What do you think was God`s Purpose in making - the Nations, Israel and the Body of Christ?

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Scott Downey

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Undoubtedly parts of Revelation are symbolic.
About no more sea, the angel explains,

Revelation 1
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying [a]to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”

Revelation 17:15
Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.

So that political sea of the peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues is all done away with.
Not a literal sea is how I read this, You can think differently.

Revelation 21:1
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
 

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You think the sea will disappear in the Kingdom age? You're joking with me right?

Nope, No Joke. It is written.

Have you never read Genesis 1:6-10 when God formed today's sky atmosphere around the earth by moving 'some' of the waters overspread upon the earth up into the sky, leaving the rest of the waters on earth that formed today's seas?

At Genesis 1:2 there were waters of a flood overspread upon the whole earth. At Genesis 1:6 God started moving them around.

But some... folks, sadly, believe God doing that is but a myth, like the Genesis creation account is all just poetry, allegorical and the like, and not literal. Those folks don't understand God's Power.
 

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And the woman clothed with the sun? Literal as well (hehe)?

Hey, you are going out on a Biblical illiterate limb by trying to use the above idea in conjunction with the no more sea idea. One is literal, the other one ain't.

Of course there are allegories, parables, idioms and expressions also written in God's Word. But it is utterly stupid to try and use an allegory given in God's Word to prove some other topic that is meant literally is just symbolism also. If that were true, then NO ONE could understand how to understand God's written Word, and how His Word is actually meant.

So already, there are more brethren here that can tell YOU things written in God's Word that YOU would have a hard time believing, than things you could reveal to us.