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1 | Heavens pass away and earth destroyed ? | 2 Pet 3:10 | jwj | 86725 | ||
Thank you. Is there any room for the possibility of the HOLY SPIRIT destroying the earth by spiritual fire instead of physical fire? What i meant about the root word was does destroy and fire still mean the same thing when you trace it back to the root word in the greek and hebrew? |
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2 | Heavens pass away and earth destroyed ? | 2 Pet 3:10 | Scribe | 88184 | ||
The Bible is not written as a riddle. It does take a diligent study to mine the deeper truths, but even those deeper truths follow a logical progression of foundational truth and what I like to call "truth streams" that run through out the whole bible. There are many prophesies in the OT that were literally fulfilled and so we would be safer to apply literal fulfilment to all prophesy. If there are spiritual fulfilments then there will be something obvious written to make us understand that. For instance, we do not really think that there are two olive trees in the Heavenly Holy Place but that they are symbolic representations of something the Lord has purposely hidden and only revealed what he wanted to reveal. We do not think that Jesus will appear as a bloody lamb sacrificed for the World, but understand that John was given this view as a temporary vision to explain a deeper truth. Previously John had seen Jesus as a glorified Son of God whose face shone as the sun. Both are true, both are symbolic. We do not comprehend the heavenly things that are not of this world. However when we read of 100 lb hailstones falling to the earth and men cursing God because of the plague of the hail we do NOT feel a necessity to interpret it as a deeper meaning of something else becuase it has more to do with judgement on the earth and we can understand earthly things. Some would attempt to spiritualize the hail, but the logical mind usually does not feel it necessary to do so. However we all feel the need to harmonize the Glorified Son of God John saw in Rev 1 with the Lamb slain he sees in Rev 4. When we read that the earth will dissolve with a fervent heat, and we are told to live soberly and holy in the light of that coming day.. this tells us it is a literal cataclysmic judgement of literal fire, The Holy Spirit is not seen as the Judge, Jesus Christ is presented as the Judge, the Holy Spirit is the Convictor, the Convincer, The Holy Spirit Judges only as it relates to conscience, He Convinces us.. Convicts us.. Judges us concerning that which is pleasing to God or not.. Jesus has been given the task of Judging the World for sin, which Jesus did not do at His first Coming but will do at His second Coming. The saints will partake with Him in judging the world in some manner. May God Bless You as You Study His Word. |
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