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First of all, the sense of "imminence" is clearly defined by God's own terms of what an "at hand" prophecy is. ALL of the unsealed prophecies of future events found in Revelation John wrote were "at hand" in Rev. 1:3 and 22:10. God defines this "at hand" term as a prophecy that is first spoken...

What is unique about Christ's bodily resurrection as glorified flesh and bones coming out of the grave is that He was the very first to ascend in that type of glorified, resurrected body form to the Father in heaven. This is what earned Christ the totally unique title of the "First-begotten...

God's fire during our life on earth can be either refining or annihilating, depending on the nature of what is being exposed to that fire. Just like your Malachi 3:2 example above, in the Zechariah 13:8-9 passage that describes the effect of God's siege against both Judah and Jerusalem in the...

Well, I am referring to Psalms 1:4, which contrasts the righteous and the ungodly. "The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away." You are right that God does not make chaff. Things like "chaff" and "tares" are the result of Satan's original temptation of mankind...

Yep, and also thankfully, there is always much more grain than chaff. The "grain" is the majority percentage of all humanity that will be gathered into God's "barn". The "chaff" is the minority percentage.

The only predictions in Revelation that apply to your future and mine are the sealed up prophecies in Revelation 10:4 that John was forbidden to write down. These prophecies of the 7 thunders were all "sealed up" for the ages that would follow the AD 70 return of Christ ("the ages that are...

Actually, no, I have never said that either. I believe it is entirely possible that Christ in the future, final third resurrection and a GWT judgment will reign bodily on this earth when He has purged it of any remaining human evil for all time. In the meantime, as Christ once prayed to God in...

In my roughly 17 years of constant attendance at the SBC, there was never a sermon on anything eschatological - nor anything taught from Daniel or Revelation from the pulpit. In the Sunday school for adults, the father of the pastor taught some things on a couple occasions about AD 70, but he...

Christ's first coming was when He "came unto His own" in AD 30 with the launch of His public miraculous ministry. Christ's second coming return was in AD 70 to the Mount of Olives, just as Zechariah 14:4-5 foretold. Zechariah 14 did not predict Christ's first coming in AD 30. It actually...

?? I never said anything about Christ's first coming taking place in AD 70 in Zechariah 14. That was the second coming of Christ which Zechariah foretold in Zechariah 14:4-5. This second coming return of Christ had to take place when there were still the tribes and families of Israel living...

No. Since I was a young teen I have been Reformed Baptist, Southern Baptist, Independent Baptist, back to Southern Baptist again, and for the last 12 years have been a Preterist.

No, I don't disagree with Jesus. These verses above are describing the resurrected righteous being taken to heaven for a GWT judgment where rewards were to be given to every one according to their works. The dead written in the book of life (v. 12) were going to experience this as they stood...

No, that is not my point. Of course, you and I are not presently in eternity as of yet. We are waiting on the final third resurrection and the final judgment. At that point, there will no longer need to be any additional members as "living stones" being built up into the "holy temple" that...

Do you need me to quote 2 Kings 2:1 & 11 in the LXX for this? (In the LXX it is IV Kings.) "And it came to pass, when the Lord was going to take Eliu with a whirlwind AS IT WERE into heaven, that Eliu and Elisaie went out of Galgala...And it came to pass as they were going, they went on...

The LXX account of Elijah and the whirlwind says that "Elijah was caught up AS IT WERE into heaven" (not that he was taken in God's presence yet, but merely transported through the skies to another part of the country). We know that Elijah never ascended to heaven and God's presence because...

No, I never wrote that the Lake of Fire is a state of eternal suffering for the wicked. So we do not agree. The physical bodies of the wicked dead never rise (as in Isaiah 26:14 - "They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall NOT RISE: therefore hast thou visited and...

No, I have never said that. Christ's words to His disciples referred to "the end of the AGE" when Jerusalem and its temple would be destroyed along with His second coming dated to that same AD 70 year. He said nothing about the church being "complete" at His second coming. There have been...

The Lake of Fire is not described as being under the earth. John called the Lake of Fire the same thing as "the second death". This is NOT - repeat - NOT a second death of people, because that would contradict the rule of a one-time-only appointment to a physical death experience for all men...

Surely you notice that "day and night" are still going on in this environment. That means this is a location on earth where the living inhabitants are being tormented - not the Hadean realm for the wicked dead. And the worship given to the Sea Beast and its image is still going on in this...

This is immaterial. The subject of the discussion is the same, wherever Christ spoke those words about Jerusalem and the temple's total destruction. Everything Christ said on this subject would fulfill everything which had been written about it in the OT scriptures.