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"Forever" doesn't always translate in Scripture as meaning something perpetual with no ending. As in Isaiah 32:14-15. "Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens FOR EVER, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks...

It is NOT heresy to teach that Christ was the First-fruits, raised from the dead on the same day that the Matthew 27:52-53 saints also came out of their graves back in AD 33. This was called "the FIRST resurrection" in Revelation 20:5, when that "blessed and holy" remnant of the dead came to...

That isn't the environment of the eternal state. That was a temporal issue taking place in the world at that time when Jude was being written. Those in the church in those days were to evangelize others, using a different manner of convincing them, depending on whether the person was obstinate...

Yes, they were literal Israelite offspring of Sarah and Abraham. The "remnant of the woman's seed" I believe were the bodily resurrected 144,000 Jewish First-fruits (the Matthew 27:52-53 saints) taken from among those various Israelite tribes listed in Rev. 7. They remained on the earth in...

No, you fail to understand why Hymenaeus and Philetus were teaching a past resurrection in those days. They were correct in one respect - Christ actually HAD already been raised from the dead in the past, along with the many Matthew 27:52-53 saints coming out of their graves that same day and...

Death and Hell were both thrown INTO the "Lake of Fire" which was also called "the second death". If something is thrown INTO something else, then those are not the same things. There is no such thing as "Hell-fire" in the way it is typically understood. Hell (Hades) is the GRAVE. Even...

I salute you for being brave enough to propose an ancient past fulfillment of the two witnesses. You are correct on that point. But to presume that we can apply the day-for-a-year principle to this 1260 day period of the two witnesses prophesying is not warranted in the context of this sixth...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The prophet Isaiah said that God's "fire is in Zion and His furnace in Jerusalem." (Is. 31:9).

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...