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FxMasterz:
Leaders are not perfect. True. But that does not mean leaders should be liars. It also does not mean leaders must inject their own imaginations into the Word of God.

Just as the apostles lied to their followers that Jesus will return before the death of apostle John {John 21:23} and as they lied that God's Kingdom is near since 2,000 years ago shey? Matthew 10:7

Ọmọ you can never ever find a better performing group than JWs whose leaders have successfully formed one big and happy family of peace loving worshipers throughout the world! Isaiah 2:2-4

Even if you were alive in the first century what the Jews did to Jesus and his apostles is what you will do because you will continue demanding perfection while you keep on looking for their mistakes which you will surely see!😂

MaxInDHouse:
Just as the apostles lied to their followers that Jesus will return before the death of apostle John {John 21:23} and as they lied that God's Kingdom is near since 2,000 years ago shey? Matthew 10:7

Quote where the apostles said these two things in the Bible.

Ọmọ you can never ever find a better performing group than JWs whose leaders have successfully formed one big and happy family of peace loving worshipers throughout the world! Isaiah 2:2-4

You mean one big and happy family of lie loving worshippers who believe that the apostles lied about Jesus' coming before John's death, and Jesus' soon coming for more than 2,000yrs.

Even if you were alive in the first century what the Jews did to Jesus and his apostles is what you will do because you will continue demanding perfection while you keep on looking for their mistakes which you will surely see!😂

You just came out clean now. Let me keep demanding perfection while you keep demanding lies. The end will tell the best.

FxMasterz:
Quote where the apostles said these two things in the Bible.

Quote a single publication of Jehovah's Witnesses in which a specific date was mentioned regarding the end of the world!🙂

Now you see what i've been telling you for years that there is a difference between verifying what was said and what spread among disciples?

The Bible confirmed that a wrong notion was spread among first century Christians yet it didn't give us a specific name or time someone said it among the apostle all we can see is that Jesus said something and first century Christians got it wrong.

So continue deceiving yourself expecting perfection from modern day Christians simply because of misconception that went round among them which definitely must have been heard by unbelievers back then looking at them as deluded people as John died and Jesus never returned since then.

Now you are learning!🙂

You make particular with Eusebus being a third generation disciple. What does this exactly mean? He saw Jesus and by your nomenclature the 1st generation disciples which I believe consists the original 12 from Peter to Judas?
Don't you see that the third generation discipleship strengthens his reliability as a church historian but does not resolve the specific transmission problem being pressed, which is Luke reporting a trance-state vision experienced by Peter decades earlier. Eusebius's trustworthiness concerns church history broadly. The epistemological question about visionary experience transmitted orally across decades remains a separate category that his credentials do not close.
On the acceptance versus salvation distinction, if acceptance means access to God's presence without ceremonial barrier, and salvation means inner transformation through faith, then Acts 10:34-35 is addressing the former while the Cornelius baptism episode addresses the latter. That is quite probable. The question it raises however is significant. If acceptance is universal and prior, and salvation is subsequent and conditional on faith in Christ, then Acts 10:34-35 establishes something genuinely independent of the salvation mechanism. God's prior recognition of Cornelius was real and operative before the salvation event occurred. That prior recognition cannot then be retroactively collapsed into the salvation framework without erasing what the text explicitly distinguishes. The distinction you are drawing actually reinforces the point about God acting independently of formal human inclusion rather than undermining it.

FxMasterz:
You're not getting it. Apart from the fact that Eusebus quoted verifiable sources, he was also a 3rd generation disciple. All scholars trust his writings because of the boxes he ticked.

You're also mixing things up about Cornelius. Acceptance is different from salvation. The vision shows all men are accepted. Acts 10:34-35 shows Cornelius is accepted. We gain that acceptance because we no longer need to be ceremonially clean before we can get closer to God. Salvation is a different thing entirely. It's the rebirth of the inner man which happens through faith in Christ alone.

You mark particular with Eusebus being a third generation disciple. What does this exactly mean? He saw Jesus and by your nomenclature the 1st generation disciples which I believe consists the original 12 from Peter to Judas?
Don't you see that the third generation discipleship strengthens his reliability as a church historian but does not resolve the specific transmission problem being pressed, which is Luke reporting a trance-state vision experienced by Peter decades earlier. Eusebius's trustworthiness concerns church history broadly. The epistemological question about visionary experience transmitted orally across decades remains a separate category that his credentials do not close.
On the acceptance versus salvation distinction, if acceptance means access to God's presence without ceremonial barrier, and salvation means inner transformation through faith, then Acts 10:34-35 is addressing the former while the Cornelius baptism episode addresses the latter. That is quite probable. The question it raises however is significant. If acceptance is universal and prior, and salvation is subsequent and conditional on faith in Christ, then Acts 10:34-35 establishes something genuinely independent of the salvation mechanism. God's prior recognition of Cornelius was real and operative before the salvation event occurred. That prior recognition cannot then be retroactively collapsed into the salvation framework without erasing what the text explicitly distinguishes. The distinction you are drawing actually reinforces the point about God acting independently of formal human inclusion rather than undermining it.

