What does it mean to "worship the beast"?

Revealing Times said:

No sir, this thread is about the Beast and I was on point until your statement. I understand and have written much on this, and you guys who chose to believe the "English translations" are the be all end all are way off. Go look at how many meanings the Hebrew word YOWM had, like 50 or 60 meanings. The original meaning was "TO BE HOT" other meanings are a Period of time, etc. etc. Hebrew at the time Genesis was written had like 4000 words, English has 500,000 words.

You are the same type that believes grasses grew (3rd day) before he SUN came (4th day) which is nonsense. Here is what happened, the Dark came first. There was Inflation (Big Bang) for 380,000 years followed by 400 Million years of Darkness. (Darkness was on the face of the deep) then the Stars started forming at 400 million years, and kept forming until the Sun was created at 4.5 Billion years BC. The first "Day" (TOO BE HOT/Period of time) Lasted 9.2 Billion years.

Scientists said in the 1800's that the universe was eternal, Christians who were saying it had a beginning point were thought to be wrong (CRAZY). Well the Big Bang only proves God right, you are arguing against the facts that SUPPORT GOD !! The Big Bang proves God's Holy Word is correct. There was a BEGINNING, Scientist only discovered this 60-70 years ago. Suddenly IN THE BEGINNING was factual to the Scientists who were skeptics. God was RIGHT............Now we have a WMAP project that mapped out the universe using Microwaves and guess what, there was 400 MILLION YEARS OF DARKNESS..........And Darkness was on the face of the DEEP.

Maybe you need to stop trusting English translations so much.

6000 years old is funny man.....

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God's commandment to "remember the Sabbath day" is what then? We have God's commandment to remember something, and that something is not what God specifically tells us it is, but it is some... allegory? And thousands of years had to pass until "wise men" came and "discovered" what God really meant when He gave us His commandment?

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."

It seems to me you don't even read literal Word, how could you ever read symbolic Word. But, it is what it is. Those who want to read what you have to say will read it.

I still say science is perfoming it's act in the end days.

HenryM said:

God's commandment to "remember the Sabbath day" is what then? We have God's commandment to remember something, and that something is not what God specifically tells us it is, but it is some... allegory? And thousands of years had to pass until "wise men" came and "discovered" what God really meant when He gave us His commandment?

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."

It seems to me you don't even read literal Word, how could you ever read symbolic Word. But, it is what it is. Those who want to read what you have to say will read it.

I still say science is perfoming it's act in the end days.

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So is God still AT REST? Because Galaxies are STILL FORMING !! God gave the command to COME FORTH and thus He created all the Heavens and Earth with ONE COMMAND, he ceased creating, but the universe is still forming, telling us His original command is still going forth.

Gods Days are NOT our days. He is not subject to time. A day to God can be as a thousand years or a thousand years as a day......REMEMBER? So a Day can be as a Billion years or more also.

There are Creation threads in Creation subs. Lets leave this thread to its purpose. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO WORSHIP THE BEAST.

Revealing Times said:

So is God still AT REST? Because Galaxies are STILL FORMING !! God gave the command to COME FORTH and thus He created all the Heavens and Earth with ONE COMMAND, he ceased creating, but the universe is still forming, telling us His original command is still going forth.

Gods Days are NOT our days. He is not subject to time. A day to God can be as a thousand years or a thousand years as a day......REMEMBER? So a Day can be as a Billion years or more also.

There are Creation threads in Creation subs. Lets leave this thread to its purpose. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO WORSHIP THE BEAST.

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I didn't know discussing God's commandment is limited to Creation subforum. Anything to actually not answer the question, I guess.

We, as humans, are always created, by birth, from mother to a child. Creation by kind can extend to heavenly bodies. But problem with galaxies is that they do not exist, as they are deception of "wise men", so they can't form. Something can move up there, though.

As for the purpose of this thread, worshipping science, a strong false god, fits the bill.

I would say that worshipping science is prerequisite for beast to do what it has to do.

HenryM said:

I didn't know discussing God's commandment is limited to Creation subforum. Anything to actually not answer the question, I guess.

