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Yes, the neuter ending would probably be best attributed to the whole phrase that came before "touto".

Yes I think they are putting the cart before the horse, in that loyalty to modern Israel comes first. The Bible is then made to be subservient to this loyalty by whatever is has that sounds useful. The passage in Galatians 4:21-31 speaks of old Jerusalem as a thing done by the will of man and...

I am ok with that explanation. I may have been over eager to take on a "preachy" tone with the guy. It should not be missed however, that like the gift that God gave to the mustard seed, faith is also a gift. Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it...

You might better understand what I am talking about if I give you a specific example: The last prophesy in the OT, Malachi 4:5 "5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord". Well Jesus tells us that this is fulfilled in John. Mathew...

Perhaps this is as good an opportunity as any for us both to listen more carefully. Mathew 13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: 32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but...

Matthew 13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Absolutely. I love gardening, because plants have much to teach about Jesus' heavenly kingdom.

Sounds like they must have been mustard trees.

The psychology of dominance makes us all feel so small. But seriously, another word for garbage is liter and in fairness to you I have to say that you are Biblically "literate" at least in that you pour a lot of garbage on anything Biblical.

You always seem to be taking us back to the mindset of the people who followed Jesus into Jerusalem thinking that He would establish an earthly kingdom. Jesus has already told us as clearly as it is possible to tell that His kingdom is heavenly. Do you struggle with the idea that a heavenly...

Still can't see how you have established your point or how the word "mystery" does anything for it. Does the Bible direct your views or does your views just direct your interpretations?

Actually what began at Pentecost could not be described as a "Gentile church", because that was the day that 3000 Jewish men were saved in Jerusalem. Hebrews 8:8 also describes your "Gentile Church" as a "new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah".

Prophetic telescoping? Wow! Which translation did you find that in?

Steven was referring to the Israelites under Moses. Sure, very much Old Covenant. Interesting that he called them an ekklesia though. "ek" means out and "klesia" is a pluralized noun from the verb "kaleow" (call). The called out ones. I am sure that you understand that the old testament saints...

Ok nice try, but chopping out Julius Cesar is a bit of a stretch. Sure he was a "dictator" and Augustus was an emperor, which is not exactly a 'king" either. If John and his contemporaries prefer to call them kings, then we can also understand them that way. I have not ignored Eusebius' claim...

I am also inclined to think that there is spiritual foreshadowing of the end of the world throughout the book of Revelations. I am not usually outstandingly hasty in accepting many "double fulfillment" theories however, as I have noticed that many of them involve adding ideas to the text that...

Actually I wasn't joking about that. Have you ever noticed that the heavenly Jerusalem is called a Church? Hebrews 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and CHURCH...

Whether "all Israel" in Romans 11:26 refers to the whole church or just the ethnically Hebrew part of the church the meaning is almost the same, because Paul has already taught in his olive tree model that the nations cannot be saved without the salvation of the Israelite root and that the...

If John is writing in the time of Nero, that fits very well. The beast that comes from the sea is Rome (from the Mediterranean). The first seven Roman emperors: Julius Cesar, Augustus Cesar, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, then Galba, who continued for only 7 months. That means that the one...

I thought I was the one that first said something like that. In any case, for my part I still stand by what I said.

So in other words, it all depends on imaginative embellishments that do not respect the text. Revelation 4:1 is a classical example. Obviously nothing to do with "rapture" or resurrection. John is taken to see a prophetic vision in heaven, and is able to write it down afterward. This speaks of...