FxMasterz:
You're not getting it. Apart from the fact that Eusebus quoted verifiable sources, he was also a 3rd generation disciple. All scholars trust his writings because of the boxes he ticked.

You're also mixing things up about Cornelius. Acceptance is different from salvation. The vision shows all men are accepted. Acts 10:34-35 shows Cornelius is accepted. We gain that acceptance because we no longer need to be ceremonially clean before we can get closer to God. Salvation is a different thing entirely. It's the rebirth of the inner man which happens through faith in Christ alone.

The statement what your religion taught you cuts both ways and if at all it's due to bias. We are discussing to properly interpret without these limitations. The JW interpretive framework is itself a tradition transmitted through an institution, subject to the same transmission questions you dismissed earlier.
Nothing you have written here changes the textual sequence. Cornelius was accepted by God before Peter arrived, before preaching, before baptism. Acts 10:34-35 establishes that directly. The co-rulership passages you cite address a separate question entirely and do not disturb that prior divine recognition.
The trajectory from exclusivity to universal access is not my life view it is the trajectory your own cited passages describe.

MaxInDHouse:
Obviously you aren't getting the message because of what your religion taught you.

Read this again for clarification:

Neither God nor Jesus said only Jews will have everlasting life o!

The redeemer from God (Christ) will be born among a race {Isaiah 9:6} and that race are those who have known all the things associated with the Christ and his origin that is what brings the Jews into the picture {John 4:22} whereas they are not the only descendants of Jacob but they knew all the prophets from Moses until John the baptist while Samaritans on the other hand only accepted Moses as the prophet of God that is why the Christ will use Jews as his disciples to reach out to other nations. Zechariah 8:23

What will be their benefit for being his disciples?

God will only choose among them those to rule with Christ! Matthew 19:27-30

But the Jewish nation declined God's offer {Matthew 23:37-38} that's why the selection of Christ's corulers was extended to other nations {Matthew 21:43} so that individuals from different nations throughout the world could become part of corulers with the Christ! Matthew 8:11

This is the arrangement Jesus stick to that is why he first told them to go and call only Jews as his disciples! Matthew 10:6

Explore2xmore:
The statement what your religion taught you cuts both ways and if at all it's due to bias. We are discussing to properly interpret without these limitations. The JW interpretive framework is itself a tradition transmitted through an institution, subject to the same transmission questions you dismissed earlier.
Nothing you have written here changes the textual sequence. Cornelius was accepted by God before Peter arrived, before preaching, before baptism. Acts 10:34-35 establishes that directly. The co-rulership passages you cite address a separate question entirely and do not disturb that prior divine recognition.
The trajectory from exclusivity to universal access is not my life view it is the trajectory your own cited passages describe.

The first set of Christians are the ones to rule with Christ so anyone who joins the disciples of Christ in the first century is most likely to be part of the ruling team.

This is what the Bible says:

Then I saw, and look! the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who have his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. Revelation 14:1

The selection of Christ's corulers is to be taken from the first set of Christians so the 144,000 must be selected before the rest follows them. This first set will be taken to heaven with Jesus (the lamb of God) John 14:1-3; 1Thessalonians 4:16-17

And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had everlasting good news to declare to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people. Reba 14:6

The remaining Christians are uncountable disciples of Christ but their own destination is planet earth! Matthew 5:5; Psalms 37:29; Surah 21:105

So don't think this is something any of your Muslim people can understand!🙂

The comment about Muslims does not advance the argument and risks distracting from the main issue. These interpretive questions stand or fall on their own merits, regardless of anyone’s religious background.

The 144,000 interpretation is a Jehovah’s Witness doctrinal position, but it is not the only plausible reading of Revelation 14. Apocalyptic literature frequently uses numbers symbolically, and many scholars understand the 144,000 as representing the complete people of God rather than a literal, limited ruling class. Likewise, the two tier destination framework drawn from Matthew 5:5 and Psalm 37:29 goes beyond what those texts explicitly state. Both passages speak generally about inheritance and blessing, not a formal division of believers into separate eternal categories.
On transmission, 1 Thessalonians and Revelation come to us through the same historical process that has been questioned regarding Luke–Acts. If that process is considered reliable when supporting one position, the same standard should apply when evaluating another. The methodology should remain consistent regardless of the conclusion.

MaxInDHouse:
The first set of Christians are the ones to rule with Christ so anyone who joins the disciples of Christ in the first century is most likely to be part of the ruling team.

