Even when you quote it out and paste it you butcher and maim it. for example Tells us all in Isaiah 13 where the mountains melt and stars are said to fall rather than just not give their light. I'll wait for the verse number. I know it must be there since you admonished me to read it carefully and your post said its there
Well if not Isaiah 13, lets try these previously fulfilled verses:
Psalm 97:5
The
mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Isaiah 34:3
Also their slain shall be thrown out; Their stench shall rise from their corpses, And the
mountains shall be
melted with their blood.
Micah 1:4
The
mountains will
melt under Him, And the valleys will split Like wax before the fire, Like waters poured down a steep place.
Nahum 1:5
The
mountains quake before Him, The hills
melt, And the earth heaves at His presence, Yes, the world and all who dwell in it.
Daniel 8:10 And it grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down
some of the host and
some of the
stars to the ground, and trampled them.
The fact is, you take specific apocalyptic language in the OT and interpret it in polar opposite fashion to the same language when you find it in the NT, without any scriptural instruction to do so.
You do so solely because of previously held bias and because you can't let go of un biblical traditions.
I'm confident I've done a good enough job to enlighten our readers to this fact, but I'll add some more for good measure:
Jehovah's OT apocalypses are always described as Jehovah coming down and leading armies, and shooting arrows, and bowing or rolling up the heavens and
destroying the earth and such. Those OT events had corresponding judgments on earth, but the Jews knew Jehovah never literally and physically did those things. Yet the prophets spoke in very physical/literal terms about those judgments:
*Yahweh came down and shot his arrows at Saul and his armies, destroying the earth and the heavens at the time (2 Sam 22:8-16)
*Yahweh came down and shot his arrows over Greece and blew His trumpet (
Zechariah 9:13-16);
*Yahweh came down riding a cloud to beat up on Egypt (Isa 19:1-2);
*Yahweh made bare his Holy Arm in the eyes of all nations (Isa 52:10);
*Yahweh came to the Israelites at Sinai and Seir with Ten Thousand of His Saints and led a march on the fields of Edom (Deut 33:2;
Judges 5:4-5);
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Yahweh destroyed the universe when he judged Israel through Babylon (Jer 4:22-30) and did so again when he judged Egypt by Babylon (Ezekiel 32:2-8).
So also did Christ do these things when "the Lord of the Vineyard came" in AD 66-70 and was to them the Stone that crushed them to powder and removed the Kingdom of God from them (
Matthew 21:40-45).
Again, not Rocket Surgery or even Brain Science. Just scripture, in context, at face value, applied
consistently.
But, feel free to show us where the Bible alone teaches you to interpret "God Rides a swift Cloud" and was "seen by the eyes of all nations" in polar opposite fashion to "He is coming on the clouds and every eye shall see".
