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And what's the great mystery revealed by the Scroll? Jesus is the way the nations get to be friends with God - to join God's kingdom. What's the great plot twist? Non-Jews can join God's kingdom - even Kiwi's and Aussies.Satan is the great Tempter, ever since he managed to get Adam and Eve to disobey God, Satan and his demonic minions work to deceive and control people and nations.
Today's Iran is probably controlled by something, but we don't know what. Daniel was mostly about his era.For example; Iran is controlled by the Prince of Persia. Daniel 10:13
This is all blah blah blah to me until you actually learn how to read these books in context and not just RIP stuff out - effectively cherrypicking whatever you want - to fit your precious 'timetables'.He will motivate the leaders of Iran to fire nuke missiles to Israel. It will be this attack which will cause the Lord to destroy them all. Ezekiel 7:14, Psalms 83, Zephaniah 2:1-5
What about those PLAINER New Testament scriptures? You honestly still haven't addressed them.
YES, in a VERY SPECIFIC way Satan is locked - with regard to something the passage ACTUALLY tells us in fairly normal speak. The abyss is an image you're drawn to taken literally - but the literal stuff in the passage you conveniently overlook.So; in no way can it be thought that Satan is locked into the Abyss now.
"to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended."
It's not literal but about your heart. What you trust in. It's a metaphor.Your guess is as good as mine, as to what the Mark of the beast will be.
My guess, is that it will be an implanted electronic chip.
You ever wonder what the dimensions of the New Jerusalem were all about? The sizes involved invoked the perfect dimensions (symbolic numbers for perfection and fullness of God's kingdom) but ALSO were roughly the dimensions of the whole known Roman world. It was like the heavenly city was going to come down and sit over the known world.Daniel 7:23-25 cannot be referring to the Roman Empire.
Nothing in that Prophecy fits the history of any past Empire. The British Commonwealth comes closest, but even they did not devour the whole earth.
Basically, Acts traces the Apostles fulfilling Jesus command in 1:8
"8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
When Paul is declaring the gospel to the Romans - that's pretty much the ends of the earth. I'm convinced that this pretty much fulfilled the 1:8 command by the end of Acts! The Lord could have returned any time since then but didn't because he wants more to be saved.
Meanwhile, I live in hope that you will take an honest look at these verses. One day.
The following verses are about what happens when the Lord Returns on the Last Day - and none of it can be separated out without completely ignoring these verses.
* he will return like a thief, that is, predicting it is futile
* he will return with his angels and he himself is like a 'blazing fire'
* life will be PRETTY NORMAL with everyone marrying and giving in marriage
* judgement will come suddenly - and it is not just death but eternal judgement in mind - this event ushers in eternity, the New Heavens and New Earth
Jesus expressly states that he will raise believers up on the “last day” (Jn 6:39, 40, 44, 54; 11:24) and that he will Judge on the Last Day.
“There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day” (John 12:48)
MATTHEW 13
"The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. 40 “As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42 They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear."
MATTHEW 24:35-44
“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.... “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
2 Thessalonians 1
5 All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. 6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
1 Thessalonians 4
13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
2 Peter 3:10-13
"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare. 11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives 12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. 13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells"
Also please note: the return of Christ will occur “in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed” (1 Co. 15:52; cf. 1 Thess 4:16). Notice that there are no gaps of time indicated between the resurrection and the judgement. These texts collectively speak of the resurrection, the judgment, and the return of Christ as distinct aspects of but one event, occurring at precisely the same time (cf. Mt 25:31-46). Premillennialists, who often chide amillennialists for not taking the Bible “literally” and who champion what they call the “literal” interpretation of Scripture, must now insert a thousand-year gap between the Second Coming of Christ (and the resurrection) and the Final Judgment to make room for the supposed future millennial reign of Christ! And this, ironically, when the clear declarations of Scripture do not allow for such gaps.
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