When people scoff at the miracles , just remember, they believe in just one miracle but it's a whopper. They believe everything came from nothing for no reason.

In numerology, there is a practice called gematria where Hebrew letters are assigned numeric values and then the values of words can be calculated from the letters. The Hebrew for Nero Caesar is calculated as 666.

If Nero was the Antichrist who were the two witnesses he slew that were resurrected three and a half days later?

I don't know. Revelation is steeped in symbolism which leads to a multitude of interpretations. A guess would be Saints Peter and Paul, who were martyred in Rome during Nero's reign.

There are numerous proofs that Jesus existed from the beginning. Gen. 1:26, "Lets US make make man in Our image, according to OUR likeness".
Col. 1:16, "For by him all things were created both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things have been created by Him and for Him." 2:9 "For in Him all the fulness of Deity dwells in bodily form." These are more that refer to his deity.

GS, there are so many opinions on what some of these things mean. My take on it is that right or wrong, it has no consequences on salvation which is the most important issue. I'm putting all my marbles on Jesus and his redeeming blood to save me. Without that I have no hope, I am lost. You, me, and a lot of us on here are on the same team. Our differences really don't matter because of the goal.

Yes. C. S. Lewis summed it up very well with his "3 L's" -either he was Lord, Liar, or Lunatic. You get to decide your opinion, but you're opinion doesn't change who or what he was. Choose carefully.

T7 I fully agree with you on the importance of the gospel.
And your last post.
I don't have any issues with others eschatological beliefs.
We are created with free will and with individuality.
I consider you a brother in Christ.

free will is ..not free if I still believed that would be hard one justify
if the message is so important why make it so hard to understand and so often misinterpreted
life doesn't have to be eternal to matter

I don't agree that it's hard to understand. God commanded the first man not to eat the forbidden fruit. It's a pretty simple instruction.

Jesus distilled his teaching into two commandments (the first called the Great Commandment). They are pretty simple commandments.

The problem is that man has a brain that he can use to rationalize anything that he wants to do.

The spirit of the antichrist is here but the antichrist himself will be from a Jewish line. Otherwise the Jews would not follow him. Some think the antichrist might be from the tribe of Dan. Since they were labeled as a snake and won't be in the 144,000.

With replacement theology I guess you can just make it up as you go. The Jehovah witnesses think two of their people were killed and left in the street in 1914.

Elijah and Enoch seems reasonable to me as they never died. You can't enter Heaven without dying and that will be their time to die.

You have the freewill to not believe, and you have the freewill to interpret scripture any way you please.
As far as understanding that's part of freewill I believe. But if you choose to not believe. Then the spirit will not teach you. Therefore not giving you understanding.
I can't speak for others, but when I turned from trying to understand and rely on my own wisdom and turned it over to God this is when a light came on. I wish I could explain it better than that.
I guess in a nutshell, understanding comes from faith. And we have the liberty to believe or not believe.

Trapper7 - Your last post as well very much summed up my beliefs and I agree with Giant Sage. I really enjoy when men can get into Gods Word and analyze it and learn as we sharpen one another. I admit, the more I read, the more the Holy Spirit reveals to me and can reveal different lessons at different times. Gods Word is inerrant and yes we may not always agree on every scripture and I am just fine with that.

Giant Sage - Proverbs 3:5-6 is what comes to mind.

Yes and verses 4 and 7 also.

you do know the earliest fragment we have for the
number of the beast is 616, hope that doesn't mess it up for anyone
it's just one of those many copy problems
i feel bad for all the moves and tattoo people that got it wrong

It's Nero either way. The Greek version of the name Nron Qsr yields 666 and the Latin version of the name Nro Qsr yields 616.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast#Nero

and on free will.. give your children the same free will as god gives ,with the same out come
love /believe me or i will burn you for ever over and over again
just doesn't have that loving feeling and what's really bad is you're the one doing the burning!
and this is the best the all-knowing creator came up with that should give you the ick
great for back then if you were king love /worship me and you can live or I'll kill you
sounds the same

I understand your arguments, this is a fairly common argument.
As far as the type of judgment you are speaking of. It is a matter of interpretation.
Eternal punishment is not the only interpretation.
Children of course should be given free will as they become responsible so they can grow.
I personally don't understand what scripture is saying about the results on judgment day for those that are not in the book of life. I would lean more towards eternal separation or ever utterly destroyed.
I have a hard time seeing an eternal firey judgment in God's character.
I'm not saying you are wrong or write.
If your corect then it probably doesn't effect eternity. If your wrong?

This is reaction from anger, which doesn't lead to understanding. God actually desires our love a lot more than we desire him. The Creator of a billion worlds wants to invite you and me to have the same kind of conversation with him as the members of the Trinity have with each other. It sounds too good to be true but that's the biblical message, not repent or burn. But yeah, even many believers don't get it, understandably. Everything that is good in life comes from God's hand, even the things that we pervert, the good in them is his. Take that all away and how can you be anywhere but in torment? Some of us feel like we've already been through hades on earth, but we still always have something good here, some reason for hope. Anyway, if you take your questions to him honestly, they will be answered. Might take time and effort, but he's faithful, because he desires to be known.