We, as humans, are always created, by birth, from mother to a child. Creation by kind can extend to heavenly bodies. But problem with galaxies is that they do not exist, as they are deception of "wise men", so they can't form. Something can move up there, though.

As for the purpose of this thread, worshipping science, a strong false god, fits the bill.

I would say that worshipping science is prerequisite for beast to do what it has to do.

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I would say you are clueless about many truths regarding Science. But this thread is about the BEAST.

On this site

Is God a liar?

Contradictions between Big B. & Ev. theories with Bible

Creation & Theistic Evolution

Revealing Times said:

I would say you are clueless about many truths regarding Science. But this thread is about the BEAST.

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You typing science with capital S is almost perfect confirmation of what I've wrote. I couldn't ask for more obvious reply.

Even worse, people put their faith on theories (big bang is a theory, macroevolution is a theory), which by definition are not facts, before the Word of God.

To top it off, those theories are generally driven by atheists, who do not stand with God, so the whole thing is even more ridiculous, to put it mildly.

I think that those who want to see it, can easily see science being worshipped, transformed from tool into an object of idolatry, and then used against God, just as beast would appreciate.

HenryM said:

You typing science with capital S is almost perfect confirmation of what I've wrote. I couldn't ask for more obvious reply.

Even worse, people put their faith on theories (big bang is a theory, macroevolution is a theory), which by definition are not facts, before the Word of God.

To top it off, those theories are generally driven by atheists, who do not stand with God, so the whole thing is even more ridiculous, to put it mildly.

I think that those who want to see it, can easily see science being worshipped, transformed from tool into an object of idolatry, and then used against God, just as beast would appreciate.

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Wrong I do that on a Lot of things to Emphasize certain things, it is irrelevant. You are really out there if you think the Big Bang is just a theory. Evolution is a LIE, God created everything Himself over a 13.77 Billion year period.

Many Christians are smart enough to understand Science......You see not to be one of them.

Revealing Times said:

You are really out there if you think the Big Bang is just a theory.

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You are correct, it's not just a theory. It's part of beast worship. Throwing insults doesn't change that fact. Just the opposite, it enforces it.

HenryM said:

You are correct, it's not just a theory. It's part of beast worship. Throwing insults doesn't change that fact. Just the opposite, it enforces it.

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You are saying its BEAST WORSHIP and someone else is throwing insults lol. When we get to Heaven you will be proved wrong. The Universe is 13.7 billion years old. Revel in your 6000 year theory all you want, it only makes people look at you funny.

HenryM said in post #95:

So science, in my view, has to be one of the key elements performing in the end days.

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What science is missing, in its search for a "Theory of Everything" which can unify all of the physical forces in the universe, is spirit, so that by continuing to exclude the whole idea of spirit, science can never hope to understand the universe at its most fundamental level, or what its ultimate origin was: "As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit . . . even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all" (Ecclesiastes 11:5).

The relationship between the spiritual and the physical may be analogous to the relationship between energy and matter. Just as the relationship of energy to matter is summarized by the equation e=mc^2, meaning that immense amounts of energy are congealed and compacted, as it were, in order to form each tiny particle of matter, so the relationship between spirit and energy could theoretically be summarized by the equation s=ec^3, meaning that immense amounts of spirit may be congealed and compacted, as it were, in order to form each tiny photon of energy. All energy being based on spirit would make sense, for God is a Spirit (John 4:24), and in him everything consists (Colossians 1:17, Acts 17:28).

When science's equations regarding such things as the Big Bang singularity, black holes, and quantum entanglement require the inclusion of infinities, these infinities should not be seen as "failures", but as pointers to something which goes beyond the boundaries of the physical: i.e. spirit. If science ever becomes able to describe spirit mathematically using proportional numbers rather than infinities, this could lead to new technologies (e.g. spiritual power plants, spiritual bombs), just as when science became able to describe atomic nuclei mathematically, this led to new technologies (e.g. nuclear power plants, nuclear bombs).

