I would like some perspectives on Revelation.

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Do you believe Revelation is literal, physical, spiritual, something in between, or just another completely different perspective! I would love to see your thoughts and your logic behind them.
Prophecy which is what Revelation and Daniel is about is not up to private interpretation


2 Peter 1: knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation

While Revelation is filled with symbolic language, it comes directly from the rest of the Bible. Not everything is symbolic, but if it doesn't make since literally chances are its symbolic and the rest of the Bible will interpret Revelation if we allow it to. If interested in understanding these principles and the symbolic language I can send you a Bible study that will go through both Revelation and Daniel to make it easy to understand interpreting from the Bible only.

God bless
 
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Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭12:1-3‬ ‭KJV‬‬


Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram,

but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭17:5‬ ‭

“Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

….For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭3:7-9, 14, 26-29‬ ‭KJV‬‬

israel

“And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭32:28‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭1:1-5‬ ‭

“And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭34:27‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.”
‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭29:1‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Abraham’s seed

“And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭22:15-18‬ ‭

“Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ…… And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭3:16, 29‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Jacob is israel and the children of Israel are his children . Abraham’s children and hiers come from all Nations israel
Included who believe the gospel
Thank YOU so much Brother, for putting forth our Biblical Spiritual Heritage of Faith so eloquently..
Puts a whole new understanding to " being a believer" as in John 3:16 ..
I have never followed that train of concept, through scripture, so well before .. Beautiful, Thank You !
I Love the Holy Spirit !!
Blessed Sabbath
 
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Thank YOU so much Brother, for putting forth our Biblical Spiritual Heritage of Faith so eloquently..
Puts a whole new understanding to " being a believer" as in John 3:16 ..
I have never followed that train of concept, through scripture, so well before .. Beautiful, Thank You !
I Love the Holy Spirit !!
Blessed Sabbath
Your welcome sometimes i get lucky God bless you and amen Gods spirit is amazing
 
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Furthermore the Church is not Israel. Never has been never will be.

Only Israel is Israel, the sons of Jacob. And their seed.
Period.
Which is why, when Jesus coming back, here soon ... you MIGHT BE, very surprised if He doesn't translate ( rapture ) you, with Him.
... Just sayin'
Blessed Sabbath
 

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Prophecy which is what Revelation and Daniel is about is not up to private interpretation


2 Peter 1: knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation
Peter isn't speaking about how interpretations of prophecy can be personally done in error ie: a false understanding of prophecy a person has created themselves.

In context, he is saying no writer of prophecy personally invented the prophecies they penned...that these things came from God unto men, not men invented fake prophecies.

2Pe 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Pe 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
2Pe 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.


Probably the most misunderstood passage of scripture.
 

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Which is why, when Jesus coming back, here soon ... you MIGHT BE, very surprised if He doesn't translate ( rapture ) you, with Him.
... Just sayin'
Blessed Sabbath
Pro tip: Abraham was a gentile.
Pretty much blows up your theory and all others like it.
 

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I knew you couldn't have a valid biblical verse argument, supporting your false beliefs.
Which are Jesuit doctrine, a complete corruption of Truth, Jesus.
So ! "Bye" indeed !
Blessed Sabbath
[Rom 9:3-5 KJV] 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

4 Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;

5 Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

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Somebody is confused and it ain't me.
What's next? Replace theology and no nation Israel around in the end times to fulfill prophecy and usher in the millennium?
 

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I knew you couldn't have a valid biblical verse argument, supporting your false beliefs.
Which are Jesuit doctrine, a complete corruption of Truth, Jesus.
So ! "Bye" indeed !
Blessed Sabbath
Whoopsie.

Rom 9:24 - Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
 

cv5

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I knew you couldn't have a valid biblical verse argument, supporting your false beliefs.
Which are Jesuit doctrine, a complete corruption of Truth, Jesus.
So ! "Bye" indeed !
Blessed Sabbath
[Isa 27:6, 9, 12-13 KJV] 6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. ...

9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. ...

12 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
 

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Peter isn't speaking about how interpretations of prophecy can be personally done in error ie: a false understanding of prophecy a person has created themselves.

In context, he is saying no writer of prophecy personally invented the prophecies they penned...that these things came from God unto men, not men invented fake prophecies.

2Pe 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Pe 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
2Pe 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.


Probably the most misunderstood passage of scripture.
I am sticking to what the Scripture clearly states that is not based on our own interpretation and if we allow the Scriptures to interpret Itself which it does including all the signs and symbols in Revelation instead of guessing or using our own interpretation, which is depending on self and not God Pro 3:5-6

2 Peter 1:21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. as shown in the Scriptures John 14:26