Six Things Never Mentioned In Rev. 20:1-6

[ebedmelech]

The fragments of Papias are so indeed fragmentary that we actually know almost nothing about his teachings other than that he was definitely a pre-millennialist and that Irenaeus and numerous other early Christian writers followed his views.

We do know much about the eschatological views of Iraenaeus, as the last twelve chapters of his famous work titled "Against Heresies" were totally devoted to end time prophecy.

So what do know is that the earliest Christian writer on prophecy that we know about was pre-millennial. And he is thought tp have written around 16 to 46 years after most historians date the writing of the Revelation.

We also now that the oldest Christian commentary of prophesy of any significant length that has survived to the present (the work of Iranaeus)was pre-millennial, and the oldest Christian commentary on scripture (a commentary on Daniel by Hyppolytus) was also pre-millennial.

So pre-millennialism was unquestionably the original doctrine of the church.

Nope. The apostles were before all these guys! They are the foundation of the church...and they don't teach pre-mil.

 

[yeshuasavedme]

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So pre-millennialism was unquestionably the original doctrine of the church.

It is also the doctrine of Enoch the prophet, the seventh from Adam, who wrote his book for those who will be living in the day of Tribulation," when all the wicked and godless will be removed". He also tells of the rapture before the tribulation n chapter 50, and he tells of those who see it and repent and are saved in the name of the Son of Man but do not get the glory. They are the ones who endure to the end or are martyred, and are saved.
It is also taught in the Living Oracles and in the prophets, but as Enoch is first, they play off that foundation.

The Levitical priesthood itself with the High Priest and his sons serving in the temple before YHWH type the raptured and resurrected born again in Christ saints who are adopted sons of the Firstborn who will serve the Son of Man in His temple in heaven, established there, in heaven, right back where Adam got cast down from at the fall and lost the possibility of building the Temple not made with hands for the Glory to indwell when the "stones" for building that temple died in his loins, at the fall, and did not come into their being as "sons of God" of the human being kind, as Malachi 2:15 states was the purpose for our being made male and female.

Moses made copies of all he saw the pattern of in heaven, of things in heaven, and they all type God's one plan for our restoration back to Paradise above, but in the "New Man garments made for the Glory".

The clothes the priests put on typed the New Man, with the High Priest's garments typing the Garment Christ donned at the incarnation to be our Redeemer/Kinsman, and the sons of the High Priest type the adopted sons, the born again in Christ believers who serve in the heavenly temple before YHWH.

Leviticus 8 types the putting on of the New Man body, and entering into the temple in heaven to celebrate our consecration to the priesthood of heaven, standing before the Son of Man in heaven, shut behind the doors for one full week -typing the time of the Tribulation for a "week" of Jubilee years.


The silver trumpets in Numbers 10:1-7 made for calling the Gathering together to YHWH before His temple door to hear His instructions type the heavenly trumpets of the archangels, which sound twice together in rapid succession to call the dead in Christ and the alive and remaining in Christ to the gathering together unto Christ in heaven, before His temple doors -which Isaiah the prophet told us would be like this:

Isaiah 26:
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Paul's two trumpets that call the gathering together of the dead in Christ and the alive and remaining in Christ to be gathered to Him in the heavens is the Oracle of Numbers 10:1-7, and Isaiah 26:19-21 tells us what Yeshua says to us when we rise to meet Him in the heavens, when He comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth, as Psalm 50 states.


Psalm 50:
The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge [vindicate] his people.
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.


After the rapture, the Tribulation is the time when the LORD punishes the world and redeems Israel:

Isaiah 27:his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
3 I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

 

[Bible2]

yeshuasavedme said in post 39:

John sees the 24 elders seated and crowned.

The 24 elders (Revelation 4:4) could be 24 chief angels, who, along with the 4 beasts/seraphims, have been worshipping God continually (as in 24 hours a day) for untold ages (Revelation 4:8-11, Isaiah 6:2-3). Just as the ancient Jewish temple on earth was modeled after the temple in heaven (Hebrews 9:23-24, Hebrews 8:5), so the 24 courses of the ancient Jewish chief priests on earth (1 Chronicles 24:7-18) could have been modeled after the 24 elders in heaven. God could have also patterned the 24 hours of the day on earth after the 24 elders in heaven. And he could have also patterned the church's 12 tribes of Israel and its 12 apostles (Revelation 21:9,12,14), together forming the number 24, after the 24 elders in heaven.

