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@WarriorPrstBlog Explain it to me.

@Tolerantly_Int The answer to both is in the context provided by the preceding verses.

“After this…,” “Then..,” “Then..,” “Then…,” Rev. 19 —> Return of Christ Rev. 20 —> Millennial Kingdom Rev. 21 & 22 —> Eternal State Amillennialism cannot withstand a plain, face-value reading of the text. It must spiritualize, & allegorize - all without biblical warrant.

@beholdisrael The Bible is not wrong, you are. You’re off on your timing several thousand years.

Don’t hold your breath: Minutes before 8 PM Eastern Time, expect a “major breakthrough” in the talks-or claims they are “on the way to a deal”-and the ultimatum will be postponed or canceled. Because… they’ll resort to the oldest trick in the book: Taqiyya - concealing real beliefs and intentions under threat for self-preservation, a concept rooted especially within Shia Islam. The IRGC and the ayatollahs will make concessions, knowing there will be another day to pursue their objective of annihilating Israel. “Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, and say, “Thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army-horses and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. Persia, Sudan, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops-many people are with you.’” (Ezekiel 38:1-6 NKJV) I may be wrong, and Trump may end up striking hard and hitting them severely - but the Bible cannot be wrong, and Persia will join a future attack for sure! And when that happens, there will be no ultimatum from any world leader, but total annihilation of the enemies of Israel by the God of Israel! “I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord God. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother. And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” (Ezekiel 38:21-23 NKJV)

@JamesBejon What if it was a barrier between the physical world and the spiritual?

Genesis 1.6 seems clear: God says that there should be an expanse (raqia) in the midst of the waters, and that *it* (the raqia) should separate the waters. But I can’t find any translations of 1.7 that read ‘God made the raqia, and *it* separated the waters…’. Any reason?

@MarioNawfal Can’t see Trump agreeing to continued enrichment. That’s the starting point. If he capitulates there, I’d call this whole thing a big failure.

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱🇵🇰 Here's where things stand tonight. The war is paused... The U.S., Iran, and Israel have agreed to a two-week ceasefire. All military operations halted. Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz with passage coordinated through its armed forces. First direct U.S.-Iran negotiations begin Friday in Islamabad using Iran's 10-point proposal as the framework. That framework includes sanctions relief, non-aggression guarantees, acceptance of enrichment, formal Iranian oversight of Hormuz, and compensation. The critical nuance: these aren't agreed terms. They're the basis for negotiation. But the fact that Washington accepted Iran's proposal as the starting document rather than insisting on its own 15-point plan is a significant concession in itself. Iran got the negotiations it wanted on terms it proposed. The U.S. got Hormuz reopened and a pause it badly needed. Israel agreed to stop bombing, something Netanyahu said he would never do without total Iranian capitulation. Two weeks. That's how long both sides have to turn a pause into a permanent peace. If they fail, everything resumes and the next phase will be worse than anything we've seen. Source: WSJ / NYT / Axios

@lekan_olayinka1 The more accurate translation is “When God began to create…” It is poetry packed full of symbolism. While God did create all things, this is not the story of that. This is about God wanting a human family that would put their complete trust in him alone. He gets it Rev 22.

I don’t know if many can take what I am about to say about Genesis 1. The creation account was written by ancient Hebrews, and it was a poetic rendition of creation. It is essentially poetry, and I will show how. The poetry can be seen in the parallelism in the days of creation. The author divides creation across two acts: separation and filling. We will talk about filling later because it is very important. Day one, what did God do? He separated light from darkness. Day two? He separated water from sky. Day three? He separated land from water. Then, from day four to day six, what did God do? He filled what He separated. Day four? He filled the separated light and darkness with the sun and moon. Day five? He filled the separated sky and water with birds and fish. Day six? He filled the separated ground with animals and man. Now the parallelism emerges: Separate day 1, fill day 4. Separate day 2, fill day 5. Separate day 3, fill day 6. This is the poetry. The intention of the author was not chronology but certainty that all came from God. This is why we do not treat Genesis 1 like a scientific dissertation. This leads me to the age of the Earth. In Genesis 1, the Bible did not say God created the earth. It said God fattened it, or filled it. The word create is Hebrew bara. It means to fatten. See the root word, its associated words, and how they were used across scripture: bara — Fatten beriy — Fat barah — Choice Meat barut — Meat biyr — Fat Place biyrah — Palace (big place) All these indicate the earth existed empty and God filled it. Actually, in verses 1 and 2, the whole of creation was summarized and completed. So when God separated the light and darkness, and the Bible said DAY ONE, the Hebrew is Yom Echad. It means one day. The issue is that the next six days were rendered using second, third, fourth, and so on. Why not continue with two, three? Because echad means unity, like a husband and wife becoming one. So creation was effectively summarily done in that verse. I pointed that out to show that the creation story did not concern itself with chronology at all. Secondly, the Hebrews suggest that God filled something that had already existed unfilled and empty. God filled and separated. So, when did the earth begin in Genesis? From the Hebraic viewpoint, they do not know. And that was fine to them. We Greco-Westerners see time as linear, from A to B. The ancient Hebrews saw it as a cycle. The end of one begins the other. That is why “In the beginning” in verse 1 is the Hebrew bereshit. It is rendered “In beginning.” There is no definite article “the.” So no definite beginning, just a beginning. But God was there in that beginning, and we know God is the cause of all things. So if modern science comes and says the universe is 14 billion years old, and the Earth is 4.8 billion years old, I would take it. Genesis never gave us chronology, only origin. If God decides through modern science what the age of the universe is, we can receive it with joy and give glory to God.