This is what the Bible says:

Then I saw, and look! the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who have his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. Revelation 14:1

The selection of Christ's corulers is to be taken from the first set of Christians so the 144,000 must be selected before the rest follows them. This first set will be taken to heaven with Jesus (the lamb of God) John 14:1-3; 1Thessalonians 4:16-17

And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had everlasting good news to declare to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people. Reba 14:6

The remaining Christians are uncountable disciples of Christ but their own destination is planet earth! Matthew 5:5; Psalms 37:29; Surah 21:105

So don't think this is something any of your Muslim people can understand!🙂

MaxInDHouse:
Quote a single publication of Jehovah's Witnesses in which a specific date was mentioned regarding the end of the world!🙂

Where did this question come from? Who and you are arguing about jw fixing dates?

There are evidences for this anyway. Look here for some: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/end-of-the-world/&ved=2ahUKEwj5n6ixh-uUAxXAVEEAHcLHOjsQy_kOegoIAggACAEIChAC&opi=89978449&cd&psig=AOvVaw26sHV8d8YkC8JD9Fg5nudD&ust=1780575664959000

Now you see what i've been telling you for years that there is a difference between verifying what was said and what spread among disciples?

The Bible confirmed that a wrong notion was spread among first century Christians yet it didn't give us a specific name or time someone said it among the apostle all we can see is that Jesus said something and first century Christians got it wrong.

So continue deceiving yourself expecting perfection from modern day Christians simply because of misconception that went round among them which definitely must have been heard by unbelievers back then looking at them as deluded people as John died and Jesus never returned since then.

Now you are learning!🙂

If you know what's good for you, you'll follow the Bible squarely rather than an organization that is consistently embroiled in so many so called misconceptions. You went into the early Church to find one ungrounded rumor that was spread, which the Church never held as a standard to justify deep lies of your organization which you now call misconceptions. Such misconceptions as "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was a god." Lol. Such misconceptions as Jesus started reigning in heaven in 1914, lol. Or such misconceptions that Jesus is angel Michael. Hahaha.

The John dying or not dying issue was a not a notion generally held by the Church. And you want to make that one notion your standard, and your good reason for believing in lies? You better enjoy your lies in peace.

Explore2xmore:
You mark particular with Eusebus being a third generation disciple. What does this exactly mean? He saw Jesus and by your nomenclature the 1st generation disciples which I believe consists the original 12 from Peter to Judas?
Don't you see that the third generation discipleship strengthens his reliability as a church historian but does not resolve the specific transmission problem being pressed, which is Luke reporting a trance-state vision experienced by Peter decades earlier. Eusebius's trustworthiness concerns church history broadly. The epistemological question about visionary experience transmitted orally across decades remains a separate category that his credentials do not close.
On the acceptance versus salvation distinction, if acceptance means access to God's presence without ceremonial barrier, and salvation means inner transformation through faith, then Acts 10:34-35 is addressing the former while the Cornelius baptism episode addresses the latter. That is quite probable. The question it raises however is significant. If acceptance is universal and prior, and salvation is subsequent and conditional on faith in Christ, then Acts 10:34-35 establishes something genuinely independent of the salvation mechanism. God's prior recognition of Cornelius was real and operative before the salvation event occurred. That prior recognition cannot then be retroactively collapsed into the salvation framework without erasing what the text explicitly distinguishes. The distinction you are drawing actually reinforces the point about God acting independently of formal human inclusion rather than undermining it.

Eusebus can be trusted for many reasons apart from the fact that he quoted from verifiable sources. He was also in the direct line of the generation of disciples. It seems you don't understand what that means. That means the information from the first disciple were reliably passed down to him. The moment you realize that all the first century Christians know who wrote what, and how the Who gathered his information, you'll start getting it. First century believers knew Luke wrote books, and they knew his medium of data collection and validation. Eusebus was not so far away for such information to have been lost on him. Many in Eusebus' day have the same information he had. And the fact that Luke heard Peter was not a matter of debate in the 300s. Thousands of years later, it may look debatable. But in 300AD, this was common knowledge. You cannot expect that in less than 209yrs, the knowledge of how Luke wrote his books would have been lost.

You don't understand what the presence of God means. You need to understand that before you can understand what Cornelius got before and after Peter. Before Peter, Cornelius had what all men now have - acceptability. That is a qualification to be saved. As far as salvation is, everyone is qualified TO RECEIVE salvation. That's what Cornelius had before Peter. After meeting Peter, he received salvation. Today, everyone is qualified but not everyone is receiving.

I understand the argument regarding Eusebius, and a 209-year chain of transmission is a strong case for preserving knowledge of authorship and general provenance however my point is narrower. Establishing that Luke wrote Acts is not the same as establishing the evidential status of every event Luke records. The question is not whether early Christians knew Luke's sources, but whether a visionary experience relayed through witnesses and later narrated by Luke should be evaluated differently from ordinary historical reporting. Authorship and epistemic reliability are related issues, but they are not identical.
On Cornelius, your distinction between acceptability and salvation is clear. However, Acts 10 still raises a difficulty for a strictly bounded reception model. God not only recognized Cornelius before Peter arrived; the Holy Spirit fell on him and his household before baptism, before formal incorporation, and before Peter finished speaking. If reception itself can occur prior to the formal mechanism, then Acts 10 appears to show God acting beyond the institutional sequence rather than exclusively through it. The chapter seems to present the mechanism as affirming what God had already done, not as the sole channel through which reception became possible.

