I've looked over a lot of your posts and, never, not once, have they made any sense. It's like you live in your own very small world.
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So your answer is that the prophecy simply does not mean what it explicitly says.So as to your statement.....
The fire that comes from their mouths devours their enemies (Revelation 11:5). The fire is the Holy that they pour out anytime they want to, as the symbol of the two witnesses whenever they preach the Word, that is the Lord's sword that penetrates the heart of the enemy, who by their own free will, yield to Christ's authority and join the Great Commission ranks.
The Great Commission is the assimilation of nations to Christ, through peaceful and diplomatic means and by doing so, these once enemies are killed spiritually speaking, because they yield to Christ and are assimilated within Christ's body of believers. The saying is resistance is futile!
This is the Christ collective!
Now the question arises as to whether God clobbers his enemies or does he convince them to let down their arms and to come as prisoners of Christ?
Paul would say the world will become prisoners of Christ, through the very preaching of the Sword of God's word, the everlasting gospel.
People considering physical weapons that God uses to destroy the enemy, is a primitive concept that is divorced of God's ways, especially after the cross. After the cross God makes diplomacy with the world and never over rides the Great Commission prerogative. After all why did the Holy Ghost tell Peter to get up and go to Cornelius house, when Peter wanted nothing to do with the Gentiles? Obviously God did NOT override Peter, but rather had swayed him to pour out fire on the once enemies of the gospel, by the sword of the word, that brought Cornelius and his household as willful prisoners of Christ.
God will never abandon the Great Commission or to bypass his witnesses who hold the testimony of Jesus, by resorting to power intervention that will be counter intuitive and counterproductive to the Great Commission calling to Christ through peaceful means. The spiritual war is for the hearts and minds of enemies and not to kill their flesh or to force them into bondage unwillingly.
So your answer is that the prophecy simply does not mean what it explicitly says.
Matthew 13:10-15
10The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
11He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
12Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
You study (read) the Scriptures diligently (Explicitly) because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me (Sign of Jonah), (John 5:39)
I've looked over a lot of your posts and, never, not once, have they made any sense. It's like you live in your own very small world.
"Search from the book of the LORD, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them. Isaiah 34:16When Old Testament prophesy is taken out of context of situation (past to present cross of Christ events) and stands to contradict the character of God and is the diametrically opposite to what Jesus had said and instructed, then it does not mean what it explicitly says as far as the reader who perceives it explicitly, whilst ignoring the above three litmus test points to the proper interpretation of God's Word. In simple terms, explicit reading on its own will not result in the proper interpretation of the prophesy, as Jesus would prophetically say.......
Explicit reading is what the educated Pharisees in their time did and Jesus identities them as the educated blind leading the uneducated blind masses, because......
Oh Ye, the dangers of explicit reading, indeed!
"Search from the book of the LORD, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them. Isaiah 34:16