Just as energy consists of both particles (photons) and waves (electromagnetic waves) at the same time, so the basis for all energy, spirit, could consist of both particles (spiritons) and waves at the same time. If spirit is equivalent to consciousness, and consciousness consists of logic, emotion, and memory, then spiritual waves could consist of three different sine waves (logic waves, emotion waves, and memory waves) which could be interlocked at 60-degree angles, just as electromagnetism consists of two different sine waves (electric waves and magnetic waves) interlocked at a 90-degree angle. But by our current, strictly-physical-based mathematics, a spiritual wave or spiriton would show up in a calculation as an infinity, and so it could be mistakenly rejected by our current science as a "failure". It is possible that by creating a mathematics which involves five dimensions of space-time, the apparently infinite value of a spiritual wave or spiriton could be reduced to a proportional value.

String Theory has shown that it is mathematically possible that space-time has more than three spatial dimensions. Because of observations such as Daniel 5:5, John 20:26b, and Luke 24:31b, the spiritual realm could be a fourth spatial dimension in which spiritual entities are able to move about without being seen by physical entities in our three spatial dimensions, because our physical eyes and light as we know it extend in only three dimensions. The spiritual dimension would be higher than our three dimensions in the same sense that a third dimension is higher than two dimensions. And so from the spiritual realm, our physical realm may appear flat (or flatter), just as from three dimensions, something in two dimensions would appear flat. An entity with access to the spiritual dimension could do such things as enter only part of himself into the physical realm (Daniel 5:5), or suddenly appear in a locked room (John 20:26b), or suddenly disappear (Luke 24:31b). This ability would apply not only to spiritual beings (1 Corinthians 15:44, Luke 24:39), but also to any spiritual wave or particle.

If spiritual particles exist, they could turn out to be "the God Particle" of science. While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has reached a high-enough energy level so that a "God Particle" (i.e. a Higgs boson) has manifested itself, its observed qualities might ultimately be able to be described only by equations involving infinities, so that its qualities and actions could ultimately be seen as "impossible" and "spooky", instead of science finally admitting to the existence of a substance which is spiritual. And spirit would not have to be seen by scientists as some weird, foreign substance, but rather as the most fundamental substance of even their own selves (1 Thessalonians 5:23). And could spirit also be the "dark matter" and "dark energy" which together make up 96% of the universe, but which science cannot yet observe directly or explain?

The really sad and dangerous thing is that even if science does eventually determine that "the God Particle" (or some other particle, detected at even higher LHC energy levels) is a spiritual particle, which science could come to call the "spiriton", some scientists could still refuse to believe in and submit themselves to YHWH God of the Bible, saying that the existence of spirit per se does not require that there is one infinite, conscious spirit-being called YHWH God (John 4:24, Mark 12:30, Deuteronomy 6:5). And in its subsequent experiments with spirit, science could come into contact with the evil spirit-being called Lucifer (Satan), who could manifest himself in some future, ultra-high-energy LHC experiment and claim that he is the true, beneficent God of mankind and must be worshipped instead of YHWH. In this way, a nascent spiritual science could be hijacked and employed by Lucifer and his current worshippers as one part of their future deception by which the world will eventually be deceived into consciously and openly worshipping Lucifer (Satan, the dragon) and his human son the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast") as God (Revelation 13:4-18, Revelation 12:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Daniel 11:36), instead of YHWH (Revelation 13:6, Daniel 11:36).

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The unity of mankind which will occur at that future time could be like the unity of mankind which occurred at the time of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:6). And there could even be a future equivalent to the Tower of Babel, which could be built in the literal, rebuilt city of Babylon (in Iraq). For Lucifer could show mankind how to build there a huge tower device, a spiritual machine the size of the Empire State Building, which will be able to send into the sky an incredibly powerful spiritual beam analogous to a laser. Near the end of the future tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, Lucifer could tell mankind that it will need to employ this huge weapon during an impending battle against YHWH (Revelation 16:14b, Revelation 19:19). Mixing some science fiction with some ancient lies of Gnosticism, Lucifer could tell mankind something like:

