You understand Free Vulcan, don’t let anyone take your crown from you,
The light of the body is in the eyes, people who cannot or will not perceive what you and I easily can don’t have that same light, also alluded to in Daniel Chapter 12,
Its nothing more than arrogance that blinds their understanding, they expect the Word (Jesus) can be divided by some ingenuity around their own intelligence and yet they still arrive at the end with no apparent spiritual discernment, ever learning but never able to obtain the knowledge they desperately need. It requires the Holy Spirit to fully understand, to show us those things which are to come,
Those ‘having a form of godliness, but deny the power’ that is, they have every appearance of understanding and worshiping the creator, but cannot acknowledge his spirit in all power, operating directly in front of them, for example prophecy as a direct witness, they see flesh instead of his influence or even that of seducing spirits at work all around them operating as principalities and powers,
We’re told how things will be at the end of the age:
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves,covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” 2 Timothy 3:1-5
The book of Revelation was written in the spirit, from Gods point of view not ours and it requires his spirit to understand and then it will take you to every other book of the bible to see where these patterns repeat, showing us the things which were, which are, and finally what will be. Anywhere it does not repeat it’s immediately explained. However many will take just one pattern and presume it to be complete when its merely a shadow of what is still to come as a witness to a much larger audience,
Satan rules this world, it belongs to him because we gave it to him, today he stands in Heaven and accuses the brethren (the Church) as we are operating in the spirit within his physical authority over the Earth, he has authority over the flesh for now.
Jesus came “as it is written” but instead was rejected and everything in the flesh was taken from him, his inheritance, his vineyard, this world, it was all stolen from him even his very clothes were taken before he hung on the cross, but where Satan meant it for evil, God meant it for good,
Jesus now sits at the right hand of the Father (until) the fulness of the Gentiles be come in, when the Father reclaims this physical Earth with the Jubilee restoration of all things, then the court in Daniel Chapter 7 and Revelation Chapters 4 and 5 will render it to the one who has the greater claim to perform the Kinsman redeemer provisions. We can be assured that he will choose to do so and will summarily reclaim this physical Earth from the usurpers, it will be a day of vengeance on the Earth, the vengeance of his Temple (him) not of some stone building once on the Earth.
It’s interesting that many seem to think the following was written as an end-time comment from outsiders, read it carefully, these are believers doing the mocking:
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation” 2 Peter 3:3-4
These are also the same ones without oil in their lamps when the bridegroom comes ‘at the midnight hour’ instead they’re rebuked by him and left standing outside “and the door was shut.”
Then Peter goes on to quote Psalm 90 explaining again that a thousand years is as one day, and I tell you that it has only been two days since the Church age began in the spirit,
>>>Then Peter goes on to quote Psalm 90 explaining again that a thousand years is as one day, and I tell you that it has only been two days since the Church age began in the spirit,<<<
You stated, without reservation, that Peter intended the thousand years to equal a day. In context, we see that Peter was speaking of the last days when he made that statement:
"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation . . . 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." (2Pet 3:3-4, 8 KJV)
But when Peter said "last days," he was referring to his days: his generation. For example, Christ's ministry occurred during the last days:
"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;" (Heb 1:1-2 KJV)
The Day of Pentecost occurred during the last days:
"But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams" (Acts 2:16-17 KJV)
Moses prophesied that a great evil would fall upon Israel during the last (or latter) days:
"For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands." (Deu 31:29 KJV)
Jesus confirmed, in many ways, the wickedness of Israel during his generation, and foretold the great evil that would come upon them within that generation.
Therefore, it appears the term "last days" was simply a reference to the last days of the Jewish age.
You also mentioned a "Church Age." I am of the opinion that the Church is forever, because of these verses, among others:
"Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." (Eph 3:21 KJV)
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" (Eph 5:25 KJV)
Contrary to the belief of some that the church was an afterthought, the church was actually foretold in the old testament prophecies, in particular in the Psalms and Isaiah. The allegorical language of the prophecies foretold a stone: a stone of stumbling; a chief cornerstone; and the stone which the builders rejected. The cornerstone was laid on mount Zion.
As a fulfillment, Christ is the chief cornerstone of the Holy Temple, found on heavenly mount Sion, which is the location of the Church, called heavenly Jerusalem, as follows:
"For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." (Eph 2:18-22 KJV)
"But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant . . ." (Heb 12:22-24 KJV)
Philip