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To: Ken4TA

Naw.

You made my point, I said you were an unbeliever. You don’t believe Rev. 20, if so, you are an unbeliever. It says a thousand years, but you say “naw.”

You don’t believe it, nor the resurrection of the righteous at the beginning of the thousand years, with the resurrection of the unrighteous at it’s end. Another “naw.” Instead you believe in a general resurrection - without a thousand years separating the resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous.

As to the thousand years being the ONLY inheritance, the new heavens and earth, beyond the thousand years, is also the inheritance of the saints...as the Revelation also plainly says.

Both the millennial and the new heavens and earth are our inheritance, but you deny the first. If you don’t believe the millennial is our inheritance, then won’t get an inheritance you don’t believe in.


21 posted on 06/16/2010 9:39:46 AM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas
What a post! You certainly don't have any idea of what we believe concerning the first and second resurrections.

I do think you need to to a lot more studying of what the scriptures have to say about the end times and the return of Jesus.

22 posted on 06/16/2010 10:57:51 AM PDT by Ken4TA (The truth hurts those who don't like truth!)
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To: sasportas
You made my point, I said you were an unbeliever. You don’t believe Rev. 20, if so, you are an unbeliever. It says a thousand years, but you say “naw.”

But I absolutely DO believe Rev. 20! I just question why Wescott & Hort have changed the term translated as "a thousand" years from xilioi, a plural adjective, to xilia, a singular noun! The oldest Greek manuscripts have the term as "ho xilioi etos", which translates as "the thousands (of) years". Just how does one go from "thousands" to "thousand" and remain true to the recorded words used by Jesus given to John?

Both the millennial and the new heavens and earth are our inheritance, but you deny the first.

I deny neither! We are living in the thousands of years right now having been seated with Christ, just as Paul says in Ephesians 2:4-7. We Christians have been resurrected to walk in "newness of life" - the first resurrection - just as Paul said in Romans 6 1-10.

There are two deaths for every living being: natural death and spiritual death (so to speak). All men are destined to die once, and then the judgment. Unbelievers die naturally, then will die again in the lake of fire (which is the second death) after the resurrection of the last day. However, believers will die twice while on this earth: once naturally, and once spiritually (dead to sin - which is the first resurrection of what was once dead); then at the resurrection of the last day to be made immortal (our reward) to live forever on the New Earth in the New Heavens. See unbelievers: Two deaths, one resurrection. Believers: Two deaths, two resurrections. Easy to explain, hard to believe!

25 posted on 06/16/2010 3:59:09 PM PDT by Ken4TA
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