"YHWH will soon come down to the earth in his gigantic spaceship which is shaped like a Borg Cube [cf. Revelation 21:16]. He is coming to enslave you and turn you all into Borg-like automatons. But this mighty Tower Device will be able to blow his Borg Cube and him to bits with its spiritual ray. Then we can focus the Tower Device on any point of empty space until it burns in space-time a hole, a portal through which I will lead your spirits out of this vile material universe which YHWH made to be our prison. And I will lead you back up into the purely-spiritual realm of the Pleroma [i.e. Heaven], where you can live as gods in bliss, doing what you please, forever, just as you had done with me for all ages past, before we by mistake fell into YHWH's trap of this material universe".

Before Jesus' second coming, Lucifer could prove the power of the Tower Device to mankind by letting the Antichrist and his False Prophet (of Revelation 19:20) use it to blow up some large asteroids and even some moons of other planets, so that mankind will go into its battle against YHWH in full confidence that it will be able to destroy him. But when the battle comes, the device will not work against YHWH (cf. Psalms 21:11, KJV). Instead, Jesus Christ (who is YHWH: John 10:30, Zechariah 14:3-4) will descend from heaven and take total victory in the battle (Revelation 19:11 to 20:6).

HenryM said in post #95:

So science, in my view, has to be one of the key elements performing in the end days.

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It has been claimed that magnetic fields applied to certain areas of the brain can cause a subject who is alone in a room to sense other human-shaped entities in the room. Materialists could explain this as a magnetically-induced spatial displacement of the subject's mental image of his own body. This might be correct. Or in some cases it could involve a magnetically-induced enhancement of the subject's brain so that he can sense spiritual entities, whether a spatially displaced sense of his own spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:23), or a spatially correct sense of an external spiritual entity such as a guardian angel (cf. Acts 12:15b), a fallen angel (Ephesians 6:12), a demon (Mark 5:8), or a ghost (Luke 24:37).

It is possible that sometime in the future, scientists could magnetically induce something like Christians' experience of the Holy Spirit, if by employing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), scientists are able to find the part of Christians' brains which is most active when they are sensing the Holy Spirit (e.g. while they are listening to worship music and worshipping God), and which shows little to no activity when they are not sensing the Holy Spirit (e.g. while they are listening to a sports talk show). If there is such a part of the brain, scientists could then apply magnetic fields to it while Christian subjects are not sensing the Holy Spirit, and then see if it induces something like a sense of the Holy Spirit in them without any other external stimuli.

If scientists manage to do this, it could be employed by the future Antichrist to try to deceive Christians, along with the rest of the world, into worshipping Lucifer (Satan, the dragon), and the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast"), and a speaking image of the Antichrist, during the Antichrist's future, literal 3.5-year worldwide reign (Revelation 13:4-18). For what the Antichrist and his False Prophet (of Revelation 19:20) could do is have scientists fashion small (what they could call) "spiritual reality" devices, like the size of a Bluetooth earpiece, that could be easily worn on the head at all times, and that could generate magnetic fields right over the part of the brain which gives people a similar sense of spiritual assurance of truth which the Holy Spirit gives to Christians (John 16:13). And these devices could be remotely activated on people's heads by cell phone signals whenever the Antichrist or the False Prophet are speaking to the world their false doctrines, so that the people of the world will get an overwhelming sense that what the Antichrist and False Prophet are saying is the absolute truth.

Or, if most of the world will have no need of such devices because of the False Prophet's amazing, deceiving miracles (Revelation 13:13-14a, Revelation 19:20), and because of the "strong delusion" sent by God upon unrepentant people (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12), then the use of the devices could be focused on Christians, and any other people, who refuse to follow the Antichrist. Such Christians could be arrested and placed in "re-education camps" where they will be strapped into chairs and forced to watch long speeches by the Antichrist and the False Prophet while the devices are active on the Christians' heads, with the hope that eventually the Christians will come to accept the Antichrist, based on the "good spiritual feelings" which they will get (from the devices) while listening to the speeches.

