To the Forum;
When I was a young boy the Protestant churches taught;
"Jesus lives today -- on earth."
Matthew Poole, Matthew Henry, Andrew Fausset, George Croly, Alexander Campbell, Robert Milligan, William Hurte, B. W. Johnson, and finally Halley's Bible Handbook, 1944; all stated belief in this fact.
But today we have Preterism (God in First Century only), and Premillennialism (God in future only), and the Pope is a "Big-gapper"; teaching most of Revelation is confined to the First Century, but also including an End of Time Armageddon and Resurrection.
So then, this contrast between the Liviung God and the dead god is historically documented.
"Assuredly I say to you, except a man be born out of water and of Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God" - Jn 3.5.
I believed these words, "Spirit unseen", and was dipped for forgiveness of sins.
"If anyone lacks wisdom let him ask of God who gives liberally to all and upbraids not" - Jas 1.5.
"Here is the mind which has wisdom: The 7 Heads are 7 Mountains (Kingdoms) on which the Woman (Great Prostitute; Babylon) sits" - Rev 17.9.
So then, this is the 7-headed Beast on which the Woman sat.
These Heads went the way of all flesh; and the Woman (Babylon) went the way of all flesh (meaning to die); and they are all recorded in all encyclopedias.
I had prayed for the Spirit of Wisdom, concerning this verse; and the Lord Jesus sent it. And, B. W. Johnson, 1891, and I agree on the interpretation.
Egypt (Ex.), Assyria (Isa.), Babylon (Jer.), Persia (Dan.), Greece (Dan.), Rome (Mt.), Eastern Rome (Dan. 11; Rev 17), Babylon (1870; see: "Italy" in encyclopedia; and Rev. 18).
So then, faith in the unseen Spirit of the Wisdom of God was sent to my mind.
And, this is a glorious experience.
hoaryhead
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