TMS, these are men's concepts. God is not restricted to "chiastic examples." When reading the book of Revelation, "if the literal sense makes good sense, then don't seek any other sense. The context should always be considered first. The wrath of God will be carried out via the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments. These are three sets of seven, numbered 1 thru 7, which is the order that they take place in . The seals will be opened in sequential order, followed by the trumpets 1 thru 7 and the bowls, which are last and complete God's wrath, also 1 thru 7.
The wrath of God is being revealed . We are still living in a corrupted body of death on a corrupted dying creation.Corruption does not inherit the incorruptible.It comes in the twinkling of the eye on the last day. His kingdom will never be of this world as if we did know Christ after flesh and blood as that seen .Which he himself declared it does not profit.(God is not a man as us)
Why do you keep offering a prescription that states if the literal word as to its meaning makes philosophical sense, then don't seek the spiritual understanding?
How would that affect the law of faith in respect to the unseen eternal?
I think it more a “matter of semantics” searching for the understanding hid from the literal understanding
The law of faith reads...
2Co 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The context in so much that without parable Christ spoke not should always be considered first. Especially in a book using a signified interpretation
The language in Revelation that was sent was also signified as a parable. Without parables Christ spoke not.
Hide the parable, hide the spiritual understanding .
What does a literal word thousand signify in that parable found in Revelation 20.?
Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and “signified” it by his angel unto his servant John:
I looks like a word that we get semantics form
Strongs lexicon.....4591 semaino {say-mah'-ee-no}
from sema (
a mark, of uncertain derivation); TDNT - 7:262,1015; v
AV -
signify 6; 6
semantics. 3 a : the
meaning or relationship of meanings of
a sign or set of signs; especially : connotative
meaning. b : the language used (as in advertising or political propaganda) to achieve a desired effect on an audience especially through the use of words with novel or dual meanings.