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ThomasGuthler said in post 39:

I actually made a printed version out of your blog and your older posts from the year 2008 - 2010 (pre-blog-era). It consists of 7 volumes and is split up into 46 Main Topics . . .

Thank you for letting me see your work. It is very encouraging.

Also, it is a great idea to organize the notes by topic. (That is how I originally organized them, personally, on my hard-drive. My file on full preterism ended up becoming the largest, as it ends up affecting the interpretation of the most verses. Full preterism is wisely banned, generally, on this forum. For I saw it take over and ruin another forum. It is akin to -- although, of course, not as bad as -- Gnosticism, Biblical Christianity's past and future greatest enemy.)

I switched to a verse-based index of the notes when it proved more wieldy to searches, generally, while replying to online discussions of specific verses.

Also, it is great that you made printouts, and that they include scripture quotations. For during the future tribulation, the Antichrist will utterly delete all Biblical Christian information found anywhere on the internet, so as to further his deception of the world, just as he will try to rid the world of all online and printed KJV/Textus Receptus Bibles. So it will be good to have multiple printouts and multiple printed KJV Bibles which can be hidden away in various places for future reference.

ThomasGuthler said in post 39:

I actually made a printed version out of your blog and your older posts from the year 2008 - 2010 (pre-blog-era).

Can you post to this thread all the entries in your printed version that aren't in the blog? For example, I see that Isaiah 54:1-2 has a note under it in your printed version, but it is not in the blog. That way I can review the older posts in your printed version and add to the blog all the notes which are not already there.

To make what you post here relevant to your title to this thread, you could post them in the sense of asking: "Do you still agree with what you said in these older posts? For you haven't included these comments in your blog". It could turn out that I still agree with all of them, but it would be interesting to see if that is the case. Also, it would be interesting to see if they can now be improved in any important way, just as the aim is to be constantly improving the notes in the blog.

Thanks again for letting me see the results of your work.
 
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Examples of entries from older posts not in the blog would be:

Baptism:

It doesn't seem that there was any regular Jewish practice of "baptism" before John the Baptist and the advent of Jesus. But there was a Jewish practice called "mikvah", which was a ritual immersion in water in order to regain ritual purity under the Mosaic law, after the excretion of certain bodily fluids had made one ritually unclean, such as during menstruation, childbirth, sexual intercourse, or nocturnal emission, or from pus-emitting sores or ulcers of the skin. Mikvah can also be employed in some other ways such as a sign of conversion to Judaism, as a way to ritually prepare a dead body for burial, in the ritual consecration of priests, ritually dealing with leprosy, or ritually preparing oneself for a sacred holiday.

It doesn't seem that mikvah was about repentance from sin, in the sense of one deciding to turn away from willful, impure actions which one has commited by the lusts of one's own heart. Instead, mikvah seems to be more about washing oneself physically for ritual purification, when one is made ritually unclean under the Mosaic law, in some manner that doesn't necessarily involve any sin on one's part. Under the Mosaic law, the way sins were dealt with was through the shedding of the blood of animals and offering them in sacrifice to God (Leviticus 17:11). Just as the New Covenant's (Jeremiah 31:31-34) shedding of Christ's blood on the cross for our sins (Matthew 26:28) has forever replaced all of the Old Covenant's (Mosaic law's) animal sacrifices for sin (Hebrews 10), so the New Covenant has entirely replaced the Mosaic law (Hebrews 7:18-19) with all of its "diverse washings" (Hebrews 9:10), which would include mikvah.

The Biblical Greek word translated as "baptism" (Matthew 3:7) is transliterated as "baptisma", which is from "baptizo", which means to submerge (Mark 1:5) or wash (Mark 7:4). "Baptizo" is from "bapto", which means to dip in a liquid (Luke 16:24, John 13:26, Revelation 19:13). A related word, "baptismos", derived from "baptizo", and can refer to either baptism (Colossians 2:12) or washing, as in Hebrews 9:10, which refers to "diverse washings" (baptismos) which Jews practiced under the Mosaic law. In this case, it could be said that (in one's words) "there was a regular Jewish practice of baptism", including mikvah, but not in the sense of a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins (Acts 2:38), which seems to have started with John the Baptist in the time of Jesus (Mark 1:4-9).

Indeed, the Jews recognized that the particular baptism of John the Baptist was not any regular Jewish practice, but something very special indeed, for "they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?" (John 1:25). This suggests that the Jews had some expectation that a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins would come, but that it would be instituted only by the Messiah himself, and the returned Elijah (Malachi 4:5), and the special prophet foretold by Moses (Deuteronomy 18:15). While John the Baptist denied being Elijah himself (John 1:21), John the Baptist did come in the spirit and power of Elijah (Luke 1:17), so that Jesus said that John the Baptist was a fulfillment of the prophecy regarding the return of Elijah (Matthew 11:14). And, of course, John the Baptist pointed to Jesus as the Messiah, the Son of God (John 1:34, cf. Mark 14:61-62). Jesus is at the same time the special prophet foretold by Moses (Acts 3:22-26).

So if, based on John 1:25, the Jews were looking forward to the institution of a special baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, and they expected it to be instituted by the Messiah, and the returned Elijah, and the special prophet foretold by Moses, then Christian baptism is that special baptism.

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Hell:

"Hinnom" is the name of the person after whose son the "valley of the son of Hinnom", on the south side of Jerusalem, was named (Joshua 15:8). At the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon in the time of Jeremiah, this valley became representative of God's awful judgment, as it was the place where masses of dead bodies were cast unburied to rot out in the open for all to see (Jeremiah 7:32-34). Later, after Israel's return from the Babylonian Captivity, the valley became a garbage dump, where fires were set to try to burn up the garbage, so that smoke continually rose up from the valley.

These two images of a valley filled with rotting corpses by the judgment of God (cf. Isaiah 66:24) and fires with smoke continually rising (cf. Revelation 14:11) came together in the minds of the Jews to where the valley of Hinnom came to represent the eternal hell itself. This is why the name "Gehenna" (or "Ge-Hinnom"), "geenna" in the original Greek, is used in the Bible to refer to the eternal hell (Mark 9:45-46). "Geenna" is derived from the Hebrew words for "valley" (GY) and "Hinnom" (HNM).

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7 Churches:

All of the seven letters in Revelation chapters 2-3 were letters to actual 1st century churches in cities in the Roman province of "Asia" (Revelation 1:11b, cf. 1:4), just as all of the letters of the books of Romans, I & II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and I & II Thessalonians were letters to actual 1st century churches in cities in the Roman Empire.

The fact that the life of a Christian living today may resemble the lives of the Christians who lived in one of the seven actual 1st century churches in the seven cities in the Roman province of "Asia" doesn't mean that any of the seven letters in Revelation chapters 2-3 wasn't still a letter to an actual 1st century church in a city in the Roman province of "Asia", just as the fact that the life of a Christian living today may resemble the lives of the Christians who lived in one of the seven actual 1st century churches in the seven cities of the books of Romans, I & II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and I & II Thessalonians doesn't mean that any of the letters of Romans, I & II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, or I & II Thessalonians wasn't a letter to an actual 1st century church in a city in the Roman Empire.

At the same time, all scripture is profitable for us as Christians (2 Timothy 3:16), so we can learn lessons for our own lives by reading the letters to the seven actual 1st century churches in the seven cities in the Roman province of "Asia" in Revelation chapters 2-3, and by reading the letters of Romans, I & II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and I & II Thessalonians written to seven actual 1st century churches in seven cities in the Roman Empire.

So what lesson can we learn from God's protecting the 1st century church of Philadelphia from a 1st century persecution that came on all the Roman world (Revelation 3:10), and what lesson can we learn from God's not protecting the faithful 1st century church of Smyrna from that same 1st century persecution (Revelation 2:10)? The lesson we can learn is that God can choose to protect some in the Church while they remain on the earth, while not protecting others in the Church while they remain on the earth.
 
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More examples:

Antichrist:

Daniel 7:25 isn't referring to a Pope changing the time of the Sabbath, but refers to the coming Antichrist, who could radically change the calendar to where he gets rid of the seven-day week altogether, with its connotation to YHWH and His seven-day creation of the world (Genesis 2:2), for the Antichrist will revile YHWH (Revelation 13:6).

The Antichrist could do what the atheists of the French Revolution did: change the calendar to one consisting of ten-day weeks. Then he could say that every month will consist of three of these ten-day weeks, so that the year will consist of 12 months each with exactly 30 days. But because that makes the year only 360 days long, he could add a period at the end of the year consisting of five or six days.

Like they did in the French Revolution, the Antichrist could also change all the names of the twelve months to whatever pleases him. And he could change all the names of the ten days of the week to whatever pleases him.

