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No, the "living and reigning" was done during their natural lifetime, and was BEFORE their martyrdom. Not all of these in Rev. 20:4 were martyred. Some living during the millennium years, like Daniel, died a natural death, but still did not worship that ancient Sea Beast which began with...

There was more than just one person ("Christ the First-fruits") who was raised that same day. There were 144,000 more "First-fruits unto God and the Lamb" who were raised to immortal life that same day. These 144,000 "First-fruits" were the many Matthew 27:52-53 saints from those listed Jewish...

The reign of the Lord in His kingdom was not established in AD 70. In a very real sense, that reign of the Lord has always existed. The Psalms are full of this, with the phrase, "The Lord reigneth...". For example, Ps. 103:19, "The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his...

You are deliberately misquoting me. I never said all evil is done away with in this world today. I wrote that any evil present in today's world is being performed by mankind alone without the presence of Satan anymore to instigate that evil. Christ once gave a list of all manner of evil...

I'm not avoiding anything. NT Scripture concentrates most of the attention on those two resurrection events (as in 1 Cor. 15:23-24) because a bodily resurrection event was on the near horizon for that first-century generation to experience. But there are other places which speak of regular...

Humanity over time tends to boomerang from one extreme to another, and never can quite seem to arrive at the balance God intended. This is the effect of the Fall. God did not intend any kind of "authentein" leadership to operate in His church body - whether that was men or women acting in that...

See my comment #6. I am 100% certain on both P1 and P2. Scripture leaves no room for an alternative. Satan is dead, and the evil presently manifested in the world is being performed without Satan's presence to instigate it. The guilt for the evil being performed in today's world now lies...

Both sins of ignorance and willful disobedience required a sacrifice under the OT Mosaic laws. Neither was commended. And it is certainly not preferable for a congregation to be solely under the direction of a male leader who tends to knowingly disobey God rather than to ignorantly err in...

It does indeed, from first to last. And the role of minister of an assembly has gotten so out of touch with that intended purpose of humility that the role has become virtually unrecognizable from when Christ originated it. Even the furnishings of the typical church artificially elevate the...

Why would I need to wager on the fact that Christ once said "out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things that defile a man..." The heart of mankind all by itself is perfectly capable of manifesting...

P1 - 10 P2 - 0 Zero, Nada, nix, zilch...

He is dead as a doornail, since he was burned to ashes on the earth by the close of the AD 70 battle in Jerusalem. As Ezekiel and Isaiah 27:1 both prophesied, Satan no longer exists since God slew him.

It sounds as if you are trying to use this text as it is typically used - in a sense of an overbearing "authentein" over womankind in general. Paul is here in 1 Cor. 11:2-3 referring to the ORIGIN of things. The "head of every man is Christ" is meant in the sense that Christ was the creative...

Surely you have a familiarity with the "early" and "latter rain" seasons in Israel and their connection with the three required harvest festivals under Mosaic law. And surely you have noticed the "harvest" imagery in scripture when discussing the theme of a bodily resurrection of the saints...

As I have already said - the only "authority" we have over us in the assembly is Christ, who is "the head over ALL THINGS to the church". Male elders do not have this authority over others in the assembly, and neither do women serving as elders. Nobody gets to upset Christ's role as the ONLY...

This comparison of the bodily resurrections of the saints with the three agricultural harvests in Israel is not my personal invention - it was spoken of in James 5:7-9. The seasons of the "early and latter rain" were what the timing of the three harvest festivals in Israel were linked to...

You're right - Full Preterists deny a future return of Christ - especially one involving His resurrected body. The Full Preterist makes a great effort to emphasize the OT examples such as God's symbolic "coming on a cloud into Egypt" judgments, and then say that Christ's second coming was...

Many years ago, I lived for 16 years under a cult-like church environment where there was an overwhelming and continual emphasis on the supreme authority of the single man in the pulpit, and the squelching of women, wives, and daughters into a totally inferior category. It was a poisonous...

Errrr, not true. Peter said that all the prophets, as many as had spoken, had ALL foretold something about those last days in which Peter was living concerning "the restitution of all things" (Acts 3:21-24) . The prophets knew that what they were writing was not about themselves, but about a...

No, the Full Preterists vehemently deny that Christ intended to bodily return to the Mount of Olives. They flatly deny any bodily resurrection whatever, and the main proponents of Full Preterism also deny that Christ Jesus still retains today His glorified resurrected body that left the planet...