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301 | Day of the Lord Rev. 19, I Thess.4? | Matt 24:30 | Tamara Brewington | 204505 | ||
Ok I searched dilegently first through site by various means but can't find it. Help me out guys. Mathew 24:29-31 But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. Ok so this is talking about that great and terrible day of the Lord right? As prophesied in Joel. And everyone will mourn and see the Lord Jesus coming on the clouds with power and great glory. And He will send His angels to gather His elect from the four winds. Does this mean that the rapture, parousia, what ever you want to call I Thessalonians 4:15-18, will happen when Revelation 19 happens? Thanks the hat lady |
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302 | Interpretative Schools? | Rev 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204504 | ||
Ok Doc took the time to go find out... For real Doc, this is what you like :)? Your favorite, or you were joking (no problem if you weren't)? hat lady |
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303 | Driven by eternity or love? | Ps 150:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204503 | ||
First and foremost if you are having trouble being driven by your love for Jesus try praising Him a lot. The love relationship will grow in proportion to how much time you spend praising Him for His mighty goodness to save a sinner like you. Start with gratefulness as your theme. What I mean about praising Him is take the time out to sing your heart out to Him (as well as get on your kness and pray praising Him). Sing an old song, sing a new song, sing with a good voice, a bad voice, while crying, or while happy, just keep on singing until the drops of sweat have you drenched and you are ready to drop. I guaruntee you you will find yourself in love with Jesus. Works every time. Here is one for you; Psalm 150 Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty expanse. Praise Him for His mighty deeds; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness. Praise Him with trumpet sound; Praise Him with harp and lyre. Praise Him with timbrel and dancing; Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe. Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath Praise the Lord! Go get some praise music, go get some hymn music, go get some old music, some new music. Make a project out of it, He is worth th eeffort. You can down load it you can go buy it, you may already have it make the effort to learn the songs and sing your heart out. Praise is an important part of your relationship with Jesus. You will find yourself feeling more love towards Him and you will start to really experience the love back in a myriad of ways. Don't wait for anyone to join you, this is personal. Worrying about your eternal security can be a real healthy thing, keeps you on track. Mathew 22:37 And He said to them, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is just like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. God Bless, hope this helps. Tamara |
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304 | Confess to the person you have wronged? | 1 John 2:2 | Tamara Brewington | 204501 | ||
I found something close; James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray to one another so that you may be healed. I don't find anyting like the verse you are trying to find. I looked up every place the word confess appears and it is not in there. I don't believe the Bible teaches what you are asking though. The Bible teaches us to love one another, and to love our enemies. It teaches us to ask Jesus for forgiveness of sins, not other people we have wronged. Although that might be the right thing to do out of love it is not required. Here consider this; I John 2:1c if anyone sins we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. There is a verse in the Gospels that says; Mathew 5:23,24 therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. This verse says to go be reconciled to your brother. But it doesn't say specifically to go confess your sins to your brother, maybe to acknowledge them. Hope this helped. God Bless, Tamara |
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305 | Interpretative Schools? | Rev 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204485 | ||
Oh Dear Doc, I am dying to know abuot the partial preterist! Please enlighten a poor soul such as myself, please, pretty please Doc.. God Bless hat lady |
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306 | Embrace the truth and rejoice! | 2 Tim 2:15 | Tamara Brewington | 204484 | ||
Oh No my dear your question was crystal clear! Sometimes we can't come up with the right wording for a scriptur we know exists. Don't be discouraged now, it is out there, or in there rather. You will find it, in between things I am going to keep on searching for it, you just have to try and supplant some words for others there in your search, words that mean the same thing. Here is what you could try with that search engine, try typing in the word God. Now, granted that will take you to a whole lot of scripture, but if you are sure that the word God is in your scriputre, then you will find what you are looking for. So far I tried, the word rejoice, and the word truth and the word embrace. You can rule those out if you want too. You were really clear, just keep searching! God Bless, Tamara |
