Subject: Jewish law during the millenium |
Bible Note: Thank you, pastor Beja. I have always enjoyed your posts, but for some reason they just never sat well in my mind and I continue to strain to find out why. Sorry, I am trying to learn, and having been to many classes on Revelation, things are becoming as clear as mud. Many times I see people site the Book of Revelations, and I just cringe. Because if they do not even have the Title correct, how can they understand the obscure message of it.? Revelation is a Singular Revelation, not plural. And it is what the name implies, a Revealing, -not a covering-up. I believe that the key to understanding the Book of Revelation is to understand the rest of the Bible. When you say that satan is unable to deceive the nations, (Gk, ethnos), I do not think this word is meant to be understood as 'governments' or 'territories', but as 'peoples' -such as in multitudes. How then can the devil be waliking about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, if He is unable to deceive us? How can satan attempt to deceive the very elect, if possible? These are New Testament teachings and since you have already told me when the end of the 1000 is to come, can I ask you to tell me when the beginning of the 1000 started? Because I think the amill view is that it started at the Cross, which would force me to discount some verses. Are those verses also symbolic? I am taking the literal sense here, and forgive me if I am wrong, but Rev 20:3 (KJV) states, "And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled. I think satan IS put somewhere that he can be sealed. To take this symbolically means we are opening up God's Word to the point where the final message of God would be called, "The Book of Interpretations" -plural, not singular Lord Bless you and yours, keliy |