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Okay. :) Grace and peace to you, Grafted Branch.

Gotcha. Me, too. :) Very well. His "coming as a thief" denotes His eventual coming as sudden and unexpected, and this applies to all. I feel like I've been very clear about that. Again, I think you're over-analyzing this. Hmmm... So you think it's already happened... If so, I disagree...

Anyone can speak to this, I guess... So you see, @WPM, that what you supposed, namely that "he believes faith is a gift from God," is not true. Certainly I agree with you that "there is no Plan B... it is as clear a truth as one can find in the Bible." I'm not sure how anyone could still say...

Yes, you did tell me that... :) It seemed quite insincere... :) Ah, yeah... I mean, if we met face to face, I'm sure we'd like each other. Really. Well, God forbid you make it into something entirely different that what it was. Which is exactly what you did. But that seems to have been...

Again, Spiritual Isrealite, I only said, "If I did, I don't remember it; you'd have to remind me of it." I did not say ~ nor did I insinuate ~ that you were lying or that you made it up. I only said, "If I did that, I don't remember doing it." Good grief. Very well. Yes, we're in agreement...

Well, not to insult your intelligence in any way, but I think you're not getting what I'm saying, really. In the Bible, to be dead, Grafted Branch, does not mean to be non-existent or lacking in consciousness... does not imply in any way lack of existence or consciousness... either in this life...

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I would say no, but that being watchful... ...in an eager, anticipatory, and expecting way, of course, and living now in light of that... NOTE: remember Colossians 3:4 ~ "When Christ Who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory..." ~ and Hebrews 12:2 ~ "...let us run...

Didn't miss that. Is there such a thing as a "non-quality brother?" :) And there's only so much you can get from a message board... :) Agree on the clarity, but from what he's said in this and other threads... The Word is complete and does make perfect sense ~ it is God's Word after all...

Thank you, WPM. You might explain what you mean by your idealism on Revelation, but don't feel obligated. I've been very even-tempered with him. Very well. I think this is... misdirected. :) But, point taken. Not acknowledging that faith is the gift of God is an egregious error. But...

Well good, but your words conveyed something quite different. Or at least so it seems; you said, "Our present translations have multipl(e) errors in their translations which actually seals the truth of the End Time Prophecies from being discovered." I strongly disagree with that, and would...

This is one of the first true statements you have made. You have continually said to me, "You claim this, and you believe that," as well as "Calvinists claim this and Calvinists claim that," and every time in error, making some kind of ridiculous caricature of these things instead of...

He will return, and it will be sudden. Even dead people ~ who themselves are not unconscious and certainly will not be unaware ~ do not know the day or the hour. Well, if you're going to think about anything I've said, don't first misunderstand or misconstrue... what I have said. :) Grace...

Well, I didn't say that. There are several places where the English language can't quite capture the full force of the Hebrew and/or Greek. But it's not inaccurate. Well, it's overly strident. :) Among other things. :) Oh... uh, yeah... in my opinion. :) I will say, though, that I'm not...

Sure, I'll accept that, and your posts are, likewise, your opinion. Hey, what's up with the "Goodbye" signature? I mean, it's kinda funny... :) Grace and peace to you.

I would submit that those not watching, GB, probably don't have an "eschatological view"... :) Some might do good ~ and even really good ~ things, but whether they are actually producing the fruit of the Spirit is... questionable. Maybe will be, rather than "are"... And in saying that, I'm...

Nope. What I have done, Spiritual Israelite ~ and yes, many times ~ is taken what you have said and carried it out to its logical end, thus making clear the full impact ~ if carried out ~ of what you have said. And those things I think you disagree with, meaning, basically, you're like, "Okay...

I think you're over-thinking this, GB. We are all to be watchful and wary at all times. In the same sense, really, as: Peter's exhortation in 1 Peter 5:9 to "(b)e sober-minded; be watchful... the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your...

In Revelation 16, "great Babylon" is symbolic of the worldly city, which is not an actual city, but the world and it's unrighteous, sinful inhabitants in general. Contrastingly, we, as believers, are the Holy City, the City of God. As Augustine first said (and I'm summarizing, of course, from...

I view it as a warning of a lesser judgment of some type ~ "lesser" not in the sense of being not serious or lacking in severity, but in the sense of a consequence in that time if they continued as they were (their church remaining dead; and again, this warning is just as intensely relevant to...