[fortheDeclaration]

Now, since it appears that you didn't look at my post #1758, I'll review a bit. You need to take note that John sees psuchas, souls, not living breathing in the flesh people. And, more importantly, John sees souls that were beheaded dia ton marturian, literally on account of the witness of Jesus and on account of the word of God. They were beheaded specifically on account of the Lord's witness of them, not their witness of the Lord. It is a very important distinction because it makes no sense that this is a literal beheading like Dispensationalists like to depict and talk about. It is a literal beheading in the sense that the Christian's former head, Satan, has been removed, and we now have a new Head, Christ. We are the body of Christ, performing his will. He is our head. We were formerly the body of Satan, performing his will. It is a removal of the head of authority, i.e. Satan. On account of the witness of Jesus our head has been removed and we now have a new head, Jesus.

WOW!

That is some allegory of scripture that you got going there!

No Roman Catholic could do better!

[Uncle Chip]

WOW! That is some allegory of scripture that you got going there! No Roman Catholic could do better!

You got that right. Many of these Preterists have the audacity to lecture Roman Catholics on the doctrine of Sola Scriptura while they themselves deny the meanings of the scriptures themselves with their allegorical meanderings worthy of their patriarch Origen.