The Antichrist's changing of "times" could even extend to the hour, minute, and second. He could replace the 60-second minute with a 10-second "new minute", and the 60-minute hour with a 10-new-minute "new hour", so that the decimal-based metric system will finally be extended to time-keeping.

But because the new 100-second new-hours would mean there would be 864 new-hours in a day, he could change the length of the second to a "new-second" consisting of about 86.4 of our current seconds, so that there will be exactly 10 new-hours in every day. Times shorter than the new-second would be metric: the deci-new-second, the centi-new-second (about .864 the length of our current second), the milli-new-second, etc.

So the Antichrist's "changing of times" could seem pretty neat to the world (and to metric-system-loving scientists): 10 days in a week, 10 hours in a day, 10 minutes in an hour, 10 seconds in a minute.

This could all be sold to the world as part of the "New World Order", as a way of "finally shedding all of the archaic time-keeping conventions of the past, and replacing them with a modern and scientific system of time-keeping in line with the metric system of weights and measures, which has already proven such a boon to mankind".

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Beasts:

Daniel 7:4-7a refers to the ancient empires of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome.

The bear of Daniel 7:5 was the ancient Persian empire.

The bear with three ribs in its mouth (Daniel 7:5) represents the ancient Persian Empire, which came to control the territory of three empires which came before it: Babylon, Assyria, and Egypt.

The leopard which comes after the bear (Daniel 7:6) represents the ancient Greek Empire of Alexander which came after the Persian Empire.

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Revelation 13:1 says, in the original Greek, that John sees on the seven heads "names of blasphemy". This doesn't mean that the past empires were named "Blasphemy", as in "Hey, Blasphemy, come over here", or "Blasphemy! Dinner time!" Instead, it means that all of the past empires set up the names of gods other than the God of the Bible as the supreme God.

Names of blasphemy could mean names which usurp the place of God, such as human rulers which claim to be divine, or which claim other gods other than God to be the supreme deity. Such has been the case with past, pagan empires, seven of which are represented by the seven heads of the symbolic beast.

The empire of the Antichrist having a mouth "as the mouth of a lion" (Revelation 13:2) could mean that the Antichrist will call it the empire of Babylon revived, for the empire of the Antichrist has to be a revival of one of the five empires which had fallen by the time of John the apostle (Revelation 17:8-11): Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, or Greece.

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The empire of the Beast that once was and will be again (Revelation 17:8,11) may not be the Medo-Persian Empire, but instead could be the Babylonian Empire. A United Arab States could have its capital in Baghgad, Iraq, which is close to the site of the ancient Babylon. The Antichrist could take over a United Arab States and then move the capital to the ancient site of Babylon (which Saddam Hussein began to rebuild), and there the Antichrist could eventually proclaim himself the resurrected Nebuchadnezzar and his empire the restored Babylonian Empire.

If we check out the old Roman Empire we see that much of the territory of present-day Iran wasn't a part of it and that most of the territory of present-day Iraq was a part of it. The Antichrist may initially take over some westernmost parts of Iran which may have been part of the old Roman Empire, as well as taking over all of Iraq and other parts of the Middle East. Then he could subsequently take over all of the Middle East, and then all of North Africa, and then all of Western Europe, so that his empire could be in effect become a new Roman Empire in its extent of territory.

Revelation 17 describes the empire of the Antichrist. Its seven heads (Revelation 17:3) represent the seven empires fallen by the time of the Antichrist, five of which had fallen by the time of John the Apostle in the first century (Revelation 17:10a): Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece. One of the heads of the Antichrist's empire represents the empire which existed during the time of John the Apostle (Revelation 17:10b): Rome. And one head represents an empire which wouldn't come until after the time of John the Apostle (Revelation 17:10c): possibly the various manifestations of what could be called the Empire of Islam.

The Antichrist's empire will be an eighth empire (Revelation 17:11b) that could be declared by the Antichrist as being the restoration of one of the empires that was before the time of John the Apostle but no longer existed by the time of John the Apostle (Revelation 17:11a): possibly the Babylonian Empire. And the Antichrist's empire could include territory of all of the seven empires (Revelation 17:11c) which existed before, during, and after the time of John the Apostle.

The Antichrist/beast could first take rule over parts of the Middle East, then the entire Arab world, then the European Union, then many other parts of the world, if not all parts (Revelation 13:7b) in the sense of every last part.

At a formal ceremony televised worldwide, the Antichrist, sitting upon a magnificent throne, could place crowns upon the heads of the ten people chosen by him to rule the ten major nations as kings. Then, in a well-rehearsed fashion (counterfeit to Revelation 4:10: "and cast their crowns before the throne"), the ten kings could all bow down before the Antichrist and cast their crowns before his throne. In this way the ten kings could publicly "give their power and strength unto the beast" (Revelation 17:13).

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2 Witnesses:

The two witnesses may not go to many different cities in the world, but could focus their ministry in Jerusalem, for Revelation 11:8 may not be referring to Mystery Babylon (Revelation 17:5) in its entirety, but could be focusing only upon Jerusalem, where Jesus was crucified.

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There are three different great cities in Revelation:

1. The great city in Revelation 11:8 and Revelation 16:19 is the literal city of Jerusalem, where Jesus was crucified.

2. The great city in Revelation 17:18 and Revelation 18:10 is the symbolic harlot/city of Babylon, which represents all of mankinds corrupt political (Revelation 17:18), economic (Revelation 18:11), and religious (Revelation 18:24) systems throughout the world (Revelation 18:3) and throughout history (Revelation 17:10).

3. The great city in Revelation 21:10 is the literal city of New Jerusalem, which is now in heaven.
 
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Thank you for posting these.

I appreciate you saving them, and the work that went into them.

I hope to bring the Daniel 7:25 entry into the blog right away, as I found it to be the most interesting at this time. The other entries will remain in this thread so they can be easily recalled and brought into the blog in the future.

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Can you post 3 more entries to this thread that aren't yet in the blog?

(Getting 100s at once in a file might be overwhelming. Also, a bit at a time will allow anyone reading this thread to ask questions or make comments regarding any of the old posts.)

Thank you for all your work.
 
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Other examples would be:

In Ezekiel 37, the resurrection described in verse 10 could refer to the political rebirth of Israel after its Babylonian Captivity, for Ezekiel 37:11 is referring to Israel in the time of Ezekiel, when it was in the Babylonian Captivity. The dry bones would then represent the loss of Israel's hope during that time (Ezekiel 37:11).

The "army" in Ezekiel 37:10 may not be literal in the sense of a military force sent out to attack or defend some territory, but could simply be a figurative way of expressing the size of the multitude of people seen by Ezekiel in his vision, like, for example, someone could say "there's a whole army of ants in the kitchen", meaning that there's a huge number of ants.

Ezekiel 37:11-12 could have been a metaphor for Israel in its Babylonian Captivity, and then its return to the land of Israel after that captivity. At the same time, Ezekiel 37:12-24 could also be the still-unfulfilled literal resurrection of the church, which will occur at the still-unfulfilled second coming of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:22-23, 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17, Revelation 19:11-20:6).

Ezekiel 37:11 suggests that Ezekiel 37:1-4 could be symbolic of the loss of hope of Israel in its Babylonian Captivity [which was happening at the time Ezekiel saw the vision of the dry bones].

Ezekiel 37:12-13 could refer not only to Israel's hope being restored to life at Israel's return to the land of Israel after its Babylonian Captivity (Ezra 2:1), but could have a double-meaning: it could at the same time have a future fulfillment at the literal resurrection of the church at the second coming (1 Corinthians 15:22-23, Revelation 20:4-6 [1 Thessalonians 4:16]), for the church is Israel (Revelation 21:9b,12b) …

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Note that the original Hebrew word translated as "house" in Zechariah 5:11 can mean a temple (1 Kings 6:3). A temple built for wickedness (Zechariah 5:8) in Shinar (in Iraq) could be a temple built for the Antichrist in Iraq (possibly in the literal, rebuilt city of Babylon). For the Antichrist is "that Wicked" (2 Thessalonians 2:8), and he will proclaim himself God (Daniel 11:36) and have the whole world worship him (Revelation 13:8).

Note that Strong's Hebrew Dictionary indicated above that the original Hebrew word translated as "house" in Zechariah 5:11 can be translated as "temple". That's how the word is translated five times in 2 Kings 11:10-13: "the temple of <H1004> the LORD"; "the temple <H1004>"; "the temple <H1004>"; "the temple <H1004>"; "the temple of <H1004> the LORD". And that's how the word is translated in 1 Chronicles 6:10: "the temple <H1004>". And that's how the word is translated in 1 Chronicles 10:10: "the temple of <H1004> Dagon". And that's how the word is translated three times in 2 Chronicles 23:10: "the temple <H1004>"; "the temple <H1004>"; "the temple <H1004>". And that's how the word is translated in 2 Chronicles 35:20: "the temple <H1004>". So Zechariah 5:11 could very well be referring to a "temple".