At the time of Revelation 5:8-9, the 24 elders and the 4 beasts/seraphims could be singing before God the prayers of the church (Revelation 5:8c), just as subsequently we see an angel offering up before God the prayers of the church (Revelation 8:4). So in Revelation 5:9, the 24 elders and the 4 beasts/seraphims can be singing words which don't apply to themselves, just as human singers on earth can sing words which don't apply to themselves (e.g. James Taylor singing the words of the song "Millworker", which are the words of a female millworker).

The 24 elders wearing crowns (Revelation 4:4) doesn't forbid them (as is sometimes claimed) from being angels. For if even the weird locust-like beings and the devil can wear crowns (Revelation 9:7, Revelation 12:3,9), then some angels can wear crowns.

Also, the 24 elders wearing white clothing (Revelation 4:4) doesn't forbid them (as is sometimes claimed) from being angels, for angels can wear white clothing (Revelation 15:6, John 20:12).

yeshuasavedme said in post 39:

That is a post rapture event, and the affairs in heaven after that are post rapture/tribulation on earth below events having their origin in heaven.

Note that no scripture requires believers will be raptured any higher than the clouds of the sky (the first heaven) to hold a meeting in the air with Jesus at his 2nd coming (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17). After that meeting, in which the church will be judged by Jesus (Psalms 50:3-5, cf. Mark 13:27) and the obedient part of the church will be married to Jesus (Revelation 19:7, Matthew 25:1-13), the obedient part of the church will come back down from the sky (the first heaven) with Jesus (Revelation 19:15-21) to reign on the earth with him for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:4-6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 2:26-29). After the 1,000 years and subsequent events (Revelation 20:7-15, Ezekiel chapters 38-39) the obedient part of the church will live on the new earth with God the Father and Jesus in the literal city of New Jerusalem (Revelation chapters 21-22).

yeshuasavedme said in post 39:

That is a post rapture event, and the affairs in heaven after that are post rapture/tribulation on earth below events having their origin in heaven.

Note that nothing in the Bible teaches or requires a pre-tribulation rapture of the church. Instead, the Bible makes clear that Jesus won't come and gather together (rapture) the church until immediately after the future tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24 (Matthew 24:29-31; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8). That's why the marriage of the church doesn't happen until Revelation 19:7, in connection with Jesus' 2nd coming and the bodily resurrection of the church at that time (Revelation 19:7 to 20:6; 1 Corinthians 15:21-23,51-53; 1 Thessalonians 4:15-16). Matthew 24:30-31 refers to the same 2nd coming of Jesus and gathering together (rapture) of the church as 2 Thessalonians 2:1, which refers to the same 2nd coming of Jesus and catching up together (rapture) of the church as 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17.

Jesus won't return and gather together (rapture) the church until sometime after there's a falling away (an apostasy) in the church, and the Antichrist sits in a 3rd Jewish temple in Jerusalem and proclaims himself God (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4, Daniel 11:31,36, Revelation 11:1-2, Revelation 13:4-8), and the abomination of desolation (possibly a standing, android image of the Antichrist) is set up in the holy place (the inner sanctum) of the 3rd Jewish temple (Matthew 24:15-31, Daniel 11:31). For when Jesus returns to gather together (and marry) the church he will destroy the Antichrist (2 Thessalonians 2:1,8, Revelation 19:7,20). Before Jesus returns, the church will have to go through the future, literal 3.5 years of the Antichrist's worldwide reign (Revelation 13:5-10, Revelation 14:12-13, Revelation 20:4-6, Matthew 24:9-31).

At Jesus' 2nd coming (1 Thessalonians 4:15; 2 Thessalonians 2:1, Matthew 24:30) the church will be resurrected and caught up together/gathered together (raptured) (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; 2 Thessalonians 2:1, Matthew 24:31) not to remove the church from the earth (Proverbs 10:30, John 17:15,20) but to take the church only as high as the clouds of the sky to hold a meeting in the air with the returned Jesus (1 Thessalonians 4:17).