FxMasterz:
Eusebus can be trusted for many reasons apart from the fact that he quoted from verifiable sources. He was also in the direct line of the generation of disciples. It seems you don't understand what that means. That means the information from the first disciple were reliably passed down to him. The moment you realize that all the first century Christians know who wrote what, and how the Who gathered his information, you'll start getting it. First century believers knew Luke wrote books, and they knew his medium of data collection and validation. Eusebus was not so far away for such information to have been lost on him. Many in Eusebus' day have the same information he had. And the fact that Luke heard Peter was not a matter of debate in the 300s. Thousands of years later, it may look debatable. But in 300AD, this was common knowledge. You cannot expect that in less than 209yrs, the knowledge of how Luke wrote his books would have been lost.

You don't understand what the presence of God means. You need to understand that before you can understand what Cornelius got before and after Peter. Before Peter, Cornelius had what all men now have - acceptability. That is a qualification to be saved. As far as salvation is, everyone is qualified TO RECEIVE salvation. That's what Cornelius had before Peter. After meeting Peter, he received salvation. Today, everyone is qualified but not everyone is receiving.

Explore2xmore:
The 144,000 as representing the complete people of God rather than a literal, limited ruling class.

The figure 144,000 occurred twice in the Bible book of Revelation.
@ Revelation 7:5-8 the number is once again repeated and then John wrote:

After this I saw, and look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. And they keep shouting with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb. Revelation 7:9-10

If it's the complete people of God then how come another crowd of people that can't be numbered appears later?🙂

Guy this is the Bible not your religious book in your religion the number Muhammad told you is 124,000 !🙂

FxMasterz:
Where did this question come from? Who and you are arguing about jw fixing dates?

First century disciples of Christ makes mistakes and people thought Jesus and his followers are false prophets just as you are doing to Jehovah's Witnesses today but you can never ever find a better replacement! John 6:66-68🙂

The key question is what actual difference the text establishes between the 144,000 and the great crowd. Revelation 7 presents two images, but it never explicitly states that they are two separate classes of believers with different eternal destinies. That conclusion is inferred rather than directly stated. Given Revelation's highly symbolic nature, many scholars understand the 144,000 and the great crowd as different portrayals of the same redeemed community rather than two distinct groups.
The existence of two visions, therefore, does not by itself settle the issue. Revelation frequently uses complementary imagery to describe a single reality from different perspectives, most notably the Lion and the Lamb in chapter 5. The real question is how Revelation's symbolic framework functions, and that remains open to interpretation. As for the Muhammad pbuh reference, it does not address that hermeneutical question and adds little to the argument itself.

MaxInDHouse:
The figure 144,000 occurred twice in the Bible book of Revelation.
@ Revelation 7:5-8 the number is once again repeated and then John wrote:

After this I saw, and look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. And they keep shouting with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb. Revelation 7:9-10

If it's the complete people of God then how come another crowd of people that can't be numbered appears later?🙂

Guy this is the Bible not your religious book in your religion the number Muhammad told you is 124,000 !🙂

Explore2xmore:
Revelation never explicitly states that they are two separate classes of believers with different eternal destinies. That conclusion is inferred rather than directly stated.

When gathering his first century Jewish disciples Jesus told them:

John 10:16
I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. ‭NIV

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.‬ KJV

“And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; those too I must bring in, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd. NWT


Jesus already told his Jewish disciples in the first century that there is another class of followers who are not part of the first set. To the first set Jesus said:

“Have no fear, little flock, for your Father has approved of giving you the Kingdom (government or rulership)" Luke 12:32

They are LITTLE in the sense that they're to rule with Christ so they are NUMBERED but those that will possess the earth outnumbered them!

I have told you that when it comes to the Bible it belongs strictly to Jehovah's Witnesses so ask any question about what is not clear to you that doesn't mean you are not free to continue with your Islam if that's your choice!🙂

Don't you see that John 10:16 is difficult to reconcile with a permanent two-class system? Jesus speaks of other sheep not yet in the fold, but the verse ends with the stated outcome of one flock, one shepherd. Historically, the dominant interpretation has been that Jesus is referring to the inclusion of the Gentiles alongside Jewish believers, creating a unified people of God rather than two distinct groups with separate destinies.
The same thing appears in Revelation 7. The great crowd stands before the throne and serves in the naos (sanctuary), language Revelation consistently associates with the heavenly presence of God. Whatever distinctions may exist between the 144,000 and the great crowd, the text itself places both within the sphere of God's immediate presence. The central question is not whether Revelation contains different images, but whether those images describe two eternal classes or one redeemed people viewed from different perspectives. The latter remains a substantial and widely held interpretation. Reread and understand what you call your scripture and stop going by bias program or lazily saying the language therein is only to be understood and explained by a particular group which defeats the accessibility goal so more can understand.

