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1 | Don't understand Revelation and 1 Cor 15 | 1 Cor 15:28 | Holmes | 228257 | ||
Hi cuhigher, The reason these verses seem to contradict each other is because they are making reference to two different periods of time. The first period is the millennial, or thousand-year rule of Christ after His return. The second time is the period of the new heaven and new earth, which is eternity after the thousand-year reign. Revelation 11:15 includes both periods of time, while 1 Cor 15:25 is a specific reference to the millennial rule. Revelation 21 describes the end of the millennial rule and the beginning of the new heaven and new earth. All things will be made new. The last enemy that Christ will destroy during His millennial rule is death. All who enter into the new heaven and new earth will have eternal life. That is not the case during the millennial rule, but life expectancy will be greatly expanded. (Isa 65:20) Revelation 22 is speaking of the period of the new heaven and new earth when the Lamb and His God, God the Father, will both sit on their thrones in the new Jerusalem. However, the waters which flow from under Their thrones will also exist during the millennial rule of Christ. The healing will be completed during the millennial rule prior to the new heaven and earth. Before Christ returns, the temple in Jerusalem must be rebuilt. We know this from the reference to it in Revelation 11 and also 2 Thess 2:4. However, this temple will be replaced when Christ returns because He will build His own temple. This temple is described beginning in Ezek 40. The waters are described beginning at Ezek 47 and the healing powers of the leaves at verse 12. The leaves are for the healing of the nations, which will be completed during Christ millennial rule. After the millennial reign, there will be no temple. (Rev 21:22) For your consideration, Holmes |
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2 | Don't understand Revelation and 1 Cor 15 | 1 Cor 15:28 | biblicalman | 228270 | ||
I am unable to find in my Bible where 1 Corinthians 15.25 is 'a specific reference to the millennial rule'. There is nothing specific about it at all. It is an interpretation and many would disagree with that statement. It is reading into Scripture what is not there and then calling it specific. Revelation 11.15 specifically refers to the coming eternal reign of Christ. There is no mention of anything else (neither any millennial reign or His present reign as both LORD and Christ - Act 2.34-36). I have found nothing in Scripture about the Temple being rebuilt. In Revelation the Temple is in Heaven both before and after chapter 11. 2 Thessalonians 2.4 probably refers to a pagan Temple in the Roman empire where Caligula did set himself up to be worshipped as theos (it is the Temple of theos, a word which refers to any divinity). Revelation 11 cannot be literally interpreted. It is impossible to conceive of a Temple where the Gentiles control in hostility (trample) the courts of the Temple with the sanctuary alone being occupied by God's people, espcially as it exists for three and a half years. The Gentiles would take over the whole Temple. The Temple must therefore be the Temple of the Holy Spirit, the body of Christ. There was no command to build the Temple in Ezekiel. It was not intended to be built. It was on a mountain some distance from Jerusalem.(Jerusalem was defiled) as an encouragement to God's people.. What was to be built was the altar (Ezekiel 43.18). The Temple was a heavenly Temple situated on a mountain some distance from Jerusalem (which like the angelic armies of Elisha were visible only to those gifted with spiritual sight) which demonstrated that God was still with His people even though there was no physical Temple. That altar was built by Zerubbabel and Joshua (Ezra 3.2). I know of no Scripture which says that the Messiah will build a Temple. Perhaps you can enlighten me. We must be careful not to stretch Scripture so as to fit it into our own theories. We must look at what is ACTUALLY said. |
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3 | Don't understand Revelation and 1 Cor 15 | 1 Cor 15:28 | Searcher56 | 228272 | ||
God's day to you, biblicalman, You responded to Holmes by saying "There was no command to build the Temple in Ezekiel." ... Holmes only said "This temple is described beginning in Ezek 40." The Millennial Temple of Ezekiel are in chapters 40-48, as well as Joe 3:18; Isa 2:3, 60:13; Dan 9:24; Hag 2:7,9. If this Temple was not built, how will it come to being? Searcher |
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4 | Don't understand Revelation and 1 Cor 15 | 1 Cor 15:28 | Beja | 228274 | ||
Searcher, I do not want to answer for biblicalman, but I would suggest that it is coming into being through the Spirit working through the gospel. Eph 2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, Eph 2:20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, Eph 2:21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, Eph 2:22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. In Christ, Beja |
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