It is vital that Christians never base any of their doctrinal beliefs only on spiritual feelings (cf. Proverbs 28:26, Proverbs 14:12). All doctrines must be checked against what God's Word the Bible teaches (2 Timothy 3:16 to 4:4; 1 Timothy 4:16). For "the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils" (1 Timothy 4:1). Jesus said: "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed" (John 8:31b).

HenryM said in post #105:

Even worse, people put their faith on theories (big bang is a theory, macroevolution is a theory), which by definition are not facts, before the Word of God.

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Note that an old earth and evolution can be true without contradicting creationism, because evolution per se (random mutation and survival of the fittest) can coexist with miraculous creation, just as an automated process created by a human (for example, a computer program which makes random, colorful pictures which can be seen as art) can coexist with that same human sometimes performing a task himself, directly (painting some pictures by hand). That is, evolution per se can simply be a process created by God to allow new, adaptive species to arise naturally over time, and this process can coexist with God sometimes creating species miraculously.

Some people ask why would God wait millions of years for something to evolve from a one-celled organism, when he could just create it instantly? He could do that for the same reason that he has humans start out as a one-celled organism: a zygote in its mother's womb. He then has it only gradually develop through natural means into an embryo, and then into a fetus, and then a baby, a toddler, an adolescent, and an adult. And he has other animals develop gradually in a similar way. And he has plants start out as seeds. So it must give God pleasure to see organisms develop naturally over time, just as it must give him pleasure to also sometimes create plants and animals miraculously, instantaneously, already fully-formed, like he did in Genesis 1:11-13 and Genesis 1:20-27, during three of the seven, literal, 24-hour days of Genesis 1:3 to 2:4.

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Creationism can include what could be called a double-gap theory, meaning that there could have been two gaps of time in Genesis chapters 1-2, the first gap between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, and the second gap between Genesis 2:4 and Genesis 2:5. Genesis 1:1 could have occurred some 4.5 billion years ago, when God first created the planet earth and its atmosphere (the first heaven, in which the birds fly: Genesis 1:20b). Between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, some 4.5 billion years could have occurred, in which God could have allowed his own created process of evolution to serve as a mechanism by which new species arose naturally on the earth. During those same 4.5 billion years, God could have also gone outside of evolution and created new species miraculously, whenever he wanted to (compare what evolutionists call punctuated equilibria).

Genesis 1:2 could refer to the condition of the earth only about twelve thousand years ago (at the end of the Paleolithic period), after some cataclysm, such as a comet strike, had killed off all life on the planet (both evolved and miraculously created), and had submerged all land areas in water (comets contain huge amounts of water), and had ruined the atmosphere. The impact of the comet could have also knocked the earth out of its orbit around its original star, so that the earth was sent hurtling into the darkness of interstellar space as a "rogue planet" (astronomers estimate that rogue planets in our galaxy could outnumber the stars in our galaxy). Genesis 1:3 to 2:4 could then refer to God, over a period of six, literal, 24-hour days (some twelve thousand years ago, at the start of the Neolithic period), miraculously restoring to the earth light, a good atmosphere, dry land, and life, including a race of male and female homo sapiens sapiens, after God had miraculously restored land plants (Genesis 1:11-13) and land animals (Genesis 1:24-25) to the earth.

Then, only about six thousand years ago, God miraculously created on the earth an individual male homo sapiens sapiens named Adam in an uninhabited desert land (Genesis 2:5-7; there, the original Hebrew word translated as "earth" can simply refer to a certain "land": e.g. Genesis 2:11). After that, God created the plants of the local, Garden of Eden in that desert land (Genesis 2:8-9), and God placed Adam in that garden (Genesis 2:15). Then God miraculously created the animals of the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:19). Then he created an individual female homo sapiens sapiens (Genesis 2:22) whom Adam named Eve (Genesis 3:20).

