Replies

I was referring to post 703, as the "To" reference at the bottom of my post indicated. Someone had written there is only one return of Messiah, You agreed, but hedged with stages. There is no need to augment that scriptural truth with late breaking eisegesis and theories. "His own" refers to the nation of Israel. The temple grounds and ceremonies were not private venues rented out to the poor.

Concocting all these contradictory theories is fruitless. The Messiah will come. Every eye shall see Him. The apostles asked and Messiah told them it was not for them to know.

When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
Acts, Catholic chapter one, Protestant verses six to seven,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

I'm sorry. see your stance as failing to bring the Scriptures in harmony on the broader context of the whole Bible. Further, you may say that the examples given you are my reading something into Scripture that's not there. In fact these examples and the construction show the flaws in your interpretation, assuring the reader that the results of your interpretation conflict with other Scriptures from Genesis to the Apocalypse, and your model should be discarded.

But I've been down this road so many times that I know the hidden differences spring out of the conflict between our diametrically opposed approaches: on he one hand complete, instantaneous justification by faith alone, on the work and shed blood of Jesus alone, bringing imputation of Jesus' righteousness to the believer (as God with foresight discerns the believer's persistent trust), given by His inviolable, utterly reliable Written Word alone; whereas on the other hand your unscriptural point of view of justification as a process with no salvation security in Jesus and His Preserved Word, but in the end it all hinges on one's own effort: baptismal regeneration, an unsaved human seeking after God, earning one's way to heaven, a second chance after death, and supererogatory works coppering the risky bet of salutatory morality tipping the scales.

We can't agree, so let's just leave it at that.