"I happen to believe the place where Jesus took the thief is the same where/when from which He reached out to write on Belshazzar's wall..."
Maybe the same place He took Enoch and Elijah? The same place they will step from and onto the temple mount during the AC's reign?
Great little sidebar you have going,would make a great thread.
That’s interesting. We know that the Bible is the Word of God. We know that God is sovereign and that nothing that happens in the story of Jesus Christ as related in the NT is an accident. There is meaning upon meaning upon meaning.
Take the fact that women are the first witnesses to Christ’s Resurrection. What does that say?
Isn’t it a massive refutation of Jewish positive law? Women had been relegated to chattel status in violation of God’s Natural Law. God never gave that Law, yet the “law” became such. Women couldn’t be witnesses, yet here we have them witnessing the greatest event in history first and I believe intentionally.
This would continue the insult to the ruling elites. Jesus’ trial was wholly illegal, but their law was no longer God’s law was it? They abused Korban for selfish reasons, bought and sold the position of High Priest and due to all this and more didn’t recognize their God and eventually arranged his death.
Clearly Paradise doesn’t equal Heaven and the scriptures are very clear about the basic necessaries to Salvation. The thief doesn’t qualify for Biblical Salvation under those descriptions and his specific circumstances.