Interesting viewpoint… what evidence do you have to support your claim? Are you saying Revelation is already fulfilled? Did Christ already return? Are we in the Millennial Reign?
If this is the literal millennium of Christ’s reign on earth, I dread to think what the great tribulation will look like.
However, a lot of prophecy does have pretty joined-up preterist interpretations, and some accrue new applications as history unfolds, because the same types (in the jargon sense used in theology) seem to recur in history as they do in scripture. (“There is nothing new under the sun.”) For example: the Man of Sin of 2 Thessalonians 2 probably resembles in part the odd Roman emporer or two (though I’d have thought Constantine least of all, the baptised-Christian Roman emporer who respectfully attended one of the councils at Nicea and whom the Orthodox revere as a holy person to this day, jointly with Elena); the Man of Sin also resembles in part the pope (bishop of Rome) or the papacy (as some of the Reformers taught, and some of the Orthodox no doubt taught >500 years before at the time of the East-West Schism – Patriarch Michael of Constantinople excommunicated the then pope, who excommunicated Michael); not to say countless cult leaders who had seemed to start out well as orthodox protestant sect leaders but went on to abuse their congregants, even leading astray even the saints temporarily, even unto death in the case of Jim Jones; even those like Steve Chalke, who try to incorporate LGBT dogma into the christian faith; as well as (of course) the Man of Sin describing a future, final anti-Christ whom only the return of Christ will destroy, as the apostle Paul expressly stated, with no hint in his wording that he might not be speaking literally that I can discern.
I see. It’s a jolly nice idea. But does it hold water?
What particular two historic events, about a thousand years apart, do you think mark the beginning and the end of this golden age?
Can you think of any mischief that happened during this period (say the founding of a new, false, great world religion that was anti-Christian, or a fratricidal war between armies manned mainly by Christian soldiers, like the war in Ukraine now) that looks sufficiently evil to raise the suspicion that the devil himself, still free and at large, might have been involved in that mischief, not merely cheering it along from a prison cell, in chains?
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Shalom sister! God bless you!
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If you are asking about the four horsemen of revelation the white horse is not our Lord Jesus.
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Amen! I point out why the first horseman in Revelation is the Antichrist
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Constantine is the first horseman.
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Interesting viewpoint… what evidence do you have to support your claim? Are you saying Revelation is already fulfilled? Did Christ already return? Are we in the Millennial Reign?
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If this is the literal millennium of Christ’s reign on earth, I dread to think what the great tribulation will look like.
However, a lot of prophecy does have pretty joined-up preterist interpretations, and some accrue new applications as history unfolds, because the same types (in the jargon sense used in theology) seem to recur in history as they do in scripture. (“There is nothing new under the sun.”) For example: the Man of Sin of 2 Thessalonians 2 probably resembles in part the odd Roman emporer or two (though I’d have thought Constantine least of all, the baptised-Christian Roman emporer who respectfully attended one of the councils at Nicea and whom the Orthodox revere as a holy person to this day, jointly with Elena); the Man of Sin also resembles in part the pope (bishop of Rome) or the papacy (as some of the Reformers taught, and some of the Orthodox no doubt taught >500 years before at the time of the East-West Schism – Patriarch Michael of Constantinople excommunicated the then pope, who excommunicated Michael); not to say countless cult leaders who had seemed to start out well as orthodox protestant sect leaders but went on to abuse their congregants, even leading astray even the saints temporarily, even unto death in the case of Jim Jones; even those like Steve Chalke, who try to incorporate LGBT dogma into the christian faith; as well as (of course) the Man of Sin describing a future, final anti-Christ whom only the return of Christ will destroy, as the apostle Paul expressly stated, with no hint in his wording that he might not be speaking literally that I can discern.
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Why do you say that Constantine was the first horseman?
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Because of the bow which is a covenant just like Genesis 9:13.
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What is the connection between the bow and Constantine?
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He started the thousand year reign which is the best thing that happened to the Church.
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Your saying Christ has already begun his thousand year reign? When did this happen? And why didn’t anyone see Christ physically return to Earth?
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It doesn’t say Christ will reign. They will reign.
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please quote your scriptural references
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they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
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Reign with HIM…Reign with Jesus Christ not alone… Christ has not returned yet
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Any time two or more are gathered in His name, He is with them.
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You’re taking these scriptures out of context…so you’re saying Christ already returned to Earth? When?
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It was a Christian empire and they reigned with Christ. He did not have to be there. Just with them.
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Again quote your scriptural support for this…this is not Biblical
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The thousand year reign will end and the dragon must be loosed. How do you see that happening if Christ actually returned?
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So you’re saying Christ will never return? I thought you said he already returned?
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No and no.
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I see. It’s a jolly nice idea. But does it hold water?
What particular two historic events, about a thousand years apart, do you think mark the beginning and the end of this golden age?
Can you think of any mischief that happened during this period (say the founding of a new, false, great world religion that was anti-Christian, or a fratricidal war between armies manned mainly by Christian soldiers, like the war in Ukraine now) that looks sufficiently evil to raise the suspicion that the devil himself, still free and at large, might have been involved in that mischief, not merely cheering it along from a prison cell, in chains?
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The bow is symbolic in the Bible of deception
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And the connection with Constantine?
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