@TChapman500 @hereticgentile 😂 “Some people have strayed from these things and have turned aside to fruitless discussion, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and worldly,”1Tim 1:6,9

@hereticgentile Neither. And I will not clarify.

Fact: Every NT version that supposedly proves that Torah is nullified actually says no such thing if not the exact opposite. Remember: Grace is not a license to disobey Torah. Faith is not a license to disobey Torah. Forgiveness is not a license to disobey Torah.

@allbesaved @Mark_Wilson_25 Therefore, any theories that include it are by definition bunk.

@Mark_Wilson_25 The rapture isn't even in Scripture.

Are These Two Events the Same? If the Rapture and the Second Coming are the same event… why does Scripture describe them with different timing, different movements, and different purposes? This is not a minor distinction. It is a prophetic framework that stretches from the Old Testament into the New. Isaiah foresaw a coming intervention where God would remove His people before judgment: “Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.” (Isaiah 26:20) Zephaniah echoes the same pattern: “Seek the Lord… perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger.” (Zephaniah 2:3) There is a category in prophecy: removal before wrath. Now listen to Paul: “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven… and the dead in Christ will rise first… we… will be caught up… in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17) “God has not destined us for wrath…” (1 Thessalonians 5:9) This is not judgment. This is rescue. But the Old Testament also describes something very different: “Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations… On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives.” (Zechariah 14:3–4) Daniel adds the missing timeline: “He shall make a strong covenant… and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice… and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate.” (Daniel 9:27) This is tribulation. Conflict. Judgment. Earth-centered fulfillment. Now Jesus connects it: “Immediately after the tribulation… they will see the Son of Man coming… with power and great glory.” (Matthew 24:29–30) And Revelation completes it: “The armies of heaven… were following him on white horses… He will strike down the nations.” (Revelation 19:14–15) These are not two descriptions of one moment. They are two phases of one return. At the Rapture, Christ comes for His saints. At the Second Coming, He comes with His saints: “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones.” (Jude 14) That implication is unavoidable: they had to be gathered before they could return with Him. A common objection says this is all symbolic or compressed into one event. But that creates tensions Scripture never resolves: Is the Church promised deliverance from wrath… or appointed to endure it? Does Christ stop in the air… or descend to the Mount of Olives? Is the world comforted… or plunged into mourning? The prophets never blur these lines. They layer them. As Chuck Missler often emphasized, the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed, and the New is in the Old concealed. The pattern is consistent: rescue, then judgment; gathering, then kingdom. He comes in the air for His bride. He returns to the earth as King. Not contradiction. Not confusion. Revelation. Two distinct events—perfectly aligned across the whole counsel of God.

