In Christ Forever said:
Yes. In essence, we are also those in Christ and literally reign with Him on earth now, but what happens when we are "resurrected"? Beheaded is a form of "seperation", like the body from the head I guess, and I am trying to look at it symbolically and see what I come up with.[only because it used this word instead of "killed" I guess]
How will we be reigning after this? As spiritual angels and do we have a special place to go to?
Greetings In Christ Forever,
I would like to just question a couple of things you have said.
Firstly about our reign with Christ. It seems to me that you believe this to be a present reigning [literally reign with Him on earth now], do you also believe that the 1000 year period in Rev 20 is happening at the moment?
I like the thought of the beheading representing a form of seperation, but does this mean that we interpret it symbollicly? I see no biblical reason to spiritalize this word. If the passage says they were beheaded, then they are to be beheaded by the beast, for their testimoney in Christ Jesus, spiritalising this will bring many errors and problems as speculation will rise.
I wasn't happy with the idea you have that you will look at the passage symbolically and see what you come up with. The bible surely is not a puzzle that we have to come up with ideas, it is breath of God and will speak for itself in its biblical and historical context.
The 1000 years I believe to be interpreted literally and that Christ literally comes to begin that period. Christ does not come at the end of this period, he comes before to raise the righteous to rule with him, this is real and literal, is there any reason it should be otherwise, and if this then is literal then so is the beheading of the saints.
We need to interpret passages with wisdom, and see if they are symbolic or not, for example, symbolisim is obvious if a vision says "I saw a beast
like and bear"
Don't come up with ideas, examine, study and pray over the word of God.