Replacement theology? Yes or No.

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The Jews are waiting?

I am not waiting.
My sister is not waiting.
My brother is not waiting.

So we were not Jews because we are not waiting?

Besides...
Are all gentiles Christian?

Jews and gentiles do not accept Christ.
Exactly, don't wait.
 
First, I never employ AI.

Second, my response in no way contradicts my previous response; it informs it. If the new Jerusalem is the bride or church, and the church is here presently, the verse means John seeing the new Jerusalem coming down is a reference to Pentecost

Let's take a look again at what you said:

"You see incomplete or complete. Everything changed at the cross. The kingdom of God came definitively at that point. It has been coming progressively since. And when Jesus returns it will come consumatively. Like the mustard seed, it starts small and grows to be the largest. The kingdom of God eventually swallows up all the other kingdoms. This is what scripture teaches. The kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ. Hence, a done or undone perspective is inaccurate to explain the progression of history. Rather, a more and greater evidence of the kingdom over time is the accurate model."

So, you're saying that the kingdom has been coming progressively, but that it doesn't include a Millennial Kingdom period?

That's where you are wrong. It will come progressively from THIS AGE, TO THE AGE TO COME, and then end up at the New Jerusalem/Heaven.
 
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Here's the explanation I view as the reason for why the tribe of Dan is missing from the list of 144,000 from the 12 tribes of Israel in Revelation 7:

  • Idolatry and Apostasy: Dan was a primary center for golden calf worship under King Jeroboam I (1 Kings 12:25–33) and had a history of stealing idols and practicing false worship (Judges 18). This reputation for covenant unfaithfulness is seen as disqualifying for the sealed servants tasked with witnessing during the end times.
  • Association with the Antichrist: Some interpretations suggest Dan is excluded because the Antichrist is prophesied to come from this tribe, based on Jacob’s blessing describing Dan as a "serpent" (Genesis 49:17) and other prophetic texts.
  • Replacement by Manasseh: To maintain the symbolic number of twelve, the tribe of Manasseh (son of Joseph) replaces Dan. Since Ephraim is also omitted and represented under the name "Joseph," some argue this consolidates the tribes while excluding those linked to northern kingdom idolatry.
It is a possibility, I was just giving another viewpoint for consideration, since Rev 7 occurs in-between the chapters dealing with Gods judgement upon the Roman Empire.
 
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Let's take a look again at what you said:

"You see incomplete or complete. Everything changed at the cross. The kingdom of God came definitively at that point. It has been coming progressively since. And when Jesus returns it will come consumatively. Like the mustard seed, it starts small and grows to be the largest. The kingdom of God eventually swallows up all the other kingdoms. This is what scripture teaches. The kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ. Hence, a done or undone perspective is inaccurate to explain the progression of history. Rather, a more and greater evidence of the kingdom over time is the accurate model."

So, you're saying that the kingdom has been coming progressively, but that it doesn't include a Millennial Kingdom period?

That's where you are wrong. It will come progressively from THIS AGE, TO THE AGE TO COME, and then end up at the New Jerusalem/Heaven.
We're in the millennial period. Christ is ruling and reigning and building the church.

When these things were written, the age to come was the new covenant age.
 
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That didn't answer my question about what you considered to be false doctrine.

His insistence that others check their relationship with the Lord at the door and instead follow him and believe what he tells you to believe

Scooter, you can't be taken seriously because you can't communicate well.

Yeah, I go by what the Lord says in His Word and a lot of others seem to be follow carnal man made religion (catholic, reformed, etc) so they get all upset when others don't agree with their religion

It's odd that you are saying I should follow AIO rather then the Holy Spirit Who leads in to Truth which is God's Word.

You should not be trying to influence others to follow false doctrine like that as it is you that is being a poor communicator leading people away from the Lord.
 
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We're in the millennial period. Christ is ruling and reigning and building the church.

When these things were written, the age to come was the new covenant age.

That makes ZERO sense. When the APOSTLES were talking about the AGE TO COME, they were talking about the Millennial Kingdom because the Church Age had already started with them.

The New Jerusalem doesn't need an "age" as it is the final complete heavenly kingdom where time isn't measured and the sun and moon no longer exist.
 
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(The 144,000 are ethnic Jewish born again believers.)

But they are Jews, not to becoming the Bride of Christ.
Just like Moses is not the Bride, nor Isaiah.

Moses was born again.
He was a regenerate Jew.

"Born again" did not always mean automatically having the indwelling Holy Spirit like the church does.
It meant that the Holy Spirit begat a human spirit so that a believer could know the things of God.

When Jesus spoke to Nicodemus?
There was no church!
Jesus (as a rabbi) was telling Jewish Nicodemus that he needed to become a regenerate Jew to know He is the Christ.

Too many still get confused about being born again.
Here is what Jesus told Jewish Nicodemus what "born again" means.

Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not ​
be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ John 3:6​

The Holy Spirit gave birth to our human spirit when we believed!

But at Pentecost?
A new thing happened!

The Holy Spirit now entered and took up permanent residency within a born-again person!

