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No,but you need to understand what they mean!Are these Scriptures corrupt?
Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Ecclesiastes 6:6
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
If you were to substitute the words "two thousand" for the words "a thousand" in each of those verses, would that change the messages that those verses are conveying?No,but you need to understand what they mean!
For GOD a thousand years is like ONE day.... but for us humans that is another matter.
That would be a corruption of the Scriptures... the message conveyed is already clear as it is .If you were to substitute the words "two thousand" for the words "a thousand" in each of those verses, would that change the messages that those verses are conveying?
If you were to substitute the words "a thousand and one" for the words "a thousand" in each of those verses, would that change the messages that those verses are conveying?That would be a corruption of the Scriptures...
Why do you not accept that a thousand years simply means a long duration, as in the verses I've cited?Why you are not able to accept what God said to his servant John in Revelation 20:1-6 ?
These verses means For GOD a thousand years is like ONE day ... read Psalms 90:4 in thy sight 1,000 years are but as yesterday when it is past...Why do you not accept that a thousand years simply means a long duration, as in the verses I've cited?
God is fully involved in Revelation 20. Are not the thousand years in that chapter the thousand years as God sees them?These verses means For GOD a thousand years is like ONE day ... read Psalm 90:4 in thy sight 1,000 years are as yesterday...
Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Ordinary years made of 365 days per year as seen by those humans who will be resurrected to live and reign with Christ Jesus a thousand years Revelation 20:4-6God is fully involved in Revelation 20. Are not the thousand years in that chapter the thousand years as God sees them?
There is nothing in those verses that says that the thousand years are as seen by humans. God alone is the one who knows and controls the duration of time involved. The thousand years are years as seen by God.Ordinary years made of 365 days per year as seen by those humans who will be resurrected to live and reign with Christ Jesus a thousand years Revelation 20:4-6
Jesus will reign on the EARTH with those humans who will be resurrected during the FIRST RESURRECTION Revelation 20:4-6There is nothing in those verses that says that the thousand years are as seen by humans. God alone is the one who knows and controls the duration of time involved. The thousand years are years as seen by God.
Revelation 20Jesus will reign on the EARTH with those humans who will be resurrected during the FIRST RESURRECTION Revelation 20:4-6
5 The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.
Why are you willingly ignoring verses 4 and 5 who precede verse 6 ?Revelation 20
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Yet the time of his coming for all of us who are believers is to happen as a thief in the night.
parousia70 said:Doesn't scripture state the exact opposite of that?
Isn't it the unbelievers that experience the Thief in the night coming?
According to scripture, The Believer, who is awake and watching, does not experience His coming as a thief"
1 Thessalonians 5:4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.
Matthew 24:43
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
Luke 12:39
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.
The thief's coming only befalls those who are NOT watching.
And according to Revelation 3:3, the thief's coming must have already befallen those in 1st century Sardis who were not watching.
Commas in the right places could have helped it be clear what the case is. Yet the time, of his coming for all of us who are believers, is to happen as a thief in the night.
Were those in the first century church of Sardis not believers according to this?
We should be watching, in that sense. The time of his coming, like a thief coming in the night, isn't announced ahead of time. So unbelievers won't know either. Believers are warned to live right, just as if Christ is returning for them in that time, and the time will come. When it does, it shouldn't mean that then we should change how we are living, so our motive should be the same as it would be for then, we must think how we are to live for Christ just like that when we will see him, we are not motivated for it the same way if we don't think that way.
There are signs to watch for, that astute believers can know the time is drawing near, with end time scenarios in biblical prophecy that should happen. We might talk of what may be seen now already. Believers may be taken out unexpectedly, as believers are not to be there where judgment is coming from Yahweh on the unrepentant wicked in this world, yet there are troubles that are coming to this world while we would all be here. There will be problems from what our society contributes to, which we should really stop being involved in, for we would be here with the results of those things coming. We might find ways to live much better, even if separating from others, to live in such better ways. Separating for this may be called for, even already. While believers would be taken out ultimately, at an unexpected time, before Yahweh's judgment comes on the unrepentant wicked, Christ will be appearing visibly in victory over them, with saving Jerusalem and starting his reign in this world from there.
I believe the first resurrection (Rev 20:5-6) takes place before the tribulation begins
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Believers are to WATCH so they will be aware.
Lots of circumstances and events are coming together to tell me that Christ will return at anytime.
Look at the verse in Matthew 24 about not knowing the exact time. The next verse is about the "days of Noah." Look at the parallel in Luke 17 where it talks about the days of Noah and days of Lot. Notice the related verses say the coming of Christ will be like the destruction of Sodom. In other words, fire from heaven... just like in Ezekiel 38 & Ezekiel 39 and Revelation 20:9.
In Luke 17:26-30, Jesus compares the evil end of the age to both the "days of Noah" and "days of Lot." In both of those Biblical examples, evildoers had passed the point of no return and God intervened.
Luke 17:29-30
" But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all.
So will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed."
Luke 17:24
" For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day."
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seven years before that, as recorded in Jn.14:2-3, 28; 1 Thess.4:18-17 nd in 2 Thess,2:3 and 7-8.
I could not find the words "seven" or "years" in any of those passages...
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