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My take on the unbridled global immigrant flow... it is the God-sent Gog/Magog globalist invasion into the lands of [former] European Christendom as punishment for their sinful rebellion against God.

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However, it seems that this globalist invasion would eventually be defeated by miraculous "Fire from heaven", and the invaders would ultimately be destroyed --------> Revelation 20:9.
 
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Yeah, maybe something like a Unitarian church I guess. I think many believe there will be a world religion imposed on people. Something Unitarian might fit that bill. But maybe they will just make up a new religion altogether.
Are you saying that the Unitarian Church espouses a "Universalist" theology?
 
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Are you saying that the Unitarian Church espouses a "Universalist" theology?

Just looked it up to be sure. Apparently there is something called unitarian universalism. I don't know how the different types of untitarianism relate to each other
 
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However, it seems that this globalist invasion would eventually be defeated by miraculous "Fire from heaven", and the invaders would ultimately be destroyed --------> Revelation 20:9.


Yes... God's passion play has a happy ending.

Have you noticed the analogy between Pharaoh and Gog ?

Both are God-driven villains who God uses as catalysts for God's divine intervention.

God used Pharaoh to propel the Israel towards God's promise land.

God uses Gog to propel Christian Israel towards God's New Jerusalem.

Another ironic analogy... God's last plague on Egypt was death of the first born. Esau/Edom was the first born.

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Like the Israelites, Persians believed in a type of baptism, resurrection
of the dead and one all-powerful invisible god they called "Wise Lord." Darius called their god the god of the Aryans [again, like the Israelites, separating their god and their race from all other people.]
Like the Israelites, it seems that European Christians have also separated their god and their race from all other people - As attested by the recent history of slavery, segregation, and anti-miscegenation laws in Western colonial empires - It seems that the OT racial laws have served as the primary example to be emulated by the Christians in Europe in the Age of Western colonial empires...Genesis 34.

The Bible... OT and NT... is filled with genealogies because the Bible is a very racial book... from Genesis
when God chose Abraham, Isaac, Jacob/Israel and his 12 sons [12 tribes of Israel] to be God's special people above all the other people of the earth... Deuteronomy 7:6 & Deuteronomy 14:2... to Revelation
where the New Jerusalem has 12 gates one for each of the 12 tribes of Israel to enter.

Those who don't understand the importance of race in the Bible... will not understand the OT, NT and still ongoing racial war between Jacob/Israel and Esau/Edom.
Therefore, it seems that the European race is the NT equivalent of OT Israelites, since they have now replaced the Jews as God's elect.

Btw, are you referring to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in regards to the

"ongoing racial war between Jacob/Israel and Esau/Edom"?
 
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Therefore, it seems that the European race is the NT equivalent of OT Israelites, since they have now replaced the Jews as God's elect.




The Aryan European Christ-bearing peolple did not "replace" Israelites. They are Israelites.

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Just looked it up to be sure. Apparently there is something called unitarian universalism. I don't know how the different types of untitarianism relate to each other
Or perhaps it could be the Unification Church (or the Church of Reverend Moon, who had publicly declared himself to be the "Messiah, Son of God, and the Second Coming of Christ").

The Moonies have a theology which is most certainly "Universalist".

Perhaps, they are the antichrist temple of Baal, long since foretold in the Book of Revelation?
 
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AlasBabylon said in post #156:

A lawless universalist pluralistic "Christ" is the FALSE "Christ" espoused by the modern sinful rebellious fallen church.

Regarding "lawless", note that the Biblical Christ is in no way lawless.

For Jesus Christ shows in the Sermon on the Mount how His New Covenant, Christian commandments are stricter than the letter of the commandments of the Old Covenant Mosaic law. For the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law forbade murder (Matthew 5:21, Exodus 20:13), while Jesus' New Covenant law forbids even calling people names (Matthew 5:22). And the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law forbade adultery (Matthew 5:27, Exodus 20:14), while Jesus' New Covenant law forbids even looking at another woman with lust (Matthew 5:28). And the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law permitted divorce and remarriage (Matthew 5:31, Deuteronomy 24:1-2), while Jesus' New Covenant law forbids it (Matthew 5:32, Mark 10:11-12, Luke 16:18), except for a single exemption granted only to husbands who discover that their newlywed wife is not a virgin, but had committed fornication (Matthew 19:9).

Jesus Christ also shows in the Sermon on the Mount that while His New Covenant, Christian law is stricter than the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law, at the same time it is also more merciful. For the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law required taking an eye for an eye (Matthew 5:38, Deuteronomy 19:21), while Jesus' New Covenant law requires turning the other cheek (Matthew 5:39). And the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law required hatred for one's enemies (Matthew 5:43, Deuteronomy 23:6), while Jesus' New Covenant law requires love for one's enemies (Matthew 5:44). And the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law, the ministration of death (2 Corinthians 3:7), required, for example, that adulterers be put to death (Leviticus 20:10), while Jesus showed mercy to the woman caught in adultery (John 8:4-11). And, for another example, the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law required that anyone who does any work on the sabbath is to be put to death (Exodus 31:14, Numbers 15:32-36), while Jesus allowed His disciples to work on the sabbath, and said that they were guiltless (Matthew 12:1-8), just as Jesus Himself worked on the sabbath (John 5:17-18).

So in obeying Jesus Christ's New Covenant commandments (Matthew 5:19 to 7:29, John 14:15; 1 Corinthians 14:37), Christians, whether Jews or Gentiles, are both more merciful and loving, and also exceed in righteousness those who mistakenly try to keep the abolished letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law (Matthew 5:20-48, Ephesians 2:15-16, Colossians 2:14-17, Romans 7:6; 2 Corinthians 3:6-18, Hebrews 7:18-19).

