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1 | Millions led by Satan equal Goat Nations | Rev 20:8 | Morant61 | 126023 | ||
Greetings Alanh! Tenses in Greek are not quite as cut and dried as you present in your post. Prophetic events can be spoken of in the past tense. Future events can be spoken of in the present tense. Context is the best indicator. The Aorist tense is generally a past tense, but the time of the action is not the most important feature of the tense. There are several well recongnized uses of the Aorist tense. 1) The Gnomic Aorist is an event or occurance regarded as so certain that it is spoken of as already completed. Examples Jn. 15:8, Lk, 7:35, and 1 Pet. 1:24 (Dana and Mantey) 2) The Epistolary Aorist is where a writer would place himself at the viewpoint of his reader and use the aorist indicate to describe an event which was present or even future to him. Examples Phs. 2:28, Acts 23:30, and Col. 4:8. So, it cannot be argued simply that things in the aorist tense must have already happened. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | Millions led by Satan equal Goat Nations | Rev 20:8 | alanh | 126125 | ||
The point is if the beheading is figurative then the 1000 years is figurative and if the 1000 years is literal then the behheaded souls on the throne is literal. Think about it. You cannot have part of this passage literal and part of it figurative. Also, If the reigning ends with the thousand years, the living ends with a thousand years, that is not a millennium I would look forward to. I prefer the idea of eternal life espoused in the Scriptures (Mat 19:29; Joh 3:15-16; Heb 5:9; 9:15; 1Jo 2:25; 5:13; Jud 21). | ||||||
3 | Millions led by Satan equal Goat Nations | Rev 20:8 | Morant61 | 126128 | ||
Greetings Alanah! Yet, Scripture does not limit the thousand years to only those beheaded. It only limits the resurrection at the beginning of the 1000 years to those who were beheaded. As I pointed out, there is other Scripture to indicate that the rest of the believers were resurrected prior to this time and come back with Christ. Secondly, I also pointed out that the 1,000 years is grammatically connected to 'reigning' not living. So, it is not true that the 'living' ends with the thousand years. The Greek is quite clear on this point. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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