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    Christ as the firstborn

    Answer this same question Jesus asked those Pharisees Vengle... Matt 22:41-45 41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. 43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit...
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    The Order of Melchisedec

    No one is "forcing" the multiple occuring Bible doctrine of The Godhead of The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. Matt 22:41-45 41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 Saying, "What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?" They say unto Him, "The Son of David." 43...
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    Are Hyper-dispensationalists right ??

    Israel has dwelt alone (separate), per the sense of the Numbers 23:9 verse. IKing 8:51-53 51 For they be Thy people, and Thine inheritance, which Thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: 52 That Thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of Thy...
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    RAPTURE QUESTION + answer

    Yes, that kind of number usage you speak of IS of God's Word, and not numerology like Hebrew Gematria from Cabbalistic mysticism. FIVE is a Biblical number for Christ's Grace. FORTY is a Biblical number for probation, testing, a proving. The 19th century Bible scholar E.W. Bullinger has an...
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    How Many Resurrections Are There? (Rapture Topic)

    If the Rev.20:5 "dead" are not raised until the END of the "thousand years" at the great white throne judgment, then WHO are those of the "resurrection of damnation" that Christ declared will be raised along with the "resurrection of life" at His coming? Christ does NOT return at the END of the...
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    How Many Resurrections Are There? (Rapture Topic)

    Well, understanding Revelation does depend upon understanding Genesis to Revelation all the way through... Would that include John's witness of Christ's Word per John 5:28-29. Yes, I believe it does. So mock all you want to. You only show arrogance and ignorance by doing that.
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    The Order of Melchisedec

    Good way to say it. The order of priest lineage is backwards if Melchizedek was but a flesh man in Abraham's day. Because God said He made Christ Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek in Ps.110, it would infer The Christ in OT times as just a mortal flesh man born to an inferior...
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    How Many Resurrections Are There? (Rapture Topic)

    Still no. The "first resurrection" are all those of the "resurrection of life" per John 5:28-29. They include all the faithful saints from the beginning of this world to the end of the tribulation when Jesus returns, which also starts the "thousand years" of Rev.20. Per Rev.7, it's not just...
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    Christian Mysticism

    1. history and works like 1789 Proofs Of A Conspiracy by John Robison's included documentation of the rites and philosophy of the Bavarian Illuminati order, it's initiate degrees and divisions of teachings of two sections of Lesser and Greater Mysteries. The Abbe Barruel also covered the same in...
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    Christ as the firstborn

    I think you need to take your Orthodox Phariseeic Judaism elsewhere. This is a Christian form, not a forum to try and support the corruptions among Judah that came out of their 70 years Babylon captivity. All that is in direct denial that God could come in the flesh as Jesus Christ and offer...
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    Christian Mysticism

    Even so-called 'Christian Mysticism' has borrowed elements from the old pagan Mystery Schools of ancient Egypt, Greece, Syria, etc. Plato admitted he'd been initiated into those 'mysteries' and drew criticism for exposing that. So there's a big red flag, because the Mystery School movement of...
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    Christ as the firstborn

    That pretty much is a position supporting the idea of Salvation by works of the law, and is a false position. Heb 10:1-6 1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually...
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    RAPTURE QUESTION + answer

    That's depending upon numerology, regardless of how one looks at it. God's Word reveals Christ's coming by the times and seasons which He and His Apostles gave us to be watching. He did not conceal the day and hour using numerology meant for some special group of mystics practicing mysticism.
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    How Many Resurrections Are There? (Rapture Topic)

    Nope. You're trying to make the last statement of Rev.20:5 apply to its first statement about the "dead". Won't work... Rev 20:4-6 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for...
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    How Many Resurrections Are There? (Rapture Topic)

    The matter is that the Scripture does NOT literally say anything about a 2nd resurrection of the dead. A 2nd one is only inferred by the idea of a "first" one. So what KIND of resurrection is the 2nd inferred one? Many automatically assume it means the "resurrection of damnation", but that...
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    How Many Resurrections Are There? (Rapture Topic)

    Nope. I never said anything about some "tribulation era resurrection of the dead" either. That's your own take. The tribulation ends... with Christ's second coming, and that's also when both TYPES of resurrection happen. The "resurrection of damnation" is included with the general resurrection...
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    RAPTURE QUESTION + answer

    That's still a basis from numerology though. I've heard of some who use Gematria from the Hebrew apply that kind of prophetic dating of events. Though I agree the Massorah provided some inscriptions for ending of a verse, later translations got away from that.
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    How Many Resurrections Are There? (Rapture Topic)

    I never said the "first resurrection" IS the second one; you did. I said a SECOND one LIKE THE FIRST is inferred by the ordinal idea of "first" (protos in the Greek, foremost in time, or place, order of importance - Strong's no. 4413). If one speaks of 'a revolution' of a wheel, they aren't...
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    How Many Resurrections Are There? (Rapture Topic)

    God's Word, like Isaiah 25 and 1 Cor.15 with the resurrection, reveals it involves a change to a "spiritual body", the "image of the heavenly" which Paul declared in 1 Cor.15. The "caught up" idea of 1 Thess.4 is in relation to that change being required first, and does not reveal the idea of...
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    How Many Resurrections Are There? (Rapture Topic)

    That's nothing more than broad sweeping statements of opinion instead of staying in God's Word to allow God's Word to interpret Itself for us. You can take each item I covered and only counter by going outside of Scripture.