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307 | Embrace the truth and rejoice! | 2 Tim 2:15 | Tamara Brewington | 204483 | ||
Oh No my dear your question was crystal clear! Sometimes we can't come up with the right wording for a scriptur we know exists. Don't be discouraged now, it is out there, or in there rather. You will find it, in between things I am going to keep on searching for it, you just have to try and supplant some words for others there in your search, words that mean the same thing. Here is what you could try with that search engine, try typing in the word God. Now, granted that will take you to a whole lot of scripture, but if you are sure that the word God is in your scriputre, then you will find what you are looking for. So far I tried, the word rejoice, and the word truth and the word embrace. You can rule those out if you want too. You were really clear, just keep searching! God Bless, Tamara |
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308 | What is the Gospel? | Mark | Tamara Brewington | 204478 | ||
Dear Brother Time, Please, Please, Please keep posting hard questions like this one, it makes me stretch with great effort and it was very satisying trying to study to get an answer. Glory to God only. God Bless, the hat lady |
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309 | Embrace the truth and rejoice! | 2 Tim 2:15 | Tamara Brewington | 204470 | ||
I am not finding this verse you are looking for. I am sure you are paraphrasing it and some of the words might not be the same as in the Bible. I want you to try something new. I want you to try using the same tool I was just tyring to find your verse in. You have to be willing to do some foot work here yourself. None of us mind answering your questions, just keep asking them. Go to www.blueletterbible.com on the web and type in a phrase, or just one word and search diligently through all the verses in the Bible until you find what you are looking for. This takes time, but you will find it I can tell you you will. It is the same thing as trying to find it in the Concordance, it is the same amount of foot work, only quicker. God Bless, Tamara |
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310 | Interpretative Schools? | Rev 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204468 | ||
The Two Preterist Views 1)The final judgments in Revelation are about Rome and Jerusalem and Jerusalem is Babylon the Great. This Preterist View does not explain why Jesus did not come, or why the two witnesses did not come, or why Abomination of Desolation did not come, or why the world wide destructions of the earth did not come, or why no one received a mark of the beast. The list can keep right on going. 2)The final judgments in Revelation are about the fall of the Roman Empire with Rome as the Great Babylon. The same problems exist with this view as the first one. The Two Historic Views 1)Revelation is a charted history of events, the past Revelation 1:19 – John speaks of the past the announcement of the vision in 1, John speaks of the present the message to the seven churches in 2and 3, John speaks of the future in 4-22. The only thing that remains is to see the events unfold because the Bible is the inerrant word of God. Those that have a problem with this view are concerned with where we now are in time because they are not sure when the future part begins in history. There is a simple answer to this, we now have wars and rumors of wars and that is all we can say for sure. 2)Revelation is history, but the message to the churches is figurative and applies to both John’s day and to continuing history as a message to church types. This view often identifies the Catholic Church as Babylon the Great with the first beast as a pope and the second beast as his false prophet. The problem with this view is that it will be impossible to know for certain what all the symbols mean until they happen. Some have already interpreted the symbols as having occurred. The Futurist View 1)Revelation from 4 on is about the future and is largely seen as dispensationalist as the final two divisions of God’s history with man. Some futurists believe the church will be raptured before the 7 year Great Tribulation, some do not. The judgments happen in sequence during the 7 years or are varying descriptions of the same events. Those who have a problem with any futurist view are concerned with whether or not the book has a practical application right now. They ignore what John says in Revelation 1:3 that whoever reads the book of Revelation will receive a blessing and that they should pay attention to what is written in it, which surely is giving instructions for an application as to continued perseverance in the faith and good conduct. The Two Idealist Views 1)Revelation is purely symbolic of the ongoing struggle between God and Satan and is about everything that has