If you are willing to receive it??

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A concept does not necessarily have to be in symbolic form.

Every truth is in all reality a concept.
Concept is a generalized idea, thought or notion.

Acts 1 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 are not 'concepts', they are real actual, physical events that will take place at His Coming.
 

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Concept is a generalized idea, thought or notion.

Acts 1 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 are not 'concepts', they are real actual, physical events that will take place at His Coming.
There are concepts in those scriptures that relay the realities of the actual, physical events.

It is a generalized idea, thought, or notion that Jesus is coming back.

It is also the truth.
 
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There are concepts in those scriptures that relay the realities of the actual, physical events.

It is a generalized idea, thought, or notion that Jesus is coming back.

It is also the truth.
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one. Matt 5:37
 

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speaking of John the baptist, Jesus says:

if ye are willing to receive [it], he is Elijah who was about to come
(Matthew 11:14, YLT)


what does He mean?
is there '
a different Elijah' for those who are not 'willing to receive' ?


He doesn't say 'if ye are willing to receive' anywhere else, about anything else -- why not?
what is it about John/Elijah that's true if only if we're "willing to receive" it ((him/Him?))?


:unsure:
John 1:21 (NKJV)
21 And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not."