At that meeting Jesus will judge everyone in the church (Psalms 50:3-5, cf. Mark 13:27) by their works (2 Corinthians 5:10, Romans 2:6-8, Luke 12:45-48, Matthew 25:19-30). And then Jesus will marry in the clouds the obedient part of the church (Revelation 19:7-8, Matthew 25:1-12), those in the church (of all times) who "overcame" to the end (Revelation 3:5, Revelation 2:26). They will then mount white horses and come back down from the sky (the first heaven) with Jesus (Revelation 19:14) as he defeats the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast") and the world's armies (Revelation 19:15-21). Jesus will then make the marriage supper of Revelation 19:9 for the resurrected and married obedient part of the church in the earthly Jerusalem (Isaiah 25:6-9; 1 Corinthians 15:54). Jesus and the obedient part of the church will then reign on the earth for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:4-6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 2:26-29).

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The mistaken idea of a pre-tribulation rapture is dangerous because when no pre-tribulation rapture occurs and pre-trib believers begin to suffer in the tribulation they could think that God has somehow been defeated by Satan, that Satan by his power has caused a pre-trib rapture not to happen despite God wanting one to. Or they could think that God has cruelly broken his (supposed) promise, that he has pulled the rug out from under them, that he cruelly lied to them and must now be laughing at their surprise and suffering (Proverbs 1:26), so that in their rage they could curse God and commit apostasy during the tribulation (Isaiah 8:21-22, Matthew 24:9-13, Matthew 13:21), to the ultimate loss of their salvation (Hebrews 6:4-8, John 15:6; 2 Timothy 2:12).

And even if they instead rightly think, "Okay, we must have just been mistaken in thinking the rapture was supposed to be pre-trib. Satan hasn't defeated God, and God didn't lie to us", nonetheless, because they had held so strongly to the pre-trib idea for so long, their minds could be completely unprepared to face the long tribulation that lies ahead of them (just as holding too strongly to the mistaken idea of preterism, or historicism, or symbolicism, or spiritualism, could leave some believers less prepared mentally to endure the future tribulation).

The Bible gives those in the church clear warning ahead of time about everything they're going to have to face during the future tribulation (Mark 13:23, Revelation chapters 6 to 18, Revelation 1:1, Revelation 22:16) so they can be better prepared mentally not to be blindsided (1 Peter 4:12-13) or deceived by anything that's coming (Matthew 24:4-5,23-25, Revelation 13:13-18, Revelation 19:20), and so they can be better prepared mentally to endure the future tribulation with patience and faith to the end (Matthew 24:9-13, Revelation 13:7-10, Revelation 14:12-13, Revelation 20:4-6), that is, until death or until Jesus returns immediately after the tribulation (Matthew 24:29-31, Revelation 19:2 to 20:6; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8).

 

[Bible2]

yeshuasavedme said in post 43:

Leviticus 8 types the putting on of the New Man body, and entering into the temple in heaven to celebrate our consecration to the priesthood of heaven, standing before the Son of Man in heaven, shut behind the doors for one full week -typing the time of the Tribulation for a "week" of Jubilee years.

The silver trumpets in Numbers 10:1-7 made for calling the Gathering together to YHWH before His temple door to hear His instructions type the heavenly trumpets of the archangels, which sound twice together in rapid succession to call the dead in Christ and the alive and remaining in Christ to the gathering together unto Christ in heaven, before His temple doors -which Isaiah the prophet told us would be like this:

It's curious that the pre-tribulation rapture view would look to scriptures given to the 12 tribes of Israel in the time of Moses, in order to try to support itself, when at other times it's at such pains to try to claim that the 12 tribes of Israel have nothing to do with the church. The truth is that all genetic Jews in the church remain members of whichever tribe of Israel they were born into (Romans 11:1, Acts 4:36). And all genetic Gentiles in the church have been grafted into Israel (Romans 11:17,24, Ephesians 2:12,19, Galatians 3:29) and so have been grafted into its various tribes (cf. Ezekiel 47:21-23). So the entire church is the 12 tribes of Israel (Revelation 21:9,12; 1 Peter 2:9-10).