MaxInDHouse:
When gathering his first century Jewish disciples Jesus told them:

John 10:16
I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. ‭NIV

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.‬ KJV

“And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; those too I must bring in, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd. NWT


Jesus already told his Jewish disciples in the first century that there is another class of followers who are not part of the first set. To the first set Jesus said:

“Have no fear, little flock, for your Father has approved of giving you the Kingdom (government or rulership)" Luke 12:32

They are LITTLE in the sense that they're to rule with Christ so they are NUMBERED but those that will possess the earth outnumbered them!

I have told you that when it comes to the Bible it belongs strictly to Jehovah's Witnesses so ask any question about what is not clear to you that doesn't mean you are not free to continue with your Islam if that's your choice!🙂

Explore2xmore:
Jesus is referring to the inclusion of the Gentiles alongside Jewish believers, creating a unified people of God rather than two distinct groups with separate destinies.

To those who will rule with him in the heavens Jesus said regarding their destination:

“Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need, since the Kingdom of the heavens belongs to them." Matthew 5:3

To those who will become subjects of the kingdom of Christ Jesus said:

“Happy are the mild-tempered, since they will inherit the earth." Matthew 5:5

Ọmọ this is Bible o!🙂

The group name "Muslims" means true believers in God so let me see how you will prove to be a real believer in God if you just want to argue blindly!🙂

The difficulty with such reading of Matthew 5:3 and Matthew 5:5 is that they are not presented as descriptions of two different groups? Jesus is addressing the same audience and listing characteristics of the same blessed people. There's nothing in the passage suggesting that the poor in spirit inherit one destiny while the meek inherit another. A disciple can obviously be both at the same time. The two-class conclusion is being brought to the text, not drawn from it. And that's really the key issue. Matthew 5:5 echoes Psalm 37:11, where the righteous inherit the land, but neither text explicitly divides believers into separate eternal categories. You may argue for heavenly and earthly promises from other passages, but Matthew 5:3–5 does not itself establish that framework.
As for the Muslim point, a person's religious label tells us nothing about the meaning of the text. The interpretation rises or falls on the exegesis, not on who happens to be making the argument.

MaxInDHouse:
To those who will rule with him in the heavens Jesus said regarding their destination:

“Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need, since the Kingdom of the heavens belongs to them." Matthew 5:3

To those who will become subjects of the kingdom of Christ Jesus said:

“Happy are the mild-tempered, since they will inherit the earth." Matthew 5:5

Ọmọ this is Bible o!🙂

I guess others are watching you and don't have much better to offer regarding the correct interpretation.

Explore2xmore:
I guess others are watching you and don't have much better to offer regarding the correct interpretation.

I have told you to ask any of them tell us the church teaching them what they are saying.
Ọmọ they are just playing back and forth arguments because they don't know all these things.
God promised to bless all the families of planet earth through Abraham's descendants {Genesis 12:3} so the Christ will be born among Jews {Isaiah 9:6} and he will teach them how to rule with him {Matthew 20:25-28} the first set of Jews to accept this message will be privileged to rule with him {Matthew 19:28} the names of Christ's Apostles will be the foundation of those who are to rule with Christ in heaven {Revelation 21:14} and the number of Christ's corulers will amount to 144,000 {Revelation 14:1} it's after these ones has been fully sealed that those who are to inherit the earth will suffice! Revelation 7:9; 14:6

So from the onset i know where you are driving at but i kept this away from you because i know it will come to this so instead of arguing blindly bring out verses that says all worshipers of God will be in the same place at least you know that Jesus said he will take some people to heaven {John 14:1-3} yet he still say others will inherit the earth! Matthew 5:5; Psalms 37:29

Don't expect churchgoers to come and argue this because it's beyond their understanding! Daniel 12:10

Perhaps to some extent I understand the framework you're presenting, but the question is whether those verses actually establish that framework or are being interpreted through it. None of the passages you cited explicitly teaches two eternal classes of believers as one heavenly and one earthly. Genesis 12:3, Isaiah 9:6, Matthew 20:25–28, Matthew 19:28, and Revelation 21:14 all address real aspects of God's plan, Christ's kingdom, and the apostles' role, but none of them says that all faithful worshippers are permanently divided into two distinct destinies. Even Revelation 14:1 identifies the 144,000; it does not explicitly state that everyone else can never share the same heavenly inheritance.
The same issue applies to John 14:1–3 and Matthew 5:5. John 14 clearly speaks of Christ receiving his followers to be with him, while Matthew 5:5 promises that the meek will inherit the earth. But those verses do not say these are two mutually exclusive groups. A believer can inherit the renewed earth and still dwell in God's presence, just as Revelation ultimately depicts heaven and earth united rather than permanently separated. The real debate is not whether your verses exist, but whether they actually prove the conclusion being drawn from them. And appealing to Daniel 12:10 does not resolve that question. Disagreement over an interpretation is not evidence of a lack of understanding; the interpretation still has to be demonstrated from the text itself. Remember we're revising the scripture for better understanding.