AlasBabylon said in post #156:

A lawless universalist pluralistic "Christ" is the FALSE "Christ" espoused by the modern sinful rebellious fallen church.

Regarding "universalist", note that the Biblical Christ is in no way universalist.

For Jesus Christ declares plainly that not everyone will be saved from the eternal hell (Matthew 25:41,46, Matthew 13:38-42), but only a relatively few people (Matthew 7:14, Matthew 22:14), compared with all of humanity.

AlasBabylon said in post #156:

A lawless universalist pluralistic "Christ" is the FALSE "Christ" espoused by the modern sinful rebellious fallen church.

Regarding "pluralistic", note that the Biblical Christ is in no way pluralistic.

For Jesus Christ declares plainly that He is the only way to God the Father (John 14:6, John 3:36, Acts 4:12; 2 John 1:9; 1 Timothy 2:5).

AlasBabylon said in post #156:

A lawless universalist pluralistic "Christ" is the FALSE "Christ" espoused by the modern sinful rebellious fallen church.

Regarding the FALSE "Christ", note that the future Antichrist's one-world religion of Gnostic Luciferianism, also called Satanism, could have not only a false "Christ", but also a separate, false "Jesus".

That is, Christians need to be aware that during the future Antichrist's literal 3.5-year worldwide reign (Revelation 13:4-18), even though the world will consciously and openly worship Lucifer (Satan, the dragon) and the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast") (Revelation 13:4-8, Revelation 12:9), this will not require that the Antichrist's one-world religion will say that Jesus is evil, or will turn the world against Jesus. For almost the entire world reveres Jesus, at least as being a good man. The Antichrist could confirm this basic world belief, but simply (in his words) "clarify" that while Jesus is indeed a good man, he is not the Christ or the Son of God (1 John 2:22). No doubt the Antichrist will also deny that Jesus suffered and died on the Cross for our sins, as this, just as believing that Jesus is the Christ and the Son of God (John 20:31, John 3:36), is one of the core beliefs of the Gospel by which people become saved (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).

So what the Antichrist could do is keep the idea of a good Jesus, but strip it of everything by which Jesus saves people from hell. And this would not require that the Antichrist deny Jesus' Second Coming. Indeed, the Antichrist and his False Prophet (of Revelation 19:20) could even try to employ to their own ends the Biblical prophecy of Jesus' Second Coming, as well as the Muslim prophecy which says that the miracle-working prophet Jesus will return bodily from heaven in the last days in order to bring the whole earth into the worship of the true God. For the False Prophet could claim that he is Jesus returned (via "reincarnation"). And he could perform amazing miracles (Revelation 13:13) as purported proof of his claim (cf. John 3:2). This is one reason why it is important to know when and how the real Jesus' Second Coming will occur (Matthew 24:29-31; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17, Revelation 19:7 to 20:6, Zechariah 14:3-21).

Once the False Prophet by his amazing miracles has brought the world under his spell (Revelation 13:13-18, Revelation 19:20), including many Muslims and Christians who may not care much for scriptural dogma, but could go wild over his signs and wonders, he could begin to (in his words) "restore to the world the real message which was spoken by me (Jesus) at my first coming, and by the great prophet Mohammed, but which message became corrupted by power-hungry men when they copied and changed the early manuscripts of the Bible and the Koran". He could then gradually initiate the world into the Antichrist's Gnostic Luciferianism (1 John 4:3, Revelation 13:4-6), also called Satanism, a religion which could have existed since ancient times in some "mystery" cults, and which still exists today in the highest degree of initiation of a worldwide secret society. The False Prophet could present his miraculously calling fire down from heaven (Revelation 13:13) as purported proof that Lucifer (the dragon, Satan) and the Antichrist are the true God (Revelation 13:4-8, Revelation 12:9), in an inversion of how back in Old Testament times the prophet Elijah miraculously called fire down from heaven in order to prove that YHWH is the true God (1 Kings 18:37-39).

The person whom the Antichrist will revile is YHWH (Revelation 13:6, Daniel 11:36), whom many people mistakenly think of as being (in their words) "the God of only the Old Testament, that cruel and hateful God who commanded people to commit genocide and to kill babies (1 Samuel 15:3), whereas Jesus came and preached love for everyone (Matthew 5:44)". The truth is that Jesus Christ confirmed that the God of the Old Testament, YHWH (Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Leviticus 19:18), is the same as the God of the New Testament (Mark 12:29-31), and that the Old Testament is true (Matthew 5:17-18, Luke 24:44-48). Jesus suffered and died for our sins in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy from YHWH (Isaiah 53; 1 Peter 2:24). And He rose from the dead in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy from YHWH (e.g. Psalms 16:10, Acts 2:31). Jesus died to establish the New Covenant (Matthew 26:28), which YHWH had foretold in the Old Testament (Jeremiah 31:31-34). And Jesus died to bring about the defeat of Satan (Hebrews 2:14), which YHWH had foretold from even the first book of the Old Testament (Genesis 3:15).

