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    Archaeological proof of Christ's AD 70 bodily return

    Spell check. That would be "doozies". I've no idea what any Kingdom Hall has to say on this, never having been in one before. Christ told His disciples to read their prophet Daniel's Scriptures (Matt. 24:15), and they would understand the timing of all those disasters, which would let them...
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    Archaeological proof of Christ's AD 70 bodily return

    No, it wasn't a secret to all the tribes of Israel who were inside the besieged city of Jerusalem in AD 70. When they saw Christ's return to the Mount of Olives, they all mourned to see it, just as Zechariah 12 had prophesied they would do. Their deep mourning was because they were not...
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    Sound Doctrine (Second Coming of Christ in that generation.)

    Remember, the "furnace of fire" is in Zion in Jerusalem, according to Isaiah 31:9. Both Death and Hell were going to be thrown INTO the "Lake of Fire" in Rev. 20:14. Which means that Hell cannot possibly be the Lake of Fire itself. This "Lake of Fire" was the "second death" which the city of...
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    Archaeological proof of Christ's AD 70 bodily return

    Jesus during His earthly ministry said He didn't know the day or the hour, but the ascended Jesus WAS told this information by God. That's why Revelation was written - for Christ "to show unto His servants things that must shortly come to pass", which included all the events leading up to the...
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    Sound Doctrine (Second Coming of Christ in that generation.)

    That is "Gehenna" in that Matt. 5:22 verse - not the eternal state for the wicked dead, which is to perish in the judgment - both body and soul. Gehenna was a garbage dump in the Hinnom Valley outside Jerusalem. The word "Hades" which is also translated as "Hell" simply means the grave. The...
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    Sound Doctrine (Second Coming of Christ in that generation.)

    The prophet Isaiah said that God's "fire is in Zion and His furnace in Jerusalem." (Is. 31:9).
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    Archaeological proof of Christ's AD 70 bodily return

    There were no Christians in Jerusalem or around it in AD 70 to be eye-witnesses who could make such a report. Remember, Jesus was going to bodily return to the Mount of Olives location, and in the same glorified body in which He left this planet back in Acts 1. That means it was going to be...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    No, the comparison was between the mocking being done to Paul's comments at Mars Hill, and with your own mocking of Paul's quotes. I don't enter into the offended category in this situation at all. Your offense is against Paul's words. The "mello" term is not my own imagination. The Greek...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    Only someone who is trying to make another person "an offender for a word" would think that my comment was giving self-praise. You are presuming to assign a heart attitude to me that you have absolutely no way of knowing is true or not. I have also been praying for many years that God would...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    I'm disappointed that you think I am comparing myself to Paul. Actually, I am attempting to emulate Christ, which is a duty we are all called to do. I was QUOTING Paul, which we are all entitled to do. That is not what Paul was saying to Felix in Acts 24:25, "...as he reasoned of...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    This is exactly the response which Paul received from some of those at Mars Hill in Acts 17:31-32. "Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he is ABOUT TO judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    Good. Then you understand that "kai" has more than just one meaning. "Kai" can be used in an explanatory sense, meaning "namely" or "even", which is the way Revelation 1:7 should be translated in order to match how Zechariah originally prophesied that it would be the tribes of the land of...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    You are inventing a "one return ONLY", which is an artificial limitation that is never stated as such in Scripture. Since you were not alive in AD 70 to disprove Christ's second coming return back then, your statement has no ground to stand on, since all the Scripture authors contradict you. I...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    Revelation 1:7 does not exist on its own; it is quoting Zechariah 12:10, whose context specifically limits that mourning of the tribes to those "IN JERUSALEM" - not the entire world. The word "also" is NOT THERE - it is inserted in italics, which means the translators are simply adding it by...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    I would say it is the "miserable focus" of those who mistakenly and stubbornly insist on placing all these Revelation disasters into our future when all the Scriptures clearly tell us that those disasters were "at hand" for the first-century generation to experience. Anything "at hand" is NOT...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    This is incorrect. Scripture never tells us that an Antichrist would require every human to take a mark. It was the "Beast from the land" with its two-horned power structure in Revelation 13 which required the mark giving homage to the ancient Sea Beast (the Sea Beast which was given the...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    The translation you are using which says "and they also" is inserting those words in italics that aren't even there in the original. There is only the word "kai" which has been mistakenly translated as the word "and" when it really means "every eye shall see Him, NAMELY (kai) they which pierced...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    A matter of your personal opinion only. When I read in Luke 13:26 that those weeping and gnashing their teeth at Christ's return would be saying, "...we have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets...", this is something that only a first-century Israelite could...
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    When Christ returns, we shall all be changed, including heaven and earth, actually all things are changed out for something better.

    To make a clear demonstration to fallen mankind that our exercise of a free will choice to perform evil is not such a wonderful thing as it has been presented to be. The ability to make a free will choice while in a fallen state can yield more destructive effects than anything we can imagine.
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    Archaeological proof of Christ's AD 70 bodily return

    The proud and the wicked are still present outside the gates of the New Jerusalem in Revelation 22:14-15 in the New Heavens and New Earth reality. "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For...