MaxInDHouse:
I have told you to ask any of them tell us the church teaching them what they are saying.
Ọmọ they are just playing back and forth arguments because they don't know all these things.
God promised to bless all the families of planet earth through Abraham's descendants {Genesis 12:3} so the Christ will be born among Jews {Isaiah 9:6} and he will teach them how to rule with him {Matthew 20:25-28} the first set of Jews to accept this message will be privileged to rule with him {Matthew 19:28} the names of Christ's Apostles will be the foundation of those who are to rule with Christ in heaven {Revelation 21:14} and the number of Christ's corulers will amount to 144,000 {Revelation 14:1} it's after these ones has been fully sealed that those who are to inherit the earth will suffice! Revelation 7:9; 14:6

So from the onset i know where you are driving at but i kept this away from you because i know it will come to this so instead of arguing blindly bring out verses that says all worshipers of God will be in the same place at least you know that Jesus said he will take some people to heaven {John 14:1-3} yet he still say others will inherit the earth! Matthew 5:5; Psalms 37:29

Don't expect churchgoers to come and argue this because it's beyond their understanding! Daniel 12:10

Explore2xmore:
None of the passages you cited explicitly teaches two eternal classes of believers as one heavenly and one earthly.

If everything will be EXPLICITLY STATED do you think anyone could failed to see the whole message as it's written?🙂

Well what God's word foretold is that it won't be explicit that is why majority of people will not understand the message!

When Daniel asked God:
Now as for me, I heard, BUT I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND ; so I said: “O my lord, what will be the outcome of these things?” Daniel 12:8

Note the underlined as Daniel said he couldn't understand this message that are given in symbolic terms then he asked a question and God answered him:

“Go, Daniel, because the words are to be kept secret and sealed up until the time of the end. Many will cleanse themselves and whiten themselves and will be refined. And the wicked ones will act wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand; but those having insight will understand." Daniel 12:9-10

Do you notice what God said in the highlighted green?
So if the message is EXPLICITLY STATED how could it be difficult for many people to UNDERSTAND?🙂

Well who are the WICKED PEOPLE that are blinded not to get the sense of this messages?

They are people whose hearts are filled with evil thoughts for instance you are claiming Muslim today yet you don't care what exactly could be the reason why Muslims like you will carry weapons to go and kill their fellow Muslims in other countries at the order of a so called ruler whereas all of you claim Allah is your supreme ruler!🙂

The same applies to all these deceivers claiming Christians members of their religion will carry weapons against their own fellow worshipers in other countries and their religious leaders will bless the weapons to go killing their fellow believers yet they all claim their is one supreme ruler over them (God)

Are you people not WICKED as you keep mocking God by hating and killing one another in the name of WAR? Revelation 6:3-4

That is why God told Daniel that only those having INSIGHT will understand His message not WICKED people {Daniel 12:10} whose hearts has been blinded by Satan! 2Corinthians 4:4🙂

MaxInDHouse:
If everything will be EXPLICITLY STATED do you think anyone could failed to see the whole message as it's written?🙂

Well what God's word foretold is that it won't be explicit that is why majority of people will not understand the message!

When Daniel asked God:
Now as for me, I heard, BUT I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND ; so I said: “O my lord, what will be the outcome of these things?” Daniel 12:8

Note the underlined as Daniel said he couldn't understand this message that are given in symbolic terms then he asked a question and God answered him:

“Go, Daniel, because the words are to be kept secret and sealed up until the time of the end. Many will cleanse themselves and whiten themselves and will be refined. And the wicked ones will act wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand; but those having insight will understand." Daniel 12:9-10

Do you notice what God said in the highlighted green?
So if the message is EXPLICITLY STATED how could it be difficult for many people to UNDERSTAND?🙂

Well who are the WICKED PEOPLE that are blinded not to get the sense of this messages?

