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You brought up the day of the Lord, and now you deny that the day that defines Him as Savior of the world, is that day.
Lord Jesus Christ will return in like manner as He ascended to Heaven, as per Acts 1. And per Zechariah 14 is revealed His FUTURE RETURN back to this earth, to the SAME spot on earth where He ascended, per Acts 1.
Davy,
Brethren in Christ Jesus:
STILL trying to scoot around the "day of the Lord" happening on the day of Christ's future return, I see.
I've been reading some of your other posts, and though I believe they represent some serious study I wonder if you've learned about the love of Christ, which is preeminent? Without love, teaching doctrine will fall on deaf ears for many.
Because Peter does define a thousand years as a day with the Lord. The Day is not forever. The reign of Christ is forever. There is a difference. A day or 1,000 years has a starting point and an ending point. The reign of Christ does not. The day starts when those beheaded start to reign with Christ, but Christ had already been reigning. Time and creation end when Jesus hands it all back to God. The reign of Christ still goes on. The eternal reign is not defined by finite physical creation.
I don't see the New Jerusalem as flat at all. A cube is not "flat." Or am I misunderstanding you?
My gift is understanding in much of God's Word, and teaching it to those given it that are supposed to know. On any Church service one can go find 'love' teachings, and often times those teachings go way... outside of the actual Bible Scripture. There are many different types of 'love', and it is not always about a caress. So one should not judge my delivery, but judge the message, is it The Word of God, or not?
I'm not remotely the kind of syrupy sentimental kind of "love bird" you imply I am! As I said, "love" is a Spirit. God is love. If you don't show the fruit, don't tell me you're delivering "truth," because truth without love is a lie. If you speak truth without a sense of care for the person you're "ministering" to, then it isn't love.
I'm not implying you are anything. You actually have not impressed me much with your Bible teaching.
I am Post-trib and Pre-mill also. And I believe there will be a final Antichrist for the end also. But I don't agree with some of your 'fleshy' thinking. The 'pull' as you say, is actually about how God is going to use Satan as a punishing rod upon the rebellious when Satan comes to earth for the end in plain sight to play Messiah in Jerusalem, fooling the whole world, except Christ's faithful Church. If one does not realize that Antichrist will be Satan himself here on earth, in person, then they are blinded, because that is pointed out in God's written Word, and fleshy thinking will get in the way of understanding it. So there's some 'love' for you brother; can you handle it?
No it won't be exactly like those past times, because the previous histories of those who tried to setup world kingdoms and played God did not accompany the great signs, wonders, and miracles that we are shown the coming false-Messiah will work to deceive the whole world at the end. Revelation 13 tells us the whole world will worship the "dragon". Who is the "dragon"?
That is still a thinking with your flesh, wrongly thinking the coming false-Messiah is going to be like a pagan literally standing on a tower mocking God in public. What you're not getting is how God's Word is showing how that coming false one is going to 'play' God, put himself in place of God using the power of signs and miracles, and creating world peace, and making craft to prosper. These are the actual signs the Book of Daniel and Jesus in His Olivet discourse gives, as also does Christ's Book of Revelation. Apostle Paul even says that false one will exalt himself over all that is 'called'... God, or that is worshiped. How will he do that? by playing the bad dude? No way.
Well, if you believe Ecclesiastes 12:5-7, then you should understand that our spirit is one operation, and our flesh is another. Furthermore, if you understood Genesis 18 & 19 about the angels that Abraham and Lot prepared food for, then you should have some understanding that the angelic body (a body of spirit) is able to live upon this earth, and eat man's food. Also, God's Word shows that we can eat the angel's food, manna. So is that angelic body a ghost body? No, the ghost idea is from Hollywood movie conditioning. There simply are two separate realms of existence per God's Word. If one is in the Heavenly, then they are in a spirit body. If here on earth born through woman, then their spirit is housed in a flesh body, which Paul clearly taught also in 2 Cor.5.