This temple could be made the spiritual center of the whole world, so that people from all around the world will want to come up to the temple in Babylon to worship Lucifer the dragon and the Antichrist (the beast), and a living, speaking image of the Antichrist: "And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast ... And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him" (Revelation 13:4,8). "And [the False Prophet] had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed" (Revelation 13:15).

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In Revelation 17:4-5, the scarlet and purple don't represent only Jerusalem (in its corrupt aspect), but all the corrupt wealth and power on the earth, for scarlet was expensive clothing worn by the well to do (2 Samuel 1:24, Lamentations 4:5), and purple was royal clothing (Mark 15:17-18, Judges 8:26) and clothing worn by the rich (Luke 16:19).
 
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Thanks for these.

Regarding the Ezekiel 37 paragraphs, I hope to combine them somewhat and bring them into the blog today.

And so, thanks to you, this will fill a gap in the blog. (Who could leave out the vision of dry bones?)

Also, the paragraphs seem to be from multiple, different old posts, which you have brought together by topic. It's good that you included all of the paragraphs, since they each seem to contain some detail or angle not in the others, even though when taken together they repeat some details, due to them having been posted at different times.

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Regarding the Zechariah 5:11 paragraphs, I hope to similarly combine, and also condense, and make an addition, to them and bring them also into the blog today. For while the idea of a temple to the Antichrist in Babylon is found in multiple other places in the blog, the idea deserves its own entry, and at its scriptural source.

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Regarding the Revelation 17:4 paragraph, it can also be brought into the blog, filling another gap, thanks to you.

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Can you post 3 more entries to this thread that aren't yet in the blog?

Thanks.
 
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Thank you for your work as well.

Regarding Revelation 17:4, the purple and scarlet are also often associated with the catholic church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clergy#/media/File:Belgische_Bisschoppen.jpg

Some of the older posts are not specific to one vers, but are around one theme, so it´s often not possible to integrate them into the normal scheme (from Genesis to Revelation). Because of that I made at the end of most Topics an attachment-section which contains more general posts and discussions.

Don´t know if that´s interesting for you, an example would be this text on sacrifice:

Way back in ancient times, God could have allowed Jephthah to sacrifice his only child as a burnt offering (Judges 11:31,39) because she was a willing sacrifice (Judges 11:36), just as God allowed the sacrifice of his only child Jesus (John 3:16) because Jesus was a willing sacrifice (John 10:17). Note also 2 Kings 3:27.

The fact that God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his only child as a burnt offering (Genesis 22:2) shows that it was possible for God way back in ancient times to accept human sacrifice, just as God would later accept the human sacrifice of his only child Jesus (Isaiah 53). But nothing says that Isaac was a willing sacrifice (Genesis 22:7), for Abraham may have had to bind Isaac in order to keep him on the altar (Genesis 22:9). And God's command to sacrifice Isaac was only a test of Abraham's obedience to God (Genesis 22:12).

Now, in these days, no one should ever think that God would accept them sacrificing their children as burnt offerings, even if their children were willing sacrifices, for Jesus' sacrifice has put an end to all such sacrifices for all time (Hebrews 10:5-18). So now, in these days, after the sacrifice of Jesus, if any people think that God is commanding them to sacrifice their children as burnt offerings, it's not God commanding them to do that, but their own insanity, or the devil, who loves to deceive people with lies into committing murder (John 8:44).

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In this NT (New Testament/New Covenant) era, there are various sacrifices which are acceptable to God:

1. The only acceptable sacrifice to God for our sins is the one-time NT sacrifice made by Jesus Christ himself on the Cross (Matthew 26:28, Hebrews 10). Our sins can be forgiven only by our faith in Jesus' atoning, shed blood (Romans 3:25; 1 John 1:7-9).

2. Besides having faith in Jesus' NT sacrifice, we must also make the entirety of our own bodily lives upon this earth a sacrifice to God: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" (Romans 12:1-2).

3. When we do good works for God and give material support to others in need, this is an acceptable sacrifice to God: "to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased" (Hebrews 13:16; see also Philippians 4:18). Also, when we praise and thank God, this is an acceptable sacrifice: "therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name" (Hebrews 13:15).

4. Also, when people become saved by someone's preaching the gospel to them, they become an acceptable sacrifice to God (Romans 15:16).

5. Also, when Paul was expecting to be martyred, he called his martyrdom a sacrifice to God (2 Timothy 4:6). This is why the souls of the martyrs reside under the altar in heaven (Revelation 6:9-11).

6. With regard to the OT (Old Covenant/Old Testament) Mosaic animal sacrifices which will be restarted during the coming tribulation by the ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel after they have built a third temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (Revelation 11:1-2, Daniel 11:31,36, Matthew 24:15; 2 Thessalonians 2:4), the restarted OT sacrifices themselves will be acceptable to God because they will be performed exactly according to the OT law, and the entire OT law remains perfectly holy before God: "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good" (Romans 7:12).

It's because the OT law remains completely holy before God that he still keeps his copy of the OT ark in his temple building in heaven (Revelation 11:19). And it's because the OT law remains completely holy before God that Paul the apostle after his conversion was able to without committing sin be involved with some Christian Jews having OT-law sacrifices offered on their behalf: "Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them" (Acts 21:26).

However, when it comes to the animal sacrifices for sin (as opposed to sacrifices not for sin, such as sacrificies of thanksgiving, etc.) which the ultra-Orthodox Jews will offer before the third temple, God will not accept their motive for offering those sacrifices for sin, for the ultra-Orthodox Jews will be offering the OT animal sacrifices for sin out of their sinful denial of the NT sacrifice of Christ himself, which has completely and forever replaced all of the OT animal sacrifices for sin (Hebrews 10).

7. Also, when Jesus returns and rules the earth from Jerusalem during the coming millennium (Zechariah 14:4-19), he will build a fourth temple in Jerusalem (Zechariah 6:12 -13) before which NT animal sacrifices (for things other than sin, such as thanksgiving and remembrance) will be offered (Zechariah 14:20-21). Because our present practice of eating the bread and wine of communion in remembrance of Jesus' sacrifice may cease at the second coming of Jesus (1 Corinthians 11:26), during the millennium, communion could be replaced by NT animal sacrifices offered in remembrance of Jesus' sacrifice.

8. When all the saved Gentiles enter into the city of New Jerusalem (along with all the saved Jews) (Revelation 21:26), after it descends to the new earth (Revelation 21:1-5) after the millennium, Gog/Magog event, and white throne judgment (Revelation 20:7-21:5), all the saved Gentiles themselves will be the acceptable sacrifice to God (Romans 15:16) in New Jerusalem.

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Some other examples on specific verses:


The kingdom of Judah came to include people from all 12 tribes of Israel (2 Chronicles 11:16-17).

2 Chronicles 11:16-17 doesn't refer to an infinitesimal number, but to a number large enough to actually strengthen the kingdom of Judah.

… for because of 2 Chronicles 11:16-17 the house of Israel existed in Judaea in the first century (Matthew 10:6, Matthew 15:24, Acts 2:36).

The descendants of the Israelites who weren't taken captive by Assyria, but had become part of the kingdom of Judah hundreds of years earlier (2 Chronicles 11:16-17), did return to Jerusalem along with the rest of the kingdom of Judah after the Babylonian Captivity, and so they would have been called Jews like all the rest (Ezra 5:1).

The Assyrians didn't capture everyone in the 10 northern tribes, because hundreds of years earlier some people from each of the 10 northern tribes came to live in and become part of the southern kingdom of Judah (2 Chronicles 11:16-17).

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While Ezekiel 36:10 will be fulfilled during the millennium, the idea of Ezekiel 36:10, by itself, would also apply to the return of the kingdom of Judah to the land of Israel after its Babylonian Captivity, for the kingdom of Judah came to include individuals from all of Israel long before the Babylonian Captivity (2 Chronicles 11:16-17).

The idea of Ezekiel 36:10, by itself, would also apply to the return of the Jews to the land of Israel in modern times, for the Jews include the descendants of those who were in the kingdom of Judah, which came to include individuals from all of Israel.

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Zechariah 6:12 refers to God-made-flesh Jesus, whose own body of flesh is a temple (John 2:21), making the bodies of flesh of his people into temples now (1 Corinthians 6:19), and building them together into a greater temple of the church now (Ephesians 2:20-22), and also at his second coming building a literal temple-building in Jerusalem for use during the millennium (Zechariah 14:20-21).

