It has been my experience that men who don't want to acknowledge what God has said, simply declare the Words of God to be "symbolic allegory". But when questioned on the meaning symbolically and allegorically of the rest of the same verse or text, they are quick to duck. You alluded to Isaiah 65:20; "There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed".
Where is any indication of allegory here? In Eden, and after the fall, men lived to well over 900 years. And the Millennial Kingdom promises a "regeneration" in Matthew 19:28. The Greek word means "coming out of dormancy to renewed life like plants in spring". That is, with Christ's righteous rule, coupled with His blood "that speaks better things than Abel's", coupled with "the powers of the age to come", which was divine healing, men will again live into the hundreds of years. Men's winter is over and the Millennium is designated as "summer". With lack of plagues, massive harvest, divine healing, all backed by God, a man will easily live 900 years.
So where is the allegory? What is symbolic? NOTHING. The verse says that if a person dies at 100 years they will be reckoned as an INFANT DEATH. And if a man, after a hundred years of the reign of righteousness, and the rule of the rod of iron, is still a sinner, a curse will fall on him. Where is the difficulty? There is none. The difficulty is the minds of men who wish to annul the meaning of God's Words.
But let us, for your sake, assume allegory. Then, we as the under-educated in matters Biblical, may turn to you for knowledge. So please explain the allegorical meaning of
Notwithstanding the above, we still esteem you as a brother in the Lord. Go well.
Where is any indication of allegory here? In Eden, and after the fall, men lived to well over 900 years. And the Millennial Kingdom promises a "regeneration" in Matthew 19:28. The Greek word means "coming out of dormancy to renewed life like plants in spring". That is, with Christ's righteous rule, coupled with His blood "that speaks better things than Abel's", coupled with "the powers of the age to come", which was divine healing, men will again live into the hundreds of years. Men's winter is over and the Millennium is designated as "summer". With lack of plagues, massive harvest, divine healing, all backed by God, a man will easily live 900 years.
So where is the allegory? What is symbolic? NOTHING. The verse says that if a person dies at 100 years they will be reckoned as an INFANT DEATH. And if a man, after a hundred years of the reign of righteousness, and the rule of the rod of iron, is still a sinner, a curse will fall on him. Where is the difficulty? There is none. The difficulty is the minds of men who wish to annul the meaning of God's Words.
But let us, for your sake, assume allegory. Then, we as the under-educated in matters Biblical, may turn to you for knowledge. So please explain the allegorical meaning of
- New Heaven and New earth
- not remembered, nor come into mind.
- to be glad and rejoice for ever
- Jerusalem
- her people
- weeping
- infant
- filling one's days
- houses
- plant vineyards
- eat fruit
- seed of the blessed of the Lord
Notwithstanding the above, we still esteem you as a brother in the Lord. Go well.
You post a response concerning houses, vineyards, in Isaiah 65 as if to support mortal humans in a Millennial Kingdom on this earth?
Yes Ezekiel 47 shows the (Eternal) as 47:12 shows the tree of life present in the eternal kingdom.
Yep, Animals, Rivers, Great Sea, Fish and Fishermen in the (Eternal) New Heven, Earth, Jerusalem, Pretty Cool, I Like Fishing!
Dont forget the tasty fruit from the tree of life, can you imagine?
Ezekiel 47:1-12KJV
1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.
2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
5 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.
6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
10 And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.