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To: Berry Picker who wrote (33625)	10/18/2002 10:11:58 PM
From: IN_GOD_I_TRUST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Elect, Here is one perfect example of why things at the time they are written, can be very easily spiritualized, but shouldn't be... Revelation 11 1 I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, "Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the worshipers there. 2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. 3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. 6 These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want. 7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. 8 Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. 10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth. Well, at the time of this, could all people on this earth get to a single place in 3 1/2 days? I don't think so. So it would be easy to say that this could not happen, so lets work this out another way, without taking it literally. Well now, with the invention of TV, and our transportation systems, it would be very easy for this to happen, right? Let's go back a lot further in time, to another good example... Zechariah 14 12 This is the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. What were the people of the time that this was written thinking this meant? Don't think there was anything at the time that would have this affect on a person, do you? So again, it would be easy to spiritualize it. But now, in our time, with the advent of nuclear weapons and effects, this describes perfectly, a literal effect of someone being exposed to nuclear material. Its description is eerie. Now, one might still say this it is a symbolic representation, but how can we take the spiritual interpretation of this over the literal one, when the literal one is entirely possible? One must consider the literal here first! I just illustrate two examples of how it is easy to spiritualize, because of human understanding! But as shown, it is possible to interpret these verses literally now, but when written, almost impossible to take literally. God Bless, IGIT