This is necessary, for all those in the church are saved only by the New Covenant (Matthew 26:28; 1 Corinthians 11:25; 2 Corinthians 3:6, Hebrews 9:15), made only with Israel (Jeremiah 31:31-34, John 4:22b). John 10:16 refers to the "other sheep" of believers who are Gentiles being brought into "this fold" of Israel, which is the "one fold" of the church (1 Corinthians 12:13, Ephesians 4:4-6, Revelation 21:9,12). A genetic Gentile believer can pray and ask which tribe of Israel he's been grafted into and he will receive an answer from God if he asks in faith (cf. Matthew 21:22) without any wavering (cf. James 1:6-7).

Also, all those in the church, no matter whether they're genetic Jews (Acts 22:3) or genetic Gentiles (Romans 16:4b), have become spiritually-circumcised Jews if they've undergone the spiritual circumcision of water-immersion (burial) baptism into Jesus (Romans 2:29, Philippians 3:3, Colossians 2:11-13).

Also, the book of James was addressing "the twelve tribes" (James 1:1), which was the same as addressing people in the church (James 5:14), people with faith in Christ (James 2:1, James 1:3) (i.e. Christians), people who have been born again (James 1:18, cf. 1 Peter 1:23), who are waiting for Christ to return (James 5:7).

yeshuasavedme said in post 43:

Leviticus 8 types the putting on of the New Man body, and entering into the temple in heaven to celebrate our consecration to the priesthood of heaven, standing before the Son of Man in heaven, shut behind the doors for one full week -typing the time of the Tribulation for a "week" of Jubilee years.

The silver trumpets in Numbers 10:1-7 made for calling the Gathering together to YHWH before His temple door to hear His instructions type the heavenly trumpets of the archangels, which sound twice together in rapid succession to call the dead in Christ and the alive and remaining in Christ to the gathering together unto Christ in heaven, before His temple doors -which Isaiah the prophet told us would be like this:

Even though Numbers 10:1-7 and Leviticus 8 were given to the 12 tribes of Israel, and the church is the 12 tribes of Israel, note that nothing requires that Numbers 10:1-7 and Leviticus 8 are prophecies of the church's future, instead of simply commandments of the Old Covenant Mosaic law. And on Jesus' Cross, for both Jews and Gentiles (John 11:51-52), of all times, the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law was abolished (Ephesians 2:15-16, Colossians 2:14-17; 2 Corinthians 3:6-18), disannulled (Hebrews 7:18), rendered obsolete (Hebrews 8:13, Galatians 3:2-25, Galatians 4:21 to 5:8), taken away and replaced (Hebrews 10:9) by the better hope (Hebrews 7:19), the better covenant (Hebrews 7:22, Hebrews 8:6-12), the 2nd covenant (Hebrews 8:7, Hebrews 10:9), of Jesus' New Covenant law (Galatians 6:2, John 1:17, Matthew 26:28, Hebrews 12:24, Hebrews 9:15), so that the law was changed (Hebrews 7:12).

All believers, both Jews and Gentles, of all times, are delivered from the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law and shouldn't keep it (Romans 7:6; 2 Corinthians 3:6-18, Galatians 2:11-21) or have any desire to keep it (Galatians 4:21 to 5:8, Galatians 3:2-25). Believers keep the spirit of the Old Covenant Mosaic law (Romans 7:6) by loving others (Galatians 5:14, Romans 13:8-10), by doing to others as they would have others do to them (Matthew 7:12).

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Also, note that nothing in Numbers 10:1-7 or Leviticus 8 requires, even by type, that the rapture will occur before the tribulation, or that the rapture will take the church any higher than the clouds of the sky (the first heaven), to hold a meeting in the air with Jesus at his 2nd coming (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17).

For, by type, the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in Numbers 10:3 and Leviticus 8:3 is only Christ himself (John 10:7,9), just as Leviticus 8:7-9, by type, refers to only our high priest, which is only Christ himself (Hebrews 6:20). And it will be only at the rapture, which will be only after the tribulation (Matthew 24:29-31; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, Revelation 19:7 to 20:6), that the trumpet of Numbers 10:3, by type, will sound to gather together the church to Christ himself (Matthew 24:31; 2 Thessalonians 2:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17) where he will be at his 2nd coming, which will be in the clouds of the sky (the first heaven), on his way down to the earth (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Zechariah 14:4).

