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You are now telling me not to believe what is clearly writen, and believe what you want me to believe.

Sorry, no go.

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church." — Thomas Paine

That, and my personal relationship with my Savior.

I'm only asking you to do what you are asking me to do. Read in context, with an objective, open mind.

Thomas Paine is dead (i.e., he's separated from his earthly body, one kind of death, which we *all* experience; also if I take him at his word, as it regards God, he never lived).

That Scriptural prophesey is about death in relation to God, not earth. It's rugged to begin with the Book of Revelation, but here is an apt passage:

http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=REV+20&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on