They are people whose hearts are filled with evil thoughts for instance you are claiming Muslim today yet you don't care what exactly could be the reason why Muslims like you will carry weapons to go and kill their fellow Muslims in other countries at the order of a so called ruler whereas all of you claim Allah is your supreme ruler!🙂

The same applies to all these deceivers claiming Christians members of their religion will carry weapons against their own fellow worshipers in other countries and their religious leaders will bless the weapons to go killing their fellow believers yet they all claim their is one supreme ruler over them (God)

Are you people not WICKED as you keep mocking God by hating and killing one another in the name of WAR? Revelation 6:3-4

That is why God told Daniel that only those having INSIGHT will understand His message not WICKED people {Daniel 12:10} whose hearts has been blinded by Satan! 2Corinthians 4:4🙂

Agreed that Daniel 12 teaches that some prophetic material are symbolic and not immediately obvious. Daniel himself says he heard but did not understand. The point in dispute is what follows from that fact. The passage establishes that understanding requires insight;it does not establish that any particular organization possesses an exclusive monopoly on that insight. Difficulty of interpretation creates a need for careful exegesis, not automatic authority for one tradition over every other reading.
There is also a methodological issue here. If agreement is treated as evidence of insight while disagreement is treated as evidence of wickedness or spiritual blindness, then the interpretation becomes effectively unjustifiable. At that point, objections no longer need to be answered because they are dismissed in advance. Daniel 12 does not require that conclusion.
The text distinguishes understanding from misunderstanding, but it does not authorize us to declare every dissenting interpreter wicked by definition.
More importantly, the underlying textual questions remain. Revelation 21–22 depicts the New Jerusalem descending from heaven to earth and God dwelling with humanity on earth. That vision complicates a strict and permanent heaven-versus-earth distinction. Likewise, none of the passages discussed has yet been shown to explicitly establish two eternal classes of believers with permanently separate destinies. Those are the exegetical issues under debate, and they remain open questions.
As for the comments about Muslims, Christians, war, and human hypocrisy, those are moral criticisms of people, not arguments about the meaning of Daniel 12, Matthew 5, John 14, or Revelation. Whether people have acted wickedly says nothing by itself about which interpretation of those passages is correct. If the goal of this thread is, as stated, to revisit Scripture for better understanding, then every position including yours and mine must remain open to examination on textual grounds.

Explore2xmore:
it does not establish that any particular organization possesses an exclusive monopoly on that insight.

You are talking like a kid!🙂

If the Bible openly says the name of the group or organization that will have monopoly of insight regarding God's sacred writings is "Jehovah's Witnesses" do you think you can see a single Abrahamic religion that won't call themselves Jehovah's Witnesses?😂

Ọmọ use your brain nah!

Only Jehovah's Witnesses don't join in political struggles and military services these two leads to hatred and killing so no matter how hard you study the Bible you can't love your fellow believers heartily something will always lead to hatred and killing among you yet you will continue to claim believers in the same God.

The truth is only Jehovah's Witnesses see the worship arrangement as truth from God all other religions don't, how can you claim you are worshipers of the same God yet those taking the lead among you have no say in helping you people to resolve issues?🙂

You have now moved completely away from textual evidence. The problem is that this submission od yours remains circular reasoning. Jehovah's Witnesses are said to have the correct interpretation because they are God's chosen organization, and they are God's chosen organization because they have the correct interpretation. That may be a sincere belief, but it is not independent evidence.
Political neutrality and nonviolence are admirable principles, but they do not prove a particular interpretation of scripture. Conduct and exegesis are separate questions. The core textual issue remains unchanged as Revelation 21–22 ends with God dwelling with humanity on earth, and none of the passages cited has explicitly demonstrated two permanent classes of believers with separate eternal destinies. Those are the questions still awaiting a textual answer.

MaxInDHouse:
You are talking like a kid!🙂

If the Bible openly says the name of the group or organization that will have monopoly of insight regarding God's sacred writings is "Jehovah's Witnesses" do you think you can see a single Abrahamic religion that won't call themselves Jehovah's Witnesses?😂

Ọmọ use your brain nah!

Only Jehovah's Witnesses don't join in political struggles and military services these two leads to hatred and killing so no matter how hard you study the Bible you can't love your fellow believers heartily something will always lead to hatred and killing among you yet you will continue to claim believers in the same God.

The truth is only Jehovah's Witnesses see the worship arrangement as truth from God all other religions don't, how can you claim you are worshipers of the same God yet those taking the lead among you have no say in helping you people to resolve issues?🙂

Explore2xmore:
Political neutrality and nonviolence are admirable principles, but they do not prove a particular interpretation of scripture.

The only reason why we're discussing now is one person: GOD or SUPREME RULER!

So if with all your interpretation you're unable to cohabit peacefully with those you call fellow believers in the same God i'm sorry what is the essence of all your interpretations?

2Timothy 3:5🙂

From your previous you started going off the subject matter. This following proves this. We are primarily clarifying truth from misconceptions.

MaxInDHouse:
The only reason why we're discussing now is one person: GOD or SUPREME RULER!

So if with all your interpretation you're unable to cohabit peacefully with those you call fellow believers in the same God i'm sorry what is the essence of all your interpretations?

2Timothy 3:5🙂

Explore2xmore:
From your previous you started going off the subject matter. This following proves this. We are primarily clarifying truth from misconceptions.