Note that Zechariah 6:12-13 could include reference to the literal temple building which will exist in Jerusalem during the millennium: [(Zechariah 14:20-21)]. Jesus could build this temple building in Jerusalem after his second coming, which had just been described earlier in the chapter (Zechariah 14:3-21). So the throne and ruling of Zechariah 6:13 would be the throne of David (Luke 1:32, Isaiah 9:7) which Jesus will rule from on the earth in Jerusalem (Micah 4:1-4, Zechariah 14:8-21) with the church during the millennium (Revelation 20:4-6, 5:10, 2:26-29).
 
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ThomasGuthler said in post 47:

Regarding Revelation 17:4, the purple and scarlet are also often associated with the catholic church.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clergy#/media/File:Belgische_Bisschoppen.jpg

Thanks for pointing that out. I have seen that association made during online discussions in the past. So I'll add that point to the entry, in the sense of denying the idea that Revelation's figurative "Babylon" must represent only the RCC

For while the corrupt aspects of the RCC (as of other churches) are included in what Revelation's symbolic "Babylon" (Revelation chapters 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 (Revelation 17:18). Nor is the RCC the only religion under which people buy merchandise (Revelation 18:11). Nor is the RCC the only religion under which all martyrs have been killed (Revelation 18:24). Nor has the RCC just by itself corrupted the entire world (Revelation 18:3). Nor has the RCC been continuously supported by the empires of fallen man throughout history (Revelation 17:9-10). Instead, Revelation's symbolic "Babylon" represents all of mankind's corrupt political (Revelation 17:18), economic (Revelation 18:11), and religious (Revelation 18:24) systems throughout the earth (Revelation 18:3), and throughout history (Revelation 17:9-10).

ThomasGuthler said in post 47:

Some of the older posts are not specific to one verse, but are around one theme, so it's often not possible to integrate them into the normal scheme (from Genesis to Revelation). Because of that I made at the end of most Topics an attachment-section which contains more general posts and discussions.

That's a good idea. When I'm confronted with that problem in my verse-based index, I have to pick just one verse (x) to put the whole theme-discussion under, and then put "See x verse above (or below)" notes under all the other verses where that theme is especially relevant.

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Don't know if that's interesting for you, an example would be this text on sacrifice . . .

That's a great example. I hope to put that text under *Genesis 22:2, as a new entry, filling another huge gap in the blog, thanks to you. (How could anyone leave out the almost-sacrifice of Isaac?)

I hope to give the entry under *Genesis 22:2 a "*Human sacrifice" subject-heading, and then put "See under Genesis 22:2 above" under *Judges 11:31-40 (a new entry), with "(Re: Human sacrifice)" under that verse.

I hope to also put the 2nd section, listing various types of sacrifices, as a 2nd section under *Genesis 22:2, with a "(Re: Various types of *sacrifices)" subject-heading for that section.

ThomasGuthler said in post 47:

Some other examples on specific verses:

The kingdom of Judah came to include people from all 12 tribes of Israel (2 Chronicles 11:16-17) . . .

Regarding the 2 Chronicles 11 and Ezekiel 36:10 paragraphs, what they say is mostly covered under the *Lost tribes section under *Romans 11:17.

Regarding the Zechariah 6:12 paragraphs, what they say is somewhat covered under *Zechariah 14:20, and paragraphs 4-5 under *Acts 1:6.

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Regarding Galatians 6:16, it is referring to spiritual Israel, which is different than genetic Israel (Romans 9:3-8), and which consists of all the elect (Romans 9:11-13), all those God has chosen to show mercy to (Romans 9:15,16,18,23), both Jews and Gentiles (Romans 9:24).

The term "Israel of God" (Galatians 6:16) refers not only to Jews in the church (Romans 11:1), but also to elect Jews not yet in the church (Romans 11:25-31), and also to Gentiles in the church, for Gentiles in the church have been grafted into the good olive tree of Israel (Romans 11:17,24, Jeremiah 11:16), the Jews' own tree (Romans 11:24b). Gentiles in the church have been made fellow citizens in Israel (Ephesians 2:12,19) and the very seed of Abraham (Galatians 3:29). So the entire church is Israel (Revelation 21:9b,12b). This is necessary because the New Covenant by which the church is saved (Matthew 26:28, 1 Corinthians 11:25, 2 Corinthians 3:6, Hebrews 9:15) is made only with Israel (Jeremiah 31:31-34).

The term "Israel of God" (Galatians 6:16) necessarily including everyone in the church doesn't make Galatians 6:16 redundant, for the original Greek word "kai" in Galatians 6:16 translated as "and" in the phrase "and upon the Israel of God" can mean "even", like it's translated more than 100 times in the New Testament, such as in 2 Corinthians 1:3 in the phrase "God, even [kai] the Father". So Galatians 6:16 means "even upon the Israel of God", not "and upon the Israel of God", which would be redundant.

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The texts or scriptures in [brackets] are from a similar post, so this would be examples of a combination of at least 2 different posts on a topic (like you already noticed above in the post on Ez. 37):


Micah 1:3-4 could refer symbolically to God bringing about the [judgment] destruction of sinful Samaria (Micah 1:5-6), the northern kingdom of Israel, back in 722 BC.

By itself, Micah 1:3-4 is similar to Zechariah 14:3-5, which shows Jesus literally landing on the Mount of Olives (cf. Acts 1:11-12) and splitting it in two at his second coming, not to bring destruction, but to provide a way of escape for the Jews in Jerusalem from the battle which will be going on there between the nations of the world and the returned Jesus (Zechariah 14:2-3, cf. Revelation 19:19-21), before he restores Jerusalem and sets up his millennial kingdom on the earth (Zechariah 14:8-21, Micah 4:1-4).

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Zechariah 1 could have been fulfilled back in the time of the prophet Zechariah, around the 6th century BC.

The man riding the red horse (Zechariah 1:8a), and the other, unnumbered horses (Zechariah 1:8b), like the four chariots seen later (Zechariah 6:1-3), could have been spirits sent forth from God (Zechariah 1:10, cf. 6:5-7) back in the time of the prophet Zechariah (Zechariah 1:11, cf. 6:8).

In Zechariah 1:18-21, the four Gentile rulers (horns)[could have been, for example, four kings of Babylon during Israel's Babylonian Captivity] who had scattered Judah back in the time of Zechariah [during the time of the Babylonian Captivity (Zechariah 1:12)] could be Nebuchadnezzar (Ezra 2:1), Evilmerodach (2 Kings 25:27) [(Jeremiah 52:31)], Nabonidus, and Belshazzar (Daniel 7:1). The four Jewish rulers (carpenters) [could have been, for example, four Israelites who helped to build Israel back up again after its Babylonian Captivity] who would succeed in re-establishing Jewish control over the land of Judah back in the time of Zechariah [after the Babylonian Captivity] could be Zerubbabel (Haggai 2:2) [(Zechariah 4:9)], Joshua the high priest (Haggai 2:2) [Joshua the son of Josedech (Zechariah 6:11)], Ezra (Ezra 7:25), and Nehemiah [(Nehemiah 8:9)] (Nehemiah 12:26).
 
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Thanks for these.

I hope to bring the Zechariah 1 paragraphs (after some modifications and additions) into the blog today, under new entries.

The Micah 1 paragraphs can also be brought into the blog, just about as they are.

Most of the Galatians 6:16 paragraphs seem to be covered under *Rom. 9:3 and the *tribes section under *Rom. 11:17. But I hope to give the "kai" paragraph (with some modifications) its own, new entry under *Gal. 6:16.

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We could continue with the 3 entries per day rule for some time, there are possible gap-fillers for at least the next 8 - 10 days.

Some more entries:

The Samaritans were genetically Gentiles, for they were the descendants of the genetically Gentile people relocated by Assyria into the territory of the former northern kingdom of Israel after its defeat and carrying away into captivity in 722 B.C. (2 Kings 17:24).

At first, these Gentiles who were relocated into the territory of Samaria, and so later called "Samaritans", kept only to their own pagan religions (2 Kings 17:25-26). But then they were instructed by the king of Assyria to worship YHWH like the Israelites had (2 Kings 17:27-28). The Samaritans later even came to call Jacob their "father" (John 4:12), probably in a spiritual sense, like the way that even Gentile Christians can call Abraham their "father" (Galatians 3:7-29, Romans 4:1,16). So, religiously, these Gentiles, these "Samaritans", came to be distinguished from other Gentiles (Matthew 10:5) who didn't worship YHWH or consider Jacob their father, just as the church sometimes (not always, Romans 16:4) distinguished the Gentiles in the church from other Gentiles not in the church (1 Corinthians 10:32, 1 Peter 2:12).

