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NASB | Obadiah 1:2 "Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You are greatly despised. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Obadiah 1:2 ¶ "Behold [Edom], I shall [humiliate you and] make you small among the nations; You are greatly despised. [Ezek 35] |
Subject: Does God judge nations directly? |
Bible Note: This is easy to answer: we take the literal stuff as listeral and the symbolic stuff as symbolic. The only trick is when the text does not lend itself to clear identification. I've never been a big fan of eschatology. Probably because I see so many people all wrapped up in it instead of pursuing holiness. I have a solid confidence in seeing my Lord. How He chooses to manifest Himself will, no doubt, be different than I am able to conceieve. That said, I find that Revelation is a powerfully symbolic book. There are dragons and beasts etc. etc. Some is or must necessarily be symbolic. The millinial reign possibly falls into the catagory. One reason is that there is mention of sacrifices being made. Since Christ is our sacrifice, fully fulfilling our every need for sacrifice, what can this mean? If you really pin me down, I tend to fall on the more literal view of the millenial reign. I'd be considered pre-mill post-trib. But there are a lot of dead theologians out there, who are a whole lot smarter than I am, who don't see a millenial reign at all. in the face of such opposition, I just can't seem to get onto the Hal Lindsey band wagon. If that makes me foolish, then its your fault for dragging it out of me! :-) If you'd left it well enough alone, maybe my foolishness would have been in question! :-) Doc (On my far-better-half's computer) |