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To: Cronos; All

So no hail stones,or meteors that turned the oceans dead? No dead witnesses that God catches up to heaven? No Satan actually bound for a literal 1000 years before being loosed again for a short season? Nothing in history that you can cite that makes your view of “Apocalypse” valid? Just a bunch of hypersymbolized interpretations?

Actaully his church is the real new temple of which Christ is the chief cornerstone with the preachings of the prophets and apostles as part of the foundation and we members are its living stones set into place as the Spirit ordains. We are also “his bride”. Yet these symbolized images, depicting a true spiritual reality don’t cancel out the rest of the nitty gritty realities which Revelation also describes such as a real life “Beast” and supporting supranational structure” and a false prophet and an image people are forced to worship...or the fight he has with the two witnesses and the celebration the entire world has when the Beast is allowed to kill them and leave them lying there for 3 days and nights! Nero never had supernatural powers nor did he or any other Ceasar ever rise seemingly from the dead after a mortal head wound! Yet if you could cite from history if such things had occurred in the past then your other statements might have relevance. If you would discount what Revelation has to say about those matters then you have to discount the rest of Apocalypse since the nitty gritty prophecies and the symbolic passages do hang and fit together...you can’t have one, the symbolism, without the other or the nitty gritty. A massive Earth wide hail storm with ice the size of boulders and all Islands being removed from their places...somebody would have written about it somewhere in time!


48 posted on 08/20/2019 5:48:51 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6

The first 2 are explicitly different in the book of revelations -

And no meteors are mentioned in the book of Revelations.

As to Satan being bound - yes he was bound and he was loosed again for a short time between the crucifixion and the destruction of the temple.

Do note that the Davidic kingdom was formed about 1000 years before Christ - not exactly, but around that point of time.

Teh wickedness bears in mind what Josephus writes of his own people “Nor did any other age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from teh beginining of the world”


49 posted on 08/20/2019 5:54:42 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: mdmathis6
Nero never had supernatural powers nor did he or any other Ceasar ever rise seemingly from the dead after a mortal head wound!

The book of revelations says the beast (not the little horn) will rise seemingly from the dead.

The beast is the Roman Empire, which seemed to be dead with the fall of the Julio-Claudian dynasty with the fall of Nero.

50 posted on 08/20/2019 5:56:18 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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