TKICBS said in post 243:
Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Regarding Dan. 9:26, its original Hebrew word (karath, H3772) translated as "cut off" can refer to when a peace treaty/covenant is "made" (Gen. 21:27). The 1st century AD fulfillment of Dan. 9:26a was at the Crucifixion, when the true Messiah (Jesus) made the New Covenant (Mt. 26:28, Heb. 9:15-17). The future fulfillment of Dan. 9:26a will be when the Antichrist makes a peace treaty, which will be the fulfillment of the covenant in Dan. 9:27 & the league in Dan. 11:23, with a future ultra-Orthodox Jewish (false) Messiah in Jerusalem, after he & his followers are defeated by the Antichrist (Dan. 11:22-23). So the future fulfillment of Dan. 9:26a can refer to this false Messiah being "cut off" in the sense of being "covenanted", i.e. peace-treatied.
TKICBS said in post 243:
Dan 9:27 And he (speaking of the prince who shall come) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week (7 years): and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Regarding Dan. 9:27, it's "covenant" refers to a future peace treaty which the Antichrist will "cut" with a false, ultra-Orthodox Jewish "Messiah" (Dan. 9:26a) in Jerusalem, after the Antichrist has defeated this Messiah & his followers (Dan. 11:22-23a).
This treaty will allow this false Messiah & his followers to keep a 3rd Jewish temple which they will have built on Jerusalem's Temple Mount (after destroying the Muslim structures there), & to continue to perform the daily Mosaic animal sacrifices in front of the temple for at least 7 years (Dan. 9:27a), so long as they give up the outer court of the temple (Rev. 11:2a) to the Muslims so the Muslims can rebuild the (by that time destroyed) Al Aqsa Mosque on the southern end of the Temple Mount & resume worship there. After "cutting" this treaty (Dan. 9:26a), the Antichrist could appear before the "many" (Dan. 9:27) nations gathered at the U.N. General Assembly, & "confirm" (Dan. 9:27) that for at least 7 years he'll keep this treaty with the ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem, using this as purported proof to the world that he is (in his words) "a man of peace, and no Hitler".
Dan. 9:27's "he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease" refers to when, only some 3.5 years after making the peace treaty of Dan. 9:26a,27a/11:23a, the Antichrist will break the treaty, attack the 3rd temple, stop the daily Mosaic animal sacrifices, place the abomination of desolation (possibly a standing, android image of the Antichrist) in the holy place of the temple (Dan. 11:31, Mt. 24:15), & then sit himself in the temple & proclaim himself God (2 Thes. 2:4, Dan. 11:36). Thus could begin the Antichrist's future, literal 3.5-year Luciferian (Satanic) worldwide reign of terror (Rev. 13:4-18, 12:9, 2 Thes. 2:9).
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TKICBS said in post 234:
If the Catholic Church is Babylon the Great, which is easy to prove, then it with its other 6 mainline religion that have recently joined it, are the 7 heads of Rev 12 and 13.
Regarding "If the Catholic Church is Babylon the Great", while the corrupt aspects of the RCC (and of other churches) are included in what Revelation's symbolic "Babylon" (Rev. chs. 17-18) represents, it represents much more than just the corrupt aspects of the RCC. For the RCC just by itself doesn't reign over the kings of the earth (Rev. 17:18). Nor is the RCC the only place where people buy merchandise (Rev. 18:11). Nor is the RCC the place where all martyrs have been killed (Rev. 18:24). Nor has the RCC just by itself corrupted the entire world (Rev. 18:3). Nor has the RCC been continuously supported by the empires of fallen man throughout history (Rev. 17:7,9-10).
Revelation's symbolic "Babylon" (Rev. chs. 17-18) represents all of mankind's corrupt political (Rev. 17:18), economic (Rev. 18:11), and religious (Rev. 18:24) systems throughout the earth (Rev. 18:3), and throughout history (Rev. 17:9-10).