Nonetheless, building on many people's misconceptions of YHWH as being (in their words) "the cruel God of the Old Testament", no doubt one of the future Antichrist's chief blasphemies against YHWH (Revelation 13:6, Daniel 11:36) will be that YHWH is an evil god. This is one of the ancient blasphemies of Gnosticism, another being the antichrist lie that Christ is not in the flesh (2 John 1:7). The world will be deceived into completely rejecting YHWH, and worshipping Satan and the Antichrist instead (Revelation 13:4-8, Revelation 12:9). But Satan might not be worshipped as "Satan", which almost everyone sees as a bad name (it means "Adversary"), but as "Lucifer" (Isaiah 14:12), which means "the morning star". The Antichrist could falsely say that it is YHWH who is the true "Satan", the true "Adversary" of mankind. And the Antichrist could claim that even 2 Samuel 24:1 and 1 Chronicles 21:1 together prove this by showing that it was the single entity of YHWH/Satan who moved King David to number Israel. Of course, the truth is that 2 Samuel 24:1 and 1 Chronicles 21:1 together simply mean that YHWH used Satan to move David. YHWH elsewhere rebuked Satan (Zechariah 3:2), so they are in no way the same person.

Because the Antichrist and his False Prophet (possibly masquerading as Jesus) will deny that Jesus is the Christ (1 John 2:22), and will deny that Christ is in the flesh (1 John 4:3), and because they will bring the unsaved world into the worship of Lucifer (Satan, the dragon) instead (Revelation 13:4, Revelation 12:9), they could falsely say that (the non-mortal flesh) Lucifer is the Christ, that the new name of Christ (Revelation 3:12c) is "Lucifer Christ". For just as "Lucifer" means "the morning star", so Christ is the morning star (Revelation 22:16b). Also, Christ identified himself with the serpent (John 3:14), and Lucifer is the serpent (Revelation 12:9). Also, Christ said: "Ye are gods" (John 10:34), and it was the serpent who said: "ye shall be as gods" (Genesis 3:5).

But the truth is that Lucifer fell from his office of morning star (Isaiah 14:12), and became Satan (cf. Luke 10:18). Jesus Christ has taken over the office of morning star (Revelation 22:16). And Jesus Christ identified Himself only with the brass serpent on the pole in Numbers 21:8-9 (John 3:14), which typified Jesus Christ's crucifixion for our sins (John 19:16, Matthew 26:28). And in John 10:34, Jesus Christ (John 20:31) was quoting YHWH in Psalms 82:6-7, which shows that even though humans have knowledge of good and evil as gods do (Genesis 3:22), they will still die like humans (Psalms 82:7), contradicting the serpent's lie (Genesis 3:4). Nonetheless, the Antichrist could falsely say that Lucifer is the Christ and the true and beneficent God of mankind, and that the False Prophet is the miracle-working prophet Jesus (cf. John 3:2, Acts 3:22-24) returned to point the world to the true Christ/God. The Antichrist could falsely say that he (the Antichrist) is the human/divine "Son" of Lucifer, who must be worshipped as God along with Lucifer (Revelation 13:4,8). This would be similar to how Biblical Christians rightly worship the human/divine Jesus Christ (John 1:1,14) as YHWH God (the Son) along with YHWH God the Father (John 20:28, Hebrews 1:8).

Near the end of the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, unclean spirits like frogs will come out of the mouths of Lucifer, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet (Revelation 16:13). And these unclean spirits like frogs will go forth and perform amazing miracles to convince the world's armies to gather together at Armageddon (Har Megiddo: Mount Megiddo in northern Israel) (Revelation 16:16) in an attempt to fight and defeat YHWH Himself (Revelation 16:14, Revelation 19:19). After gathering together at Armageddon, the armies will travel south and pillage Jerusalem, right before the real Jesus (who is YHWH: John 10:30) returns from heaven and defeats them completely (Zechariah 14:2-21, Revelation 19:20 to 20:3).

So the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will be a total shock to the world. The world will have been expecting to wage war against some evil Old Testament god named "YHWH" with the help of the good Jesus (played by the False Prophet), and with the help of the true and beneficent Christ/God (played by Lucifer), and with the help of the good Son of God (played by the Antichrist), and with the help of the good angels of God (played by the fallen angels of Lucifer: Revelation 12:9). But then, instead of some evil god appearing in the sky, the world could see the glorious sign of the Cross (cf. Matthew 24:30), the symbol of the good YHWH suffering and dying for our sins (Acts 20:28b). And then the world will see the glorious appearance of the real Jesus sitting on a white horse descending from the sky (Revelation 19:11-21).

When the people of the world realize at that moment how thoroughly they have been duped, and see in the sky the huge angelic armies (2 Thessalonians 1:7, Matthew 25:31) of the true Jesus, the true Christ, the true Son of God, and the good YHWH, who are all the one and the same Jesus Christ of Nazareth, then they could utterly mourn and wail for themselves (Matthew 24:30, Revelation 1:7), knowing in their spirits that Jesus has returned in wrath to destroy most of them for their unrepentant sins (2 Thessalonians 1:8-9, Revelation 19:15-21).
 
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Stone Chapel said in post #165:

Therefore, it seems that the European race is the NT equivalent of OT Israelites, since they have now replaced the Jews as God's elect.

Note that God's election of people under the NT is not based on race (Romans 9:24), nor were all Jews ever elect (Romans 9:6b).

That is, all genetic Jews are part of genetic Israel (Romans 9:3-5). But being part of the true, spiritual Israel, the true, spiritual seed of Abraham, the promised seed, is not based on genetics (Romans 9:6-24), but on God's election (Romans 9:11), which includes both some Jews and some Gentiles (Romans 9:24).

All Christian Jews and Christian Gentiles are part of the true Israel (Ephesians 2:12,19, Romans 11:17,24, Revelation 21:9,12; 1 Peter 2:9-10, John 10:16), the seed of Abraham (Galatians 3:28-29, Romans 4:16-17), the promised seed, just as Isaac was (Galatians 4:28). And so all Christian Jews and Christian Gentiles are heirs of all of the promises made by God to Israel (Ephesians 3:6, Ephesians 2:12,19, Galatians 3:29, Romans 15:27).

