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I agree that to be resurrected means being raised to life again physically. But what does it mean when we read of those who are dead in trespasses and sins, but not physically dead being raised to life again? (Eph 2:5-6) Why doesn't John say the souls he saw in heaven after they physically died...

Yes, Scripture does say that man became a living soul, and that living soul is a physical body of flesh & bone, and a breath of life that is man's unseen spirit that returns to God when our physical body dies. The living souls in Rev 20 have been physically killed. As spiritual body of...

Where/how does the soul live on? If there is no living body, and the spirit returns to God, can the soul exist without life in some form?

Marty, yes, both the Law & Prophets, as well as the Gospel and Holy Spirit are all witnesses pointing to Jesus. They are four, not two. I don't believe they are symbolic of Moses and Elijah. Yes, I agree the Word of God is the power over life and death and is fire coming from the mouths of...

I can see how and why you make this connection between JtB and the two witnesses. I find some of these things that I don't think fit. For instance the two witnesses are called two olive trees and two candlesticks but are not called Elijah. Being Amil I too consider the two witnesses to be...

You and I are in complete agreement here. I agree we tend to be reactionary creatures even knowing we ought to always choose to do good and sin not. Like you, I no longer allow sin to reign supreme, but also like you I sometimes (too often perhaps) tend to react before taking a moment to...

You've hit the crux of the question. In salvation man is saved from the penalty that comes from sin that is eternal death, but as long as we are alive in this world, in bodies destined to die, we shall never be completely free from every sin. The blessing is that when we do fall into sin, as...

Where does our physical life come from if not from the spirit that every living creature has to give our physical body, though mortal, life? God created man with a body + spirit (breath of life) and he became a living soul. Our spirit is who we are! It controls our mind, will, emotions and...

Scripture says that when we are in Christ, we become a new 'man'. Yes, the new man being Christian is called a living temple. I don't find any place in Scripture that says Christ is the new heaven and new earth, nor does it say believers become the new heaven and new earth. I only find...

No, I agree, when we partake of Christ's resurrection, we are partaking spiritually not physically. But partake of Him we must to be born again. We will not be physically resurrected until an hour coming when the last trumpet sounds, and only those who are physically dead shall be physically...

I assumed you were speaking of the elect being physically gathered from the graves and those who are still alive at His coming. I believe that Christ ushered in His Kingdom when He came. It is a spiritual Kingdom we can know of and enter when we are born again. Yes, we were first called...

I don't really view John asking if Christ was the one they were looking for to be a sin. I think many of us have doubts about who Christ is until our eyes are opened to spiritual truth. It's both really, because spiritual persecution can lead to physical death, as it did in the case of John...

David, I can't speak for other Amils, but I believe John speaks of these martyred saints as having lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years during their lifetimes where they were faithful unto death. Which is why they are alive in heaven a spiritual body of believers as living souls after...

When Satan sits in Churches as an angel of light, he shall cause the light of Christ to shine no more at all within. When the light of Christ is removed from the Church the Gospel as a witness for Christ is silenced, or as dead. When the light of the candle shines no more in the Church the...

Isn't that exactly what the serpent did in the beginning? Trying to get you to reason with all of Scripture, rather than trying to formulate your doctrine based on verses here and there or only from Revelation. What if the deadly wound was that which was ordained by God when the serpent was...

How could it not have begun then? Before being bound through the first advent of Christ, he had the power to hold people in bondage to fear of death. Death that came through him was introduced into creation when through deception he deceived A&E into sin. It seems to me Satan's power can only...

From the beginning I see Satan, depicted as the serpent being worshipped by Adam & Eve. They heeded his voice and disobeyed God. Wouldn't you agree that at that moment they became servants to Satan, and sin and sadly their offspring would be born in the same servanthood. Mankind as long as...

Satan is the power behind all evil that comes upon the earth. This power goes by many names. In chapter 20 alone he is called, the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan. Calling Satan a beast speaks of his personality, he is like a very dangerous wild animal.

David, as I've come to understand "little season" it is but a short period of time. I do not conflate the little season the martyred souls under that altar must wait with the little season Satan is given after time symbolized a thousand years expires. Satan will not have a little season...

I would say the Prophet Jeremiah is comparing Israel of Old through her apostacy and spiritual adultery to what the earth was before the Spirit brought Light and life into creation (darkness and void of Light & Life). It is for this reason that the nation would go into 70 years of captivity...