occurred and that will occur between them and the symbols don’t represent real historical events. The problem with this view is that it removes the possibility that Jesus will actually come back and conquer and rule the earth and reduces God’s sovereign involvement in history to the symbolic fight between good and evil. 2)Revelation is purely symbolic literature because Revelation defies a literal interpretation of what the author’s intent was to his audience, but can still as symbolic literature, adhere to the history of redemption. This allows for an application for today of the symbols found in Revelation as a heavenly perspective on earthly events. The problem with this view is that it minimizes the prophetic nature of the message by making it a be a reapplication of the message to uncertain events in the present or future without allowing for a literal interpretation of a past, a present or a future, as John declares it to be, and relegates the prophetic nature of the Revelation to mere symbolism. The Historical View With The Futurist View 1)The first historical view with the futurist view combined present a very good case for a reliable view that incorporates the apocalyptic language and the prophetic nature of Revelation and is a fifth rarely presented view. Revelation is an apocalypse containing material combining symbolic descriptuve language with prophecy. These two elements have to be considered in determing what John's intent in writing it was. We can't just say it is purely symbolic based on Revelation 1:19 because John says it is about the past, present, and future, which makes it historical. We can't say it is purely historical because John is prohecying so it has to also be about the future which had not happened yet, or has not happened yet. We can't say it is purely symbolic because it contains a message to a church in his day and because it is about the past, present, and future. But we can say that it is about history, the future and that it uses symbolic language to describe future acts of judgment and that it is prophetic. That is why I believe the fifth veiw is the correct one to hold. The Preterist view has too many errors to be true. God Bless, Tamara |
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311 | What is the Gospel? | Mark | Tamara Brewington | 204459 | ||
Dear Brother Tim, I found something within the concept of what I was referrig Lookinforacity to about what the Gospel consists of. Mathew 4:23 Jesus was going throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people. This concept of what the Gospel is comes from Isaiah 61:1, 2 where Isaiah says the good news is bringing the good news to the afflicted, sending to bind up the broken hearted, proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to prisoners, proclaiming the favorable year of the Lord and this description of what the good news is gets repeated by Jesus as a fulfillment of prophechy in Luke 4:18-19. Jesus says again that the time has come as a fulfillment of prophecy that the kingdom has come and to repent and in believe in the good news, referring to the fulfillment of prophecy that the kingdom has come. Mark 1:15 and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel. I found something interesting in the OT; Isaiah 52:7 How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation, and says to Zion, your God reigns! According to this verse Isaiah is saying that the good news of happiness is the announcement of salvation and saying that God reigns. What is the most interesting part of what Isaiah says though is that the good news is the news of happiness because of the announcement of salvation. This is clearly the Bible saying that salvation is the Gospel message. Now, let's turn to the matter of what the disciples were preaching as the content of the gospel message and how that contrasts with the content of what Jesus preached. We will be able to conclude that both messages were preaching salvation through Jesus Christ, just in different ways. Acts 13:32 Now, Paul says a couple of things here; 1) Jesus was raised up by God to be His Son, meaning Jesus is God (the kingdom is at hand)as a fulfillment of prophecy, 2)God raised Jesus from the dead, part of the new message the apostles began preaching after Jesus rose, 3)unlike David who died Jesus inherited His eternal throne,4)the forgiveness of sins through Jesus continued to be a part of the Gospel message. Acts 2:22-36 Peter's first preaching echoes the elements of Paul's preaching in Acts 13. In verse 23 Peter mentions the predetermined plan and foreknowledgd of God which indicates that God raised Jesus up according to a plan to be curcified. Verse 24 speaks about God raising Jesus from the dead death being impossible to hold Him in its power. Verse 29-35 speaks of David dying and Jesus having conquered death being the heir to the throne next to God in heaven and implies co-rulership of God's kingdom. The elements are the same 4 elements Paul used. Acts 10:34-48 Peter takes elements from Jesus ministry that the sick were healed and the captives freed which was an old element, the crucifixion of Jesus and His raising