That is not what God's Word teaches. Nor can we compare exactly our flesh body with Christ's, because His flesh was transfigured to the Heavenly image, having been made "a quickening spirit" per Paul. Ours won't be. We simply put off our flesh when we die, with our spirit going back to God. And our soul is attached to that spirit body that goes back to God. That is why Jesus preached The Gospel to the "spirits in prison" that had died back to the flood Peter said, so they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit (1 Peter 4).
Not new bodies, which wrongly suggests a new flesh body, which would actually be the theory of reincarnation. It happens like Jesus showed in Luke 16 with Lazarus and the rich man. Our flesh is buried and we go to one side or the other in Paradise.
I agree, so does Psalms 37.
Scripture reveals the 'outer darkness' Jesus mentioned is outside the gates of the holy city, like Revelation 22:14-15, where the wicked will be in a place of separation on earth. Right now, in the heavenly dimension, we go to Paradise. One side in Paradise is where hell is, the other side represents Abraham and those in Christ. Jesus told the malefactor crucified with Him which believed on Him, that he would be with Him that day in Paradise.
There's a difference between someone who blatantly disregards a Scripture as written though. Those are without excuse, and I'm not about to let up on those. Likewise, those who try to push false ideas that they learned from their preacher is most often a situation where they FAILED to check their preacher out in God's written Word for their self. They allow the preacher to deceive them by appearances, worldly credentials, etc., most often. Those have... to be told if they are ever going to get understanding in God's Word for themselves asking God's help. So yes, it is proper to challenge those, and try to drive them into God's Word for themselves.
I don't have any problem remaining in 'love'. Like I've said before, there's different kinds of love. I'm an old military man, been all over the world, so I well know how the other half lives. So when it's time for adult babies to wake up, it's time to help get em' off the milk of God's Word, and into the 'strong meat' of His Word.
I would never claim to be a prophet sent from God. He has already given us His prophets by His Word. So just because one is given to understand and teach His Word given through His prophets, that does not make them a prophet.
Sorry, but that sounds kind of silly, because I don't weep over the deceived, but instead have a kind of sour ache in my belly instead. So I'll leave you with this...
I don't believe there is much difference in saying the Antichrist is completely empowered by Satan and saying the Antichrist *is* Satan. What's the point? Why is that so important?
It depends on how you define "signs and wonders?" The Egyptian magicians performed "signs," did they not? Maybe the "signs" delivered by the false prophets and false Christs of Jesus' time simply appeared to show some initial victories, which was really a premature victory. In the end the Romans defeated these "false Jews."
When did I deny any of those things? The most obvious thing about Antichrist, from Dan 7, is that he will boast against God, indicating he believes he expresses Deity. Things will go his way. He will seem to expose sainthood as false. He will get his own way for a time, and even change God's orthodoxy. Sitting in the temple seat is the equivalent of saying, he will proclaim himself to have divine authority.
I think the Bible is here using hyperbole, expressing a general truth in grandiose terms. To have the "whole world" worship the Antichrist is not to say that every political system will subscribe to the Beast system. Clearly, the Antichrist controls only 10 European states.
Again, you are speaking of differences without a distinction. An angel able to appear as a man and eat as a man still is not a man--he is an angel. So the idea that Satan can appear as a man is legitimate, in my thinking. But the idea that he *is* Antichrist is not, in my opinion. Antichrist is in fact a man, as I understand all of the Scriptures describing him.
My point was not to claim you are a prophet, but to show how a prophet operates within his heart. He has the love of God and is obeying God out of love--not out of personal animosity towards those who are rebelling against God.
Yea, you can only weep when you've been dealt with successfully by God. When you come to the end of yourself, you weep with God and laugh with God. It is all about conformity with Christ. And Christ wept over Jerusalem even as he called for judgment against it.
That is not what the verse says, "a day is as a thousand years". This is what the verse states:
That's well above my ability to comprehend!
If you understand it, power to you! 
