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    One reason why the rapture can not be post-trib

    Your doctrinal position on eschatology does cause contradiction to the Word of God. The only eschatological position that does not force contradiction is Amillennialism. How can there be another one thousand more years of time given this earth after Christ comes again since this earth...
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    One reason why the rapture can not be post-trib

    Yes, when this time symbolized "the thousand years" expires, Satan shall be loosed to gather together his minions from throughout the earth for one final attempt at keeping the spiritual Kingdom of God from being completed. Then the last trumpet shall sound that Christ has come again, all the...
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    One reason why the rapture can not be post-trib

    I agree, we do need to understand the whole context, but you've taken this verse out of context. When this passage is read in context, we find Paul giving us assurance that those who have already died in Christ are not lost. Paul says they will come back with Christ from heaven, because that...
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    One reason why the rapture can not be post-trib

    Yes, but those who remain in mortal bodies shall be utterly destroyed not only by the fire that shall come down upon them physically, but they shall also have part in the lake of fire that is the second death. Those resurrected to physical life and all of faith in Christ (living & dead) who are...
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    One reason why the rapture can not be post-trib

    I agree Marty! Since this earth and all who are left on it shall be burned up when Christ comes the second time, there clearly cannot be another one thousand years of time for this earth after the second, and only coming of Christ again. Therefore, the millennial age John writes "a thousand...
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    One reason why the rapture can not be post-trib

    Can you prove from the Scriptures there will be a millennial kingdom on this earth after Christ comes again? If you cannot prove this assumption, perhaps you need to re-think "a thousand years" of Rev 20???
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    The Orthodox Preterist versus the Heretical Dispensationalist

    What promises to ethnic Israel are yet to be fulfilled? Has not God already kept every promise given them? Didn't the promise from God to give them the promised land come with stipulation? That they must remain faithful to the Covenant, obey God's written law, and turn away from all other...
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    Preterism misrepresents Scripture

    Such an imaginative interpretation! I haven't a clue what you're talking about!
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    For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

    The first resurrection cannot be the physical resurrection from the grave, because there shall be only ONE physical resurrection that shall come in an hour when the last trump sounds that time shall be no longer. You've been quoting verses, but you have not proven what you believe these verses...
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    For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

    We cannot put our trust in man because he is mortal flesh and blood, destined to physically die. The physical body returns to the dust of the earth, just as written in the Psalms. Because man is destined to physically die, only a fool would truth in man for salvation. Do not trust in man...
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    The 144,000 before God at the end.

    They are the firstfruits of Christ, not an ethnic people, but a spiritual people. Which is why in Rev 14 they are depicted as being in heaven spiritually alive. Yes, these Old Covenant faith saints were Jewish, but more importantly than that, they were of faith, believing Christ could come to...
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    The 144,000 before God at the end.

    I would argue Christian Jews who were saved by grace through faith believing the prophets that prophesy of the Messiah who would come to redeem them. I too believe they are since the coming of Christ as a man, with Him in heaven. And they represent the firstfruits of Christ to ascend to heaven...
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    The 144,000 before God at the end.

    Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. But I view the 144,000 representing the Old Covenant faithful remnant, then together with the great innumerable multitude. One body of Christ, one people, Christians from old and new. Then in Rev 14, these are firstfruits of God (Old Covenant remnant)...
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    The 144,000 before God at the end.

    Are not these 144,000 the same group we find in Rev 7... 144,000 from all the tribes of the children of Israel?
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    Preterism misrepresents Scripture

    How do you think the angels are bound? How does one bind a spirit being? These human messengers of Satan are bound in death, having died in unbelief, and they will remain bound until ALL the dead are bodily resurrected to life or damnation. In the same way certain unbelievers, human...
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    Our souls apart from our bodies

    A&E could have lived forever, but as you've said through their disobedience, they brought mortality to life. Now all of humanity is born to physically die. Heaven is not nor ever intended to be a habitation for mortal beings. It is, always has been, and always shall be a place for...
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    For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

    These martyred souls are not yet in heaven but "under the altar". I believe this is because John's vision is of those who died before Christ made atonement for sin, and defeated death. They could not ascend to heaven spiritually alive because the Holy Spirit had not yet been sent to awaken...
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    For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

    All of these verses are speaking of the mortal flesh of mankind. But man is made of both body and spirit. None of these verses address what becomes of man's spirit when their bodies become a corpse. It is the spirit, because it is the breath of life, that gives life to our mortal human...
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    For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

    This cannot be the first resurrection of the dead physically. Because there shall be only one resurrection of the dead, when all the dead in the graves shall be resurrected physically to life or damnation. This in the hour coming, when the last trump sounds. Nowhere in Scripture do we read of...
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    For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

    Sorry, but I don't really follow what you are trying to say here. It doesn't make any sense to me.