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Polycarp knew a different John than the author of Revelation. John was a common name shared by many in the early church. I believe Polycarp's connection was with the young man John surnamed Mark (sister's son to Barnabas). This man remained serving in the early church after Christ's AD 70...

You are making a presumption. The Scriptures in their entirety and especially Christ disagree with you. Just as Zechariah had prophesied about the siege against Juda and Jerusalem in AD 70 (Zech. 12-14), he predicted that Christ would bodily return to the Mount of Olives "in that day". There...

The point you were making is to propose that the second coming was Christ's resurrection. How does the Gospels' date of being written down change what Christ said in Matt. 16:27-28 about some of those He was THEN speaking to at that very moment remaining alive to see His second coming return...

That judgment in Matthew 16:27-28 was the same imminent judgment of both the living and the dead at Christ's appearance and His kingdom. Paul alerted Timothy that this event was "about to be" in his own immediate future. "I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is...

Not possible. Jesus at His resurrection did not come with angels to give a reward to every man according to his works, as He promised to do in Matthew 16:27-28, while some of that audience was still alive to see that coming. Jesus's prediction in those verses makes it sound as if only a very...

Those are both the same thing. No difference whatever. Christ coming in his kingdom with the glory of His Father with the angels to give rewards to each according to his works was spoken of all the way back in the OT by Enoch, the seventh from Adam. Remember? Jude 14-15 quotes this ancient...

Those two texts were already fulfilled back in AD 70 on that year's Pentecost day (the fulfillment of the 1,335th day in Daniel 12:12). You didn't finish the Matthew 16:27-28 text which gives the exact timing for that return, while some of those Christ was then speaking to were still living...

The Scriptures agree with this. God did not create this world in vain. He created it to be inhabited. The Scriptures agree with this also. We already inhabit the New Jerusalem, with its New Covenant realities. Sinners are still operating outside the open gates of this New Jerusalem (Rev...

There is a very simple answer to this question. Look earlier in Matthew 16:27-28. In this text, Christ told the disciples, "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be...

This is where you go off track in your interpretations of the thousand years. You are assuming that the Revelation 13 Sea Beast was the same as the Revelation 17 Scarlet Beast in the wilderness. They are NOT the same. The "mark" was connected with the Rev. 13 Sea Beast alone - NOT the other...

You have missed the intent of my statements altogether. Here it is in very plain terms. •Satan's "little season" aka the "short time" of his release from the millennial restriction put upon him began in AD 33 when he and his devils were cast out of heaven at Christ's resurrection-day...

When scripture speaks of the saints reigning with Christ during those thousand years, this does not necessarily have to be after Christ was consecrated in heaven as our crowned Great High Priest in AD 33. That was only a new phase of His perpetual reign which was launched at that point. At...

Absolutely. God is utter holiness, and He will not rest until the planet which He originally created is purified of all corrupting fallen human influences that have brought death into His perfect creation.

No, it won't be like that forever. God has a plan with a final culmination point so that this planet which He "formed to be inhabited" no longer has any elements of evil present whatever. Total purification is the final goal. One stage of that purification process was the entire Satanic...

Yes, Satan was destroyed. It was back in AD 70 when he was turned into ashes on the earth. God predicted this annihilation for Satan in Ezekiel 28:18-19 for that formerly-anointed cherub who had been in Eden, so that "never shalt thou be anymore". There is no more "accuser of the brethren"...

Christ already told you in Mark 7:21-23. "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: ALL these evil things come from within, and defile...

No, it doesn't double up the word "spirit" two times. John was explaining that a person must be born of water EVEN (kai) of the Spirit, in order to see the kingdom of God. John was defining for us and his first-century audience exactly what he meant by using the word "water" in his own...

Satan and all his devils and the unclean spirits were imprisoned within the walls of the besieged city of Jerusalem in AD 66. Read Isaiah 24:21-23 and Revelation 18:2, which respectively speak of the punishment and imprisonment of the wicked "host of high ones" until they were eliminated, and...

Yes, the "water" in John 3:5 and the "living water" in John 7:38-39 are both used as a symbolic metaphor for the Holy Spirit which dwells forever within a believer. It's just as Romans 8:11 tells us: "...Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." It does NOT say, "Now if...

Yes, that is exactly what happened. Satan still had access to heaven to accuse the brethren, even while his deception of the nations was being bound simultaneously during that literal millennium which ended in AD 33. Those are two different activities for Satan - accusing the brethren, and...