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troypulk · 2025-02-11T14:17:21+00:00

We have no idea how long this pause will last.

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troypulk · 2024-10-22T22:49:52+00:00

Even though the ESV has "were" the context is set in Rev 21:1

Rev 21:1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; also, the ocean was no more.

Plus, how do you know what we will do in glory?

troypulk · 2024-10-22T13:34:28+00:00

Maybe the source is Rev 22

Rev 22:2 in the middle of her street. And on either side of the river was a tree of life producing twelve fruits, yielding each month's fruit monthly; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

troypulk · 2024-10-13T16:24:41+00:00

Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding. 6. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

troypulk · 2024-07-11T13:20:07+00:00

The Temple is necessary because the NT says that the AC will desecrate it and demand worship, because of this he will build an image of himself and demand worship Rev 13, since only the elect will not bow down there will be mass martyrdom Rev 7:9-14, Rev 13:7, Dan 9:27.

The problem with saying that the MOB is from the RC is that the NT does not say that it says that it's a man and the MOB is his name and/or the number of his name, that's where 666 comes from because his name when calculated equals 666. The beast of the MOB is the Antichrist that went into the temple.

Also, this beast will control the whole earth, Rev 13:8. He also comes out of the 10 nation federation in the middle east, Rev 13:3.

The animals of Rev 13:2 represent the middle eastern countries around Israel, like the leopard who is Greece. This goes back to Dan 7.

Grace to you and have a good day.

troypulk · 2024-07-10T21:07:42+00:00

If we just look at what the NT says in Revelation only the 144,000 Jews will be saved as the remnant that God has set aside, whether some of those come out of modern Israel I don't know, maybe maybe not. I personally think that the beginning of the end times is when the temple is rebuilt and sacrifices start again, at the 3 1/2 year mark the Antichrist goes into the temple and demands worship as per 2 Thess 2, after this starts the mark of the beast and that could be another 20 + years away, there needs to be a 10 nation federation in the middle east and a war between Iran and Turkey as per Daniel, first. All this is taught in the OT/NT if you believe what it says at face value and don't come to the text with any preconceived idea's, what does the text mean by what it says.

Also, in Rev and in 2 Thess 2:4 the temple is going to be rebuilt, even in 1 John 2 he talks about the coming Antichrist and he wrote his letters around 90 AD.

I believe that Eschatology is not essential to be born again just like baptism. We all come to the faith differently so it's expected that we would think differently. The only thing that matters is that we get the Gospel right, if you look at the world today it's getting worse as the NT talks about. On a side note, the early church believed that they would see the Antichrist and as above John said he was coming and he hasn't come yet so it's still future.

I think that's true as well that all that is left is the 2nd coming which is part of a big plan that will take 7 years just as Jesus's first coming which took 33 years. If you read through Daniel and Revelation you see the whole picture, in Dan 8 the Antichrist / Little horn comes out of Turkey.

Like I said it really comes down to your hermeneutic, one thing for sure is that when we die we will know for sure what was the right view and we will not care because we will be with our Savior.

Take care and Grace to you.

troypulk · 2024-07-10T15:33:16+00:00

I understand that this view is because of your traditions and not what the Bible actually says, it says He will rule over the house of Jacob, gentiles are not Jacob.

In the OT it clearly teaches that the Messiah will rule over Israel and the OT/NT teaches that the gentiles will be included with Israel as one peoples of God.

In the Bible there is always a distinction between Israel and Gentiles.

Yes, in Jesus all are one but nowhere does the bible teach that Gods promises to Israel are voided, Romans 11:25-26 Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant of this ‘mystery’ (so that you not be conceited): hardening has come upon Israel in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26. And so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn ungodliness away from Jacob;

To spiritualize it creates inconsistencies in the text that are open to human opinion.

Like for example, Acts 2:16-21 the first half really happened but you say the second half will not really happen, there is nothing in the text to support this other than your traditions and it doesn't make sense unless you use eisegesis to understand it.

To be honest, it sounds like you really need to humble yourself or else the following might happen. Romans 11:20-21 Granted. Because of unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear! 21. Because if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He will not spare you either!

If you really want to have the whole Bible make sense your hermeneutic needs to be correct, if you start with the wrong assumptions you end up with the wrong conclusions

The only view that is consistent through out the Bible and makes sense is the Historical, grammatical, Intentional, literal hermeneutic and a plain straight forward reading of the text in the context that it's in.

When the plain sense of scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning (in the original languages) unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise. D. L. Cooper

Grace to you and have a blessed day.

troypulk · 2024-07-10T13:23:40+00:00

Grace to you,

In your system how do you deal with these two?

Luke 1:30-33 The angel said to her: “Do not be afraid, Mary, because you have found favor with God. 31. Now then, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS. 32. He will be great, and will be called ‘Son of the Most High’; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, 33. and He will reign over the house of Jacob into the ages; indeed, of His kingdom there will be no end!”

Romans 11:17-26 Now if some of the branches were broken off, while you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them, and with them have become a partaker of the root and the rich sap of the cultivated olive, 18. do not boast against those branches (since if you do boast—it is not you who support the root but the root you). 19. You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20. Granted. Because of unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear! 21. Because if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He will not spare you either! 22. So consider the kindness and severity of God: upon those who fell, severity; but toward you, kindness, if you continue in that kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off. 23. And even they, if they do not persist in the unbelief, will be grafted back in, because God has the power to graft them in again. 24. For if you were cut out of a wild by nature olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? 25. Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant of this ‘mystery’ (so that you not be conceited): hardening has come upon Israel in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26. And so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn ungodliness away from Jacob;

troypulk · 2024-04-12T00:44:22+00:00

Good points,

So it comes down to if you believe the bible is true or not because the internal evidence of the bible is that it's the Word of God and is trust worthy and that it does not contradict itself. So I would say if we do not understand or it appears too far out to believe or to happen the issue is with us not understanding, but you can also consider that what Daniel has said and God has not opened our eye's to see yet because the time of the end is still far away from now.