Also, Leviticus 8:33,35 can mean, by type, that the church won't depart from the physical presence of the returned Jesus on the earth for 7 literal days, which could be how long the marriage supper of Revelation 19:9 will last. And the marriage supper (Revelation 19:9) won't have yet begun by the time of Revelation 19, which won't begin until after the future tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24 (cf. Matthew 24:29-31; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8). For regarding the church, the marriage supper will be a literal feast in the earthly Jerusalem after the resurrection and marriage of the church at Jesus' 2nd coming (Isaiah 25:6-9; 1 Corinthians 15:54, Revelation 19:7 to 20:6; 1 Thessalonians 4:15-16; 1 Corinthians 15:21-23,51-54). While the church will enjoy a feast "of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined" (Isaiah 25:6), the birds will feast on the corpses of the world's armies defeated at Jesus' 2nd coming (Revelation 19:17-21).

yeshuasavedme said in post 43:

Isaiah 26:
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Isaiah 26:20 can start a new idea, a new paragraph, like is indicated in the KJV. And so nothing requires that Isaiah 26:20-21 has to happen after Isaiah 26:19. Instead, Isaiah 26:20-21 can be addressing those in the church who will still be alive on the earth at the time of the 7 vials of God's wrath (Revelation 16), the final stage of the future tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24. These believers will still be waiting for Jesus' coming as a thief (Revelation 16:15). And Isaiah 26:20 can refer to them going into protective chambers which they will have prepared for themselves on the earth, just as Noah and his family went into the protective ark which they had prepared for themselves on the earth (Genesis 7:7).

Also, nothing forbids believers from preparing these chambers now, and hiding in them out in the wilderness at some point in our future (Revelation 12:6a), not only during the time of the 7 vials, but also during the just-preceding, literal 3.5 years (Revelation 12:6b) of the Antichrist's worldwide reign (Revelation 13:5-18). For his reign will involve the wrath of Satan coming against those in the church who will still be alive on the earth at that time (Revelation 12:17, Revelation 13:7-10, Revelation 14:12-13, Revelation 20:4-6, Matthew 24:9-13).

yeshuasavedme said in post 43:

Psalm 50:
The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge [vindicate] his people.
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Psalms 50:4-5 refers to what will happen after the tribulation (Mark 13:27).

 

[yeshuasavedme]

...could be.....could have been ... could have ...could have ....
could be...

they could think ... they could think

...could be... could leave ...

You mean, "you think", but Scripture answers you:
Nope...nope...nope...nope...nope...nope...nope...nope...nope.

as for your other assumptions you put forth as truth, but which come only from your own opinion:
nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, and-
not at all!

 

[random person]

It would be difficult to construct a more absolute tuning of truth upside down and backwards.

The speculation is not on the part of those that simply believe the scriptures. It is on the part of those that claim that all these explicitly stated prophecies are only symbolic. But then, even when a rational symbolic explanation cannot be found, they continue to claim they are symbolic, even if we cannot understand what they symbolize.

When we discover that in Ezekiel 36 God explicitly said that ""the land of Israel," along with "the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the valleys" will again be inhabited by "all the house of Israel, all of it," we are faced with two choices. We can either simply believe this explicitly stated statement, or we can speculate about what this might symbolize. Those that sat it means what it says, that absolutely all of "the house of Israel" will again inhabit their ancient homeland are not speculating. they are simply believing what God said. But those who pretend that it is symbolic, and actually refers to something else, are left to speculate on the meanings of "the house of Israel," "the land of Israel," and "the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the valleys."

This is just a single exaple of literally hundreds of such explicitly stated prophecies that we can either simply believe, or speculate about possible symbolic meanings they might hold.




This subversion and substitution exist entirely in the imagination of the writer. The concept of a millennial kingdom on this earth has zero bearing on what is going on in the present age.

The scriptures very clearly teach, and every dispensational teacher I ever knew realizes, that all blessings of both this age and the one to come are based entirely on the finished work of Christ on the cross. The fact that the Lord will indeed have a physical reign on this earth after the end of the present age has zero bearing on this.

What did 1 Peter 2:5, 9-10 mean?

Exodus 19:5-6, Deuteronomy 7:6 & 10:15, & Hosea 2:23!

 

[random person]

This is all so wholly false as to not even deserve an answer.

You mean you can't answer to it?