Because Adam was created only about six thousand years ago (based on Biblical chronology), yet there are homo sapiens sapiens fossils said to be as old as about two hundred thousand years, God could have first created homo sapiens sapiens (or it could have evolved by God's created process of evolution) as far back as about two hundred thousand years. Also, all of the different hominid forms the fossils of which long predate or are as old as the earliest fossils of homo sapiens sapiens, and which preceding or coexisting hominid forms we do not consider to have been fully human like us (such as homo sapiens neanderthalensis), could have all been created by God (or could have evolved by God's created process of evolution) over millions of years prior to the first appearance of homo sapiens sapiens on the earth.

And this does not even get into the possibly trillion other inhabited planets in the universe on which homo sapiens sapiens (or similar or far more advanced life-forms) could have been created by God (or could have evolved by God's created process of evolution) billions of years prior to the first appearance of homo sapiens sapiens on the earth. For the universe could be about fourteen billion years old, and it contains something like a hundred billion galaxies, each containing something like a hundred billion stars. So even if only one star out of every ten billion stars has an inhabited planet, there would still be a trillion inhabited planets. And on most of these, God could have begun his miraculous work (and the work of his created process of evolution) billions of years prior to his beginning of his miraculous work (and the work of his created process of evolution) on the earth.

jcforever said in post #112:

2 Peter 3
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.

The beast was used to have men build the computer technology we have today so that the servants of the second witness could testify to that knowledge and learn how we're created. Now that we understand exactly how we're created, the day of the Lord will happen very soon. On that day, the false prophet and the beast will be destroyed along with all the flesh of man.

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Regarding 2 Peter 3:10-13, in the day of the Lord will indeed occur the destruction of heaven (the first heaven: the sky/atmosphere) and the earth (its surface) at the great white throne judgment (Revelation 20:11, Revelation 21:1). And this will be followed by the creation of a new atmosphere and surface for the earth (2 Peter 3:13, Revelation 21:1) onto which the literal city of New Jerusalem, God the Father's house (John 14:2, Revelation 21:2-3), will descend from the third heaven (Revelation 21:2-3).

But note that the day of the Lord will not immediately bring the destruction of the earth's atmosphere and surface. For the day of the Lord will begin at Jesus' still-unfulfilled second coming (1 Corinthians 1:7-8) as a thief (2 Peter 3:10a, Revelation 16:15). And after his second coming, he will establish his kingdom physically on the earth with the physically resurrected church for a thousand years (Revelation 19:7 to 20:6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 2:26-29, Psalms 66:3-4, Psalms 72:8-11, Zechariah 14:3-21).

And after the thousand years, the Gog/Magog rebellion will occur (Revelation 20:7-10, Ezekiel chapters 38-39). And after its defeat, at least seven more years will occur (Ezekiel 39:9b), before the earth's atmosphere and surface are destroyed at the great white throne judgment (Revelation 20:11). All of these events, from Jesus' second coming to the great white throne judgment, will be part of the day of the Lord. For it is not a twenty-four-hour day, but to God is like a thousand-year "day" (2 Peter 3:8).

jcforever said in post #112:

Now that we understand exactly how we're created, the day of the Lord will happen very soon. On that day, the false prophet and the beast will be destroyed along with all the flesh of man.

Revelation 19
17: Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly in midheaven, "Come, gather for the great supper of God,
18: to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great."
19: And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who sits upon the horse and against his army.
20: And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.
21: And the rest were slain by the sword of him who sits upon the horse, the sword that issues from his mouth; and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

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Regarding your referring to "all the flesh of man", note that in Revelation 19:18, the original Greek word (pas: G3956) translated as "all" does not have to mean absolutely all, but can mean "all manner of" (cf. Acts 10:12). Revelation 19:18 means that all manner of unsaved people alive at that time, "both free and bond, both small and great", will be slain by Jesus at his second coming. It does not mean that absolutely all people of all times will be slain at the second coming, nor does it mean that absolutely all people who will still be alive at the second coming will be slain at that time. For obedient Christians who are still alive at that time will not be slain (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17), but will be changed into immortal bodies (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).

