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Was "Babylon The Great" a Symbolic Name for Jerusalem?
March 22, 2014 | PhilipFreneau

Posted on 03/22/2014 1:35:03 PM PDT by PhilipFreneau

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To: editor-surveyor

>>>All established fact, is that your objection?<<<

Explain yourself, for the benefit of other readers.

Philip


161 posted on 03/25/2014 9:05:22 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: PhilipFreneau

I think that your posts have already established that you do not read anything that is posted.
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162 posted on 03/25/2014 9:07:04 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: CynicalBear

>>>.Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, 2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:<<<

>>>Everyone should be more like you Preterists and allegorize everything right<<<

So God now dispenses his grace to us, forever; like the Church is forever.

What is your point?

Philip


163 posted on 03/25/2014 9:08:24 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: CynicalBear

>>Maybe the regathering was a scheme created by wealthy influential men<<

>>>That tinfoil hat is way too tight on you.<<<

More dispensational misdirection. Everyone, throughly research Samuel Untermyer. He was the Chuck Schumer of his time; but with afterburners.

Philip


164 posted on 03/25/2014 9:11:25 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: editor-surveyor

>>>I think that your posts have already established that you do not read anything that is posted.<<<

Of course I did. And I requested proof of your strange claims, and you failed to deliver. Where’s the proof?

Philip


165 posted on 03/25/2014 9:12:59 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: PhilipFreneau

What is strange to you is normal!

(that is the standard of proof)
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166 posted on 03/25/2014 9:15:22 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
>>>This would enlighten any of his elect:<<<

You re-quoted Hosea 14:4-9, with no explanation, whatsoever! I cannot read your mind.

>>>But then there are the preterists that refuse the entire word of God.<<<

I don't know about preterists, since I am not one. But it is obvious who ignores much of the word of God: the new age-cults, like the Roodies and the dispensationalists. They have created their own little world. Too bad for them that it is unbiblical.

Philip

167 posted on 03/25/2014 9:22:31 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: mj1234

I think Babylon the Harlot may very well be New York. Read Revelation. The things mentioned there when Babylon the Great has fallen, has fallen, sounds a lot like NY City.


168 posted on 03/25/2014 9:23:59 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: editor-surveyor

>>>What is strange to you is normal!<<<

You mean like your post in #37, which reads:

“Rome slaughtered ALL of the apostles.”

I don’t believe interpretations of the scripture can get any more strange than that. Which one of the Roodies saw that vision from God? I mean, it is not in the scriptures, so it must have been derived from a vision from God, or an ouija board, or a crystal ball.

Philip


169 posted on 03/25/2014 9:26:39 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: PhilipFreneau
>>Did Jesus say He was the Father, or not?<<

John 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I>/b>.

Now, who did Jesus pray to?

170 posted on 03/25/2014 9:38:24 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: PhilipFreneau
>>What is your point?<<

You really don’t get it do you? Paul liked “Dispensationalism” why don’t you?

171 posted on 03/25/2014 9:40:55 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: PhilipFreneau

Who was it then that killed the apostles?


172 posted on 03/25/2014 9:45:57 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear
>>>You really don’t get it do you? Paul liked “Dispensationalism” why don’t you?<<<

Paul like dispensationalism? You are kidding, right? Paul would be railing against dispensationalists for preaching another gospel than the one he preached.

Where does Paul preach there was a Church Age? Where is the Dispensation of Human Government mentioned in the Bible? How about the Dispensation of the Kingdom?

It is all made up out of thin air.

Philip

173 posted on 03/25/2014 10:23:01 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: CynicalBear
This is more misdirection to divert you away from my earlier post #154. Please read that post.

>>>Who was it then that killed the apostles?<<<

For starters, Herod killed James, brother of John. Herod was a descendent of the evil Herod that wanted to kill the baby Jesus.

"Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people." (Acts 12:1-4 KJV)

Who was Herod, and where was James killed?

Philip

174 posted on 03/25/2014 10:38:01 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: PhilipFreneau
When did the catholic church kill all the prophets?

Besides Balaam, which prophets exactly do the Scriptures list that Jerusalem killed, and how many prophets are there ? Does your church hold to the Doctrine of Balaam also ?

175 posted on 03/25/2014 10:57:43 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: CynicalBear
Who was it then that killed the apostles?

Good point. We were told earlier that Babylon which is "Jerusalem" slaughtered the apostles and prophets and now it is Rome.

176 posted on 03/25/2014 10:58:02 AM PDT by redleghunter (But let your word 'yes be 'yes,' and your 'no be 'no.' Anything more than this is from the evil one.)
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To: CynicalBear
>>Did Jesus say He was the Father, or not?<<

>>>John 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I>/b>.<<<

>>>Now, who did Jesus pray to?<<<

That is a good question, but you did not answer my question. You grabbed one verse that supported your position and presented it. That is barely a cursory examination.

How about the following verses, taken in context:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1 KJV)

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." (John 1:14 KJV)

"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not." (John 1:10 KJV)

"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." (John 1:3 KJV)


That sounds like Jesus created the heaven and the earth and all its host. Of course, we can find "evidence" that Jesus is not the Father; and he did not claim to be the father at all times when he was on earth in the form of sinful flesh; that is, he didn't brag about it. But then there is this:

"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." (John 6:44 KJV)


So, no one can come to Jesus except the Father draw him. And we have these:

"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:" (John 3:14 KJV)

"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." (John 12:32 KJV)


So, who draws all men to Jesus: the Father, or Jesus himself? Or did the Father give all power, of drawing men to Jesus, after Jesus was lifted up? But if that is true, then the last day occurred before Jesus was lifted up? It is definitely confusing. Let's examine what Jesus said when pressed by Philip.

"Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?" (John 14:9 KJV)


Frankly, knowing that Jesus created all things, and that he said he was the Father when pressed by Philip, I am sticking with Jesus being the Father.

Philip

177 posted on 03/25/2014 11:09:27 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: mj1234
I think New Babylon is the whole of the US. You can destroy a NY, SFO, DC, LA, ad nausium in an hour and that's not so remarkable by today's standards of destructive capability. If one of these cities were destroyed, the country could, for the most part, parcel out the new opportunities to other big cities and go on. But to destroy the entire country in just one hour? Now that IS a spectacular event. If you read the whole of Rev 18 it paints a picture of a prosperous and immoral nation.

V. 3; For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality (Hollywood movies, normalizing homsexuality)
V. 19; “Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been laid waste.

My hope lies in V. 4, perhaps this points to the rapture; Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;...

178 posted on 03/25/2014 11:35:00 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: PhilipFreneau
>>Who was Herod, and where was James killed?<<

Um, dude. Herod was a commissioned by the Roman ruler Claudias and was part of the Roman Empire. James was killed by the Romans in what was part of the Roman Empire.

179 posted on 03/25/2014 11:46:39 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: PhilipFreneau

You still haven’t answered the question. Who did Jesus pray to?


180 posted on 03/25/2014 11:51:36 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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