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"Aggelos" and "malak" - the Greek and Hebrew indicating EITHER human OR celestial messengers It had been my belief for most of my life that our "judging angels" meant that humanity would be judging celestial angels in the next life. Sort of like giving our individual guardian angels either...

We are all familiar with the Matthew 24 passage about the Great Tribulation, and Christ's warning for the disciples not to follow any "false Christs" or "false prophets" showing up in those days. The warning was against those claiming that the Messiah was in the wilderness, or in "the secret...

"And the number of the forces of the horsemen is two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them." (Revelation 9:16 - YLT) The usual interpretation of this verse has mistakenly multiplied these numbers of "two myriads of myriads" together. The resulting inflated number totals an army...

I am a relatively new member of the egalitarian community, so any and all reactions are welcomed and respected from you who are ahead of me on this road. As a little background, I was once a member of a cult-like church for 16 years starting in the 80's that exercised heavy authority over the...

We are presently in the time of year when this classical piece of music is often performed, especially where I live in the south. Even non-Christians can share an appreciation for this wonderful repetition of scripture texts, sung in choruses that both stir and comfort the soul. It wasn't...

This post is in response to DavidPT on another thread, where we were discussing the time limits of the millennium. My contention was that the literal, 1,000-year millennium is undoubtedly presented as a PAST fulfillment by the time Revelation was being written, and that it had ENDED in AD 33...

Free will tends to be a subject treated as a sort of sacred cow that none dare look at disparagingly. Isaiah 55:9 tells us, "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." So what would naturally seem to us to be a...