No, he did not. You learned that from "Church-ianity".
Premil has not grasped or understood the
anguish of Jesus'
twofold torment within Himself, when He prayed in the garden of Gethemane.
For the very first time, within His eternity of being with His Father, He knew that He was going to be forsaken/abandoned by the Father.
You
KNOW the words that He cried out to His Father, while He was on the cross.
Jesus is never depicted using fire as a weapon. He only returns IN a flash of lightning which harms no one.
Correct!!! God Himself,
being a consuming fire, Who is Himself forever dwelling within Jesus, IS NOT a weapon.
However, we all do know that
sinful mortal flesh, as we all are,
cannot stand in the literal Presence of God Himself, lest we DIE, and are consumed by the Eternal Fire of His very own Being.
God Himself cannot help that of what He Himself is, and as a result He has warned all that no one who literally sees God Himself, through mortal eyes, shall live!!
That IS WHY, all we who are "born again" of His Spirit, shall be "
changed" in the twinkling of an eye, into the Immortal likeness of Jesus.
Yes, at Armageddon only a military/army is killed.
Sorry, I strongly disagree, as my previous comment reveals it.
That doesn't come from the bible though. Go ahead, try to find it. I already showed how one scripture you used was misused and did not say anything about destroying.
Indeed it does come from the words of the Bible, but through the teaching of God's Holy Spirit, and not that of the wisdom of men.
I do know by Whose Power
our faith should stand!! 1 Cor. 2:5
None of that happens at the second coming. Only after the GWTJ are people killed by fire and they are all resurrected so they can be killed a second time.
Unfortunately, all Premil believers have been terribly misguided.
The "Judgment seat of Christ" is the precursor to the Day of Jesus' fiery and Glorious return from Heaven, of which
shall be the GWTJ.
For all who do not "
appear" before Christ now, during their lifetime, they will be found "
naked and unclothed" of having not the Gift of God's Holy Spirit, and shall be burned up alive on their feet, just as Zech. 14:12 reveals it. Rom. 8:9.
ALL the unsaved in the world shall be immediately at war (at enmity), when they see the
HEAVENLY Jerusalem (Gal. 4:25-26; Rom. 8:7; James 4:4) coming from out of heaven. WE who are alive and remain, will have been "changed", and gathered to MEET Jesus and them IN THE clouds, in the AIR, and NOT on this planet earth. Rev. 19:14-21.
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12] And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against [Heavenly] Jerusalem;
Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall
consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall
consume away in their mouth.
The Day of Jesus' Glorious return, in flaming fire
IS the GWTJ.
I'm in the middle of rejecting the teachings of men in this very post.
Becareful, you just might be rejecting the very truth of God, so that you can hang onto the wisdom of men. 1 Cor. 2:5