Show us mortals still alive on the earth in Matthew 25:46.
Then explain why Peter was wrong about the fire coming on "the day of the Lord", when He "comes as a thief", in 2 Peter 3:10-13.
Then explain why Paul was wrong about Christ judging both the living, and the dead, at His appearing, in 2 Timothy 4:1.
Then explain why Paul said the fire comes at His return in 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10.
Ignore all of the scriptue above, and then maybe you can make your Premill doctrine work.
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Let us take these one by one.
Matt. 25 the context of 46 starts in 31:
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
When Jesus returns to earth- He judges the peoples left survivng from the campaign of Armeggedon! The goats are the unsaved- the sheep are the saved! They go into the millenial kingdom and have eternal life! You are welcome!
2 Peter 3:1010 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
This is not the rapture but the great white throne judgment.
Day of the Lord when not modified by actions or other things always refers to teh 70th week of Daniel. As this is modified by events- we look for th ose events and we see them at the great white throne.
You are welcome.
2 Tim 4:1
2 Timothy 4 King James Version (KJV)
4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
These are the two times Jesus judges people. Th efirst time when he returns to earth, (Matt. 25) Th esecond time is at the great white throne
Revelation 20 King James Version (KJV)
20 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Now for 2 thess. 1:7-10
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 King James Version (KJV)
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
This is the day of His physical return to earth and not the rapture!
REv. 19:
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.
Matt. 25: 31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
I don't ignore them, I relish them! They all show the physical return of Jesus to establish His physical kingdom that will last for 1,000 years! or after the 1,000 years and teh final great white throne judgment right before eternity is set up!
See when allegorists spiritualize away the hundreds upon hundreds of verses in the Old TEstament where God unconditionally promised the nation of Israel a kingdom on earth- they get all messed up with teh New Testament Scriptures and have to spiritualize things that are plainly and explicitly literal.