In Romans 9:8, by "the children of the flesh", the apostle Paul means genetic Jews, who are the genetic children of Abraham (Romans 11:1, Acts 13:26, John 8:37). And by "the children of God"/"the children of the promise", Paul means the elect, both some Jews and some Gentiles (Romans 9:24, Galatians 4:28). Romans 9:6-8 means that not all Jews are elect (John 8:37-47, John 10:26), and that some Gentiles are elect (Romans 9:24, John 10:16, John 11:52). Only a remnant of genetic Israel is elect (Romans 9:27), just as only a remnant of humanity in general is elect (chosen) (Matthew 22:14, Matthew 7:14).
 
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AlasBabylon said in post #166:

The Aryan European Christ-bearing people did not "replace" Israelites. They are Israelites.

Do you mean (as is sometimes claimed) that people of European stock are the "lost tribes" of Israel?

If so, note that there are no lost tribes of Israel, insofar as the ten northern tribes of Israel were not entirely lost to history. In 722 BC, the northern kingdom of Israel fell, and its individuals were taken into captivity into Assyria (2 Kings 18:11), never to return to the land of Israel. They and their descendants were lost to history. But the ten northern tribes in themselves were not lost to history.

For some 200 years before the captivity of the northern kingdom of Israel, when it first become idolatrous, some individuals from all ten of the northern tribes left the northern kingdom in order to become part of the southern kingdom of Judah (2 Chronicles 11:16-17), and so, by definition, they all became Jews. Also, some individuals from the ten northern tribes remained in the land of Israel even after its defeat by Assyria, and some of them went to Judah at the time of King Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 30). It is for these reasons that, later, the Jews who returned from the Babylonian Captivity could be referred to as "all Israel" (Ezra 2:70, Ezra 6:17, Ezra 8:25,35, Ezra 10:5, Nehemiah 7:73, Nehemiah 12:47), and why the Jews living in the first century AD could be referred to as including all twelve tribes (Acts 26:7, James 1:1, Acts 2:36,22,5), and why at that time Anna could be said to be of the northern tribe of Asher (Luke 2:36), one of the so-called "lost" tribes.

So the people alive today who are descended genetically from a first century AD Jew would include individuals from all twelve tribes. Some of these descendants could know that they are Jews because their individual ancestors over the last 2,000 years kept their Jewish identity, and did not intermarry with Gentiles. But others of these descendants could know themselves only as Gentiles, because their individual ancestors over the last 2,000 years eventually abandoned their Jewish identity, and intermarried freely with Gentiles, to the point where their descendants alive today are almost entirely Gentile genetically. Similarly, regarding the individuals of the northern kingdom of Israel who were lost to history at its captivity, over the past 2,700 years their descendants must have eventually abandoned their Israelite identity, and freely intermarried with Gentiles, to the point where their descendants alive today would know themselves only as Gentiles, and would be almost entirely Gentile genetically.

Also, while God knows which people alive today are descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob/Israel from whom the twelve genetic tribes of Israel arose (Genesis 49:28), nonelect Israelites/Jews are not considered by God to be truly Israel (Romans 9:6-11), or truly Jews (Revelation 2:9b, Revelation 3:9), or God's children, or Abraham's children, but the children of the devil (John 8:39-47), just as all nonelect people, whether Jews or Gentiles, are considered by God to be the children of the devil (Matthew 13:38-39).

Some genetic Israelites are Christians, and so are members of the Church (Ephesians 4:4-6) and Israel at the same time, just as, for example, the genetic Jew Paul the apostle (Acts 22:3) is a member of the Church and Israel at the same time (Romans 11:1). And some still-living, non-Christian genetic Israelites are still considered by God to be Israel insofar as they are elect (Romans 11:25,28). All of the still-living, elect, non-Christian genetic Israelites who do not become Christians before Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming will become Christians (and so will become members of the Church: cf. Ephesians 4:4-6) at His Second Coming (Romans 11:26), when they will see the returned Jesus in person (Zechariah 12:10-14). But even though all those still-living, elect genetic Israelites will eventually become Christians and be saved from hell, they will be only a remnant of all genetic Israelites (Romans 9:27), most of whom will never be saved from hell, just as most of humanity in general, whether Jews or Gentiles, will never be saved from hell (Matthew 7:14, Matthew 22:14).

Just as those of the tribe of Benjamin, for example (Romans 11:1), are Jews (Acts 22:3) because they are descended from those who lived in the kingdom of Judah (2 Chronicles 11:1-3), so those of all of the other tribes of Israel are Jews who are descended from those who came to live in the kingdom of Judah (2 Chronicles 11:16-17). For the definition of "Jew" includes those who have connection with the territory of Judah (See Strong's word numbers G2453, G2448, H3063, and H3064), not just those who are genetically a part of the tribe of Judah.

An analogy would be people born in different countries in Europe, people whose ancestors were also born in those different countries, going back into ancient times. If they immigrate to America and become naturalized citizens of America, this will not change their genetic identities. They will still be genetically English, or French, or German, or Italian, or Spanish, or Greek, etc. And only the original inhabitants of America, the American Indians, can be said to be genetic Americans. In this analogy, the nation/territory of America represents the kingdom/territory of Judah. The European immigrants represent the genetic members of the tribes of Israel other than Judah. All Americans, including the European immigrants who became naturalized citizens of America, represent all Jews. And the American Indians represent the genetic members of the tribe of Judah. Again, this is just an analogy for how "Jews" can include genetic members of every tribe of Israel.

