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*1 Thessalonians 4:18 / *1 Thes. 4:18 - (*Comfort) Here the comfort is that dead Christians are not lost, for their souls will come back from heaven with Jesus Christ at His future, Second Coming, and their physical bodies will be resurrected into immortality at that time (1 Thessalonians...

(Re: Full Preterism? / *Thessalonica) Some Thessalonian Christians could still be alive at both the future falling away (apostasy) in the Church (2 Thessalonians 2:3) and the subsequent Second Coming of Jesus Christ (2 Thessalonians 1:7). For today many Christians are still living in...

*2 Thessalonians 2:4 / *2 Thes. 2:4 - (Re: Was this fulfilled long ago?) No, for no man ever sat in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and proclaimed himself God (2 Thessalonians 2:4, Daniel 11:36,31, cf. Matthew 24:15), just as no man ever fulfilled other detailed references to the Antichrist...

*1 Timothy 3:3 / *1 Tim. 3:3 - The original Greek word (plektes: G4131) translated as "striker" can mean a "smiter", or a "quarrelsome" person (Strong's Greek Dictionary). The Greek word (amachos: G0269) translated as "not a brawler" can mean "peaceable". -- *1 Timothy 3:7 / *1 Tim. 3:7 -...

*2 Timothy 2:15b / *2 Tim. 2:15b - (*Rightly dividing the word of truth) This refers to how the Bible was originally written down in manuscripts which had no spaces between the words, no punctuation, and no distinguishing capitalization or non-capitalization. That is, it was just an unbroken...

(Re: *OSAS? / *NOSAS / *Unto the end) Note that the Bible does not teach once-saved-always-saved, but shows that initially saved people, that is, Christians, will obtain ultimate salvation only "if" they continue in the faith to the end (Hebrews 3:6,12,14, Colossians 1:23). And there is no...

*Hebrews 9:13b / *Heb. 9:13b - (Re: Will the manna to come sanctify the flesh and make us one with Jesus?) Regarding the sanctifying of the flesh, note that even the animal sacrifices of the Old Covenant Mosaic law did that (Hebrews 9:13). And Christians who have repented from their sins and...

*Hebrews 10:37-38 / *Heb. 10:37 - Hebrews 10:37c employs the "will not tarry" idea of Habakkuk 2:3c, just as Hebrews 10:38a refers to Habakkuk 2:4b. Also, there is a coexistent duality in Habakkuk 2:3 between "though it tarry, wait for it" and "it will not tarry", just as there is a coexistent...

In 1 Peter 1:18 the original Greek word (anastrophe: G0391) translated as "conversation" does not mean "talk" but "behavior" (Strong's Greek Dictionary) in the sense of how one lives one's life. (Compare Psalms 37:14 above) So when Christians are delivered from their "vain conversation" (1...

(Re: Does "heavens" here mean the universe?) / (*Ouranos) No, the original Greek word (ouranos: G3772) translated as "heavens" or "heaven" does not have to mean the universe. Instead, it can mean only the first heavens/heaven, the skies/the earth's atmosphere, the "air" in which the birds fly...

*1 John 2:29 / *1 Jn. 2:29 - This does not require once-saved-always-saved, for even Christians who have done righteousness can ultimately lose their salvation if they wrongly employ their free will to return to unrepentant sin (Hebrews 10:26-29; 1 Corinthians 9:27, Luke 12:45-46). (See...

(Re: Does salvation rely on us believing the right things, instead of on God's sufficient grace?) God's sufficient grace (2 Corinthians 12:9a) includes His giving His elect people the Bible, which in its entirety is sufficient for them to be able to come into perfect knowledge of, and obedience...

(Re: Do some things that *Clement says require that Revelation was written down in the time of Nero?) No, for Clement of Alexandria saying that the teaching "of the apostles, embracing the ministry of Paul, ends with Nero" (The Stromata, or Miscellanies 7:17:4) does not require that the apostle...

*Revelation 2:7 / *Rev. 2:7 - (To eat of the *tree of life) While Jesus Christ is the life (John 14:6), the source of Christians' eternal life spiritually (John 3:16), the Tree of Life could be a literal tree, the fruit of which will be for the eternal life of obedient Christians' future...

*Revelation 3:10 / *Rev. 3:10 - (See Revelation chapters 2-3 above) Revelation 3:10 meant that the literal, first century AD local church congregation in the city of Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7) in the Roman province of "Asia" (Revelation 1:11) would be kept safe from a persecution which came...

*Revelation 4:8 / *Rev. 4:8 - (Re: Beasts / Seraphims) The four, six-winged beasts whom the apostle John saw saying: "Holy, holy, holy" near the throne of God in Revelation 4:8, in the first century AD, are the same as the six-winged seraphims (literal angelic beings) whom the prophet Isaiah...

(Re: *Specific) Revelation chapters 6 to 22 are a highly-detailed, almost entirely literal, future timetable. For they contain such a huge number of details, which are so varied, so specific, so chronological, and so long, that to reduce all of them to merely a generic description of life at...

(Re: Some *Details of Revelation chapters 6 to 22) The Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, which Jesus Christ will return immediately after (Matthew 24:29-31, Revelation 19:7 to 20:6), has not started yet. For it will begin with a horrible war, which, with its aftermath...

*Revelation 6:12-17 / *Rev. 6:12 - (*6th seal / *Volcano?) The sixth seal (Revelation 6:12-14) could be fulfilled in our future by a huge volcanic eruption (possibly of the Yellowstone Caldera), which will occur during only the first stage of the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to...

*Revelation 8:7 / *Rev. 8:7 - (Re: Do the trumpets have to be God's wrath because they are sounded by His angels?) No, the fact that angels will sound the trumpets of the future Tribulation (e.g. Revelation 8:7) does not require that the events which will follow the sounding of the first six...