No, they are not.
Don't bother reading this if you're not interested in changing your ways.
This op is specifically about the "
war in heaven" specifically mentioned in Revelation 12.
That hat specific topic of Michael's Revelation 12 war in heaven was completely ignored. Instead, the first several verses of Isaiah 1 was off-topically injected into the thread along with the ad nauseam conclusion. Both the op and my op-reply were ignored. Despite the attempt to hijack the op to make this about "
be careful and get ready," the effort was tolerated and indulged, and you were asked to elaborate on the Isaiah 1 text by posting and discussing what the New Testament says about Isaiah 1. After failed four attempts and several examples provided specifically to benefit the process, the correct handling of God's word provided impossible. Whether due to inadequacy or unwillingness, the failure to apply New Testament commentary on Isaiah 1 shows the motive was NOT to write about the word of God as the word of God directs. Randomly cutting and pasting scripture together and ignoring the topic of discussion are both ungodly behaviors, not godly ones.
I tell you this because I want you to do better.
The word of God is the word of God's own best tool for understanding the word of God.
Use scripture to understand scripture. Use scripture
correctly to correctly understand God's word. I can see some attempt to do that was made but it was sloppy, completely eisegetic and not exegetic, and not a word of it pertain specifically to the questions asked in this op.
The older revelation informs the newer revelation, and the newer revelation interprets the older revelation. For example, we Christians necessarily understand every single messianic prophecy was and remains completely fulfilled by the one single person of Jesus, the resurrected Son of God. There won't be any other Messiah. There won't be two Messiahs; there is only one and that one is Jesus incarnate, living, dead, buried, and resurrected. This is what separates us Christians from Judaism, Islam, JWism, the LDS, and a host of other religions.
The reason we believe what we believe is because the New Testament explains all those Old Testament messianic prophecies. Without the New Testament we would not know Jesus is the fulfillment of the long-awaited Messiah.
I asked the exact same practice be applied to Isaiah 1 and it didn't happen. In other words, the example set by the apostles for every Christian to practice was ignored. Egregiously. So do not under any circumstance tell me now that you cannot speak as the apostles did (because that is in fact what every Christian is called to do), or that all your replies were written in the way you should (because what the NT says about Isaiah 1 was completely ignored), or in any way imply God directed you to hijack another's op for your own selfish agenda.
If the Spirit of the almighty God does in fact dwell within, then you can in fact post God's word with the exact same method the New Testament writers did. Every single Christian should understand Isaiah 1 exactly as the New Testament writers understood it under the guidance of the newer revelation of the Holy Spirit.
And
that is not evidenced anywhere in the posts I received.
You were asked.
If you want to try it again and do it correctly then I am amenable. Go back and read or re-read this op, paying attention to the specific text cited and the specific questions asked. Go back to
my op-reply (post#202) and read it again.
Think about what is posted. If a single word I posted can be proved incorrect, then I am open to your doing so.......
as long as scripture is used correctly when doing so, and if what is posted there is found not to have any errors then accept it and stand firm upon it as a correct rendering of God's word. On the other hand, if this post upsets you then ignore me. The only response(s) I'm interested in is the one that is op-relevant (that's why I've ignored most of the posts in this thread).
Two last comments:
1) Do not abuse posters and then call them friends. That too is ungodly.
2) It is very common for posters in the Prophecy, Eschatology, and Soteriology board to stay on topic. Every single thread in this board proves what I just said to be true. Every single thread shows posters refusing to address the op and only the op. Every single thread shows posters bring in completely unrelated matters that are discussed in scores of other threads and none of them every resolved because few if any ever stick to one topic. I exhort you NOT to be that guy. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Learn focus. Learn to suspect those preachers, teachers, and posters who practice on sequitur, digression, and obfuscation.
