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No, but correspondingly, Futurists can't claim that every time a number is used in scripture it must be absolutely literal in it's interpretation, don't you think? And yet they do (even when they don't necessarily follow through on that!).

So...question. Why does this matter so much to you? You seem really "up" on the whole piercing and tattooing deal. And, I'm not against it. But...I'm not sure I find the topic emminently worthy of much consideration. Obviously you do, which is fine...I suppose I'm wondering why.

Sure, the walk of sanctification, an effort on our part that is thankfully aided by the Spirit. It's that tricky line between realising that you need to respond to the new life Christ has given you with good works and the love of others, but also knowing that no real growth and defeat of sin...

I'm not saying that God couldn't insert a 'gap' here. He could. And we know he's done it before, as you've pointed out...what the OT prophets thought was one coming of Christ turned out to actually be 2. However, that being said...the texts themselves don't actually say that there will be a gap...

Except when you say it does not: "24 hours does not equal a day". Your inconsistencies are showing. You cannot lay down blanket statements about linguistic rules when your own interreptive rules are inconsistent and full of holes. If...and this is a big if...if you want to show that every and...

So...you're normal, then? :p I think for a lot of us, it's not so much 'faith' that's the problem. Oh, we know of Christ, and we love him with our all! But to trust in the day to day walk? That is the hard thing. To learn to bring him into every small matter we do and think? It will take a...

I'm not saying its not 490 years. I'm saying that by using 'weeks', especially weeks of 7 to portray that time period, we can see that prophectic literature, especially apocalyptic literature, uses numbers in ways that are not, perhaps, as literalistic as you would have it. That's sort of big...

You are missing his point. That point is, Daniel doesn't outright say 490 years, does he? He words it in a way that is figurative. You take it literally, you take the representation of those "weeks" to be very true. And we are not arguing that point. In fact, for me, it rather nicely makes my...

I just defeated myself? Wow, how foolish of me. And yet...still theres this issue of you not making sense. You say that by reading a text properly you can make "day" mean more than a 24 hour period. As in, not literal. And I get that. But when I say that when we apply the same logic to the genre...

"Jack says"...how often you seem to hang everything on what this man "says". What about what the bible says? What about what Jesus says? You are putting a man up on a pedestal...and that never goes well.

I'm afraid I miss your point in relation to my post. How does what I said have anything to do with the thousand year mark. And I'm not sure I read anything resembling proof in your link....

Well...wait a minute here. So...it's okay for you to go "if we do x,y,z with proper definitions, blah, blah, blah, then it's fine for us to hey presto more than 24 hours out of 'a day'"....but its not okay for people like me to look at genre, the original meanings and applications of texts in...

Hey Enoch, hope you had a good Christmas! Yes, we can expect, I think, to see a correlation between the OT and NT...they are not in isolation from one another. And at times the OT, when speaking of the Day of the Lord is, in fact, talking about that last day. But at other times, the prophets are...

Just a fewthoughts on your post: first..you say at one point: "Day is not limited to a 24 hour period". I find that curious, coming from someone who argues tooth and nail that we must take everything in scripture literally, and therefore the 1000 years has to be 1000 years. Well....by your own...

It's not all about looking for disasters...its about why. The reasons behind it all, I think. When bad things happen, they leave people hurting. It ought to be our job to come along side them and tell them that these things are not all there is...that there is hope amongst the struggle, a plan...

Here I again with what? Pointing out scripture? But okay, sure...let's look at the actual passages, rather than having a "I say/you say that it says this" sort of thing: Here's the verse I was speaking of. Jesus telling his Disciples that when they went into the world they could expect hardship...

I've known several Rapture believers, and I love them. They are excited, sincere and eager. But...yes...they do seem so locked onto a particular doctrine that they don't really admit that the text in front of them doesn't actually say what they are claiming it does. I find too many holes in it...

It can be like that at times. But...I think rather than being "desensitized" to it, it's more of a "if I look at it and think about it too much, I'll just cry and cry...so I won't". I "turn it off"...which might not be a healthy way to deal with it all. And I'm so blessed that I live somewhere...

This is the new covenant that he makes with all those in Christ. I mean...listen to it! The New Covenant “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the...

You do know I'm just quoting scripture at you, right? Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ. -Galatians 3:16 And sure, I'm not opposed to the *seed*...