And there came to be a great flood
Utterly destroy
by hoj 13 Replies latest watchtower bible
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hoj
And there came to be a great flood
I don't believe the flood was literal. In Revelation it says that the waters which Babylon sits on are peoples, multitudes, tongues. The tongues would be spiritual languages. Each of the denominations has their own language. The whole world has been flooded now. The people are eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage. Eating and drinking means partaking of a message. Marrying and giving in marriage is when a preacher takes a church as his congregation. There is a lot in the allegory of the flood. And don't forget the allegory of the plagues where God also destroys.
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hoj
Here is another passage that has utter destruction.
Eze 9:4-6 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. (5) And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: (6) Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
Are they being slain with literal swords, or are they being slain by the Word of God? In Judges it was the virgins who weren't slain. Here it is the ones who have the mark by the one with the inkhorn. They are the ones who mourned over the abominations done in the city. This relates to the virgins of Revelation 7 (the 144,000) who were sealed from the slaughter.
In Judges and Revelation it was the virgins who were not to be slain. In Ezekiel it is the ones who mourn over the abominations. The abominations refers to the adulteries against God, which is taking words of men over the Word of God.
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hoj
Here is another one:
Exo 32:26-28 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. (27) And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side,and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. (28) And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
There is a big difference whether the camp was cleansed by eliminating evil by physical death of the wicked; or whether the cleansing is by the Word of God. Is the wrath (passion) of God to eliminate and punish evil through literal destruction? Or is His passion to correct through His Word?
Moses wrote books of history and law, right? But in Deuteronomy 18:18 God refers to Moses as a prophet. Peter in his speech at Acts 3 quotes that verse, showing that he saw Moses as a prophet. Stephen in his speech at Acts 7 also quotes it. Could these stories in the books of Moses be prophetic rather than history?