Man of Sin of paul, Antichrist by John!
Pre Tribulation Rapture Questions
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Steve of Brownsburg, Feb 1, 2019.
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2. Paul was talking, in context, about the calling out of the saints. Which covers the ones who have died, being reconnected with their soul and spirit. Since we are a tripartite being: body, soul, spirit. Our body goes to the grave and the soul and spirit go to our eternal home (heaven) for the Christian. We will be rejoined at this time, those who are alive just get glorified at that point.
3. The timing, I just explained that in my other answers. I think...
4. Matthew 24 in talking about Christs' second coming, not the great tribulation. At the calling out, we meet Jesus in the air, He does not come to earth. -
Revelation 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Look in verse 3 and you will see a non specific use of "a little season" as an example of usage without the definite article.
The fact that John uses the definite article at all with the thousand years proves it is a specific/literal "thousand years".
Verse 6 shows how the definite article is used in koine with "the second death". -
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Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
While there is certainly allegory in scripture, that is not to be confused with the allegorical method of interpreting scripture. The allegorical method of interpreting scripture is antithetical to the literal method of interpreting scripture. Along with one or two others both of these methods arrived on the scene in the third century. At least as an organized school of training. (1) Jews have a much longer history of interpreting scripture literally.
With the allegorical method you get theologies such as preterism (in all its forms) and amillennialism.
The allegorical method is a result of combining greek philosophy and revelation. It was first created and used by Origin and then later by Clement of Alexandria. (2)
"In the days of Justin the martyr and of Origen Christians had been driven to allegory by an imperious necessity. It was the only means known to them by which to meet the shock which wrenched the gospel free from the fetters of Judaism. They used it to defeat the crude literalism of fanatical heresies or to reconcile the teachings of philosophy with the truths of the Gospel."(3)
1. CF. F. W. Farrar, History of Interpretation, pp. 177
2. Ibid., p.182-83
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Did that address your point better? -
I completely agree that there will be only one Second Coming. You will note that God "came" in judgment many times in the OT. That doesn't mean that He literally came down from Heaven to Earth. It's all in the language. -
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