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Amen. And choose we this day who we will serve. Choose what kingdom we are citizens of and who our King is....either the kingdom of God or of this world and its kings.

I think it's a sad day for Christianity if churches are now being associated with this fight. OUR weapons are not carnal. There is only one answer for the wrongs and strifes of this world and I hope some of us remember what that is. Jesus never used force.....He said to overcome evil with...

Amen....so many wonderful scriptures that we need to take to heart. The one where He was telling the Jews that His kingdom doesn't come with observation that we may say lo here it is or there but is within/among us really clinched it for me., along with 2 Peter 3 and 1Cor 15. Something that...

Many over-simplify scriptures and take them too literally and superficially, like reading a newspaper or textbook. But God's words and His way of communicating is not like that.....they are SPIRIT and life, and He often speaks to us in parables/allegories, if not always. His word is the sword...

I'm not saying to remove Revelation. Just that we need to first grasp the earlier scriptures to be able to start seeing Revelation in light of them. Having a preconceived wrong understanding of certain things in Rev causes us to start trying to force earlier scrips to fit our preconception...

Some real simple wisdom that Jesus gave is that His kingdom is not of this world that we may say here it is, or there, but is within/among us. A correct understanding of the reign of Christ will not contradict that. Do you have an answer for the question I asked you yesterday brother?

I think Spiritual Israelite would like to know what point you were making with posting that verse and how you understand it, to be able to engage with you about it. Why is it so hard to answer him? I have an understanding, as I said before, that because the kingdom of Israel and old covenant...

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Sorry to hear about your former pet, brother, death is an awful thing. Enjoy your new puppy....they are so adorable and entertaining....new life!

Hm, yes i did forget to address something as it turns out. Getting old. Since you're here, maybe you have an explanation for why the church is being admonished in 2 Peter 3 to look for and haste a Day of God that occurs a thousand years after the church has gone to be with the Lord. Are we...

Pardon me, I did forgot to post this regarding the GWTJ. 2Ti 4:1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Do you place the appearing of Christ at the end of a future thousand year reign?

Not ignoring....just making the point that you are disconnecting that verse of the "day of God" from the context of the whole passage to try and make it fit your belief, rather than just letting it say what it says. Revelation needs to be understood from a foundation of all the scriptures that...

CONTEXT of that whole passage is clearly given: 2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. I could point out more but will leave it at that. We need to look at that whole...

This is the kind of "reasoning" futurists have to do to try and make the scripture fit their doctrine. The context of 2 Peter 3 is clearly the "promise of His coming".....and to account the thousand years is as a day of God's longsuffering as salvation. Which is the age we are in now.

As you keep saying, "it is written"....yes indeed it is, just that it is no longer being carved in stone, but in the new way of the SPIRIT now brother. A little bit of light has thankfully shone through the veil for me this morning, on this piece of the puzzle at least. I think we need to ask...

I'm not making any claims about myself. And I was responding to what David specifically said.. Did I say amiss? Is it not true that we need to believe the rightly divided word?

I know that the new covenant began with Jesus, but there was a period of overlap so to speak as concerns Israel as a nation....she was given time to repent and accept Him before the kingdom and gospel was decisively taken away from her and given to the Gentiles.

All this back and forthing has wearied me and I need to take a break from it. Not young any more and often think I should get off the forum, however according to 2Peter 3 it says this world burns up when Jesus returns and we look for a "new" one......new means spiritual/heavenly, no longer...

Paradise perhaps.

I'm sure he means how do you understand it. Understanding is necessary.