And yet, at the same time, the Samaritans were never considered by the Jews as having become real Jews. The Samaritans remained "strangers" to Israel (Luke 17:16-18). The Jews had no dealings with them (John 4:9), and reviled them, using their name as an epithet (John 8:48). Jesus told the Samaritans that they didn't know what they worshipped (John 4:22), probably because they also kept to their old pagan worship (2 Kings 17:29-41), and even set up their own temple as a rival to the Jewish temple in Jerusalem (cf. John 4:20). Still today, it's said that there are a handful of Samaritans who continue to practice the ancient Samaritan religion in Israel, in the West Bank city of Nablus (formerly Shechem).

But in the first century, many of the Samaritans came into faith in Jesus when he visited them (John 4:39), and later when the church preached the gospel to them (Acts 1:8, 8:5-25), so that churches were established in Samaria (Acts 9:31), for there are no believers outside of the church (Ephesians 4:4-5).

The Samaritans should never be confused with the Israelite inhabitants of "Samaria", as in the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel before its defeat, and another, synecdochic, name for that northern kingdom (Micah 1:1,5,6, Jeremiah 23:13, Ezekiel 16:46, Hosea 8:5, 10:5, 13:16, Amos 8:14), which was also referred to synecdochically as "Ephraim" (Hosea 7:8, 5:12-14, 6:4, Isaiah 7:2,17). The ten tribes of that northern kingdom never returned from their captivity in Assyria (2 Kings 17:23); that's where the idea of "the ten lost tribes" comes from.

The Samaritans didn't practice Judaism but their own unique melange of parts of Judaism and paganism (2 Kings 17:41). But because the Samaritans practiced parts of Judaism, the Jews distinguished them from other Gentiles (Matthew 10:5), even though the Samaritans were genetically Gentiles (2 Kings 17:24).

The Samaritans weren't from any of the tribes of Israel, but were genetically Gentiles (2 Kings 17:24). Later, if some of them married some people descended from some of the tribes of Israel, so that the resulting children obtained some Israelite DNA to pass down to subsequent Samaritan generations, this never caused the Jews to consider the Samaritans to be the ten tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel which the Samaritans had replaced in Samaria after the ten tribes in Samaria had been taken away (2 Kings 17:23-24).

The Samaritan woman at the well claiming to Jesus that Jacob is "our" father (John 4:12) doesn't mean that the Samaritans were genetically descended from Jacob, because they weren't; they were Gentiles (2 Kings 17:24). It would be the same with a Gentile Christian claiming to a Jew that Abraham is "our" father (Romans 4:16, Galatians 3:7,29). This doesn't mean that Gentile Christians are genetically descended from Abraham, because they aren't; they're Gentiles (Romans 16:4).

When the new testament Samaritans got saved (John 4:39, Acts 8:5-17), and so brought into the church (Acts 9:31), each individual Samaritan could have been grafted into any one of the tribes of Israel, whether of the old northern kingdom of Israel/Samaria or of the old southern kingdom of Judah, just as when a Gentile got saved in Judaea (Acts 8:27-39), he could have been grafted into any one of the tribes of Israel, whether of the old northern kingdom of Israel/Samaria or of the old southern kingdom of Judah, for nothing requires that the tribe of Israel that a saved Gentile is grafted into (Romans 11:17, cf. Ezekiel 47:21-23) has to match the location of that Gentile at the time of his getting saved.

It's the same way with DNA Jews, in that they as individuals could be from any one of the tribes of Israel, whether of the old northern kingdom of Israel/Samaria (e.g. Luke 2:36) or of the old southern kingdom of Judah (e.g. Romans 11:1), for some members of all of the tribes of the old northern kingdom of Israel/Samaria emigrated into the old southern kingdom of Judah (and so became "Jews") when the old northern kingdom of Israel/Samaria first fell into apostasy (2 Chronicles 11:16-17), so that all of the twelve tribes of Israel were represented among the Jews in the first century (Acts 26:7, James 1:1).

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The promise of the land will never pass away, for it's an eternal promise (Genesis 13:15, Exodus 32:13), one which everyone in the church inherits through Christ (Galatians 3:16,29).

Actually, the promise of the gift of the land preceded the Old Covenant of Moses, for the promise was made to the seed of the fathers Abraham (Genesis 12:7), Isaac (Genesis 26:3), and Jacob (Genesis 28:13), and that seed is genetic Israel, the elect portion of which is still "beloved for the fathers' sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance" (Romans 11:28-29). That's why God will cause all of the elect unbelieving Jews alive at the second coming to believe in Jesus at that time and be saved (Romans 11:26-29, Zechariah 12:10-14).

Of course, elect Gentiles have also, through Christ, been brought into every promise made to Abraham and his seed (Galatians 3:16,29). So they too will inherit the land of Israel during the millennium (cf. Ezekiel 47:22, Ephesians 2:12,19).

Even in its full expression, the promised land doesn't include everything between the Nile and the Euphrates. People quite understandably mistake "the river of Egypt" (Genesis 15:18) as being the Nile, when actually it's a wadi near Gaza which forms the border between the promised land and Egypt (Joshua 15:47,3-4, Numbers 34:4-5). In this way, the promised land excludes the harsh desert of Sinai.

Also, the promised land doesn't extend from around Gaza eastward to the Euphrates, so that Israel would include all of northern Jordan and western Iraq, because the eastern border of the promised land is roughly along a line between the Dead Sea and Damascus (Ezekiel 47:18).

Instead of extending from around Gaza eastward to the Euphrates, the promised land extends from around Gaza northward through Lebanon to the Euphrates, so that the promised land includes Lebanon and the region of Hamath (1 Kings 8:65, 2 Chronicles 7:8), the northwestern part of Syria.

In this way, the promised land includes the western part of the "Fertile Crescent", and excludes the harsh desert of northern Jordan and western Iraq.
 
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This one I found useful because it explains that already before Pentecost the disciples had the Holy Spirit to some degree, I´ve saved it under John 7:39 in the Gifts-Topic. The sentence with 1 Peter 1:11 is added from another similar post:


Regarding your reference to the indwelling of the Spirit, that was not unknown before Pentecost:

"He [John the Baptist] shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb" (Luke 1:15).

"Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost" (Luke 1:41).

"I have filled him with the spirit of God" (Exodus 31:3).

"He that put his holy Spirit within him" (Isaiah 63:11).

The Old Testament saints did have God living in them while on earth: "The Spirit of Christ which was in them" (1 Peter 1:11).

So the following verse must be qualified by such instances:

"This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified" (John 7:39).

This cannot mean that the Spirit was not yet given at all to anyone, for we have seen that He was given in at least some measure to some people. John 7:39 must mean that the Spirit was not yet offered generally to all believers, as He is under the New Covenant, beginning at Pentecost, as was prophesied in the Old Testament:

"This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy" (Acts 2:16-18, quoting Joel 2:28-29).

John 7:39 could also mean that the measure of the Spirit offered since Pentecost was not given before that time.

Before Pentecost, on the day of His resurrection, when He first appeared to the apostles, Jesus gave them some measure of the Spirit:

"And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost" (John 20:22).

But He still told them to wait for Pentecost:

"Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high" (Luke 24:49).

"Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you" (Acts 1:8).

Pentecost was the baptism of the Holy Spirit for the disciples:

"Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence" (Acts 1:5).

The baptism of the Holy Spirit is different than the baptism in water. The baptism of the Holy Spirit can be received through the laying on of hands subsequent to water baptism:

"When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied" (Acts 19:5-6).

"They ... prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost" (Acts 8:15-17).

A good question for all Christians today:

"Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?" (Acts 19:2).
 
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Thanks for these.

I hope to add the Samaritan paragraphs (with some modifications and combining) as a new section under *Mt. 13:33, which touches on the Samaritans.

The first 3 land paragraphs seem to be mostly covered by the 2 *land sections in the blog. But I hope to add the rest of the land paragraphs (with some modifications) to the 1st *land section, under *Acts 1:6.

I hope to add the Spirit paragraphs (in a condensed form) as a new entry under *Jn. 7:39.

Thanks for helping me to make these additions to the blog.

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Some more entries:

Revelation 11:19 is part of the 7th trumpet (Revelation 11:15-19), which will be followed by the 7 plagues and the 7 vials of wrath of Revelation chapters 15-16.

Revelation 4:5 occurs even before any of the seals have been unsealed (Revelation 6). The seals are followed by the six trumpets of Revelation chapters 8-9, which are followed by the reign of the Antichrist of Revelation chapters 11-14.

Revelation 8:5-6 occurs after the 7th seal (Revelation 8:1) and before the 1st trumpet (Revelation 8:7).