Also, the twelve tribes of Israel are not countries or regions (as is sometimes claimed), but consist of individuals who can be living in any country or region. Otherwise, one's tribe would change whenever one moved from one country or region to another. Also, nothing requires that any of the nominally-Christian nations today are descended from any of the ancient twelve tribes of Israel, instead of them all simply being Gentile nations. For Christians come from every ethnicity on the earth (Revelation 5:9b). And only a remnant of genetic Israel gets saved (Romans 9:27), just as only a remnant of humanity as a whole gets saved (Matthew 7:14, Matthew 22:14). Also, the entire Church throughout the world is the twelve tribes of Israel (Revelation 21:9,12).
 
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Per Luke 19:27, Edomite-jews return to the scene of their crimes to be duly executed. Ezekiel 36 tells us that Edom maliciously occupies God's ancient Holy Land. Isaiah 63:1-6 describes the slaughter of the Edomites. Revelation 19:11-21 is a NT version. Rev 19 tells us the warrior on the white horse has blood stained clothing. Isaiah 63:1-6 tells us it is Edom's blood.
Christ is said to have "blood stained clothing", but it would seem to suggest that the Future War of Armageddon (Revelation 19) would entail real bloodshed, carnage, death and destruction.

However, such a bloodshed doesn't seem plausible, since all out war with Putin's Russia is out of the question.

Such a global war would be out of the question due to the scale of carnage, death and destruction being greatly in excess of WWII, and there would be little to no survivors left at all in the wake of all out nuclear war.

So, how do we suppose that any blood could ever be spilt in such a war with Putin's Russia?
 
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Christ is said to have "blood stained clothing", but it would seem to suggest that the Future War of Armageddon (Revelation 19) would entail real bloodshed, carnage, death and destruction.

However, such a bloodshed doesn't seem plausible, since all out war with Putin's Russia is out of the question.

Such a global war would be out of the question due to the scale of carnage, death and destruction being greatly in excess of WWII, and there would be little to no survivors left at all in the wake of all out nuclear war.

So, how do we suppose that any blood could ever be spilt in such a war with Putin's Russia?


Many Bible prophecies refer to the total destruction of Edom, including Isaiah 34:5 and Obadiah.

Like the tares in Jesus' wheat and tares parable... Edomites now live worldwide. So I have wondered myself in what specific manner God would accomplish it.

God has led me to understand there is an analogy between Pharaoh and Gog. God uses both villains as catalysts for God's divine intervention. Pharaoh was the villain catalyst to propel Israel to God's promise land. Gog is the end of the age villain catalyst to propel Christian Israel to God's New Jerusalem. God's last plague on Egypt was the death of Egypt's first born. Not only was Esau/Edom the first born... Esau/Edom had fought against Jacob/Israel in the womb to become the first born [a sign they would forever be enemies.] Ironically, Isaiah 63:1-6, God's destruction of Edom, is followed by Isaiah 63:11-14, an interesting reference to how God's glorious arm rescued Israel from Egypt.

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Do you mean (as is sometimes claimed) that people of European stock are the "lost tribes" of Israel?


Assyria conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel and removed those Israelites [the vast majority of Israelites] from the Holy Land and resettled them among the gentiles [ie, nations] in the 8th century BC. One of the places some of those Israelites were relocated was the lands of the Aryan Medes. 2 Kings 17:6 & 2 Kings 18:11

A hundred years later, Babylon removed most of the Southern Kingdom Israelites [Judah] from the holy land. Then, Babylon [with its ally Edom] destroyed Jerusalem and the temple.

Based on my personal God-led study, I believe the Aryan Persian Achaemenids [ie, Cyrus and Darius] were descendants of those Israelites Assyria had resettled in the "cities of the Medes" - 2 Kings 17:6 & 2 Kings 18:11. Cyrus united the Medes and Persians into one empire and conquered Babylon, liberating the Southern Kingdom Israelites and decreed some of them return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. Darius decreed the completion of the second temple.

At the time of Christ, per James 1:1 the vast majority of Israelites... all 12 tribes... were living as gentiles [ie, nations.] They were the Israelite wild olive branches among the gentiles that were to be grafted back on the olive tree. [Olive is a Biblical symbol for Israel.] Jesus said He was sent ONLY to the lost sheep of Israel - Matthew 15:24. Jesus said His sheep hear His voice and follow Him - John 10:27. Jesus also said those who did NOT believe and follow Him are NOT His sheep [ie, NOT Israelites] - John 10:24-27. The antichrists were Edomite [fake] Jews who ruled Judea at the time of Christ. Their patriarch "father" was Esau who God hated [ See John 8:42-44, Revelation 2:9 and Revelation 3:9 which relates to Romans 9:13 and Malachi 1:1-4.] Jesus sent His disciples to seek His lost Israelite sheep who had been lost for centuries scattered as gentiles [ie, nations] and they became Christians. This fulfilled a prophecy in Isaiah 65:15 that says God would call His people by another name [ie, Christians.] Israelites were first called Christians in the book of Acts.

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AlasBabylon said in post #172:

Like the tares in Jesus' wheat and tares parable... Edomites now live worldwide. So I have wondered myself in what specific manner God would accomplish it.