TKICBS said in post 234:
Now look at Rev where we see that the beast, The EU, hates the harlot and destroys Babylon in one hour.
Regarding "destroys Babylon in one hour", the ten kings of the Antichrist's empire will destroy with fire what Revelation's "Babylon" represents (Rev. 17:16-17) when they destroy the cities of the earth (Rev. 16:19), probably with nukes (and probably with Fission-Fusion-Fission, "FFF", or "666", nukes, "F" representing the number 6 in English gematria), at the time of the 7th vial (Rev. 16:17,19), which will be the final event (Rev. 16:17) of the future tribulation of Rev. chs. 6-18/Mt. 24, right before Jesus' 2nd coming (Rev. 19:2-20:6, Mt. 24:29-31). They could do this under the direction of Lucifer/Satan (Isa. 14:17,12), who could want to leave only a literal "scorched earth" for Jesus to return to.
Near the very end of the future tribulation, Lucifer (employing the ancient lies of Gnosticism) could say to the Antichrist and his ten kings something like:
"Our great battle against the tyrant god YHWH is about to begin [Rev. 16:14, 19:19], a battle which we will win, and so we will be able to escape YHWH's prison house, this material universe, and return to the wholly-spiritual Pleroma [i.e. Heaven]. So let us now destroy this prison cell, this foul planet, and let us, as it were, burn up the gewgaws which we have hung upon our cell walls. Let us burn up our great cities, our magnificent systems. Let us break our chains of attachment to this vile physical realm, that we might more freely ascend back into our rightful place in the Pleroma [Isa. 14:13-14]".
Of course this will be a total lie. For at his 2nd coming, Jesus (who is YHWH: Jn. 10:30, Zech. 14:3-4) will completely defeat the armies of the world, arrayed against YHWH (Rev. 16:14, 19:19-21). And Jesus will have Lucifer bound in the bottomless pit during the subsequent millennium (Rev. 20:1-6, Isa. 14:15). And Jesus will restore ruined parts of the earth and make them like the Garden of Eden (Ezek. 36:35, Isa. 51:3). And after the millennium and subsequent events are over (Rev. 20:7-15), God will create a new heaven (a new first heaven, a new sky/atmosphere for the earth) and a new earth (a new surface for the earth) (Rev. 21:1). And then God will descend from the third heaven in the literal city of New Jerusalem to live with saved humanity on the new earth (Rev. 21:2-4).
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TKICBS said in post 237:
Many teach that the 2 horned beast of Rev 13 is the anti christ and the false prophet. I can't help but wonder where they get these ideas. If the 10 horns are kings then does it not stand to reason that the 2 horns are kings?
Regarding "the 2 horned beast of Rev 13" (verses 11-16), it represents the individual man who will become the Antichrist's False Prophet (Rev. 19:20, 16:13). He could currently be a (secretly apostate) cardinal in the RCC, preparing himself to become the next pope. If he becomes the next pope, he could begin his tenure by making a great push for peace and unity between Christianity and Islam. He could say something like:
"Why do we fight each other? Are we not all the spiritual children of Abraham and of his God, the one God? Can't we lay aside our foolish, man-made differences of theology, which have done us no good at all, but only brought us hatred and violence, and unite into one religion of Abraham, one religion of peace, based on love for the one God and love for our fellow man? What's more important than this?"
He could be so skillful in elucidating what the moderate Muslims could call "the true, peaceful, loving nature of Islam", that he could be hailed by them worldwide as (in their words) "A Great Imam, come to rescue our beloved Islam from the bad reputation falsely given to it by the terrorists". In this way, the next pope could come to hold high positions of power in two religions at the same time, which could be symbolized by the two horns of the False Prophet lamb (Rev. 13:11). This would be similar to how the seven horns of the true-Jesus lamb in Rev. 5:6 could represent the true Jesus holding seven positions of power at the same time (cf. Jesus wearing many crowns at the same time in Rev. 19:12). The False Prophet could even say he is Jesus. (But he won't say he's Christ, for the False Prophet and the Antichrist will deny Jesus is the Christ and will deny Christ is in the flesh: 1 Jn. 2:22, 2 Jn. 1:7.)