from the dead which was a new element, and the forgiveness of sins through Jesus which was an old element. Acts 4:2 Peter and John preached the resurrection of Jesus. I Corinthians 1:23 Paul preached Christ crucufied as the salvation message a new element. II Corinthians 4:5 Paul preached Jesus as Lord an old element. Romans 1:26 Paul says that the Gospel is the power of God for salvation an old element. Ephesians 1:16 Paul says that the Gosel is the message of truth of salvation. Ephesians 6:15 Paul says the Gospel is peace meaning peace between God and man. The over all understanding we can take away from all this is that the Bible says specifically that the Gospel is the message of salvation. It was first preached in the OT at various times by various men in several ways (too long to get into here and now). Then it was preached a second way by Jesus as the kingdom of God is at hand meaning Jesus is God with all the attendant signs, the repentance of sins through Jesus, and believing that Jesus is God. Then it was preached a third way through the apostles as mainly although with varying elements; Jesus is the Son of God, Jesus was raised from the dead by God, Jesus did not undergo decay like David but was raised from the dead and rules on His throne eternally, men must repent of their sins through Jesus. I hope I answered the question right, please correct me if I didn't. God bless Tamara |
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312 | Salvation message of Jesus | Mark | Tamara Brewington | 204443 | ||
Dear Lookinforacity, The Content of the Gospel as a title over the verse and verses that go with it below, inadvertantly got left out when I posted you last where it says; Romans 1:3 etc. as a second set of verses ending with Acts 17:3, as a paragraph under the mandate to preach the gosel. Tamara |
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313 | Jesus meant what in Matt 10:23 16:28 | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204442 | ||
Hello RC, I am going to answer this since no one else did (now don't anybody go getting ruffled out there the scriptures were never addressed). Your question; What did Jesus mean in Mathew 10:23 16:28, 26:64. please no Theology just plain and simple literal interpretation. There is no such thing as answer to this that will not require a bit of theology, it just is not possible to get a literal interpretation without examinig the grammar and the contexts. But I will try to minimize it all for you if I can (no insult intended). Mathew 10:23 is Jesus talking about the disciples undergoing persecution and that they won't be able to finish preahing the gospel until His return. Without getting too theological it becomes clear that this cannot be referring to Jesus coming back after the resurrection because they had not gone out to all the regions yet. It can't be referring to the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD becuase Jesus didn't show up again. It is most likely referring to when Jesus will make His second appearance or even third appearance because the disciples never finished preaching to all the cities in Israel and we haven't finished now either. I say even third coming becuase you have to figure in the 144,000 who will do the last work of preaching to every nation and region and they will be bringing in Jews who will have fled to Israel before the Abomination of Desolation occurs in the new temple at Jerusalem. Do you see, now, Doc's apparent frustration at your request for no theology, but just a literal interpretation? The theology is impossible to avoid here because a literal interpretation can't be garnered without a bit of work on what the grammar is saying in context with future history from then and now. Mathew 16:28 This is Jesus talking about the disciples seeing Jesus in his royal majesty (talk about theology, you have to check the Greek grammar on this to see it) with power and that they would see this phenomena before they died natural deaths. This is referring to when the disciples saw Jesus at the transfiguration exhibiting His majesty and power while He was talking to two of His royal subjects, Moses and Elijah (see the Markan version for this and check the Greek grammar in 9:1, no pun intended, do you see how you can't avoid some theology with this thing?). Mathew 26:64 Jesus is talking to the Sanhedrin and they ask whether He is the Son of God and He is telling them that after they are done with their doings concerning Him the next time they will see Him is when He returns and makes His third appearing when every eye will see the one whom they have pierced. God Bless, hope that answers it, Tamara |
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314 | What does God want other than 'obedience | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204440 | ||
Welcome! Just adding my two cents in Try these Mathew 22:37-39 the two great commandments centering around love I John 4:15,16 about the need to confess Jesus and believing in the love of God and that abiding in love is abiding in God and God abides in the believer. The others are right too, we were created to worship God and to give Him glory. God Bless, Tamara |
