I agree.In other words, the unit of measure seems significant depending on the context.
But I don't think these are unknowable.
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I agree.In other words, the unit of measure seems significant depending on the context.
I don't really understand your question. Are you saying everyone will die at the same time?
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I'm sorry, I have no idea what you are saying here. Can you give me a simple statement to summarize this?Not exactly…suggested Job 34:14-15 sounds like what is proposed by the rapture; then removal of His body “the gathering together of His Spirit and His breath …then what follows all flesh would perish together.
Instead consider:
if God set His heart upon man, if God gather unto himself His Spirit and His breath; Ephesians 1:9-10 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: [10] That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
And ‘if God sets his heart upon man(this is My Son in whom I am well pleased), if God gather unto himself His Spirit and His breath;’ John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw (gather) all men unto me.
Then…all flesh would perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: [15] And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Again,
Then…all flesh would perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. 2 Corinthians 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
I'm sorry, I have no idea what you are saying here. Can you give me a simple statement to summarize this?
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Let the reader understand. What should they understand?
Matthew 24:15-30 KJV
15) When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand)
16) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17) Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18) Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19) And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20) But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21) For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22) And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
23) Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24) For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25) Behold, I have told you before.
26) Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27) For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28) For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29) Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30) And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
The AOD,
Then the great tribulation
Then Jesus comes.
This is end of age.
People will be able to see it, and respond with material action.
This is visible behavior.
There are a number of different understandings of what the Abomination of Desolation is. What's yours?
Mine is basically that the Man of Sin, the one who will lead the empire of the beast, will sit in the rebuilt Jewish temple, proclaiming himself God.
Do you agree?
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His breath?remind me of what is believed concerning the rapture. Is His Spirit and His breath removed prior to the great tribulation…or just His church?
Serious question?do you think literal stars will fall from the sky?
In the account of the Transfiguration of Christ we see how the spirit is put on around the body. Spiritual death is being separated from the image of God. This corruptible flesh cannot handle the transfiguration aspect of the image. That is why we are given the Holy Spirit instead of being in the full image of God.
His breath?
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 LITV
16) Because the Lord Himself shall come down from Heaven with a commanding shout of an archangel's voice, and with God's trumpet. And the dead in Christ will rise again first.
17) Then we who remain alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to a meeting with the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
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No, I don't foresee burning plasma globes hundreds of millions of miles in diameter falling to the earth. It would more be the reverse I think, as stars will have a much greater gravitational field than the earth, and the earth fall into them.Yes.
Maybe there is a way we aren't with Him now, that we will be then. Can you think of some way we aren't with Him now, that we are thinking we will be later?we are not always with the Lord already?
Maybe there is a way we aren't with Him now, that we will be then. Can you think of some way we aren't with Him now, that we are thinking we will be later?
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I sure hope He is with us now, if not we are in trouble. Psalm 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven(to abound), thou art there: if I make my bed in hell(to be abased), behold, thou art there.
And Philippians 4:12-13 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. [13] I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Yes, which was Titus, but this was still God's doing in that He allowed it by lifting His sovereign protection from the nation, the abomination of desolation being the armies that surrounded Jerusalem planting their idolatrous standards in holy ground.Jesus does none of that - read Daniel 9 - it’s the prince who comes after messiah is cut off in death.
The expressions ‘time, times and the dividing of time’, ‘42 months’, ‘1260 days’, and ‘70 weeks’, are very peculiar. They could have been expressed in literal language but instead they are given a symbolic flavor. Notice, for example, that Luke 4:25 and James 5:17 refer to the period when there was no rain in the days of Elijah as ‘three years and six months’. This is the normal way of expressing time (see also, Acts 18:11; II Samuel 2:11; I Samuel 27:7).Chuck Missler used to speak of the Bible having a similar property to an hologram. The hologram image has an interesting property compared to a photograph.
If you take a photo of me and use a pair of sissors to cut out my tie, then when you look at the photo, you will never again see what my tie looked like. But in an hologram, if you snip out a bit, then when you look directly at that part, the missing piece is gone, but when you look from a different place, you can "see around" the missing part, and still see what was there, albeit not as clearly.
His idea was that the Bible is like this. There the information is all given in so many places and ways, it becomes self-correcting. In my studies of the Bible, I have to agree with this, as I've found so much consistency in it's message, whether the Gospel or prophecy.
I agree, we should note carefully, "1260 days" and "42 months".
The Jews of that day used a 30 day month, and a 360 day year. There is speculation that the earth's orbit was affected by something at that time, changing our year from 360 days to the current 364.25 days.
Do you think of these time measurements to be that, time measurements, but applied to different peoples? Or that they are not actually time measurements, but are representing something else?
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Personally, I look for Scriptures to tell me what are symbols, and what those symbols mean. Even idioms, I find, are defined in the Bible itself.It is significant that every measurement of time in prophecy is given a symbolic flavor:
Philippians 1:23-24 LITV
23) For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better,
24) but to remain in the flesh is more necessary on account of you.
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