(Dan 9:24 KJV) Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
The 70 weeks ended in 70AD otherwise we are all still in our sins.
Agreed, but I was trying to make a point. That some things in the bible are literal. Some are symbolic. And in this case, it is literal based upon something other than the standard literal.
Meaning, it was 70 weeks, but not was not being applied to a 7 day week, but to a 7 year week. So when we read, we must take all things into account.
And as I have said before, for some reason I tend to think that the thousand years is actually one thousand years, but to what end. What does it mean? Why a thousand years? Why not more than a thousand years - Eternal? I believe that Jesus was victorious at the cross and resurrection.
But the Revelation gets me turned around. I will be reading and feeling good about my "understanding" and then bam, I get hit with something that seems to blow all of my "understanding" in the previous verses out of the water. I think that anyone that doesn't understand what I am talking about, probably hasn't read Revelation; either that or they are full of the Holy Spirit; or they are full of something else (bologna - so one doesn't use their imagination
). So, I really don't know if I am supposed to understand the thousand year reign as literal, symbolic, symbolically literal....
I don't get caught up on what I don't understand. If I am doing a puzzle and I have one that doesn't make any sense. I will put it to the side, not forgetting it, but also not focusing on it. I work on the pieces that do fit. And when I get to the last few pieces, I can just spin them around until they fit, both in picture and shape.
By the way, the first thing that I put together is the border. In which the whole puzzle is contained. Jesus is the beginning and the end. The frame, the structure. Jesus was the point from the beginning, before Adam was created. Before the fall. Jesus was the answer. Jesus is the answer. Jesus already defeated death. He was already victorious.
1 Corinthians 15:20-28
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20 [/SUP]But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. [SUP]
21 [/SUP]For since by a man
came death, by a man also
came the resurrection of the dead. [SUP]
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For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. [SUP]
23 [/SUP]But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming, [SUP]
24 [/SUP]then
comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. [SUP]
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For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. [SUP]
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The last enemy that will be abolished is death. [SUP]
27 [/SUP]For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. [SUP]
28 [/SUP]When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.
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For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive." In what way did Adam die? He died spiritually that very day. He lost a spiritual connection with God. Isn't it the same with life given through Jesus Christ? We receive back a spiritual connection with God, now. And then our spiritual bodies are removed from out physical bodies at death, but it is a physical death, releasing us fully to a spiritual life unhindered by the flesh.