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315 | Salvation message of Jesus | Mark | Tamara Brewington | 204439 | ||
Lookinforacity, This is Tamara, I am going to jump in on this one, there is an answer to your dillema here and it lies in the nature of what is called progressive revelation. Jesus, when He was walking around on the earth was telling people to repent of their sins and to believe that the kingdom of God was in their midst and to belive that He was God - that was the first and the only gospel message that was being preached by Himself and the apostles before He was rejected and crucified. Then He was rejected, that message was rejected and He was crucified and then resurrected. He went and showed Himself to the disciples and told them to wait for the Holy Spirit to come on them with power so that they could go be witnesses of Him (spread the good news). The disciples after Pentecost began to preach a new message than the one they were preaching before Jesus died. This is called progressive revelation - the new message being preached by the apostles and disciples became the repentance of sin, the crucifixion and the resurrection. Both messages had the power to save, it is just that the message changed in nature a bit. John is absolutely right to tell you that the gospel Jesus was referring to in the passage you originaly cited was the message of salvation, it was just a bit different than it is now. There are several areas of viewing the Bible that constitute what the word gospel encompasses and each one of these views leads or has lead to salvation and is the gospel. You can't separate the history from the message and you can't separate the work and words of Jesus to save people while He was alive from the message we now preach or the history of how it got that way. It all fits together into one message delivered in three different ways. A)There are three definitions of what we can call the good news or the gospel; 1.The Gospel as the whole life and death story of Jesus culminating in a final proof that He is God. 2.The Gospel as the message we preach to: demonstrate that people are sinners, demonstrate the need for salvation, present the means of salvation. 3.The Gospel as the ministry of Jesus. B)A break down of what A) is talking about using scripture; The Gospel As The Whole Life And Death Story Of Jesus Culminating In The Final Proof That He Is God The Early Years Of Jesus Mathew 1:1 – 4:11, Mark 1:1 – 13, Luke 1:5 – 2:52 Jesus Begins His Ministry Mathew 4:12 – 22, Luke 3:22 – 4:15, 1:19 – 4:45 The Galilean And Judean Ministry Mathew 4:23 – 20:34, Mark 1:14 – 10:52, Luke 4:16 – 19:27, John 4:54 – 12:11 Jesus At Jerusalem Mathew 21:9 – 27:66, Mark 11:1 – 15:57, Luke 19:28 – 23:56, John 12:12 – 19:42 The Resurrection And Ascension Mathew 28:1 – 28:20, Mark 16:1 – 16:20, Luke 24:1 – 24:53, John 20:1 0 21:25 The Gospel As The Message We Preach The Mandate To Preach The Gospel Mathew 10:7, Mark 16:15, Acts 1:8, II Timothy 4:2 Romans 1:3, 4, I Corinthians 15:1 – 4, II Timothy 2:8, I Corinthians 1:23, Acts 2:23, 24, Acts 10:39, 40, Acts 4:2, Acts 4:12, Acts 9:20, Acts 17:3 Demonstrate That People Are Sinners Romans 3:10, Romans 11:31, Psalm 14:1, Psalm 51:5, Ecclesiastes 7:20 Demonstrate The Need For Salvation Ephesians 2:1, Ephesians 4:18, Hebrews 10:31, John 8:24 Psalm 7:11, Revelation 20:11 Present The Means Of Salvation Romans 10:9, 10, John 3:3, 5, Acts 16, 30, Acts 17:30, The Gospel As The Ministry Of Jesus The Sermon On The Mount Mathew 5:1 – 7:29, Luke 6:20 - 49 The Parables Mathew 5:14 – 16, 7:24 – 27, 9:16, 17, 13:3 – 23, 13:24 – 30, 13:31, 32, 13:33, 13:44, 13:45, 46, 13:47 – 50, 18:12 – 14, 18:23 – 35, 20:1 – 16, 21:33 – 45, 22:2 – 14, 24:32 – 44, 25:1 - 13, 25:14 – 30, Mark 4:26 – 29, 13:33 – 37, Luke 7:41 – 43, 10:30 – 37, 11:5 – 13, 12:16 – 21, 12:35 – 40, 12:42 – 48, 13:6 – 9, 14:16:24 – 35, 15:8 – 10, 15:11 – 32, 16:1 – 13, 16:19 – 31, 17:7 – 10, 18:1 – 8, 18:9 – 14, 19:11 – 27. Amazement And Some Unbelief Amazement; Mark 1:22, 27, 2:12, 5:42, 6:15, 7:37, 9:15, 10:32, 10:26, Amazed but did not believe; Mark 6:2, 6:6. Jesus Preaches The Gospel And Coming Of The Kingdom Of God Mathew 4:23, 9:35, 10:7, Mark 1:14, 15, Luke 9:2, 9:11, 9:60, 10:11, 17:21, John 3:5. Jesus And The Pharisees Have Confrontations Mathew 9:11 - 13, 12:24 - 29, 12:3842, 15:1 - 10, 16:1 - 4, 19:3 - 9, 22:15 - 22, 22:41 - 46, Mark 12:13 – 40. Jesus Heals Without Saving Mathew 4:24, 8:16, 17, 12:15 – 21, 12:22, 14:4, 15:30, 19:2, 19:14, 21:14, Luke 5:15, 9:42, 22:51, John 5:1 - 9. Jesus Heals Those Who Have Faith Mathew 8:8, 15:22 – 28. Jesus Shows He Is God Mathew 16:13 – 18, 16:24 – 28, 24:30, 31, 25:31, John 3:13 God Bless, Tamara |
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316 | Similar verses? | Rev 10:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204438 | ||
