16:1 (Sela). It is a city in Edom, excavated in the rocks, with palaces, dwellings, tombs and amphitheater and to be approached only from the e., through a rocky defile 1 1/2 ms. in length, called the Sik, i. e. the Cleft, its sides being from 100 to 300 ft. in height.
Bible Map: Sela...
Revelation is written in Greek, and the word lamb is a diminutive... Little Lamb.
The Flock in Hebrew refers to our people as sheep, therefore the Messiah being their head symbolically makes the Lamb in Revelation refer both to the Flock, and Messiah contextually.
Zion is repeatedly used as...
Zechariah refers to Zion not as a place but as people. (Zechariah2:7) Since the writer in Revelation is alluding to Zeke and not the other way around and since we have been told that Revelation is full of symbols its fair to guess that 'the Lamb standing upon mount Zion with the 144,000' is...
As I have said, Paul is the man of lawlessness, who has presumably released you from the Law (Romans 7:6), and who commits lawlessness (Matthew 13:41) & (Romans 7:25) and will be "gathered out", and thrown into the furnace of fire (Matthew 13:42). And there are many harlot "daughters of...
The "house of Israel" is a daughter of Babylon, for she is among the other daughters of Babylon, the Gentile churches, because she is "scattered among the nations" (Ezekiel 36:17-19). Zechariah2:7 is directed at Zion, which is the mountain of God, which is comprised of those who keep God's...
I sincerely want to understand:
By commandments/Matthew 19, you want me to keep the 613 laws of the Torah? I see the young man and Jesus speaking about several of those in that passage.
I need to be perfect, that is, I can no longer sin after trusting Jesus?
I'm Jewish, I'm not "in" the...
Well, let us see. First to "enter into life", you must keep the Commandments (Matthew 19:17). As for entering into the "kingdom of heaven", you must be more righteous than the Pharisees (Matthew 5:20-48). Which is to say, you must be "perfect" (Matthew 5:48). To avoid having to drink from...
Without God, there is no love, and without love, there is no eternity. No greater love is that one would die for the one he loves. If you have tasted of the tree of life, the love of God, then you already know God. Religion would be an obstacle to that realization. One must come out of...
And since when have angels been "anointed"? (Zechariah 4:14) "These are the two anointed ones, who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth". How is the Lord of the whole earth also "two anointed ones"? Your foundation of "sand", laid by the daughters of Babylon, is nothing you can...
The 2nd death of the lake of fire (Revelation 20:14-15) is a 2nd death, such as lights out. As for the "smoke" ascending up for ever and ever, well, "smoke" in a general sense, does not have feelings that I have observed. As for will they "rest", no, they are now apparently permanently dead...
Yet you remain in "her" (Revelation 18:4) & (Zechariah2:7). What you share in is "her plagues". Israel was promised freedom from the plagues of Egypt if she kept the commandments. You think you are free from the commandments/law, and subsequently look to the "beast" for your health...
I wonder how any of the NT stories can ever be verified? Like if Matthew really wrote something out, what did he do with it after that? He took to a scribe to make a bunch of copies, so he could hand them out to all the churches? But, if he didn't sign his name on it, what if someone else wrote...
You might want to keep in mind that the consensus is that 2 Peter was written after Peter's death by some one other than Peter. The fact that it is in the Roman Catholic (daughter of Babylon) canon of 367 AD, does not give it any credibility. One is supposed to "escape" from the "daughter of...
Listen, the Catholic church happily tortured and burned anyone who did not toe their set of abominations. The pope gave an apology recently regarding two of those in question, Joan of Ark, and Galileo. He failed to return the money taken and give an apology for the thousands of unnamed...
In your "real world of theology" you will not find the truth, but the traditions of men (Matthew 11:25). As for you reconverting to Catholicism, that reminds me of a dog returning to its vomit (Proverbs 26:11).
New American Standard Bible Proverbs 26:11
Like a dog that returns to its vomit Is...
@2ndpillar, whether or not you intend it to be so, your ton here is EXTREMELY disrespectful and full of smear (to pretty much everyone). I (like every other person) don't appreciate being in a conversation where I am continually insulted, and am requesting a change in tone. If that tone does...
Uh, yes. I've read The Book of Mormon. Why in the world would you think I hadn't? And from what you've said, my knowledge of what it says clearly exceeds yours by many, many times.
Okay, well we're simply going to have to disagree to disagree on who established Jesus Christ's Church here on...
Have you even read the book of Mormon?. Supposedly written by Mormon and his son Moroni, giving a historical overview of early Americans and their roots. I mean it has been over 45 years since I have read it, but it seemed from recollection, that the refuges from Jerusalem, went by way of...