David in NJ
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This is literal and not sprirtual = no words added or taken away = straight UP ScriptureNot so. Premils cannot take Scripture literal. They have to spiritualize it away in order to let Premil fit. They also have to invent a future age unknown to the sacred text in-between "this age" and "the age to come." They build their theology on 1 chapter in the most symbolic setting in Scripture and force a hyper-literal meaning upon the symbolism. This is horrible hermeneutics. What is more, they are always explaining the way the fuller revelation (the NT) by the vaguer revelation – the OT. They cannot abide the light of Christ and the NT prophets to explained the more obscure view of the OT prophets. This is exactly what you did above.
Your MO is to duck around every single Scripture that forbids your Premil claims. You have plainly no answer to the Book. Your silence is deafening in every discussion.
Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.17And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them. 18And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. 19This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
Who are these survivors and from what catastrophe did they survive???