Regarding the parable of the wheat and the tares (Matthew 13:24-30,36-43), in Matthew 13:38 the good seed are elect people, of whatever race, and the tares are nonelect people, of whatever race. Nonelect people are the human children of Satan, who cannot ever believe in Jesus Christ (John 8:42-47). Matthew 13:40-42 will not (as is sometimes claimed) occur at Jesus' future, Second Coming, but will occur at the Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-14), after the future Millennium and subsequent events (Revelation 20:7-10), when non-Christians of all times will be cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:15). In Matthew 13:43, the Kingdom of God the Father is after the Great White Throne Judgment, when a New Earth, as in a new surface for the earth, will be created and God the Father will descend from heaven in His literal city of New Jerusalem to live with the Church on the New Earth (Revelation 21:1-3).

AlasBabylon said in post #172:

Gog is the end of the age villain catalyst to propel Christian Israel to God's New Jerusalem.

Regarding "the end of the age", that brought to mind:

Matthew 24:3 . . . what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

Here the original Greek word (G0165) translated as "world" can be translated as "age" (Ephesians 2:7, Colossians 1:26).

While the apostles of the Church asked Jesus Christ about the end of the age (Matthew 24:3), He did not tell them that the end of the age would occur (as is sometimes claimed) before the future Tribulation of Matthew 24 and Revelation chapters 6 to 18, or even at the end of the Tribulation, that is, at Jesus' post-tribulation, Second Coming (Matthew 24:29-31), or when the end of the age would occur, just as Jesus did not tell His apostles other things during His ministry (John 16:12). It would not be until later that Jesus would show the apostle John, through the vision in the book of Revelation (given about 95 AD: Irenaeus, Against Heresies 5:30:3c), that the end of the age, when all non-Christians of all times will be cast into the eternal suffering of the lake of fire and brimstone (Matthew 13:40, Matthew 25:41, Revelation 20:15), will not occur until over 1,000 years after Jesus' future, Second Coming (Revelation 19:7 to 20:15).

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AlasBabylon said in post #173:

Jesus said He was sent ONLY to the lost sheep of Israel - Matthew 15:24.

Note that Matthew 15:24,26, like Mark 7:27, meant that the children of Israel needed to be ministered to before Gentiles (Matthew 10:5-6), not that Gentiles would never be ministered to, because they would be (John 10:16, Mark 16:15, Romans 1:16, Isaiah 49:6).

Jesus Christ's Gospel of salvation goes to Jews first (Romans 1:16, Matthew 10:5-6, Matthew 15:24, Acts 3:26), and salvation is of the Jews (John 4:22b), because salvation is of the New Covenant (Matthew 26:28; 1 Corinthians 11:25; 2 Corinthians 3:6, Hebrews 9:15), which God has made only with Israel (Jeremiah 31:31-34). Christian Gentiles are grafted into Israel so that they can partake of the salvation offered by God to Israel (Romans 11:17,24, Ephesians 2:12,19, Galatians 3:29, John 10:16). And all Christians, whether Jews (Acts 22:3) or Gentiles (Romans 16:4b), have become spiritually-circumcised Jews if they have undergone the spiritual circumcision of water-immersion (burial) baptism into Jesus (Romans 2:29, Philippians 3:3, Colossians 2:11-13).

AlasBabylon said in post #173:

Jesus also said those who did NOT believe and follow Him are NOT His sheep [ie, NOT Israelites] - John 10:24-27.

John 10:26-27 means that those who are Jesus Christ's sheep (elect people, of whatever race) will hear His voice in His Word (the Bible), and will eventually believe in Him at some point during their lifetime (Acts 13:48b), while those who are not His sheep (nonelect people, of whatever race) cannot ever hear (accept) His Word and believe in Him (John 8:42-47). Elect people come to Jesus Christ and get saved from hell only because they had previously been given to Jesus by God the Father (John 6:37). And they come to Jesus only by God the Father drawing them to Jesus (John 6:44). Christian faith is a miraculous gift from God (Ephesians 2:8, John 6:65; 1 Corinthians 3:5b, Romans 12:3b, Hebrews 12:2). Elect people believe and are initially saved by God's choice, not their choice (Romans 9:16, John 1:13, John 15:16). But the ultimate salvation of elect people will depend on their choices subsequent to their initial salvation (Hebrews 10:26-29, Hebrews 6:4-8, Matthew 25:26,30). For salvation does not take away free will.
 
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the good seed are elect people, of whatever race, and the tares are nonelect people, of whatever race. Nonelect people are the human children of Satan, who cannot ever believe in Jesus Christ (John 8:42-47).

Yes, I think that people (ie: liberals) sometimes forget that Christianity is exclusionary, elitist, and a matter of racial superiority and separatism; the two races being the elite Children of God and the excluded Children of Satan.
 
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Regarding the parable of the wheat and the tares (Matthew 13:24-30,36-43), in Matthew 13:38 the good seed are elect people, of whatever race, and the tares are nonelect people, of whatever race.



Race does matter. That is the root of the continuing conflict between Jacob/Israel and Esau/Edom. The grave sin in Noah's day was race-mixing. Ironically, In Luke 17, Jesus said the evil end of the age would be as in the "days of Noah" [ie, race-mixing] and "days of Lot" [ie, sodomites.]

Ancient Babylon [like modern Babylon today] was a sinful melting-pot of diverse races, religions, cultures. Read Ezra chapter 9. When the Israelites were in Babylonian captivity, some of them [like Esau did centuries before] sinned by intermarrying with forbidden women. God's prophet, Ezra, condemned them for this grave sin and they put away the foreign wives and hybrid offspring.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

Ezra 9:2

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Yes, I think that people (ie: liberals) sometimes forget that Christianity is exclusionary, elitist, and a matter of racial superiority and separatism; the two races being the elite Children of God and the excluded Children of Satan.