So Revelation 4:5, 8:5, and 11:19, are three separate instances of lightnings/thunderings/voices.

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Seal 7 could contain the trumpets, for the trumpets are not even handed out until after seal 7 has been unsealed (Revelation 8:1-2).

The time of the 7th seal silence happens way back before any of the trumpets begin to sound (Revelation 8:1-7).

The silence in heaven "about the space of half an hour" in Revelation 8:1 is just that: silence in heaven for about 30 minutes.

… the Bible doesn't say why there is silence at the unsealing of the 7th seal (Revelation 8:1) …

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The angel and the small scroll, or book (Revelation 10), could refer to a powerful, unfallen angel giving the apostle John understanding of the small book of Daniel, which foretells the coming 3.5-year reign of the Antichrist (Daniel 7:25, 12:7b) which John was about to see (Revelation 13:5b, 12:6b,14b, 11:2b-3) from four different angles in Revelation chapters 11-14.

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God could be behind something as yet unrevealed which is from him. For example, he gave Nebuchadnezzar a prophetic dream, but Nebuchadnezzar couldn't remember its details (Daniel 2:5). It took Daniel, by a miracle, to reveal to Nebuchadnezzar the details of his dream (Daniel 2:19).

God also told us that the seven thunders uttered something, but has kept it a secret (Revelation 10:4).

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter (Proverbs 25:2); and God has made believers kings (Revelation 5:10).

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… the angel-event of Daniel 12:7 happened back when Daniel saw it, while the angel-event of Revelation 10:1-7 will occur in the future, after the sixth trumpet of Revelation 9:13-21 and before the 3.5-year reign of the Antichrist begins in Revelation chapters 11-14 (11:2b-3, 12:6,14, 13:5b). The seventh trumpet referred to in Revelation 10:7 will sound at the end of that reign (Revelation 11:15).

Besides the difference in timing, there are other differences between the angel-events shown in Daniel 12:7 and Revelation 10:1-7 which forbid their being the same angel-event: in Daniel 12:7, the angel is on a river and holds up both of his hands, while in Revelation 10:1-7 the angel has one foot on the sea and one foot on the land and holds up only his right hand.

Revelation doesn't say what the seven thunders uttered (Revelation 10:3-4), so it's unknown if they were referring to other events which will happen between the sixth trumpet (Revelation 9:13-21) and seventh trumpet (Revelation 11:15-19), such as the events of the 42-month world-reign of the Antichrist (which is shown from four different angles in Revelation chapters 11-14), or if the seven thunders weren't referring to events, but were simply making statements regarding some facts which God saw fit to keep secret until the proper time for their revelation to the church.
 
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ThomasGuthler said in post 51:

We could continue with the 3 entries per day rule for some time, there are possible gap-fillers for at least the next 8 - 10 days.

It is good to know that some more entries are coming, but sad to think that they will eventually stop coming. Then the task will be to systematically review and hopefully improve the entries already in the blog (after continuing to add entries based on my old, written, textual notes in my printed Bible).

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ThomasGuthler said in post 54:

Some more entries . . .

Thanks for saving these entries from oblivion in the old-post archives.

I hope to add the 1st entry (with some modifications) as a 6th section under *Rev. 11:19, and condense the 2nd entry into a sentence under *Rev. 8:1, and add the 3rd entry's 1st section (modified) as a new entry under *Rev. 10.

I hope to also add the 3rd entry's 2nd section and last paragraph (both modified) as a new entry under *Rev. 10:4, and add the first 2 paragraphs of the 3rd entry's 3rd section (modified) as a 2nd section under *Rev. 10.

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I hope to add the 1st entry (with some modifications) as a 6th section under *Rev. 11:19, and condense the 2nd entry into a sentence under *Rev. 8:1, and add the 3rd entry's 1st section (modified) as a new entry under *Rev. 10.

That´s good to know, I´m daily updating the new blog-entries into my files and delete the older versions of them.

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Another topic: Could you make an entry about the different *covenants in the bible, like 1. The Covenant with Noah ... 2. The Covenant with Abraham... and so on? That would be a great addition to the blog imo.

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Some more entries, the last one contains a lot of smaller ones, hopefully it´s not too much at once:


When Daniel says "for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate" (Daniel 9:27), this could refer to the same event as Daniel 11:31, when the Antichrist will make a future (even to our time) Old Covenant temple in Jerusalem spiritually desolate by sitting inside it and proclaiming himself God (2 Thessalonians 2:4, Daniel 11:36).

The original Hebrew word [kanaph (3671)] in Daniel 9:27 which the KJV translates as "overspreading" and the NIV translates as "a wing" can mean a wing (Ezekiel 17:23), but it doesn't have to mean that every time that it's used, for it can also mean "the uttermost part" (Isaiah 24:16), as in from where one can go no farther. This would apply to the "holy place" of the temple, in which will "stand" the abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15), and from which one can go no farther into the temple. (What will stand in the holy place will probably be a statue of the Antichrist which he will place in the innermost sanctum of the temple after he has sat there and proclaimed himself God.) And the "overspreading" or "the uttermost part" nature of the abomination of desolation (Daniel 9:27) would mean that it will involve not just the innermost sanctum of the temple, but the entire temple. What the Antichrist could do is engrave the gematrial number of his name, "666" (Revelation 13:17b-18) all over the temple, within and without, top to bottom, thereby completely and utterly defiling it, rendering it spiritually desolate.

So the "overspreading" or "uttermost part" aspect of the abomination of desolation could have reference to the abomination of desolation, and all the actions connected with it, coming to encompass, to overspread, the entire temple, from its inward uttermost part to its outward uttermost part.

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But because the Antichrist will be Luciferian, bringing the whole world into the worship of Lucifer (Revelation 13:4) and railing against YHWH (Revelation 13:6), he would want to especially focus on utterly defiling Jerusalem and the temple of YHWH so that he can poke his finger in the real God's eye so to speak, and show to the world YHWH's purported "powerlessness to defend the place that he himself said he has chosen" (cf. Zechariah 3:2). The Antichrist could claim that his ability to commit the abomination of desolation with impunity "proves that YHWH cannot thwart the will of our Lord Lucifer, who empowers me" (cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:9, Revelation 13:4).

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If Zechariah 11:16-17 refers to the Antichrist taking over the land of Israel and claiming to be its rightful "shepherd", the sword being upon his right eye, and his arm being dried up, could refer to a top assassin in the Mossad or Shin Bet succeeding in an attempt to stab the Antichrist in the head with a knife (Revelation 13:14c). (The reason for the assassin attempting to stab the Antichrist in the head instead of the heart would be because of knowledge that the Antichrist is wearing a bulletproof, and so a knife-proof, vest. And the reason for using a knife instead of a gun would be because of the need to get the assassination weapon past metal detectors set up by the Antichrist's security detail at the place of the assassination attempt. The knife could be completely ceramic so as to not set off any metal detectors.) The knife could pierce the Antichrist's right eye, leaving the Antichrist blind in his right eye. The knife could also pierce beyond the back of his right eye in an upward thrust far enough into the Antichrist's brain to injure the sensorimotor area of his cerebral cortext responsible for sensation and movement in his left arm, leaving him paralyzed in his left arm and causing it to curl up.

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In 2 Kings 15:19-20, "Pul", king of Assyria, is another name for "Tiglathpileser" in 2 Kings 15:29, which is simply a variant Hebrew spelling of the "Tilgathpilneser" of 1 Chronicles 5:26, who is known to historians as Tiglath-Pileser III.

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2 Kings 16:7-18 refers to Tiglath-Pileser III, king of Assyria.

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2 Kings 17:3-5 refers Shalmaneser V, king of Assyria, who succeeded Tiglath-Pileser III, and who died during his siege of Samaria.

2 Kings 17:6 refers to Sargon II, king of Assyria, who succeeded Shalmaneser V, and who actually defeated Samaria and took the northern kingdom of Israel into captivity in 722 B.C.

2 Kings 17:24-27 probably refers to Sargon II.

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2 Kings 18:5-6 refers only to Hezekiah himself, not to the nation of Judah, which could have been hypocritical at the time of Sennacherib's invasion (Isaiah 10:5-6, Isaiah 36:1).

2 Kings 18:7,9 refers to Shalmaneser V.

2 Kings 18:11 refers to Sargon II.

The people of the northern tribes of the kingdom of Israel who were taken into the Assyrian captivity (2 Kings 18:11) were considered lost to history because they never returned from that captivity, whereas the people of the southern tribes of the kingdom of Judah who were taken into the Babylonian captivity (2 Kings 24:14-16, 25:11) weren't considered lost to history because they did return from that captivity (Ezra 2:1).

