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David, read the passage carefully. They are martyred for their faithfulness in life. When, according to John, have they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years? It was during their lifetimes that these faithful saints were martyred for their faith, not after they physically died and...

I believe it simply means the earth was uninhabitable. Whatever God created that would be able to sustain life was without form, a waste and worthless thing, and void, or an empty space in darkness or void of light until the Spirit moved and within the darkness there was light.

David, why would Amil or any other mil believe Satan's little season is part of the forty two months he is given to persecute the Church on earth? The forty two months comes within time symbolized a thousand years. Satan's little season begins AFTER the thousand years expire.

In Ge 1 God is showing how in the beginning He created all things that are in heaven and on the earth. In Ge 2 God begins saying "¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them." Then in 2:4 God speaks not of creation again, but of the generation(s) that would come...

You're confusing the little season the martyred souls are told they must wait with the little season Satan is given when the seventh angel begins to sound that time shall be no longer. The little season the souls under the altar is given those who have already died in faith. When Satan is given...

I tend to agree. I think Christ was teaching what we call a sermon on the mount corporately. IOW His words are for the whole body that professes to belong to Christ. We are all called to be light and salt in a world filled with darkness that has lost all savor for anything that is good. When...

What I've found to typically be true is that when one has the proper understanding of Amil it is the only end time doctrine that makes sense. Does believing in Amil make one right about every doctrine found in the Bible? Of course not! But of the different end time positions it is the only one...

Christ is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world according to promise. For His sacrifice to make atonement for sin and defeat death, Christ must literally come to do the work ordained of Him from the foundation of the world. Since none of the promises of God shall ever fail, His...

Not literally, but yes through Covenant that God ordained in heaven before creation. The symbolism in the Revelation is all that comes to pass throughout redemptive history through the Lamb of God, who was slain (according to promise) from the foundation of the world. IOW God's plan to redeem a...

I read the passage differently GB. It doesn't say they are giving God all glory. It says "when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to Him that sat on the throne." IOW And whensoever the living beings shall give (the future is used) glory and honour and thanks to Him who sitteth upon...

Marty, couldn't that be because you're viewing them from a Preterits point of view? In the time of Zechariah the four horses reporting quiet and stillness upon the earth, doesn't mean the world was without evil and death from the beginning. The earth in the days of Old, before the advent of...

The spirit in men of faith is eternal, not immortal & incorruptible. It is our physical body, being mortal and corruptible that must be resurrected and changed from mortal to immortal, not our spirit. A spirit is not a physical body, it has no form. Christ proved this when His disciples...

There is no evidence that the living elect of God were gathered together in 70 AD. The only elect that ascended to heaven with Christ after His resurrection were those who had died waiting for Christ to come. They are those saints who as spiritual body ascended to heaven with Christ. Because...

It there will be no need to have a body of immortal flesh, why will the body of believers be resurrected and changed from mortal to immortal and corruptible to incorruptible? Yes, Paul does say there is both a natural, physical body, and a spiritual body and the two are not the same. That's...

Yes, I agree this is true. The problem for the Preterit is that they have determined the return of Christ was not literally fulfilled but spiritually fulfilled while ignoring that Christ says He shall come again only "the second time." It's clear that Christ has not yet appeared the second...

The breath of life is our spirit. Our spirit is the inner man, which gives life functions to every part of our body. Our spirit is in essence who we are. It is our mind, heart, will, emotions, the control center for every organ and flow of blood. Soul too like our spirit equates to being...

That isn't true with Preterism. Preterits view much and even most of the Olivet Discourse as that which physically came to pass against an apostate nation in 70 AD. But then when it comes to the signs of Christ and His coming again, you cannot make it literally fit. So rather than admit it...

For those who are of faith in Christ, we have eternal life through His Spirit in us. We won't have immortal & incorruptible life until our body is resurrected and changed from mortal to immortal and corruptible to incorruptible.

This is the problem with Preterism! It uses the Word of God to prove their doctrine, rather than allowing the Word of God to prove what they assume. That's why the Preterit must spiritualize what cannot be proven as having been literally fulfilled in 70 AD.

Who was Christ speaking to here? Was it not those apostate Jews living in the first century AD charged with "all the righteous blood shed upon the earth"? The same as Babylon the great whore? Matthew 23:34-35 (KJV) Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and...