Christ's Return

[Clovis]

Isaiah:1:18: Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Mathew:28:3: His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.

Revelation:1:14: His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.

What does anyone make of these witnessings and prophecies?

 

[NotWorthy]

Isaiah speaks of the forgiveness of our sins.

Matthew shows the irony. When the angels appear to the guards, the live men who were supposed to be guarding a dead man, appeared as dead men, while Jesus (the dead Man) was actually alive!!!

The angel that spoke to John is the figure in Revelation.

In all three of these, purity is shown as pure white.

Clovis, what are your thoughts?

 

[Della]

I’m afraid I’m not making the connection between these verses and Christ’s return.

 

[Clovis]

The angel of The Lord was the one who told of Christ’s resurrection in Mathew and also appeared to John in Revelation. I keep trying to make a connection with the King of Tyre and the appointed cherub as well as the morning star of Lucifer as being akin to each other by boasting as they did and being punished for it. Christ himself said if the works that have been done in you has been done in Tyre and Sodom they would have repented in sackcloth. Once Lucifer had been cast into the depths of Sheol wouldn’t it like wise come that he would have learned from his error, or are we a bunch of merciless dogs? He would probably have learned not to think of himself but of Christ, therefore fulfilling the scripture of the bright morning star, The Lord’s Angel and Helper who was willing to have his sins which were as scarlet and crimson become as snow or wool.

 

[FCEGM]

*The angel of The Lord was the one who told of Christ’s resurrection in Mathew and also appeared to John in Revelation. I keep trying to make a connection with the King of Tyre and the appointed cherub as well as the morning star of Lucifer as being akin to each other by boasting as they did and being punished for it. Christ himself said if the works that have been done in you has been done in Tyre and Sodom they would have repented in sackcloth. *Once Lucifer had been cast into the depths of Sheol wouldn’t it like wise come that he would have learned from his error, or are we a bunch of merciless dogs? He would probably have learned not to think of himself but of Christ, therefore fulfilling the scripture of the bright morning star, The Lord’s Angel and Helper who was willing to have his sins which were as scarlet and crimson become as snow or wool.

Satan’s choice was irrevocable, as it is for all who choose hell.

(From the Council of Constantinople’, 543 A.D.) :

"If anyone holds that the punishment of demons and of impious men is temporary, and that it will have an end at some time, or that there will be complete restoration of demons and impious men, anathema sit.:

Please see, too, the Catechism, nbrs. 1034, 1035, 1036, 1037.

And from C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce:
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“What some people say on earth is that the final loss of one soul gives the lie to all the joy of those who are saved.”

“Ye see it does not.” [Says MacDonald]

“I feel in a way that it ought to.”

That sounds’ very merciful, but see what lurks behind it."

“What?”

“The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hall should be able to veto Heaven. . .Watch that sophistry or ye’ll make a Dog in tha Manger the tyrant of the universe,.”

 

[Clovis]

Satan’s choice was irrevocable, as it is for all who choose hell.

Lucifer was not Satan ! ! ! He was a king, who in his wisdom, called himself wise as God; forgetting his own flaw of his flesh, the severity of the punishment probably has a reason other than his punishment alone. Lucifer was simply a ruler who was lazy in body and wise in mind, like most of them who reign on the earth; he didn’t consider the laborer until he himself was made to labor in Sheol.

 

[Clovis]

*Lucifer was a man and men have reasoning! Did God not let him see the wretch he had become, the little speck of dust whom the worms ate, and did he not reason then that he had erred greatly in his days, but had he known and truly seen clearer, he wouldn’t have become what he was know, an offense to his own eyes?

Hence the old saying goes, “A man is all out for you, blaming his boots on the faults of his feet!” (AND THAT MAN IS LUCIFER)*