B]PJM:
ASSUMED INTO HEAVEN
Gen. 5: 22-24 Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methu’selah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. [ASSUMED Body and Soul into Heaven].
2nd. Kings 2: 8-14 Then “Eli’jah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground. When they had crossed, Eli’jah said to Eli’sha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Eli’sha said, “I pray you, let me inherit a double share of your spirit.” And he said, “You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if you do not see me, it shall not be so.” And as they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Eli’jah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Eli’sha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more."
Lets talk about this. these two profits were mentioned Mary wasn’t. Let point out that the sins of Adam brought the curse of death. Now you say these two prophets didn’t die but I say they are going to die.
Look at this scripture and tell me who think the Bible is referring to?
Rev 11:3 And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Rev 11:4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
Rev 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
If Mary had a been Assumed into Heaven then it would have said three witnesses. their was a reason that Enoch and Elisha were mentioned. it is because they were the only two prophets to ever have been assumed into Heaven. Mary faced the same curse that all men will face, death because we were born into sin. no matter how righteous one becomes the will still face death because we are all born into sin. Even the most righteous, Holy, Perfect, loving, man had to die but on that day that he was risen he gave us a second life, an eternal life, so that when we accept him as the Son of God when we die in the flesh we would still live with God. Their is a second Death and that is eternally separated from God or thrown into the pit of fire.
1Cr 15:55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
1Cr 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
1Cr 15:57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Cr 15:58 Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
Gal 3:22 But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.
Pro 30:5 "Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Pro 30:6 Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.
Deu 12:32 See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.
1Cr 15:2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
1Cr 15:3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
I would advise that you look up the passages which Jonathan of Ohio has pointed out:
Acts 8:27-35 Saint Phillip asks the Ethiopian Eunuch, “Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?” and the
Eunuch answered, “How can I lest someone show me?”
2nd Peter 3:16-17 "As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.
2nd Peter 1:20-21 “Understanding this first: That no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation. For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost.”
Your reading of the scriptures is highly idiosyncratic, to say the least. You should perhaps start looking for patristic commentaries on the Bible instead of trying to interpret the Bible to support your own version of Truth. We are not given the power to interpret scripture outside of the body of Christ. Only within the context of the Church can the true meaning of the scriptures be revealed.