THE IMPOSSIBLE RAPTURE The simplest way to expose the impossibility of a pre‑tribulation rapture is to imagine, for a moment, what would actually happen if millions of people vanished in a single instant. Not in a prophecy chart or a sermon illustration, but in the real world we inhabit. Civilization would collapse within minutes. Planes would fall from the sky, hospitals would lose their staff, power grids would fail, supply chains would break, governments would crumble, financial systems would freeze, and militaries would lose command. This is not the world continuing under Antichrist; this is the end of the world as we know it. And yet the world of Revelation is not a collapsed world, it is a functioning one, full of commerce, armies, kings, trade, persecution, deception, and global governance. Revelation requires a world that continues, not a world that implodes. Even the popular “alien abduction” explanation collapses under scrutiny. If millions vanished, there would be no governments left to craft a deception, no infrastructure to maintain it, and no coherent world population to receive it. A global narrative requires a global society, and a global society cannot exist after a mass disappearance. The “alien explanation” is a fantasy built on top of a fantasy. Jesus never warned of a disappearance; He warned of deception. His warnings were relentlessly doctrinal: • false prophets, • false teachers, • false signs, • false Christs, • false doctrines, • false hopes. The deception is not the disappearance; the deception is the doctrine of the disappearance. The pre‑tribulation rapture creates a false hope, a false timeline, a false escape, and a false expectation that blinds believers to the very things Jesus told them to prepare for: endurance, persecution, deception, and overcoming. It is the perfect setup for the very words He spoke: “Many will be deceived.” The Daniel theory is the other half of the lie. The modern rapture system depends on a split 70th week, a future Antichrist covenant, a rebuilt temple, a seven‑year tribulation, and a pre‑trib removal of the Church, none of which exist in Scripture. These ideas are modern inventions built on a misreading of Daniel, forming the great deception of the last two centuries. The system is not ancient, not apostolic, and not biblical. It is a doctrinal structure crafted in the 1800s and retrofitted onto Scripture by force. The real end‑time Church is not escaping; it is enduring. Revelation describes a faithful remnant, a persecuted Church, a victorious Bride, saints who overcome, and witnesses who stand firm. The Bride does not flee the battle; the Bride overcomes in the battle. The Church is not removed from the hour of testing, she is refined in it, strengthened through it, and revealed by it. And so the conclusion becomes unavoidable: if the pre‑tribulation rapture were real, the world would end instantly, but Revelation requires a functioning world. Therefore the pre‑tribulation rapture cannot be real. The deception is not the event; the deception is the doctrine. And the deception is already here.

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@tdw_gospel @Tolerantly_Int @Gods_WarriorUSA What does it mean when Peter says we live in the last days. He literally told you when Jesus will return. And what does it mean when God said to Moses: "120 years I will struggle with men and then no more. " Jesus said the Good Samaritan gave two denari to the innkeeper

If you believe the Church goes through the Tribulation— 1. Why does Jesus say He comes at a time when no one expects Him (like a thief in the night, Matt 24:44), yet 2. The Second Coming happens at the end of a very specific, numbered-day countdown of 1,260 days (Rev 12:6) that everyone will see coming?

@Stephen_Angliss He was the first man to walk into Sheol, preach a short sermon, turn around and walk out. I can imagine demons rejoicing when he walked in, “We got him!” and their jaws on the floor when he walked out. No one had ever walked out before.

Your annual reminder that, no, Jesus was not in Hell between Friday and Sunday—despite what the Apostle’s Creed says. This is a great example of the danger of over emphasizing creeds and confessionals. It results in a theology that is shaped by tradition instead of Scripture.

@allbesaved “Some people have strayed from these things and have turned aside to fruitless discussion, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and worldly,.. 1 Timothy 1:6,9

Which Law is this? Torah? The Ministry of Death written on Stone? Or the Royal Law of Love (James 2:8)? How about the Perfect Law of Liberty (James 1:25 and 2:12)? Or maybe the Law of Faith (Romans 3:27)? Begone with you, Judaizer. May the Curse of Torah be upon you until you repent.

@RexdaleOG @MindsetMoody It seems like the same issue that Paul and Timothy dealt with except today it’s coming from Christians and not Jews. A heterodoxy pushed by those who don’t understand either law or grace. It’s awful and leads many astray. Christians are their own worst enemy.

@MindsetMoody @Tolerantly_Int His revelation is exactly why we don’t celebrate the shadows.

Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits are not only Scriptural, they all have way more significance and meaning than Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter. I pray that one day soon many will start to understand the importance of and keep the Feasts of YAH.

@RexdaleOG @MindsetMoody I’m kind of baffled by this commingling of law and grace I see on this forum. I’ve never seen this in practice anywhere in my life. It must be the logical result of incorrect eschatology. A fantasy of somehow going backward to shadows and types is better than the reality.

@allbesaved Where is this coming from? Has it been around for while underneath the surface or is this some recent response to current events?

This is explicitly rejected in the Council of Jerusalem. And much of Paul's letters.

@TheOvercomerMag Excellent!

@billiongjgly Paul knew Jesus was returning “soon” to judge the old system. Trouble was coming.

Can someone pls explain this Bible verse to me 😩😩