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>>>It is not a gotcha routine.<<<

Yes it was. You asked for my opinion, and I gave it. So far you have not proven me wrong, in any aspect, because that is impossible. No one knows what that chapter really means. There are only opinions, including yours and mine. You do know that, but you keep pretending your interpretations are sounder than mine, or something.

>>>I have pounded Revelation 19 because you have a lot more going on there than the text offers. <<<

I know YOU have a lot more going on than the text offers.

>>>There is absolutely no evidence to provide an interpretation that the feast of fowls are the Jews of Jerusalem and elsewhere.<<<

Let's look at what we do know. We do know that the feast includes:

"…the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great."

And I know that citizens of Jerusalem and other Israeli cities were the only ones slaughtered, except for some smaller Roman forces that were overrun early-on by the Jews.

The great feast could have only been the unburied bodies of the Jews and Israelites. And since there was no one left to bury them, we are talking about over one million bodies.

And in a previous post I provided prophecy from Moses and Jeremiah that indicated an almost identical event would happen to those of Jerusalem. What kind of evidence are you looking for? Aerial photography? LOL! Just kidding.

>>>It IS clear from the text the armies of the kings and beast are the subject of destruction.<<<

Nothing is clear in Chapter 19. I do see two major-league problems with your opinion:

1. Are you are claiming they were killed by the words of the Lord's mouth? If not, how were they killed?

2. Where does it say the beast had any armies that were destroyed (physically killed;) and were does it say the king's and their armies are not Jews, and where does it say they were physically killed?

>>>Not Jews or Jerusalem or any other locations in Judea etc. <<<

Where else could it be? The two witnesses were killed in Jerusalem. The city had the blood of all the prophets on its hands (and we have been fresh out of prophets since about A.D. 70.) What are the odds of someone else fitting all those pieces of the puzzle for the beast, other than Nero? What about his forty and two months making war with the saints, which worked out almost exactly according to historical records. What about the forty and two months the Roman armies tread under foot the holy city? (Rev 11:2)

What about all the time constraints? How long is "shortly come to pass," "behold I come quickly," and "the time is at hand?"

The angel instructed Daniel to seal up the book until the time of the end. John was instructed to NOT seal his book. It doesn't add up that we would have to wait another 2000 or more years for the fulfillment of an unsealed book, especially when there are about thirty clues that the fulfillment would be within a very short time.

Moses prophesied 1500 years prior to what he called the latter days, and never--not once--considered them to be other than in the distant future.

Explain away all of these, and many, many more, and I will reconsider your claim that it was not in Judea, etc..

>>>At one point you hinted that the feast of fowls was the marriage supper!<<<

I believe it was. Look at the sequence:

"Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb." (Rev 19:9)

And who was invited? The righteous:

"And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean." (Rev 19:14)

And when and where was the supper held? Only in one place and at one time:

"…Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God." (Rev 19:17)

Of course, there is nothing definitive; but only twice is marriage mentioned in the Revelation, and only twice is supper mentioned: all in Rev 19:7-17. When you let the scripture interpret the scripture, like I try to do, sometimes there is not a lot of wiggle room.

What is your interpretation of the marriage supper of the Lamb?

Philip