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To: the_doc; fortheDeclaration; Woodkirk; jude24; editor-surveyor
that's ridiculous.

John 5 reads BEST in a 2 resurrection, Rev 20 way.

And I don't have to run about trying to defend the indefensible.....that satan is currently imprisoned and that we are now in Christ's millenial age of peace.

I'll ask you again: according to the amil philosophy, what is it that satan is NOT able to do? Specifically.
24 posted on 09/12/2002 9:41:59 AM PDT by xzins
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To: xzins; jude24; editor-surveyor; RnMomof7; OrthodoxPresbyterian
John 5 reads BEST in a 2 resurrection, Rev 20 way.

Of course. But the "2 resurrection, Rev 20 way" definitely is the amillennial way.

My goodness, the ONLY two resurrections mentioned in John 5:25-29 are:

1) regeneration-unto-conversion--which is not a single event, but a phenomenon taking place throughout the gospel era (John 5:25); and

2) the single bodily resurrection of all the physically dead at the time of the single Judgment of believers and unbelievers (John 5:28-29).

The take-home point, for those who have wisdom, is that John 5:29 does not permit two worldwide bodily resurrection episodes. You have to LIE to fit a thousand years between the postulated literal, mass resurrection episodes.

IT RIGOROUSLY FOLLLOWS FROM THIS THAT THE FIRST RESURRECTION IN REVELATION 20 IS NOT A LITERAL RESURRECTION, BUT IS, INSTEAD,THE VERY THING WHICH THE LORD IS TALKING ABOUT IN JOHN 5:25.

This is not spiruitual rocket science. But it requires the kind of sobriety which carnal Christians just don't have.

And I don't have to run about trying to defend the indefensible.....that satan is currently imprisoned and that we are now in Christ's millenial age of peace.

Hey, I am at peace. I am seated with Christ on His throne right now.

I'll ask you again: according to the amil philosophy, what is it that satan is NOT able to do? Specifically.

Satan can do whatever God permits him to do. That includes fostering the premillennial lie, of course.

But he cannot block the spread of the gospel to Gentile nations.

33 posted on 09/12/2002 10:34:38 AM PDT by the_doc
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