How will the world end?
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AThornquist
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Wait, 2012 isn't based on the Bible?? I need to send out new mass-emails! "Sorry guyz, I really thought we were doomed this time hehehe..."
Sven
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Angela: 2012 is not Biblical, that was a joke.
The world will end on account of global warming (2 Peter 3:10).
Augusta
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I have ALWAYS considered most of the Bible, including Revelation, to be literal. My husband can't believe that anyone could not think it is figurative. I am learning more everyday
Did he say what they are figurative of?
I guess that is really my question.TeachingTulip
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I have ALWAYS considered most of the Bible, including Revelation, to be literal. My husband can't believe that anyone could not think it is figurative. I am learning more everyday
Did he say what they are figurative of?
The Revelations given to John were figurative and symbolic of literal truths contained throughout all of Holy Scripture.
Neither literal truths, nor figurative expressions of such, should be discarded from the Christian's study of the Word of God.
The "bowls and seals" speak figuratively of God's culminating and sovereign judgments upon unbelieving mankind . . . meant to provide and introduce the new (spiritual) heavens and earth, and Kingdom given by the Father to the Son, Jesus Christ, in which all sin, darkness, death and wickedness has been eliminated.
If we believers do not read the Bible, searching for deeper, spiritual significance to promises and prophecies, we will miss many deep and rich truths!
Ronda
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Didn't say otherwise.
reformed trucker
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newcreature
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I have ALWAYS considered most of the Bible, including Revelation, to be literal. My husband can't believe that anyone could not think it is figurative. I am learning more everyday
Did he say what they are figurative of?
The Revelations given to John were figurative and symbolic of literal truths contained throughout all of Holy Scripture.
Neither literal truths, nor figurative expressions of such, should be discarded from the Christian's study of the Word of God.
The "bowls and seals" speak figuratively of God's culminating and sovereign judgments upon unbelieving mankind . . . meant to provide and introduce the new (spiritual) heavens and earth, and Kingdom given by the Father to the Son, Jesus Christ, in which all sin, darkness, death and wickedness has been eliminated.
If we believers do not read the Bible, searching for deeper, spiritual significance to promises and prophecies, we will miss many deep and rich truths!
Ronda
He said exactly what Ronda said - almost verbatim - just before she made this post last night.
Family and friends have always teased that I am the smartest girl they ever knew with absolutely no common sense. I think maybe I'm related to Amelia Bedelia? At any rate, I read several selections from the book of Revelation last night, and it is absolutely full of symbolisms of the literal truth. I read the second chapter of Paradise Restored, by David Chilton. He makes wonderful contrasts of some of the figurative Revelations and to what truths throughout the Bible they are connected. Yes, I definitely have some growth to look forward to in searching for deeper meaning in scripture.
Peairtach
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Don't worry. The world's not going to end for thousands of years, although we don't know when.
There has to be a long period of time when the Gospel leavens the whole world, the nations turn to Christ as nations, and turn their swords into ploughshares. The Devil will be fully bound with the chain of the Gospel and Christ will triumph in history by His Word, Spirit, Church and Providence (See Revelation 19). Then there has to be a final falling away/apostasy before the Second Advent and Eschaton (See Revelation 20).
On the other hand, our world could end at any time when Christ comes for us in death, so we need to be ready by being saved and being in a healthy spiritual condition.
There will be a "rapture" (a better word would be "ascension" since it corresponds to our Lord's ascenscion) at the Second Advent at the End of the World. It's got nothing to do with a dispensational premil doctrine of the rapture.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words. (I Thess 4:13-18, ESV)
Those of us who are dead and whose souls are in Heaven, probably the majority of all believers who've ever lived, will come with Christ in His Second Advent. Our souls will be reunited to our raised bodies, and all believers will ascend and meet with Christ. The unsaved dead will be raised. There will be the judgment and the New Heavens and New Earth.
There has to be a long period of time when the Gospel leavens the whole world, the nations turn to Christ as nations, and turn their swords into ploughshares. The Devil will be fully bound with the chain of the Gospel and Christ will triumph in history by His Word, Spirit, Church and Providence (See Revelation 19). Then there has to be a final falling away/apostasy before the Second Advent and Eschaton (See Revelation 20).
On the other hand, our world could end at any time when Christ comes for us in death, so we need to be ready by being saved and being in a healthy spiritual condition.
There will be a "rapture" (a better word would be "ascension" since it corresponds to our Lord's ascenscion) at the Second Advent at the End of the World. It's got nothing to do with a dispensational premil doctrine of the rapture.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words. (I Thess 4:13-18, ESV)
Those of us who are dead and whose souls are in Heaven, probably the majority of all believers who've ever lived, will come with Christ in His Second Advent. Our souls will be reunited to our raised bodies, and all believers will ascend and meet with Christ. The unsaved dead will be raised. There will be the judgment and the New Heavens and New Earth.
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