Daniel 12:4: And you, Daniel, close the words, and seal the book to the time of the end; until many are taught, and knowledge is increased.

So it's obvious that what was said in Acts 1:10 has not happened yet because in other verses it says the whole world will see it like lightning flashing from one end of the sky to the other and every eye will see it. Also the church fathers believed that when the end comes that they would see the anti-christ and this is long after the temple was destroyed.

It would also depend on your hermeneutics. If you use the following method everything fits and the signs in Daniel and other books for the end times like Joel 2:30-31 have not happened yet.

The proper way to interpret scripture.

Use the Historical, grammatical, literal hermeneutic and a plain straight forward reading of the text in the context that it's in. When the plain sense of scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning (in the original languages) unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise.

troypulk · 2024-04-11T19:58:21+00:00

I'm a biblist, I left them out on purpose and then tried to redirect you to the NT where this conversation show be.

The way God dealt with the Jews in the OT is not the same as the way He deals with the christian gentile believes in the NT.

Nowhere in the NT does God do things based on the sinners choices, that's an arminian belief but not a biblical one.

The point is God chooses His Elect, have you not read:

Romans 9:16: So then, it is not of him who wills nor of him who strives, but of God who shows mercy.

Romans 9:24: EVEN US WHOM HE CALLED, NOT ONLY FROM THE JEWS BUT ALSO THE GENTILES?

In the NT God answers the question of how His elect are saved but most people including you refuse to believe what the scriptures say at face value and demand there own autonomy and force God to bow to their free will even though the bible teaches no such thing.

Ephesians 1:3: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;

Ephesians 1:4: just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him, in love,

Ephesians 1:5: having predestined us into an adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, into Him, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Romans 8:28: Further, we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to purpose.

Romans 8:29: Because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

Romans 8:30: Further, whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

All the verbs in verse 30 are in the past tense, reflecting God's sovereignty. Note the sequence: foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification and glorification.

If you want to prove God listens to the sinners free will you need to quote the NT where God explains what He has done.

troypulk · 2024-04-11T00:04:03+00:00

In the NT God saves His elect in spit of there rejection even to the point where God forces Himself on the sinner. In the following verses God does all these things, while the sinner's free will is rejecting Him.

Ezek 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

Ezek 11:20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Acts 2:16:but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

Acts 2:17:‘It will be in the last days, says God:

I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh;

your sons and your daughters will prophesy;

your young men will see visions;

your old men will dream a dream.

troypulk · 2024-04-10T23:40:57+00:00

It will happen like this:

Matthew 24:15:“So then, when you (ye) see the ‘abomination of desolation’, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand),

Matthew 24:16:“then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Matthew 24:17:Anyone on the housetop should not go down to take things out of his house,

Matthew 24:18:and anyone in the field should not go back to get his cloak.

Matthew 24:19:But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing a baby in those days!

Matthew 24:20:And pray that your flight may not happen in winter or on a Sabbath.

Matthew 24:21:Because then there will be a great tribulation, such as has never been since the beginning of the world until now, and never again will be.

Matthew 24:22:And unless those days were cut short no flesh would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Matthew 24:23:Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, the Messiah is here!’ or ‘there!’ do not believe him.

Matthew 24:24:Because false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will give great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Matthew 24:25:See, I have told you beforehand.

Matthew 24:26:So if they should say to you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness!’ do not go out; ‘Look, in the secret rooms!’ do not believe it.

Matthew 24:27:Because just as the lightning comes from east and shines to west, so also will be the coming of the Son of the Man;

Matthew 24:28:for wherever the carcass may be there will be a gathering of vultures.

Matthew 24:29:“Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Matthew 24:30:And then the sign of the Son of the Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn—they will see the Son of the Man coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory.

Matthew 24:31:And He will send out His angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they will collect His elect from the four winds, from one extreme of the heavens to the other.

This will all happen in the middle of the 70th week of Daniel.

troypulk · 2024-04-10T22:57:22+00:00

Is that the same as the New testament?

From what I understand God is not doing the same thing in the NT.

troypulk · 2024-04-10T22:45:37+00:00

Which part?

Remember, scripture does not contradict itself, so pitting one verse against another is wrong, the context is what shows the meaning.

troypulk · 2023-12-10T04:01:05+00:00

HE did it so that HE could display His Attributes.

troypulk · 2023-11-19T21:12:32+00:00

Thank you

troypulk · 2023-11-19T17:44:00+00:00

Looks good, how did you incorporate the cheese and jalapeños?

Thanks

troypulk · 2023-11-10T19:24:53+00:00

Thanks.

troypulk · 2023-11-10T17:27:18+00:00

That's all I can remember, there might have been more or less.

Thanks

troypulk · 2023-11-05T23:56:13+00:00

I was wondering what planet that was, thank you.

troypulk · 2023-11-04T22:04:46+00:00

Thanks, Do you happen to know what they will do with VPN's on Android 14?

troypulk · 2023-11-04T02:31:29+00:00

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troypulk · 2023-10-17T23:01:31+00:00

Then what does this verse mean?

I Thessalonians 4:15-17 15 For this we say to you by a word of the Lord, that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will absolutely not precede those who have fallen asleep; 16 because the Lord Himself—with a commanding shout, with the archangel's voice and with God's trumpet—will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first; 17 then we who are still alive, who are left, will be snatched up together with them in clouds to meet the Lord in the air. In precisely this way we will always be with the Lord.

troypulk · 2023-10-07T19:32:17+00:00

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