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Fictional? How about figurative? Who is this beast?
G2342 θηρα brutal person; (figuratively) destruction
This word is Greek. We were discussing the 'beast" Daniel saw in a dream. And Daniel was written in Aramaic and Hebrew.
Rev 19:19 And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
Not relevant unless you can show relevance to the "beast" in Daniel's dream.
Exactly! Annihilated: destroy something: to destroy something completely, especially so that it ceases to exist,
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That means vaporized as smoke and Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment.
Psa 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Wax melts and smoke blows away neither one ceases to exist.
Deu 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
"blot out his name from under heaven" does not necessarily mean annihilate, cease to exist. There are many people whose names have been blotted out under the sun. Ordinary people who lived 100+ years ago nobody remembers their names.
Psa 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
The fat of lambs and smoke does not cease to exist. Psalm 37 is not about the eternal fate of sinful mankind but what happens to Israel's enemies in this world.
Psa 37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Cut down grass and withered herbs is not destruction or annihilation.
Psa 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Cut off does not mean destruction or annihilaton. See vs. 2, above.
Psa 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
Israel cannot look into the hereafter, they can only see that their enemies no longer attack them.
Psa 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Psa 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Psa 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
The wicked attacking Israel, their swords will pierce their own hearts and their bows will be broken is not destruction or annihilation.
Psa 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous
Broken arms is not destruction or annihilation.
It would be helpful if you would comment on the scripture given instead of evading it by asking "What is the Point"
How can I comment on scripture unless you state a premise you are trying to show with the scripture. For example, my comment on 2Ths 1:9, above. this vs. does not prove complete destruction or annihilation "everlasting destruction from the face of the Lord, 'and from the glory of His power'" If something is destroyed, nonexistant it cannot be "from the face of the Lord" or anything else. Destruction in this verse is synonymous with being away from the presence of the Lord.
Can you explain this away without saying "what is the point"? The point is with what kind of intelligence do you respond to the exegesis or critical explanation or interpretation of a text such as:
If you provide "exegesis" I will address it, but you did not provide "exegesis" just as you have not provided any exegesis for the scrpture quoted below.
Hos 13:3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Chaff and smoke blows away. None of these things cease to exist.
Ps 1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Does not prove destruction or annihilation. The chaff does not cease to exist. it is blown to another place.
Mat 13:51 Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things?
Mat 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the repository; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
This does not prove destruction or annihilation. Chaff is not something distinct from the wheat, it is the inedible part of the wheat.
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