Very helpful. I wish I could be inside your mind for a little bit. I appreciate your view.
Can you answer a few more of my questions please?
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1. In 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 it says that when Jesus returns in flaming fire He will bring vengeance to those who persecute His people and all who dont know God or obey the Gospel will be punished with eternal damnation. My question is: Who is left in the flesh to populate this millennium? This is why I am amill currently. I see no way out of this box. Maybe you do? Let me know brother.
If you read closer. Paul even writes this in the first verse,
verse 7,
7 and to grant relief
to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.
Paul is showing Believers are here with the ones you are talking about, the persecutors of God's people. And we know this is at the Second Coming of Jesus because the evil ones get eternal damnation. But this also leaves a group of Christians who was not Raptured during the Tribulation because Paul plainly shows us by writing "and to grant relief
to you who are afflicted as well as to us."
It's these Christians, the ones not Rapture'd, that will be on Earth when the Second Coming of Jesus happens. They will go right into the 1,000 year Reign and populate future generations.
2. Who do you believe is Mystery Babylon? Mecca, Vatican, Jerusalem, New York, Rome?
If we apply all of the Bible we know we have a general area the Bible tells us.
1. King of Tyre {Satan king of future Babyon}
2. Prince of Persia {Satan who held Gabriel 21 days before Michael came and Grabriel was able to answer Daniel's prayer - Persia in same area and replaced Babylon}
And we have Revelation 18: (look at
verse 2)
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become
a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt
for every unclean spirit,
a haunt
for every unclean bird,
a haunt
for every unclean and detestable beast.
Babylon is led and controlled by Satan, every Demon, Unclean spirit, Unclean things resides at.
It's a physical place on Earth.
Today, we know this area is IRAN.
Look at the connection Iran has right now with her connections to Russia, China, Middle East, she has the most materials for nuclear weapons, she is very wealthy from oil, and most of the world's conflicts going back to Jimmy Carter when Reagan was elected involved Iran. And in the Bible, Iran or Babylon/Persia/Tyre afflicted God's chosen people, made them slaves, stole from the Temple trillions worth in ancient Gold. Iran even fits the Biblical description of ships in it's harbor, having much Gold, connection to other Nations, and the Bible flat out tells us where the Kingdom of Satan is at on Earth, IRAN!
3. Do you believe the seals, trumpets and vials are in chronological order? Meaning, Seal 1,2,3,4,6,7 -> Trumpets 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 -> Vials 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 END of the world as we know it.
I believe Revelation itself is an outline but it doesn't mean everything in it is in chronological order.
We know Revelation 12 talks about War in Heaven, Satan booted and took 1/3 of the Angels with him, then Israel became a nation, and that produced it's King, a Son, Jesus. So all of these things happened way before Chapter 12 of Revelation. In fact, only the latter portion of Chapter 12 has future implications and the first portion happened from before Creation/the Garden to 2,000 years ago when Jesus was here.
It's very clear that some of Revelation is in future Order and some of it is refers to old history that already happened.
4. What parts of the Torah do you believe the gentiles should follow? Dietary laws? Sabbath? Circumcision? Holy days? None at all?
The Law was broken down to 4 Major Themes.
1. Ceremonial Law
2. Sacrificial Law
3. Dietary Law
4. Moral Law [10 Commandments]
Jesus broke these Laws down to 2. And if we pay attention the 2 Laws Jesus instructed us, it literally covers every 10 of the Moral Laws. So essentially we are still following the 10 Commandments by following the 2 Laws Jesus gave to us.
