Did you know that what YOU believe is western and new? No one believed the preterist view until very recently. So what you are peddling is NOT the ancient nor eastern view, it is a modern western one. Thank you very much
So please, spare us the eastern mindset junk, when the eastern mindset is what you are battling against, a future individual antichrist in a temple in Jerusalem. As witnessed to by the early Church fathers like Irenaeus, Justin Martyr and the rest of them, it was standard, even the amillennial Augustine believed in a future antichrist.
Early Church Fathers frequently interpreted the Nephilim of Genesis 6:1-4 as literal giants or monstrous offspring, often drawing on apocalyptic literature like 1 Enoch. They largely viewed them as the product of "sons of God" (fallen angels/Watchers) and human women, resulting in destructive, supernatural beings whose violence prompted the Flood
"whose violence prompted the Flood"
Can we speculate on what this extreme violence might be related to?
How about killing all those who did NOT join in with most of humanity in worshipping the descended fallen angelic host?
Killing all those who REFUSED to "take the mark"?
Yes
@HeIsHere , we can and should (and do) search the Scriptures (all of them) to obtain the CORRECT answers.
And if you will not, you do not, so that is why you
"KNEW NOT".
What you prejudicially dismiss as "myth" is actually bedrock boilerplate Biblical truth.
Mat 24:37
But as the days of Noe
were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39
And
knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
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Rev 13:16
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 14:9
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive
his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
Rev 14:10
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
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1Pe 3:19
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Pe 3:20
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