The word, satan, means adversary. That is all it means. It does not refer to an imaginary supernatural demi-god. Jacob/Israel has an evil twin [Esau/Edom]... but God does not.

The word, Lucifier, is only found in Isaiah 14 and is used as a descriptive word for the fall of the [human] king of Babylon.

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Inkfingers said in post #175:

- the Third temple has already been built...

Do you mean the Church?

If so, note that while the Church as a whole is indeed a figurative temple building (Ephesians 2:21), it is not the only temple of God. For it coexisted with the literal, second temple building which was in Jerusalem in the first century AD (Luke 24:53, Acts 2:46, Acts 22:17), just as the Church coexisted, and still coexists today, with the literal temple building in heaven (Revelation 11:19), and with the temple of Jesus Christ's individual human body (John 2:21), and with the temple of every Christian's individual human body (1 Corinthians 6:19). And if the Church-as-a-whole temple can currently coexist with all of these other temples of God, it will be able to coexist with the future, third, earthly, literal temple building which Revelation 11:1-2, Matthew 24:15, Daniel 11:31,36, and 2 Thessalonians 2:4 show will exist in Jerusalem during the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24. This third temple will be accepted by God as a valid temple, just as the second temple was accepted by God as a valid temple, even at the time of Jesus' first coming (Matthew 23:21), and even at the time of the early Church (Luke 24:53, Acts 2:46, Acts 22:17).

For the ultra-Orthodox Jews will build the third temple, and they will offer animal sacrifices in front of it, under the auspices of the Old Covenant Mosaic law, which remains holy before God (Romans 7:12). This is why God still keeps an ark of the Old Covenant Mosaic law in His temple building in heaven (Revelation 11:19), and why it was possible for the apostle Paul one time to involve himself with the second temple's Old Covenant Mosaic law practices without him committing sin (Acts 21:20-26; 1 Corinthians 9:20). This is not to say that the Jesus-denying motives of the ultra-Orthodox Jews will be holy before God, but that the Old Covenant Mosaic law third temple in itself and its animal sacrifices in themselves will be holy before God, because the Old Covenant Mosaic law in itself remains holy before God (Romans 7:12), even though its letter is no longer meant to be practiced by people (Romans 7:6), because the New Covenant has been inaugurated by Jesus Christ and His once-for-all-time sacrifice on the Cross for our sins (Hebrews 10:1-23, Matthew 26:28).
 
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AlasBabylon said in post #176:

Race does matter.

Note that race does not matter. That is why people of every race have been redeemed by Jesus Christ (Revelation 5:9b).

AlasBabylon said in post #176:

The grave sin in Noah's day was race-mixing.

Note that it wasn't.

For regarding interracial marriage, there is nothing wrong with it. And people need to watch out about speaking against it. For God accepted Moses marrying an Ethiopian woman, whereas Miriam was turned leprous white for looking down on Moses for doing that (Numbers 12). It was as if God were saying: "Do not exalt white skin". For the natural color of one's skin matters no more to God than the natural color of one's eyes. For He has made all races of "one blood" (Acts 17:26-28).

AlasBabylon said in post #176:

In Luke 17, Jesus said the evil end of the age would be as in the "days of Noah" [ie, race-mixing] and "days of Lot" [ie, sodomites.]

In Luke 17:26-30 and Matthew 24:37-39, the point of the comparison is that non-Christian people, of whatever race, will not be expecting to be killed by Jesus Christ at His future, Second Coming, but will be eating and drinking without worry right up to the day of the Second Coming.

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AlasBabylon said in post #177:

The word, satan, means adversary. That is all it means. It does not refer to an imaginary supernatural demi-god.

Note that Satan is a literal, seven-headed, red, serpentine dragon (Revelation 12:3,9), also called Leviathan (Isaiah 27:1, Psalms 74:14, Job 41:1,34). He could have begun his existence as a dinosaur born some 66 million years ago, near the end the age of the dinosaurs. Over millions of years before his birth, his dinosaur species could have evolved (or been miraculously granted by God) to have consciousness as we know it. And his seven-headedness, which could have been a fortuitous (or a miraculous) mutation, could have been heralded by his species as the arrival of a super-consciousness into the world. As he grew up as a conscious dinosaur, Leviathan could have come to know and worship God with all of his heart. God could have then granted him immortality, and taken him into heaven to serve God as a cherub. Cherubim are a type of angelic being (Ezekiel 10) which could include individuals shaped like different animals, like how seraphim are a different type of angelic being (Isaiah 6:2-3) which includes individuals shaped like different animals (Revelation 4:7-8). As a cherub in heaven, Leviathan could have been assigned to the office of "the morning star", and so been given the name "Lucifer", which means "the morning star".

After spending some 66 million years in heaven as a very contented cherub, and perhaps as even one of the greatest angelic beings in heaven, Lucifer could have been assigned by God to go to the earth to be a "covering cherub" over the Garden of Eden (Ezekiel 28:13-14), to watch over that special, local garden, and its special, individual humans named Adam and Eve, miraculously created by God only some 6,000 years ago. God could have also at that time given the as-yet-unfallen Lucifer authority over all of the rest of the earth (cf. Luke 4:5-6). But Lucifer could have chafed at his new assignment, seeing it as wholly beneath his dignity. He could have felt like a long-time chief of staff of a U.S. President would feel if he were suddenly assigned by the President to leave his high position in the White House to go baby-sit two pet salamanders in a hothouse in Alaska.

