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I believe you are mistaking my critique of the man's message for an attack on the man himself. These are not the same thing. The role of overseer of a congregation is not in question here, nor is this gentleman's character and integrity, but specifically the content of this particular...

JM, I listened carefully to the whole sermon above and I’ve got to say…this gentleman is so mixed up it’s pitiful. About the only thing he got right was in identifying the woman in Rev. 12 as OT Israel who brought forth Jesus the Messiah that ascended to God and His throne. The rest is a...

Here you go...a different sense of the word prophecy than the rather limited meaning you are trying to give it. 1 Chronicles 25:1 tells us, "Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps...

There are many things in Revelation that speak of past history. Do you need a list? Your definition of what it means to "prophesy" is limited. Prophecy is an utterance by divine inspiration. It may or may not contain information related to future events. Many times in the OT the prophet was...

Not all prophecy is the foretelling of future events. John's instruction in Revelation 1:19 was to write down "the things thou hast seen" (PAST events for John), "the things that are" (things PRESENTLY going on in John's days), "and the things that are about to be hereafter" (things in John's...

The contradiction to this is found in Revelation 12:5 in a translation other than the KJV. "And she brought forth a male child, who is ABOUT TO rule all the nations with a rod of iron, and caught away was her child unto God and His throne." (YLT). This was written from the time perspective in...

That is exactly why Peter wrote in 1 Peter 4:7 around the year AD 65 that "the end of all things is at hand", or presently in place in his own days. The abomination of desolation being "Jerusalem surrounded by armies" according to Luke 21:20 was a standing army set up around Jerusalem. The...

This is a different subject than the Antichrist. That total of 490 years dealing with Daniel's people began with the decree in 454 BC in the 20th year of Artaxerxes's reign, and concluded in AD 37 with Paul's vision in Jerusalem's temple when God commanded him to depart from Jerusalem and go...

Maybe on your chart it does, but not according to Paul in 2 Thess. 2:4. Actually, there is no "transgression of desolation" mentioned at all anywhere in 2 Thess 2. You are inserting that into the text artificially. And the "abomination of desolation" is already interpreted for us by Luke...

No Douggg, you have the order completely flipped backwards to what Paul wrote. "For that day" (the day of the Lord gathering the saints) "shall not come, except there come a falling away FIRST, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition..." (2 Thess. 2:3). The required order of...

The kingdom was given to Christ on His resurrection-day ascension to the Father. He became the Great High Priest King of kings after the superior order of Melchizedek on that morning. This is why Christ could say to the disciples in Matthew 28:18, (even before He had ascended finally in Acts...

Agreed. They are the same thing. The "HE that restrains" was also the "WHAT" that was restraining the Man of Lawlessness from being revealed openly. The "HE" was a particular high priest. The "WHAT" was the high priesthood institution in general. Paul used deliberately veiled language to...

There would be no point in saying that the restrainer was "NOW" restraining the Man of Lawlessness if there was nothing there to be restrained. This requires that the Man of Lawlessness also had to be in existence at the same time as the restrainer. Back in the first-century days, the Zealot...

You are still clearly denying the very plain use of the word "NOW" in Paul's writing. This verse about the Man of Lawlessness and his restrainer who were then in existence is a proof text. What you are trying to do is to say, "Well, because I personally don't think such-and-such has happened...

The term "lawlessness" in this case was referring to the Zealot cause which was then on the rise. When Paul wrote that "the mystery of iniquity doth already work...", he meant that the Zealot insurrectionists in Israel were already operating. The "falling away" coming first meant that the...

Dougg, with this above, it shows you are ducking and dodging the point I was emphasizing. Please stay focused. Paul in 2 Thess. 2 was speaking of a THEN PRESENT Man of Lawlessness and his restrainer. "He who NOW restrains..." was a PRESENT TENSE reality in Paul's days when the restrainer and...

Sure, there is plenty of misinformation concerning the Antichrist that has circulated, and is widely known. That does not make it scripturally true. You have written quite a tangle of unrelated information in your last post to me about every other kind of topic. Let me concentrate on the...

You are not considering that the word "apostasia" can mean "revolt, or rebellion" in a defection from a certain civic order within a nation. This was the case with the rebellion against Rome which was launched in AD 66 by the Zealots. Menahem was the first one of those competing Zealot...

The Antichrist / Man of Lawlessness never becomes a "beast-king" in scripture. You are mistakenly combing two different characters in this drama. And Paul never wrote that the Antichrist / Man of Lawlessness would be cast into the Lake of Fire at Jesus's second coming. The language of 2...

The mark was the required Tyrian shekel coin minted in Jerusalem by permission of Rome. The high priesthood required that this Tyrian shekel be the only coin accepted in the temple for buying or selling any items for worship in the temple. This coin with its fobidden, abominable images and...