empires of Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece. All of these in one way or another had demanded homage over the centuries. Like the golden Babylonian image of Nebuchadnezzar that...

No, that is your own invented meaning for "at hand". In God's definition found in Ezekiel 12:21-28, an "at hand" prophecy takes place "in YOUR DAYS" for those who have that prophecy spoken to them. God not only speaks the prophecy, but He also says He will perform it in the lifetime of those...

I'm curious how you would interpret Ecclesiastes 3:14. "I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, or any thing taken from it: and God doeth it that men should fear before him." To me, this is expressing perpetuity in the acts of God's GWT judgment of his...

I'm a member on Steve Gregg's forum. He has a thorough, calmly-studied approach to the way he addresses issues which I can appreciate (even if in error on a number of things). And yes, I'm aware (and agree) that there are occasions where "aionion" is not an indication of a perpetual condition...

You have mistakenly conflated some of this cast of evil characters with each other. And it wasn't the entire Rev. 13 Sea Beast that was killed. It was only one of its heads that received a deadly wound. And this Sea Beast was not the Antichrist (since the word "antichrist" doesn't appear in...

The same "aionion" term is found for the eternal life which Christ promised for those who believed in Him (John 5:24, 6:47). This gift of eternal "aionion" life will never be revoked, once given. Neither is the "aionion" destruction of the wicked into ashes a fate that will ever be revoked...