Two days later in God's timing. Very soon... and the generation not passing away is about those present seeing His glory which happened on the mount of transfiguration
The Mount of Transfiguration was
not the occasion of the "kingdom coming with power" and the angels returning with Christ when rewards were given at a judgment of the dead. I have read others like yourself who try to explain away Christ's statement in Matthew 16:27-28 and Mark 9:1 (
that He would return before some of those standing in front of Him had died) by trying to link that statement with the Mount of Transfiguration. Christ was not returning with angels on that Mount because He hadn't left yet. And the dead weren't being judged and no rewards were being given at that time.
Nope. That is not "plain" at all and very warping of the text.
If you can't see that "Babylon
that great city", guilty of the shed blood of the prophets and saints (Rev. 18:24) is not the same as
"the great city... where also our Lord was crucified" (Rev. 11:8), then you are missing the point Christ made when He wept over Jerusalem. He accused Jerusalem of being guilty of all the righteous blood shed on the earth from Abel to Zacharias, and for killing the prophets and stoning those sent to her (Matthew 23:35-37). Same guilt for "Babylon that great city" as for Jerusalem. They are one and the same city.
Are there still mountains in the world(or that area of the world)?
Rev 16:19 again.
That is beside the point. When the great city was "divided into three parts" in Rev. 16:19, this was describing three different catastrophes which befell the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the AD 66-70 era. Just as Ezekiel divided his shorn hair into three parts to display the fates of those who were in Jerusalem during the Babylonian attacks, the same thing happened again in Jerusalem in AD 66-70. One third in Jerusalem succumbed to pestilence and famine; another third fell by the sword; the last third would be scattered to the winds with a sword drawn out against them (Ezekiel 5:12). This has nothing to do with literal mountains disappearing.
When Revelation 16:20 says that "the mountains were not found", this is a reflection of Psalms 125:2, "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people..." The literal mountains around Jerusalem had always been her strongest defense against enemy attack, but when John says those "mountains were not found", this portrays God removing His protection from His people in that AD 66-70 period, so that the city would fall to destruction.
You are removing words from Revelation again. You are literally saying that Revelation is wrong.
Yes people live on the sea... don't be silly.
For Satan to come down in great wrath and harass those who "inhabited the sea", it doesn't mean those living ON the sea: it means those living IN the sea. And we aren't talking about Satan being enraged against whale, jellyfish, and shark populations.
The "Sea" referred to Gentile lands, just as God had promised to "
slay the Dragon that is in the sea" in Isaiah 27:1. Satan did not occupy the oceans, but he and his minions did operate in the Gentile lands from antiquity where devil-worship was rife.
Nope. Because there is no Earth at that point only a New Earth.
The "New Heavens and New Earth" conditions as described by Isaiah 65 included the presence of sinners, death occurring, planting and harvesting, building homes, childbirth, and prayers to God - all of which we experience today. Some of these things such as childbirth and prayers, and death are definitely not a feature of the after-life. The NHNE conditions are not a picture of the ultimate state intended for us. God will do even better than that in our future.
I'm hearing you. In the gospel is talks about the armies surrounding Jerusalem which seems to have happened in the 1st Century. Could there be a repeat of it as well in our day? Perhaps. Rev 6 the 5th seal speaks about some type of great persecution, or tribulation too.
God does seem to have patterns of repeated, cyclical events in scripture. Some prophecies have more than just one fulfillment (such as "out of Egypt have I called my son"). So there is that. But in the case of Revelation 6's 5th seal, those under the altar pleading for vengeance for their shed blood were the ones which Christ avenged in the AD 66-70 "days of vengeance". Those under the altar n Revelation 6:9 received every one a white robe (of resurrected righteous perfection). They were then told to rest for a "little season" until their fellow servants and brethren who were "
about to be killed even as they" had died under martyrdom too.
These praying for vengeance in Rev. 6:9-11 were the same as those in Jesus' parable of the unjust judge in Luke 18:7-9, when He spoke about "avenging mine own elect"
speedily, even though they had been pleading for vengeance for a very long time. I believe that the occasion when these elect pleading for vengeance were resurrected and given their white robes was the time when the Matthew 27:52-53 resurrected saints arose from the dead. They had to wait or "rest" on the earth in those glorified bodies until the rest of their brethren were slain in those heavy periods of persecution which the first-century believers experienced. God would avenge all of them in those days when Jerusalem was judged for all the righteous blood shed on the earth.
Tribulation for believers of course was not exhausted in that turbulent era. Christ had warned His disciples that "in the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world". And we know that "all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." So no generation of believers is exempt from episodes of tribulation. We can certainly expect such persecution for our own generation of believers as well, so it is best to stay sober-minded about this.