My guy the subject matter is what i keep hammering:

"Revisiting The Scripture For Better Understanding"

That is the topic of your thread so what i keep on telling you is that you cannot understand the Bible unless the true Christians TEACH you:

"Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.” Matthew 28:19:20

Of course even you no matter how any individual read your Quran in Arabic you won't accept the translation from someone who is not a Muslim therefore despite the fact that there is no evidence to prove that Muslims have any goal or purpose to achieve with that book you are just creating another religion that's all but the Bible has given us a purpose for which the books were written so you whose book (Quran) never had any meaningful goal can't understand our book better than those who have made good use of the book to fulfill what the Author promised so my guy stop deceiving yourself!🙂

I have no issue with Christians teaching. Matthew 28:19–20 clearly commands that. The problem is that the verse never says one particular organization has exclusive authority to interpret Scripture. Teaching is in the text; a monopoly on understanding is not. And if the goal is truly Revisiting Scripture for Better Understanding, then every interpretation must remain open to examination by Scripture itself. Saying you must first accept our organization to understand the text puts the conclusion before the evidence. The real question is still the one being debated; where do the cited passages explicitly teach two eternal classes of believers with separate destinies? Pointing to organizational authority, or to my religious background, does not answer that textual question.

MaxInDHouse:
My guy the subject matter is what i keep hammering:

"Revisiting The Scripture For Better Understanding"

That is the topic of your thread so what i keep on telling you is that you cannot understand the Bible unless the true Christians TEACH you:

"Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.” Matthew 28:19:20

Of course even you no matter how any individual read your Quran in Arabic you won't accept the translation from someone who is not a Muslim therefore despite the fact that there is no evidence to prove that Muslims have any goal or purpose to achieve with that book you are just creating another religion that's all but the Bible has given us a purpose for which the books were written so you whose book (Quran) never had any meaningful goal can't understand our book better than those who have made good use of the book to fulfill what the Author promised so my guy stop deceiving yourself!🙂

Explore2xmore:
I have no issue with Christians teaching. Matthew 28:19–20 clearly commands that. The problem is that the verse never says one particular organization has exclusive authority to interpret Scripture. Teaching is in the text; a monopoly on understanding is not.

Stop kidding!
If God mention the name of any group all Abrahamic religions will claim such a name so it's by their FRUITS you will know not organization name!🙂

Explore2xmore:
And if the goal is truly Revisiting Scripture for Better Understanding, then every interpretation must remain open to examination by Scripture itself. Saying you must first accept our organization to understand the text puts the conclusion before the evidence.

No one says you must accept what you don't understand but then if it's not what you are brought up with you must humbly ask questions not implying your own meaning as you are trying doing now!🙂

Explore2xmore:
The real question is still the one being debated; where do the cited passages explicitly teach two eternal classes of believers with separate destinies?

I have answered your question that Jesus teaches everlasting life on planet earth {Matthew 5:5} and also some believers are going with him to heaven! John 14:1-3
Instead of you to think and ask why are all those arguing with you on other threads about religion disappeared you want to start arguing in their behalf!🙂

Agreed; if organizations are judged by their fruits, that standard must apply to all organizations equally, including your own. The question then becomes whether the fruits support the claim being made, not whether the claim is asserted.
Humility is important, but humility before Scripture is not the same as deference to a particular organization's interpretation. The text still has to make the case. Matthew 5:5 and John 14:1–3 show an earthly inheritance and a heavenly promise, but neither passage explicitly divides believers into two permanent classes. And Revelation 21–22 still remains the central difficulty. Scripture's final vision is not heaven separated from earth, but God dwelling with humanity on earth. That is the text that still needs to be reconciled with the proposed binary. Do well to properly address is.

MaxInDHouse:
Stop kidding!
If God mention the name of any group all Abrahamic religions will claim such a name so it's by their FRUITS you will know not organization name!🙂


No one says you must accept what you don't understand but then if it's not what you are brought up with you must humbly ask questions not implying your own meaning as you are trying doing now!🙂


I have answered your question that Jesus teaches everlasting life on planet earth {Matthew 5:5} and also some believers are going with him to heaven! John 14:1-3
Instead of you to think and ask why are all those arguing with you on other threads about religion disappeared you want to start arguing in their behalf!🙂

Explore2xmore:
Matthew 5:5 and John 14:1–3 show an earthly inheritance and a heavenly promise, but neither passage explicitly divides believers into two permanent classes.

Both statements protrudes from the mouth of the same person: Jesus.

So he told first century Jewish disciples saying:

“And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; those too I must bring in, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd." John 10:16

What he always tell his Jewish disciples is that he has no business with gentiles {Matthew 15:24} and that is because it's his Jewish disciples that must go and preach to gentiles {Matthew 28:19-20} so his first set of disciples are to be chosen as his corulers in heaven while the rest are to enjoy everlasting life on planet earth {Matthew 5:5; Psalms 37:29} after all evildoers has been removed from the planet! Psalms 37:7-11; Proverbs 2:20-22