Dear Thomas 8, Not all of them are not connected, some of them are. Revelation 10:1 I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow as the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud was on his head. His face was like the sun and his feet like pillars of fire. This is talking about a mighty angel. Ezekiel 1:28a KJVR - This is a picture of Jesus as God on the throne in heaven not an angel. Rev 1:16 Jesus face like the sun - Jesus is God not an angel. Dan 10:6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. This is seen by most commentators as being Christ and not the angel Michael. Revelation2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass. This is describing Jesus. There are several times where Revelation will say and they another angel, this always means a next separate angel. There are several times where Revelaiton will say a mighty angel who are given descriptions similar to those given to Jesus in some way or other, but it means an angel and not Jesus. There are several times in the OT where Jesus is described as having a raingbow around Him and this has no connection to where angels have something similar described of them in Revelation. These kinds of descriptions of both Jesus and angels is talking about some sort of glory they possess as angels also have states of glory that they are in which can be seen with the naked eye according the account of John in Revelation and Daniel and Ezekiel in the OT. |
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317 | False Prophet? | Rev 20:10 | Tamara Brewington | 204436 | ||
Ok Here goes Thomas 8, 1)We have in Daniel the another description that can be found in the Bible of the Abomination of Desolation in Daniel 9:26-27, 11:30,31, 12:11. 2)The False Prophet in Revelation 13:11-15 is described as speaking like Satan, excersing the same authority as the Anti-Christ to make people worship the Anti-Christ. The False Prophet performs great signs making fire come out of heaven to decieve men and then down in verses 14 and 15 he makes an image of the Anti-Christ and makes it speak for real. This said to be the Abmoniation of Desolation found in Daniel according to some commentators. 3)Jesus speaks of the Abomination of Desolation in Mathew 24:15. 4)The False Prophet is specifcially mentioned in Revelation 13:11-14, 16:13, 19:20. Daniel is talking about the same things as Revelation in Daniel chapter 8. See Daniel 8:9-11 some commentators see this as the Ant-Christ and some see this as the False Prophet. 5)There are no direct references to the False Prophet in the OT. Only allussions that could be attributable to him. His deeds that can be tied into what Revelation directly tells us about him. We can't know for sure whether Daniel meant the Ant-Christ or the False Prophet. 6)Verses from the OT about false prophets; Deuteronomy 18:20-22,13:1-5, Isaiah 8:20, Jeremiah 14:14-16. 7)Verses from the NT about false prophets; Mathew 7:15-23, Mathew 24:11,24,II Peter 2:1-3, Mark 13:22, II Corinthians 11:3,4,13-15, I John 4:1-3. Consider these passages which allude to those who are false prophets; II Timothy 3:1-9, I Timothy 1:3-4, II Thessalonians 2:2-12, II John 1:7-11, I John 2:18-19, I Timothy 1:19,20, II Timothy 2:17,18. 8)Make a mental note of Mathew 7:21-23. All over the place in the NT where there are scriptures alluding to people who ostensibly did the works of Christ in one way or another, but failed to live the life that Christ proscribes have made a false confesion of Christ. The Bible has two different names for such people, Apostates who first adhered to the faith but have left the faith and False Prophets who either made a false profession of faith or who made true (see Deuteronomy 13:1-5) or false prophesies in order to get people to follow another god. I couldn't find anything else but there is probably more in there. God Bless, Tamara |
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318 | How do these accounts reconcile? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204401 | ||
Laughing out loud John, we will get it all together as one, don't worry, I will try the linkn again, I had trouble with it... Tam |
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319 | Define wine, please? | Rev 17:2 | Tamara Brewington | 204399 | ||
Dear Lionheart, I have been reading Colossians now for a few days and am wondering if you took my reply the first time to read when I said OK to mean I was offended, or being short with you. That was not the intent, I was trying to let it go Lionheart, not be short tempered. 1)keep seeking that which is above. still doing this. 2)put aside all anger, malice, wrath, abusive speech, slander. was never angry just disapointed and dismayed and did not use abusive speech nor slander anyone. 