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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    If your ignoring the surrounding context, arguing that vs 41-44 are completely unrelated to the parable, and then imposing your own framework onto the text to get it to align with said framework, that’s literally eisegesis That’s Matthew, not Luke. Where does Matthew’s use of the parable...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    I think the “explanation” of Minas is found in Luke 19:26 He replied, ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more; but the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him This same explanation is provided earlier in Luke, specifically, chapter 8, in regards to...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    The belief that Luke 19:27 refers to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD is not exclusive to full preterism. For example, John Gill, a historic premillennialist, saw this verse fulfilled in the Roman judgment on the Jews. So let’s avoid that strawman argument. the surrounding context of Luke...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    Importing your presupposed eschatological view onto the parable, while ignoring the surrounding context, is literally the definition of eisegesis. How does that not make me think that? Because the events of the parable in regards to the citizens rejecting the nobleman as king and their...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    My post #120 was a response to Scott downey’s post #115, in which Scott Downey used the parable of the Mina’s, specifically vs 27, to demonstrate that the nobleman slays ALL his enemies in general. THAT’S why I’m focusing on that specific aspect of the parable and not the rewards……I disagreed it...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    Wow, ok let’s add strawman to list of fallacies you’ve already used. Discussing one part of the parable (the citizens rejecting the nobleman as king and their subsequent slaughter) and how it should be understood in light of of the surrounding context (Jesus’ triumphal entry where the kingdom...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    You are conflating thematic elements (like rewards) with narrative context, which is a misuse of the term context. Context doesn’t mean “one part of the parable that supports my interpretation.” It refers to the surrounding narrative material, historical setting, audience, and literary flow in...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    It’s unfortunate it took you multiple posts of not addressing the context to realize you were wasting your time.
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    Why should I take you seriously if you are always claiming context is important, but now keep shifting and deflecting when pressed about context? Why would the surrounding context of the Jesus’ arrival to Jerusalem and the kingdom not immediately manifesting, but instead the Pharisees reject...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    I asked first, answer mine, then I’ll answer yours. Doesn’t answer my question- does the surrounding context mention the slaughter of gentiles?
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    According to Luke the rewards are related to :“I tell you that everyone who has will be given more; but the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him”. Unfortunately, since that’s not the main point of the parable, in Luke, according to the context, the surrounding...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    Is there mention of unbelieving gentile slaughter in the surrounding context of Luke 19:11-44?
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    This doesn’t address the surrounding context of the parable in Luke 19
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    The problem with your argument, is that you are ignoring the main point of the parable, which is found in vs 11 and the surrounding context of 28-41. The reason Jesus tells this parable is because the crowd that was following him to Jerusalem, thought that the kingdom was to manifest...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    I never said that rewards for believers were not part of the parable. My argument was that the rewards for believers were not the main point of the parable based on the surrounding context, IN LUKE. The main point is clearly stated in vs 11: the kingdom was not to immediately manifest upon his...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    so the context surrounding the parable in Luke 19, doesn’t mention the reason the parable is given is because Jesus’ followers thought the kingdom would manifest immediately? So the context surrounding the parable doesn’t include the Pharisees rejecting Christ as king, and Jesus declaring that...
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    Address the context of Luke 19, then maybe I’ll look closer at the dozen other verses you posted that weren’t Luke 19
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    That’s not the main point of the parable - see post #123
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    All who are not taken up to meet the Lord in the air when He comes will be left behind and killed.

    The point of the parable can be found in luke 19:11 As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, BECAUSE he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem with a crowd. The crowd supposed the...