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See above. If you still don't understand... or don't buy it... as I said, that's okay with me. I don't think, like, "just to argue" is your intention, but... it's enough. Strongly disagree; God knew that Abraham's faith and obedience, like all of ours, would not be perfect. And... we are all...

Okay, well, I disagree. And that's okay. But... was not God's covenant with Abraham specifically, His... obligatory agreement... with Abraham (the splitting of the animals in Genesis 15) that He, God, would be the one responsible (and punished by blood, death , of course) for both ends of the...

Grace and peace to you.

@Spiritual Israelite @covenantee As I said before, Jesus is the mediator of the covenant of grace, which was made with Adam upon his Fall. Previous to that, Adam was the mediator of the covenant of works, which, upon the Fall, he ~ and all humanity ~ became incapable of meeting. Christ...

The New Covenant and the New Testament are two different things. We disagree, obviously. Grace and peace, covenantee.

Disagree; this is a conflation. You just said a little while ago that a testament is a will, and a covenant is an agreement between two parties. Fortunately, we have a Mediator... of a covenant ~ the covenant of grace ~ that has been in effect since the Fall in Genesis 3, and Jesus has been the...

Covenants. Covenantee. :) A covenant and a testament are two very different things... Right, I didn't say or imply otherwise. Then again, though, if we speak of God's Israel, she inherits... everything. <smile> Grace and peace.

Sure. And the greater reality of it. Grace and peace.

Disagree. The Cival and Ceremonial laws are not in effect, but the Moral certainly is, and fully fleshed out in all Jesus's "but I tell you" statements... and the greatest and second commandments, "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind," and...

Well of course there are. <smile> For someone who is so dug in on what he's dug in on, as you are, it seems it wouldn't be very difficult at all, really. Hmmmm... Maybe, but the Holy Spirit can overcome that, for sure. Grace and peace to you.

I love this little poem... Trees Joyce Kilmer 1886 – 1918 I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest...

The fig tree is about bearing fruit ~ the fruit of the Spirit ~ or not. Goodness gracious. The ones that bear this fruit are the ones who will be the ones on Jesus's right in the final Judgment, having been resurrected to eternal life, and the ones who do not are the ones who will be on His...

Well, He's specifically talking about the period that began with his birth and will really get going with the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, but yes, continuing through history, through the entire New Testament period, the Church age, yes, but up to the occurrence of what Paul talks...

Well, great! You learned… well, something, at least… <smile> Actually, I hit the Save button by mistake and had been editing my post…. <chuckles> Grace and peace!

Sure. But I disagree with you specifically with regard to how you framed what you said, particularly the word ‘usually’ here: “I do agree w/ some of Rev. using symbolism, but when it does it is usually explained somewhere else in the context.” Hm. Well okay, then. <smile> I say that’s quite...

That’s been clear from the outset. However, as I’ve said many times now, just because the symbolism in Revelation (and other like parts of God’s Word) is so prevalent and heavily used does not mean that real, literal… things… cannot be or are not to be seen and understood in reading it; quite...

Agree completely. We can take heed of all the messages to the churches in Revelation 1-4, because we can all be encouraged and/or warned and/or fall into these pitfalls in the same ways as all seven churches. The belief that we are in the time of the sixth or seventh church is... bad. <smile>...

<chuckles> Who said anything to that effect? Certainly not me. I agree. Of course... You misunderstand. Or misconstrue. or something. And the middle one is correct. <smile> And the third one, in the sense that none are completely fulfilled yet, as I have said three times now. Maybe...

Fair enough. But it is a different style in the Hebrew and Greek than the rest of Scripture and should be read appropriately to really understand it correctly. Maybe so, but still, it is what it is. <chuckles> We are that generation, which should be understood quite differently than what was...

No disrespect intended, but I don't really like being called "Pin"... <smile> In my first response to you, I was going to sort of whimsically refer to you as Trekkie, but thought, "No, better not do that..." <smile> Hm. It's just the genre of literature of several parts of the Bible. And...