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You have misunderstood the verse because of the ambiguous KJV translation. The word translated as heaven can also be translated (more apropriately in this case) as sky. It says "from the four winds", an expression that means everywhere on the earth, e.g. : Jeremiah 49:36 (WEB): (36) I will...

The elect that are referred to as being gathered in verse 31 are not the church; they are the great multitude of people that live through the great tribulation, mentioned in Revelation 7 (WEB): (13) One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are...

If we read a bit more context we see that Paul considered that he used to be the chief of sinners, but that he had been mercifully forgiven and he no longer sinned like he used to. The "I am chief" could be translated as "I have been chief". 1 Timothy 1:12-16 (WEB): (12) I thank him who...

I disagree with that. Ephesians 1:3-14 (WEB): (3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; (4) even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without...

In chapter 7 they are on the earth, which is why the angels are told not to harm the earth, and those on it, until the 144,000 have been sealed. In chapter 9 they are still on the earth: (4) They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any...

The resurrected church is all those Christians who are resurrectred in the first resurrection, including those that are raptured (like an instant death and resurrection). The 144,000 are clearly not a part of the resurrected church. They just are a separate group! I think you have said that...

Except that the innumerable multitude are only those people that believed in Jesus during the Great Tribulation (Revelation 7:14). What about all the Christians that lived from Jesus' first advent up to the rapture? They were all resurrected in the first resurrrection before the Great...

I don't think we can be 100% sure that we correctly understand all of the Scriptures while we are still human. As Paul said, 1 Corinthians 13 (WEB): (12) For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known...

Revelation 4:2 (WEB): (2) Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne It doesn't describe what God looks like, it just says "one sitting on the throne", which leads us to suspect that John saw a man, i.e. that God, like the 24...

It's the people who were resurrected in the first resurrection that will sit on thones and judge mankind (jointly with Jesus, who is our head, and King of kings). That's the resurrection of the church, who are represented symbolically by the 24 elders. As I quoted, Revelation 20:6 says: (6)...

I don't think so. In Revelation 1, it says that John "was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day", and hearing a loud voice behind him he turned around and saw "seven golden lamp stands. And among the lamp stands was one like a son of man", and "He had seven stars in his right hand". This was Jesus...

That's not what it says in Revelation. In chapter 6 the resurrected church is up in heaven watching as Jesus opens the 7 seals on the scroll, ending with "The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the...

Yes. Most things in those passage are symbolic and representative of something. I'm pretty sure that the glorified Jesus doesn't look like a slain lamb which has seven horns and seven eyes. Remember, we will be like him (1 John 3:2) - are we too going to look like seven horned and seven eyed...

Chapters two and three of Revelation are the letters from Jesus to the seven churches. These letters are also prophetic of the church during the Gospel age. Then in Rev. 4:1 John describes a voice from heaven saying “Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter”, i.e. he...

10%? Did it mistranslate the passage? In that case the quotation of it in Hebrews 10:5 is also a mistranslation. That's what the LXX translators did - they were 72 Jewish translaters, 6 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. They understood their Hebrew language and also Greek.

Proverbs 25:2 (WEB): (2) It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. Incorrect or misleading translation can prevent us from discovering the hidden things in the Scriptures. Like the hidden message in Genesis 5 that is made more difficult for...

It's an example of how difficult it can be to translate some passages, with the need to consider other passages to more fully understand the sayings of those people in those times. Remember that the Hebrew manuscripts for Psalms 40:6 literally says, "Sacrifice and present Thou hast not desired...

The Cambridge Bible Notes for this is: but a body hast thou prepared me] This is the rendering of the LXX. In the Hebrew it is “But ears hast thou digged for me.” The text of the Hebrew does not admit of easy alteration, so that either (1) the reading of the Greek text in the LXX. must be a...

Isn't that a problem though? i.e. for us English understanding only people we're having to rely on other people translating the LXX into English, and its' in the translation that differences can occur because words can have more than one meaning, so it not just a simple word to word...

I could say likewise! If you don't believe that God used types then you are missing out on a lot of understanding of the Scriptures. For example, the whole sacrificial system was a type, a foreshadow of things to come. As Paul said in Hebrews 9:9 : LSV: (9) which [is] an allegory in regard...