2 Kings 18:13-20:6 refers to Sennacherib, king of Assyria, who succeeded Sargon II.

It remains possible that while Sennacherib's main army continued down the coast, he led an expeditionary force rapidly down the ridge to do a quick reconnaissance of Jerusalem, before returning to the main army, and then laying siege to Lachish. If that's what happened, then while laying siege to Lachish, and thinking about what he'd seen for himself to be Jerusalem's formidable defensive position, Sennacherib could have begun to worry how long it would take to conquer Jerusalem by siege, so that when Hezekiah showed some signs of fear and submission to Sennacherib (2 Kings 18:14-17), Sennacherib could have thought that if he just sent some forces back to Jerusalem they could scare it into surrender with mere words (2 Kings 18:33-35).

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2 Kings 23:29 refers to a king of Assyria in the time of Necho, Pharaoh of Egypt. But Necho didn't become Pharaoh until after the destruction of the Assyrian empire in 612 B.C., so the "king of Assyria" could mean a king of Babylon who had taken over the former territory of the Assyrian empire.

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1 Chronicles 5:26 refers to Tilgathpilneser (Tiglath-Pileser III), also called "Pul", king of Assyria, who in 734 B.C. carried into captivity the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, who lived east of the Jordan river (Joshua 18:7b).

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While Joash the king of Judah did a good thing in ordering the repairing of the temple after the damage it suffered under Athaliah (2 Chronicles 24:4-14), he subsequently fell into idolatry and murdered a prophet of God (2 Chronicles 24:17-22), so that both Judah and Joash shortly afterward suffered for it (2 Chronicles 24:23-25).

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2 Chronicles 28:20 refers to when Tiglath-Pileser III, king of Assyria, came into Judah during the reign of Ahaz.

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2 Chronicles 30:6 refers to those Israelites who escaped being taken into captivity at the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel at the hands of Sargon II, king of Assyria, in 722 B.C. (cf. 2 Kings 17:6).

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2 Chronicles 30:12 refers only to Judah obeying one command of Hezekiah to keep the Passover in the first year of his reign (2 Chronicles 29:3-30:13). By the time of Sennacherib's invasion of Judah in the fourteenth year of Hezekiah's reign, Judah could have become hypocritical (Isaiah 36:1, Isaiah 10:5-6).

2 Chronicles 30:12 doesn't say that the masses of Judah weren't generally hypocritical toward God apart from that single observance. (Even hypocrites can go to church solemnly, one time, and still remain hypocrites.)

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2 Chronicles 32 refers to the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib, king of Assyria, during the reign of Hezekiah.

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Regarding 2 Chronicles 32:1-2, "after these things" means fourteen years after that single observance, for Sennacherin didn't invade Israel until the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign (2 Kings 18:13). And no scripture says that the masses of Judah weren't hypocritical toward God (as stated in Isaiah 10:6) fourteen years after that single observance.

2 Chronicles 32:1 means thirteen years after the events of 2 Chronicles 29:3-31:21, for those events took place in the first year of Hezekiah's reign (2 Chronicles 29:3), whereas Sennacherib's invasion did not occur until the fourteenth year of Hezekiah's reign (Isaiah 36:1).

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The punishment for the sins of Manasseh the king of Judah and those in Judah during his reign (2 Chronicles 33:1-10), on the other hand, was mitigated so that it didn't fully come upon subsequently repentant Manasseh (2 Chronicles 33:12-19), or upon Judah right away. But the sins of Manasseh the king of Judah and those in Judah during his reign had been so great that God said they would be the reason for the ultimate, total destruction of Judah by Babylon (Jeremiah 15:4, 2 Kings 21:11-16), regardless of the complete purging of Judah from idolatry which Josiah performed after the time of Manasseh (2 Kings 23:24-27).

2 Chronicles 33:11 refers to the captains of the army of a king of Assyria taking Manasseh, the king of Judah, to Babylon.

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Isaiah 8:4b refers to Sargon II.

Isaiah 8:7-8 could refer to Sennacherib.
 
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ThomasGuthler said in post 56:

Could you make an entry about the different *covenants in the bible, like 1. The Covenant with Noah ... 2. The Covenant with Abraham... and so on?

I hope to add "(*Covenants)" to the title of the *OT section (section 8) under *Eph. 2:15, and add the following 4 paragraphs to the end of that section, which already touches on the Old Covenant and the New Covenant.

The Abrahamic Covenant can be considered as a precursor of the New Covenant, with the Old Covenant (Mosaic law) being an only-temporary covenant between the time of the Abrahamic Covenant and the New Covenant (Galatians 3:6-29).

The Noahic Covenant, which is still in effect (proven by there still being rainbows), is that God won't flood the earth again (Genesis 9:8-17). But he will eventually burn it (2 Peter 3:10-13).

The Davidic Covenant (Psalms 89:34-37; 2 Samuel 7:16-29) is still in effect, for Jesus at his 2nd coming will sit on the throne of David (Luke 1:32-33, Isaiah 9:7).

The Levitical Covenant is likewise still in effect (Jeremiah 33:20-22) insofar as there are, and always will be, believing Jews descended from Levi. But they will operate as priests, along with all other obedient believers (1 Peter 2:9), under the Melchisedechian priesthood of the New Covenant, because the strictly-Levitical priesthood of the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law was abolished with the letter of that law on the Cross (Hebrews 7:11 to 8:13, Ephesians 2:15-16).

ThomasGuthler said in post 56:

Some more entries, the last one contains a lot of smaller ones, hopefully it's not too much at once:

Thanks for saving these. The last entry was quite long, but God had given me an unusually-restful evening beforehand (reading newspapers), so I wasn't burned out before tackling the entries.

I hope to add the 1st entry (modified) as a 3rd section under *Dan. 9:27. (It is interesting that just a few days ago I thought of this entry, posted so long ago, while I can't remember the last time I had thought of it.)

The 2nd entry could apply to a false Jewish Messiah instead of the Antichrist. I hope to add this entry (modified) as a new section under *Zech. 11:16. (I have thought of this entry multiple times in the past, but not recently.)

Regarding the 3rd entry, I hope to add the 2 Kin. 15 and 2 Kin. 17 sections (modified) as new entries under *2 Kin. 15:19 and *2 Kin. 17:3. I will skip the 2 Kin. 16 section as it seems mostly redundant to the verse itself.

Regarding the 2 Kin. 18 section, I hope to overwrite *2 Kin. 18:5 with the first 5 paragraphs (modified), and blend the 6th paragraph (modified) into the similar entry under *Isa. 10:28.

I hope to add the 2 Kin. 23, 1 Chr. 5, and 2 Chr. 24 sections (some modified) as new entries under *2 Kin. 23:29, *1 Chr. 5:26, and *2 Chr. 24:4. I will skip the 2 Chr. 28:20 section as it seems mostly redundant to the verse itself and its immediate context. The 2 Chr. 30:6 section also seems mostly redundant to the verse itself.

I hope to add the 2 Chr. 30:12 section (modified) as an overwrite of the current *2 Chr. 30:12 entry. I will skip the 2 Chr. 32 section as redundant to the chapter itself, and will skip the 2 Chr. 32:1-2 section as redundant to the 2 Chr. 30:12 section.

I hope to add the 2 Chr. 33 section's 1st paragraph (modified) as a new entry under *2 Chr. 33:1. I will skip the 2nd paragraph as redundant to 2 Chr. 33:11 itself.

I hope to add the Isa. 8 section as a new entry under *Isa. 8:4.

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Thanks for helping me to make these additions to the blog.

Can you post 3 more entries to this thread that aren't yet in the blog?
 
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Thank you for the *Covenants-entry, this is very helpful.

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The Bible doesn't say that the locusts will be Red Chinese soldiers. That's a man-made idea.

Red Chinese soldiers won't be released from the bottomless pit (Revelation 9:1-3), as the demonic locusts will.

Red Chinese soldiers won't be given power as the scorpions of the earth have power (Revelation 9:3), as the demonic locusts will.

Red Chinese soldiers won't be commanded that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads (Revelation 9:4), as the demonic locusts will.

Red Chinese soldiers won't be prevented from killing people, but only allowed to torment unsealed people for five months with the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man (Revelation 9:5), as the demonic locusts will.

Red Chinese soldiers won't cause men to seek death, and not find it, and to desire to die, but death shall flee from them (Revelation 9:6), as the demonic locusts will.

Red Chinese soldiers won't be shaped like unto horses prepared unto battle, and on their heads they won't have as it were crowns like gold, and they won't have faces merely "as" the faces of men (Revelation 9:7), as the demonic locusts will.

Red Chinese soldiers won't have hair as the hair of women, or teeth as the teeth of lions (Revelation 9:8), as the demonic locusts will.