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TKICBS said in post 229:
For example there is a bottomless pit somewhere that is closed but that will be opened when a star hits the earth.
Regarding "there is a bottomless pit somewhere", Job 33:22's original Hebrew word (shachath, H7845) translated as "the grave" can be translated as "the pit" (Job 33:28,30), meaning the extremely deep pit that's in hell/sheol (Isa. 14:15, Ps. 30:3, Job 11:8), in the sides of which pit are the graves of the conscious souls of the unsaved dead (Isa. 14:15,9,10, Ezek. 32:21-23), who experience pain there (Ps. 116:3). This pit is in the "nether" (the lowermost, Hebrew: tachtiy, H8482) parts of the earth (Ezek. 32:18-32, Ps. 63:9), and so it could reach down to the center of the earth (in the spiritual dimension). And it could continue past the center of the earth and continue on in a straight line up the other side of the earth almost to the surface, so that the pit is "bottomless" in that its lowest point is empty space at the center of the earth (in the spiritual dimension). Satan/Lucifer will be cast into this literal "bottomless pit" by an angel at Jesus' second coming (Rev. 20:1-3, Isa. 14:15,12).
TKICBS said in post 229:
Hell is the body of the disobedient that have gone before us plus those that go into hell in the future who will join them there until judgement day.
Regarding "hell", there are two literal hells, one temporary & one eternal. The temporary hell, called Hades in Greek (Lk. 16:23) & Sheol in Hebrew (Ps. 86:13), is where the souls of unsaved people go when they die, & where they're punished by flame (Lk. 16:23-24). Before Jesus' 1st coming, Hades was also where the souls of saved people went when they died, but the part of Hades for the saved was a place of comfort (Lk. 16:25). After Jesus fulfilled the gospel by dying for our sins on the Cross & rising from the dead on the 3rd day (1 Cor. 15:1-4), he went to Hades & preached the fulfillment of the gospel to the souls there (1 Pet. 3:19, 4:6) & then drew the souls of obedient believers there up with him when he ascended into heaven (Eph. 4:8-9, Heb. 12:22-24). Since then, the souls of obedient believers go directly into heaven to be with Jesus when they die (Philip. 1:21,23, 2 Cor. 5:8, Rev. 6:9-11).
At Jesus' 2nd coming, he'll bring with him from heaven all the souls of obedient believers who died (1 Thes. 4:14), & their bodies will be resurrected into immortality at that time (1 Thes. 4:16, 1 Cor. 15:21-23,52-53). They'll then reign on the earth with Jesus for a thousand years (Rev. 20:4-6, 5:10, 2:26-29). After the thousand years & subsequent events are over (Rev. 20:7-10), all unsaved people of all times will be resurrected out of Hades & judged (Rev. 20:12-13) & cast into the eternal hell, called the lake of fire (Rev. 20:15, 21:8), where they'll be punished with Satan & his fallen angels in fire & brimstone forever (Mt. 25:41,46, Rev. 20:10,15, 14:10-11). This eternal hell is also called Gehenna in Greek (Lk. 12:5, Mk. 9:45-46) & Tophet in Hebrew (Isa. 30:33).
Tophet was also the name of a place in ancient times called the valley of Hinnom (2 Kin. 23:10) just outside the southern wall of Jerusalem (Josh. 15:8). "Gehenna" literally means "the valley (ge) of Hinnom". Just as the ancient Tophet/Gehenna was outside the wall of ancient Jerusalem, so the eternal Gehenna, the lake of fire, will be just outside the wall of New Jerusalem (Rev. 22:15, 21:8) on the new earth (Rev. 21:1-8). Saved people will go forth from New Jerusalem to witness the eternal punishment of the unsaved in the lake of fire (Isa. 66:24, Mk. 9:46, Mt. 25:41,46, Rev. 20:10,15, 14:10-11).