3)put on compassion, kindess, humility, gentleness, patience, bearing with one another, forgive one another. I did stumble a bit there, but examined myself and tried to the best of my ability to come around to the right veiw of things with all of your help. Why am I seen as not having come around yet? Open to further instruction from you on this... 4)whatever you do, do your work heartily giving thanks to God, fearing the Lord. this is why I am here and continue to participate. Is there somethig you see that I am doing that I need to be corrected about? I am open, feel free to be specific please... I sent something to John as he felt it necessary to enlighten me for the second or third time about what he calls speculation. I replied that all areas of Bible study are ultimatel about Christ and the final message of the Bible. I am interested in all the various facets of how that message progressed, the players and the stage, the authors intent, their audiences, how they differently treat the same subject, as well as every thing that the Bible has to say about all of its aspects and information. There is no part of what the Bible says about anything that is not profitable to study. You said yourself that II Timothy 2:15 was a very important point.It takes every aspect of exegesis to do that, the critical forms; redaction, literary, textual, grammatical and others are all part of the process. Not everything is self explanatory without using the different parts to arrive at a clear picture of seemingly differing accounts, use of words, or scriptures. If we have moved beyond the elementary things then the central message qualifies as an elementay thing as is laying on of hands and some very complicated areas of theological study that Hebrews mentions in that scripture. Some of the things mentioned there are being milk are pretty deep. I think according to the qualifications, we are all somewhere in between milk and meat. We see washings laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, repentance of dead works, eternal judgments. Two of those things are not simple doctrines or teachings. After receiving some messages that something should be dropped, to one of which I replied, I can see that you are not interested in a rebuttal, which is a straight forward observation and not an attack, or an insult or slander, others have chosen to discuss the original matter some more and do not agree with that view, that it should be dropped. I think as I tried to point out to John that there is room for diversity in the body of Christ and that people view things from their own theological lens. I don't think subject matter itself, as long as it is about something in the Bible, is necessarily frivolous material. And I don't think that we should all just be requried to view an aspect of studying a subject according the the rules of exegesis as speculation. There are others here who would agree on this. I am more than willing to stop exploring a matter with someone who does not see the point, that does not mean there is no point, just that there is not one to them. I think it is fair to say that my shorter replies left you all wondering if I was harboring ill will, I was only trying to drop it, not insult. Forgive me won't you? God Bless, the hat lady |
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320 | How do these accounts reconcile? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204396 | ||
Dear John thanks for the further clarification as to where you are at. This is not an adomonition to you John, just an observation. Lionheart said something interesting to someone about reconciling things... He said that it is important to reconcile what appear to be conflicting accounts, or scriptures because of what Paul was saying to Timothy; II Timothy 2:15, 3:16,17 and II Peter 1:19-21. I hear you about not speculating and that you don't engage in it. But there is nothing unBiblical (not that you were saying there was) about attempting to reconcile accounts, or apparently conflicting scriptures based on who the author was, his intent in writing, who his audience was, what the subject matter was and how different authors in the Bible address the subject. It is all part of proper exegesis John (not trying to push you around here, sincerely). I am not offended, every one sees things through the central motif of their own theologial lens... I hear your concern about the over arching message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There are plenty of concerns a person could legitmately have about the Bible than just the end message. The Bible has a lot of parts and there are a whole lot of areas of study concerning the Bible that go into varying aspects of the message. The history in the Bible, the actors in the play, the long progression of how the end message came to be, and on and on. I personally am interested in every facet of these things as they all pretain to or have bearing on the central message you are concerned with. There is room in the body of Christ for a great amount of diversity in all things pretaining to Christ and everything you could possibly study about the Bible is ultimately about Christ. I respect your point of view and it accounts for the content of a whole lot of your replies in answer to some of my questions and notes. Thank you for the clarification for the second time (I think). Ephesians 1:9,10 He has made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fulness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heaven and things in the earth. All things will be summed up in Christ, us together as members of one another and the body of Christ and each of our own dedication to understanding the word of God to the full. God Bless, the hat lady |
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