From Eden, Lucifer could have repeatedly requested God to let him return to his high position in heaven, only to be refused, until Lucifer in his heart fell into rebellion against God, and vowed to himself that eventually he would ascend back into heaven, and take rule over all of the angelic beings there, regardless of what God wanted (Isaiah 14:13-14). And so the fallen Lucifer became Satan (cf. Luke 10:18), which means the "Adversary". While still in Eden, as possibly his first act of open rebellion against God, Satan decided to deceive Eve into disobeying God (Genesis 3), knowing that this would result in her (and her offspring) becoming mortal (Genesis 2:17). In the future, Satan will deceive the world (Revelation 12:9) into worshipping himself and the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast") (Revelation 13:4-8), knowing that this will result in billions of people ending up in eternal suffering (Revelation 14:9-11), the same eternal suffering which he knows that he himself will end up in (Revelation 12:12c, Revelation 20:10,15, Matthew 25:41,46).

Lucifer will deceive the world into worshipping him after he loses a war in heaven at the midpoint of the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, and is cast down to the earth permanently (Revelation 12:7 to 13:4). But instead of coming down looking defeated, he could descend to the earth in a magnificent, gigantic golden spaceship for all the world to see. The world could see him as an "alien", but he could slither forth from his spaceship and say something like: "Greetings! Be not alarmed. I assure you that I am no alien, but a fellow earthling, born and raised on this planet millions of years ago. I have come to help you through this terrible tribulation which you are experiencing, and to show you how you might eventually return with me back into a much better, higher realm of existence, wholly beyond this evil, material universe".

He could then foist upon the world an updated version of an ancient Gnostic lie: "Listen, my fellow earthlings! None of us belong here. We did not start out here, but all started out as wholly-spiritual beings, even wholly-divine beings, residing in utter bliss from all eternity in the Pleroma, what you would call Heaven, the higher realm which I will eventually take you back to. During the endless ages of our past existence in the Pleroma, we were not averse to partaking in a great variety of different entertainments. So when YHWH, who was one of us, yet of greater consciousness than any one of us, announced that he had devised a marvelous new form of entertainment, we were ready to give it a try.

"YHWH said that he had created a physical universe (this one), which to us was like what you would call a virtual reality, like the ones you create using computers. And he said that we could enter this universe, and interact with all of its amazing physical life-forms and objects, by temporarily taking upon ourselves physical bodies, which to us was the equivalent of what you would call a virtual-reality headset, gloves, etc., which some of you wear on your bodies when you want to wholly immerse yourselves in the virtual realities which you create with computers.

"But then YHWH proposed another aspect to his entertainment which we all most foolishly accepted. He said that in order to increase the intensity of our experience in his universe, he would use his greater consciousness to hypnotize each of ours, so that while we were in his universe, each of us would think that all we were were physical entities within his material universe. We would completely forget that we were actually wholly-divine beings, and had been from all eternity, dwelling in bliss in the Pleroma.

"When one of us asked YHWH: 'But what if we don't like our experience in your universe, and want to exit it and return here to the Pleroma? How could we ever notify you of our wishes, when under your hypnotic spell we will have no knowledge of that option?' YHWH answered in a very assuring manner that he would be able to instantly extricate any one of us whom he saw was not enjoying his new entertainment. We all believed him, because he had not yet shown his true nature to anyone. We had no idea that in his heart he was actually an evil, cruel tyrant, who all along had been planning to imprison, enslave, and torture all of us within his diabolical device (this physical universe).

"But during my great sufferings in YHWH's physical realm, and the great struggles of my consciousness, my spirit, to find a way of escaping it, my spirit eventually grew in power to be equal to YHWH's, and so I was able to break myself free from his hypnotic spell, and regain all of my divine power. I can show you the way to do the same thing, but you must be willing to join with me now with all of your own consciousnesses, your own spirits. You must be willing to love and worship me now completely, so that the power of all of your spirits might become joined with the power of my own, greater spirit, and eventually break completely free from YHWH's hypnotic spell. Then you will regain all of your own, divine power, like I did, and together we will defeat YHWH, and we will escape this vile, material universe, and ascend back to the Pleroma, and to our bliss as gods, doing what we please, forever"
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The world will actually believe this lie (or something similar to it), for it will be accompanied by the most amazing miracles (e.g. Revelation 13:13), performed by the power of Lucifer/Satan himself (2 Thessalonians 2:9), and because it will be accompanied by a strong delusion sent by YHWH God on the unrepentant world (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12). But the world will worship Lucifer (and his human son the Antichrist) for less than four years (Revelation 13:4-18, Daniel 12:11-12) before Jesus Christ (who is YHWH: John 10:30, Zechariah 14:3-4) returns from heaven and defeats them completely (Revelation 19:20 to 20:3). Jesus will then set up his own, 1,000-year, physical kingdom on the earth with the physically resurrected Church (Revelation 20:4-6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 2:26-29).
 
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Race does matter. That is the root of the continuing conflict between Jacob/Israel and Esau/Edom. The grave sin in Noah's day was race-mixing. Ironically, In Luke 17, Jesus said the evil end of the age would be as in the "days of Noah" [ie, race-mixing] and "days of Lot" [ie, sodomites.]

Ancient Babylon [like modern Babylon today] was a sinful melting-pot of diverse races, religions, cultures. Read Ezra chapter 9. When the Israelites were in Babylonian captivity, some of them [like Esau did centuries before] sinned by intermarrying with forbidden women. God's prophet, Ezra, condemned them for this grave sin and they put away the foreign wives and hybrid offspring.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

Ezra 9:2

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Perhaps you are thinking of bloodlines and not race.
 
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