Red Chinese soldiers could have literal breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron, but they won't have wings, the sound of which will be as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle (Revelation 9:9), as the demonic locusts will.

Red Chinese soldiers won't have tails like unto scorpions, with stings in their tails, and the power to hurt men for only five months, as the demonic locusts will (Revelation 9:10).

Red Chinese soldiers won't come preaching lies (plural) about God, for Marxist communism doesn't preach anything about God but atheism. And the preaching of atheism would hardly cause the unsealed and unbelieving people of the world to feel torment like a scorpion sting, so bad that they'll want to die. The lie of atheism doesn't even torment believers with a torment like a scorpion sting, so bad that they want to die; believers simply reject atheism as an absurdity.

Red Chinese soldiers won't have a king over them, who is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon (Revelation 9:11), as the demonic locusts will; for Marxist communism is antithetical to kings and to all religious ideas, including angels and a bottomless pit.

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… different words are used to refer to what happens to the islands and mountains in Revelation 16:20 than are used in Revelation 6:14.

Revelation 16:20 - islands fled away <G5343>, mountains not found <G2147>.
Revelation 6:14 - islands/mountains moved <G2795> out of <G1537> places <G5117>.

Revelation 16:20 is more intense than Revelation 6:14. Every island and mountain could be moved just a foot in Revelation 6:14, whereas every island could be submerged and every mountain could be unrecognizable after Revelation 16:20.

Note that Revelation 16:20 is different than Revelation 20:11b because the latter adds the idea of "no place", which the former doesn't require. Also, between the time of Revelation 16:20 and the time of Revelation 20:11 will occur the 2nd coming, the subsequent millennium, and the subsequent Gog/Magog rebellion (Revelation 19:7 to 20:10).

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Isaiah 7:18-19 doesn't require that Judah be attacked by Assyria and Egypt at the same time, for the "rivers of Egypt" [wasn't the Nile] could simply refer to wadis near the border between Philistia and Egypt (cf. Numbers 34:5, Joshua 15:4,47).

So "the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt" (Isaiah 7:18) would mean the uttermost part of Philistia.

The swarm from "the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt" (Isaiah 7:18) [wouldn't be a reference to an invasion of Judah by Egypt] could be the swarm of Philistines which invaded Judah around the time of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria's invasion of Judah in the time of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:18-20), to whom the prophecy of Isaiah 7:17-20 was addressed (Isaiah 7:12).
 
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ThomasGuthler said in post 58:

Some more entries . . .

Thank you for posting these. I will skip the Red-Chinese-soldiers entry (for now, anyway), as I see it mostly redundant to Revelation 9:2-11 itself. I would instead point people to *Rev. 9:7. Also, I will skip paragraphs 1-3 of the 2nd entry as I would instead point people to *Rev. 16:20, *Rev. 6:12, and the "Chronological section under *Rev. chs. 6-22. But I hope to add the 2nd entry's paragraph 4 as a 2nd section under *Rev. 16:20. I will skip the 3rd entry, as I would instead point people to *Isa. 7:17.

Thank you for letting me review these entries.

Can you post 3 more entries that aren't in the blog?
 
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In the attachment-section of the books I´ve saved a lot of longer texts like this two examples:

Bible Codes (see also the following entries) http://www.christianforums.com/threads/bible-codes-are-ridiculous.7279356/#post-48752666

Luther and Zwingli http://www.christianforums.com/threads/scripture-as-my-measure.7246132/page-2#post-47333238.


Don´t know if this is in some way useful for you.

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Psalms 133:3 doesn't mean that Mount Hermon is the same place as Zion (Jerusalem) [(Isaiah 30:19)], for they're about 100 miles apart; it means that the figurative "dew" of Mount Hermon fell upon Jerusalem when Jesus died there to give us eternal life (John 3:16).

Deuteronomy chapters 3 and 4 don't describe Hermon and Zion as one and the same.

The Hebrew word translated as "Sion" (SYAN) in Deuteronomy 4:48 [refer to Mount Hermon] isn't the same as the Hebrew word translated as "Zion" (TsYWN) in, for example, 1 Kings 8:1, 2 Kings 19:21,31, 2 Chronicles 5:2, Psalms 51:18, 102:21, 128:5, 135:21, 147:12, Isaiah 2:3, 4:3-4, 10:12,32, 24:23, 30:19, 31:9, 33:20, 37:22,32, 40:9, 41:27, 52:1-2, 64:10, Jeremiah 26:18, 51:35, Lamentations 1:17, 2:10,13, Joel 2:32, 3:16-17, Amos 1:2, Micah 3:10,12, 4:2,8, Zephaniah 3:14,16, and Zechariah 1:14,17, 8:3, 9:9, which leave no doubt whatsoever that Zion is the earthly city of Jerusalem, some 100 miles south of Mount Hermon.

Adam had that blessing in Eden before he fell into sin and mortality (Romans 5:12).

God commanded life for evermore on Mount Zion when Jesus died in Jerusalem for our sins:

"For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins"
(Matthew 26:28).

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life"
(John 3:16).

Mount Hermon could have been connected with the Garden of Eden, where man had eternal life before the Fall, for Mount Hermon is nearby Damascus in Syria, and Eden could have been located nearby Damascus (Amos 1:5). Also, the "Telassar" connected with Eden (Isaiah 37:12) could mean "Mountain of Assyria", and Mount Hermon was one of the highest mountains in the empire of Assyria.

"I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD" (Amos 1:5).

"... the children of Eden which were in Thelasar" (2 Kings 19:12).

"... the children of Eden which were in Telassar" (Isaiah 37:12)

"Telassar" could be "Tel Assar", which could mean "Mountain of Assyria". Assyria could have included Syria, one of the biggest mountains of which is Mount Hermon.

But Mount Hermon is no Eden anymore, and one won't find the tree of life growing there, only Israeli military checkpoints and lookout stations, as it's right on the front line between Israel and Syria.

So Psalms 133:3 could simply be a poetic way of saying that the eternal life that man had on or near Mount Hermon in the time of Eden he regained in Jerusalem when Jesus died for our sins.

The land below Mount Hermon to the southwest is connected with "Dan" (which means "judge", Genesis 30:6, 49:16) because the tribe of Dan lived there (Judges 18:29).

Deuteronomy 4:44-49 refers to Moses going over the law with Israel while it was still east of Jordan.

Before that, Deuteronomy 3:1-7,10-11 refers to the ancient Israelites under Moses conquering the land east of the Jordan river about 1400 B.C.

Deuteronomy 3:8-9 refers to Mount Hermon being the northernmost point of that land.

Only Mount Moriah is Mount Zion on earth. Mount Moriah was where God commandmed Abraham to sacrifice Isaac (Genesis 22:2), and where David later made a sacrifice (1 Chronicles 21:26), and where Solomon built the temple of Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 3:1), and where Jesus was sacrificed for our sins (Luke 13:33, Matthew 26:28) so that we might receive the blessing of life for evermore (John 3:16, Psalms 133:3).

... Jerusalem will be the focus of everything, while Mount Hermon is nowhere referred to in scripture as having anything at all to do with endtime events.

Mount Hermon could have been connected with Eden, and so connected with the life for evermore which Adam had there before the Fall. But then God caused the "dew of Hermon", that is, the blessing of Eden, to fall upon Zion, so that those in Zion might, through Christ, receive the blessing of life for evermore (John 3:16, Psalms 133:3).

Mount Zion in Jerusalem is not a waymark to Mount Hermon, but to the heavenly Zion, New Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22), which contains the tree of life which was in Eden (Revelation 22:2,14, Genesis 2:9).

Christ's throne on earth during His millennial kingdom won't be on Mount Hermon, but on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, which will grow to be a very high mountain (Micah 4:1-2).

Mount Hermon is never called Mount Zion; they are even expressly distinguished in Psalms 133:3, which verse means that the same Edenic blessing which fell on Hermon later fell on Zion through Christ (John 3:16).

There isn't more than one Mount Zion on the earth; there isn't a higher one and a lower one. There's just one: Jerusalem (Isaiah 10:32, 30:19).

The Mount Zion in heaven is the city of New Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22).

Psalms 48:1-2 is referring to the "situation" or elevation of the city of Jerusalem (elev. 745 m / 2,440 ft.), not Mount Hermon.

In Psalms 48:2, Jerusalem is on the "sides" or border of the north with respect to Judah (Psalms 48:11, Joshua 15:8).

Mt. Zion and the 144,000 in Revelation 14:1 refer to the heavenly Mt. Zion (or Sion) (Hebrews 12:22) and a 144,000 male-virgins (Revelation 14:4) part of the church ...
 
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