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Posted on 07/20/2009 12:16:39 PM PDT by topcat54
This is a sincere question, so please don’t receive it as being sarcastic or antagonistic in anyway:
If you don’t believe that Revelation is mostly symbolic, then do you believe that the visual imagery is meant to be taken literally? Horns, trumpets, swords bowls, beasts, dragons, frogs, serpents, horses, locusts, rivers, wings, metal body parts, etc.
And what about the 144,000? Do you believe that’s literal?
I suspect that even a lot of the symbolic imagry will turn out to be amazingly literally accurate.
Throughout history
whenever the Godless so called "higher criticism" Bible critics have insisted that Scripture was not literal about this historic event, place, person, group, etc. . . .
Scripture has BEEN PROVEN TRUE TIME AND TIME AGAIN--LITERALLY.
Betting on the literal-ness of most prophecy is a pretty safe bet.
Thanks for your kind question.
BTW, there was a thread hereon recently about the Euphrates drying up . . . IIRC, there's been no record of that throughout history . . . but now . . . in the END TIMES . . .
IT IS.
Just as Scripture predicted.
The statement
"All scripture concerning these matters has been filled."
is proven thoroughly WRONG, yet again.
WHEN DID THEIR DEAD BODIES LIE IN A STREET IN JERUSALEM AFTER THE GLOBAL SATAN WORLD LEADER'S RISE TO POWER
IN FULL VIEW OF THE WHOLE WORLD FOR THE 3 DAYS?
This could only happen after the 1948 - 2009
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
electronic revolution with telecommunication and satellite television.
My dad likes poms.
They are certainly furry.
But they’re too fragile, small and yippy, for me.
Of course.
Maybe the REPLACEMENTARIANS
envisioned a very complex web of strings and tin cans with very vivid verbal descriptions spanning the globe?
/sar
I notice the date of said fulfillment has not been provided.
Obviously, I’m not holding my breath!
LOL.
I wonder what the weasel rationale will be excusing not providing the date of the fulfillment of said prophecy in history.
Maybe it will just be continued silence.
I get you. I used to believe that pretty much everything in the Bible was to be taken literally.
The more time I spend reading scripture, praying and researching history, archaeology, science, etc., I think that a literal interpetation puts God in a box that is limited by man’s imagination and the extent of his knowledge. My God is all powerful, all knowing, and all seeing. So I decided that all things are possible. I will consider all things in light of what God’s word says about them and prayerfully seek answers and confirmations from God about their legitimacy.
That said, yes, some visual imagery in the Bible has been amazingly accurate.
Matt. 26 v 57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led [him] away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
Matt 26 v 64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
He told them they would see Him coming in judgment...
He told Caiaphas he would see Him coming in judgment..
I believe the Bible.. there is so much more... read it for yourself... READ the whole BOOK..Learn judgment language.... You will be surprised...
The date by the way was 70 A.D.
I think I understand your perspective.
Thanks for your kind response.
I may be on the other side of your perspective . . . say your perspective is a circle, I’m on the other side of that circle. . . . perhaps.
Thanks for demonstrating an utterly ridiculous perspective so vividly. You may have set a new record . . . uhhhh . . . low . . . for that genre.
70 AD . . . the TWO WITNESSES in the streets of Jerusalem, seen by the whole world.
That’s
LAUGHABLE TO THE MAX! LOL.
BTW, have read the whole Bible through quite a number of times in various translations. I haven’t found the
FAINTEST HINT of your perspective hiding anywhere in its pages.
Further, I find that perspective exceedingly hazardous to the eternal life health of millions of unsuspecting, imperceptive, unthinking readers.
Hideous to the max.
Wellllllllll here’s the supremely laughable answer!
Incredible. Boggles the mind.
I guess some folks have to slice whole phrases and whole sentences, if not whole verses out of Scripture to hold to their perspectives . . .
Utterly incredible.
John 3 v 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
So Jesus didn’t tell Caiaphas he would see HIM... My Bible must be wrong then.... Oh my.... Now what do I do???
My dad likes poms.
Stir fryed, with cinnamon. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
OF COURSE Scripture is never wrong.
LOTS of assumptions about Scripture are OFF THE WALL WRONG.
Your perspective assumes there’s only one possible meaning of the verses cited.
LOL.
The dog I’ve eaten tasted like slightly different chicken . . . mostly.
So tell me, what does it mean. He also said the ones that pierced Him would see Him.... John also said he was their brother in tribulation... So tell me what does it mean..
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