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*Jeremiah 17:16 / *Jer. 17:16 - The original Hebrew word (ra`ah: H7462) translated as "being a pastor" can mean just that. But it can also mean "keeping company with" (Proverbs 29:3), in this case with YHWH God Himself. So the Hebrew translated as: "I have not hastened from being a pastor to...

*Ezekiel 1 / *Ezek. 1 - (God's *merkabah / *merkavah / *chariots / *cherubims) (Re: Someone had a vision: "Angels will use flying machines, which can hover") That brings to mind the "chariots" of the angels (Psalms 68:17), which might fly about and hover, like helicopters do today, but using...

*Ezekiel 21:1-7 / *Ezek. 21:1 - This can refer to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BC. -- *Ezekiel 21:8-16 / *Ezek. 21:8 - (Re: What is the "third swing of the sword"?) Note that there is no "third swing of the sword" in Ezekiel 21:8-16. Instead, Ezekiel 21:14 says...

*Ezekiel 38:23 / *Ezek. 38:23 - Note that nothing requires that this refers to a point in time before Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For the nations could also become complacent near the end of the future, peaceful Millennium, so that they will need to be reminded once again of YHWH...

*Daniel 4:25c / *Dan. 4:25c - Regarding Daniel 4:25c: "the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will", this means that the human rulers of the world are ultimately determined by God: "the powers that be are ordained of God" (Romans 13:1c). This can include...

(And think to change times) Daniel 7:25 is not referring to a pope changing the time of the sabbath, but to the future Antichrist, who could radically change the calendar to where he will even get rid of the seven-day week altogether, with its connotation to YHWH God and His seven-day creation...

*Daniel 11:17 / *Dan. 11:17 - (Re: A *Baath *pun?) The original Hebrew word "bath" (daughter) in Daniel 11:17 could include a pun on "Baath", like how, for example, God employs a pun in Jeremiah 1:11-12 between "shaqed" (almond tree) and "shaqad" (hasten). And He employs a Hebrew pun in Amos...

(Re: Means that the Antichrist will be an atheist?) While the future Antichrist will not regard the God of his fathers (Daniel 11:37), he will not be an atheist. For he will honor a God (Daniel 11:38-39). This will be "the god of this world" (2 Corinthians 4:4), Lucifer (Satan) the dragon, whom...

*Joel 2:1-27 can refer poetically to a literal locust invasion which destroyed ancient Israel's crops (Joel 2:25) sometime before the Acts 2 day of Pentecost in the first century AD (Joel 2:28-29, Acts 2:16-18). For the day of the Lord in Joel 2:1-27 can refer to an ancient day of the Lord...

*Micah 1:15 / *Mic. 1:15 - "Mareshah" (H4762), which means "summit", refers to a city in Judah (Joshua 15:44,21) which was built up as a defensive city (2 Chronicles 11:8,5) southwest of Jerusalem. It was the location of a great, victorious battle by the Jews against a million Ethiopians (2...

*Zechariah 1:18-21 / *Zech. 1:18 - The four horns of the Gentiles (Zechariah 1:21b) could represent four kings (cf. Daniel 7:24) of Babylon who scattered Judah in the time of the prophet Zechariah, during the seventy years of the Jews' Babylonian captivity (Zechariah 1:12) in the sixth century...

It is sometimes claimed that Zechariah 14 was fulfilled at Jesus Christ's first coming. But Jesus' first coming was not the Day of the Lord (Zechariah 14:1), for that will not begin until His future, Second Coming (1 Corinthians 1:7-8; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2). Also, Jesus' first coming did not...

*Matthew 2:11 / *Mt. 2:11 - (Re: To me Jesus is just a little *child) Do you mean that to you He is figuratively a little child in His humility (cf. Matthew 18:3-4, Matthew 11:29)? For Jesus Christ has not remained the literal little child of Matthew 2:11. Instead, He grew up to be a man in...

(Law) Matthew 5:18 did not mean that heaven and earth had to pass away before the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law's commandments could be abolished, but that Jesus Christ had to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies regarding the Messiah's/the Christ's first coming (Luke 24:44-46; e.g...

(Re: Some 600 years after Jesus came, Islam came along and decimated two-thirds of the Christian world before Christians decided to fight back physically. If Christians had not fought back, would not Christianity have become almost extinct, and so would not Jesus have come and died in vain?)...

*Matthew 6:25 / *Mt. 6:25 - (Re: How can we store up canned food for the future Tribulation, when we are to take no thought for what we will eat?) In Matthew 6:25 the original Greek word (merimnao: G3309) translated as: "take no thought" for what you will eat means: "do not be anxious" about...

(Re: *2 judgments) At Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming, only the Church will be physically resurrected and finally-judged (1 Corinthians 15:21-23, Revelation 20:5; Psalms 50:3-5, cf. Mark 13:27; Matthew 25:19-30; 2 Corinthians 5:10, Luke 12:45-48). The obedient part of the Church (of all...

(Re: Does the KJV omit translating the original Greek word *mello when it is alluding to Christ's Second Coming?) Are you referring to Matthew 16:27, 2 Timothy 4:1, Acts 17:31, and Acts 24:15,25? If so, the KJV does translate the original Greek word "mello" (G3195) in those verses as "shall"...

*Matthew 22:3-14 / *Mt. 22:3 - This does not require that those who rejected the invitation were able to accept it. Instead, they could have been unwilling to accept it because they were not elect/chosen by God (Matthew 22:14), and so were unable to accept it (John 6:65, John 8:42-47, John...

(Re: Was the Wailing Wall built later than thought? For coins stamped by a Roman proconsul twenty years after Herod the Great's death were found under the wall's lowest stones) Note that Herod the Great died in 4 BC. So twenty years later would be 16 AD. Therefore, whoever built it, or whenever...