Know that summer is near - we are now living in the last of the last days
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I think I missed something here. 
Mat 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Mat 27:53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
I like to think that those are with the Lord ........the host of heaven singing Hallelujah!
And since then "to die is gain" ........."to be absent from the body is TO BE with the Lord"
My bible (NASB) uses the word tombs, not prison. HOWEVER, when only Matthew reports this I tend to not try to make much of a point of it. Its like pentecostals using Mark 16 as their wedge issue, a chapter that cannot be verified to ever have been in early manuscripts of Mark.
........the host of heaven singing Hallelujah!And since then "to die is gain" ........."to be absent from the body is TO BE with the Lord"
My bible (NASB) uses the word tombs, not prison. HOWEVER, when only Matthew reports this I tend to not try to make much of a point of it. Its like pentecostals using Mark 16 as their wedge issue, a chapter that cannot be verified to ever have been in early manuscripts of Mark.
YES the messiah prophesies were literal.
I don't see what you mean, since prophecy of Messiah wasn't foretold in symbolic terms.
If it was, please point it out and I will look at it.
His second coming is also literal, the ONLY prophecy not yet fulfillled.
All prophecy to Jews fulfilled........ONE Prophecy to Gentiles not yet fulfilled.
We can tell if prophecy is fulfilled by HISTORY. That is how we know the prophet was of God.
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I like to think that those are with the Lord ........the host of heaven singing Hallelujah!
And since then "to die is gain" ........."to be absent from the body is TO BE with the Lord"
My bible (NASB) uses the word tombs, not prison. HOWEVER, when only Matthew reports this I tend to not try to make much of a point of it. Its like pentecostals using Mark 16 as their wedge issue, a chapter that cannot be verified to ever have been in early manuscripts of Mark.
........the host of heaven singing Hallelujah!And since then "to die is gain" ........."to be absent from the body is TO BE with the Lord"
My bible (NASB) uses the word tombs, not prison. HOWEVER, when only Matthew reports this I tend to not try to make much of a point of it. Its like pentecostals using Mark 16 as their wedge issue, a chapter that cannot be verified to ever have been in early manuscripts of Mark.
Eze 37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Eze 37:13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
Eze 37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
I like to think that those are with the Lord ........the host of heaven singing Hallelujah!
And since then "to die is gain" ........."to be absent from the body is TO BE with the Lord"
My bible (NASB) uses the word tombs, not prison. HOWEVER, when only Matthew reports this I tend to not try to make much of a point of it. Its like pentecostals using Mark 16 as their wedge issue, a chapter that cannot be verified to ever have been in early manuscripts of Mark.
........the host of heaven singing Hallelujah!And since then "to die is gain" ........."to be absent from the body is TO BE with the Lord"
My bible (NASB) uses the word tombs, not prison. HOWEVER, when only Matthew reports this I tend to not try to make much of a point of it. Its like pentecostals using Mark 16 as their wedge issue, a chapter that cannot be verified to ever have been in early manuscripts of Mark.
Dan 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Dan 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
At the time of Jacob's Trouble, many of them that slept in the dust were awakened, some to everlasting life and some to everlasting contempt.
The way I view this 16 is that this is not to be understood in a literal sense - when Israel was banished from the temple and the city they considered themselves to be dead hence "in the graves"
In Israelite speak (or poetic/metaphoric language) being separated from God and or the land was to be "dead" or "in the grave."
What Ezekiel is describing is bringing the living diaspora back into fellowship with him from exilic death and their "graves" - not a bringing up of decomposed bodies out of the ground.
In Israelite speak (or poetic/metaphoric language) being separated from God and or the land was to be "dead" or "in the grave."
What Ezekiel is describing is bringing the living diaspora back into fellowship with him from exilic death and their "graves" - not a bringing up of decomposed bodies out of the ground.
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I don't understand why laying sinew and muscle on dead bones would be considered symbolic especially since Matthew said that it happened literally. This is not a big deal with me, this is what I believe and I can agree to disagree on this one. But I will say that not understanding this or not taking this literally gives a distorted view of the first resurrection.
If it is history then who was it who received the mark of the beast and when? Yes I am referring to Revelation 13 and the mark that they use to buy and sell.
The Jews who revolted during the ad66-70 revolt against Rome minted there own money because Romes had pagan images on them, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish_Revolt_coinage and so it cannot be said they used Romes afterwards. And in Josephus wars 2 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/war-2.html it is explained that the Jews showed impiety to Rome and Caesar and so it cannot be said that they saw Caesar as a god nor did they worship the images of the pagans in fact they "REVOLTED" and went to war to keep them from setting up the images in the synagogues and the temple in Jerusalem.
At the same time the Christians were being told to see the powers over them at that time(Rome) as ordained by God(Romans 13:1,1Peter 2:13-14) and to give them their dues(Romans 13:7). So if Rome at that time or Caesar were the beast/image spoken of in Revelation 13:15-18 then the apostles would be telling their fellow Christians to buy and sell with its mark,
Rome was not destroyed in ad70 and would continue onward into the future and divide into the east and western empires so how do you see the mark of the beast and it's image being fulfilled at some time in the past? That is all three groups(pagan Rome,the Jews and the Christians) seem to have not fulfilled this.
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At this point, I'm trying to figure what YOUR point is.