Thus?
Making the already born-again Peter to become a new creation in Christ!

There is still a great deal of confusion about the meaning of "born-again".
Having a human spirit makes one able to comprehend spiritual realities.

But having the indwelling Holy Spirit?

That makes one not just able to know spiritual things but also be able to live spiritual realities.
To live them by the power of God's grace provided by the Spirit filling us.

grace and peace....
 
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Exactly, don't wait.

God has selected and reserved certain Jews to wait so Jews would enter into the resumption of the Jewish age at the time of the Great Tribulation. There must be Jews on earth in those days. For Jesus will have his throne in Jerusalem, reigning over Jews as their promised Messiah.

While Jesus is reigning on earth in those days? Seated on the promised throne of David?
We, the Bride of Christ, will be resurrected and reigning with Him over the entire new earth of the Millennium.

The more we are made able to understand, the more exciting it does get.
 
But they are Jews, not to becoming the Bride of Christ.
Just like Moses is not the Bride, nor Isaiah.

Moses was born again.
He was a regenerate Jew.

"Born again" did not always mean automatically having the indwelling Holy Spirit like the church does.
It meant that the Holy Spirit begat a human spirit so that a believer could know the things of God.

When Jesus spoke to Nicodemus?
There was no church!
Jesus (as a rabbi) was telling Jewish Nicodemus that he needed to become a regenerate Jew to know He is the Christ.

Too many still get confused about being born again.
Here is what Jesus told Jewish Nicodemus what "born again" means.

Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not ​
be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ John 3:6​

The Holy Spirit gave birth to our human spirit when we believed!

But at Pentecost?
A new thing happened!

The Holy Spirit now entered and took up permanent residency within a born-again person!

Thus?
Making the already born-again Peter to become a new creation in Christ!

There is still a great deal of confusion about the meaning of "born-again".
Having a human spirit makes one able to comprehend spiritual realities.

But having the indwelling Holy Spirit?

That makes one not just able to know spiritual things but also be able to live spiritual realities.
To live them by the power of God's grace provided by the Spirit filling us.

grace and peace....

That reminds me of another Bible verse:

John 4:24 -

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him MUST worship him in spirit AND in truth.
 
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Abraham was a gentile.
There is no such thing as "Jewish" blood.

Jews have blood like you have blood.
Blood that can be donated to a blood bank for all people to benefit by receiving in a transfusion of the same blood type.
Abraham was a Hebrew of the line of Shem the bloodline of Noah of the chosen line of Seth.

The term gentile just meant all the other people on earth besides the bloodline of Abraham ( the Hebrews )
 
"Millennium" another entirely misunderstood word/concept in scripture.
Absolutely. The amils have NO clue. They do not KNOW the truth of latter day eschatology.
And that's the way they like it.

I figure that those who see fit to mock the rapture are the very ones that will be "left behind".
The Scripture alludes to this on several occasions BTW.

I also think that those UNWISE who deny the reality that is the Ezekiel 37 reformation of the Nation Israel and deny the Biblically cited reasons for the Second Coming and Biblically cited cataclysmic events that herald the Second Coming are of the same mentality and spiritual state as these lovers of this PRESENT AGE.

2Ti 4:10
for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

1Co 2:6
However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
1Co 2:8
which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
 
"Millennium" another entirely misunderstood word/concept in scripture.
Yeah you misunderstand that one as well. Since you're a preterist you teach the millenium was 40 years from 30AD to 70AD. Madness. If you were partial preterist you would say the 1000 years are happening now even though satan is called the god of this world, ruler of this age, deceiving the whole world and yet he is still bound. Amazing. What a crime scene!
 
If A.I. wasn't representing my thoughts, I never would have posted it.
thats not true, you have been answering with a bias AI that I personally have torn apart and you still stand on its answers as if they were your own. You must really think we are so stupid. I'm going to have to ignore you now as there is nothing an AI can teach.
 
Yeah you misunderstand that one as well. Since you're a preterist you teach the millenium was 40 years from 30AD to 70AD. Madness. If you were partial preterist you would say the 1000 years are happening now even though satan is called the god of this world, ruler of this age, deceiving the whole world and yet he is still bound. Amazing. What a crime scene!

The madness is making Christ Jesus a liar.
Full stop.
 
thats not true, you have been answering with a bias AI that I personally have torn apart and you still stand on its answers as if they were your own. You must really think we are so stupid. I'm going to have to ignore you now as there is nothing an AI can teach.

You haven't torn down anything. I stand on the A.I. answers I've given because that is what I believe and always have, they're just being communicated by A.I. to save me time from having to repeat myself so many times. Now you're playing the same game as everyone else. When you can't create a worthwhile argument against the scriptures and views I have presented, you bail. Too bad, but typical.
 
Abraham was a Hebrew of the line of Shem the bloodline of Noah of the chosen line of Seth.

The term gentile just meant all the other people on earth besides the bloodline of Abraham ( the Hebrews )

Abraham was a gentile.
Later on, God reached him, and Abraham became a Hebrew (meaning, one who crossed over the river).
 
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