And not even all unsaved people alive at the second coming will be slain at that time, for those "left" where they are at Jesus' second coming (Luke 17:34-36, Matthew 24:40-41) will include unsaved people who will be forced to come up annually to worship the returned Jesus in Jerusalem during the millennium (Zechariah 14:16-19). These unsaved people will have to be ruled with a rod of iron by Jesus and the physically resurrected church during the millennium (Revelation 2:26-29, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 20:4-6, Psalms 2, Psalms 66:3, Psalms 72:8-11). And their descendants will be deceived by Satan after the millennium into committing the Gog/Magog rebellion (Revelation 20:7-10, Ezekiel chapters 38-39).

jcforever said in post #112:

Now that we understand exactly how we're created, the day of the Lord will happen very soon. On that day, the false prophet and the beast will be destroyed along with all the flesh of man.

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Regarding "all the flesh of man", do you mean that flesh per se is somehow evil?

If so, note that Christians need to be careful not to be deceived by the Gnostic/antichrist lie that Christ is not in the flesh (2 John 1:7), and that Christians will not forever be in the flesh. For the Bible shows that on the third day after his death (Luke 24:46; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4), Jesus Christ was not resurrected as a disembodied spirit, but in his human, flesh and bones body (Luke 24:39, Hebrews 2:17). That is why his tomb is empty (Matthew 28:6), and why he still has the wounds of the crucifixion on his resurrection body (John 20:25-29). And Luke 24:39 did not stop being true once Jesus ascended into heaven. For he will remain forever the human mediator/high priest of believers (1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 7:24-26), in human flesh, just like they are in human flesh (Hebrews 2:17). And when he returns, he will still have the wounds of the crucifixion on his resurrection body (Zechariah 13:6, Zechariah 12:10-14).

Gnosticism mistakenly thinks that flesh is evil in itself, and that only pure spirit can be good. But Jesus proves that flesh is not evil in itself, for he has been made flesh (John 1:1,14, Romans 1:3, Luke 24:39), and remains wholly without sin (Hebrews 4:15). Genesis also proves that flesh is not evil in itself, but was created by God as something very good (Genesis 1:31). Adam and Eve were flesh, for they were the progenitors of the human race alive today. And they were immortal before they fell into sin, for it was only their falling into sin which made them become mortal (Genesis 2:17). So Adam and Eve started out as immortal flesh. And so the future resurrection (if dead) or changing (if alive) of saved people into immortal flesh bodies like Jesus has (1 Corinthians 15:21-23,51-53, Philippians 3:21, Luke 24:39, Romans 8:23-25) will be God allowing them to partake of the original, immortal-flesh condition of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before their fall into sin.

Also, beware the more-general Gnostic lie that even the entire physical universe is evil in itself, and that only a purely-spiritual heaven can be good. For this lie is employed by Gnosticism to wrongly revile the Creator God YHWH as an evil, tyrant, lesser god, whom Gnosticism says created the physical universe to be the foul prison house of human spirits, whom Gnosticism says by some mistake fell from bliss in a purely-spiritual heaven down into the physical universe, to become trapped in suffering, fleshly bodies. No doubt the future Antichrist will employ this lie as part of his utter reviling of YHWH (Revelation 13:6, Daniel 11:36). But Genesis shows that our physical world was created by YHWH as something very good (Genesis 1:31).

And the Bible shows that the whole plan of Creation was not that humans, who are both flesh and spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Luke 24:39), would become purely-spiritual ghosts and float forever on clouds in a purely-spiritual heaven with God, but that God would become both flesh and spirit like man (John 1:1,14), and that God would ultimately come down from heaven to live with man on a future, new earth (Revelation 21:1-4), just as God had walked on the earth in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:8). Also, on the new earth, saved humanity will be allowed to eat from the literal tree of life (Revelation 2:7, Revelation 22:2,14), just as Adam and Eve had not been forbidden to eat from it in their unfallen state (Genesis 2:9,16-17). So, with regard to saved people, God will completely undo the effect of the fall of Adam and Eve. Saved people will be able to live in an earthly, physical paradise forever with God (Revelation 2:7), just as Adam and Eve and their descendants might have done had not Adam and Eve fallen into sin.

So beware the Gnostic lie. Beware the Antichrist.