How can it be "well said" when it makes a mockery of the actual Scriptures? That's called flights of fancy, when anything can mean anything else. Here's a good example: New Jerusalem is all who have received the promise of the Holy Spirit of God.
This makes God a liar, since He clearly distinguishes between THE OCCUPANTS of the heavenly city and THE CITY itself.
In my Father's house
ARE MANY mansions...
You do understand, that Jesus was speaking in the present tense, correct?
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Did you want to think that they are empty rooms, apartments, or houses that we are to live in, in the future? If so, then you are not thinking about the many who have gone on before YOU, including ALL who died in faith since Adam!!
Please take a look at Rev. 6-9 and listen to the frustration of their complaint, of those who have!
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9] And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
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10] And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
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11] And
white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
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Do you understand what "
white robes" is in reference to symbolically?
Ans. The Gift of Christ's Righteousness, of which the Holy Spirit is the vehicle of.
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On the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit wasn't only given to the living disciples, but to all who were of faith, who lived before Christ first appeared!
THEY ALL WAITED for "the Promise", through faith, but DIED before He appeared!
Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4; 2:33-39; 7:17; 13:32; Rom. 4
God
did not forget them!!
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"Under the altar" is not under the earth, but rather in paradise! Does that sound familiar? It should, because that "thief" of faith, died BEFORE Jesus did. He died in faith, and also did not make it to the Day of Pentecost! But he has NOW, with all the rest, as Jesus said!!