Read my post #43
Amputations of limbs, crucifixion, pouring boiling water on heads, and burning people for all eternity is pure psychopathic cruelty no matter how you interpret.
Would you mind giving me an interpretation of those verses that is not painting God up to be a cruel, sadistic , hateful bigot?
Revelations have spiritual meanings rather than a literal physical meaning.
Spiritual Meaning of REVELATION 20:10
He is called "the Devil that seduced them," that it might be known that it was the dragon, because he seduced, as appears from (verses 2, 3, 7, 8) of this chapter). By "the lake of fire" into which he was cast, is signified hell, where are the loves of falsities and the lusts of evil (n.
835). By "the beast and the false prophet" are signified they who are in faith alone, both as to life and doctrine, both the unlearned and the learned; by "the beast" the unlearned, and by "the false prophet" the learned (n.
834). By "being tormented day and night" is signified to be interiorly infested continually, and by "for ages and ages" is signified to eternity. And because it is said that "they were cast into the lake of fire and brimstone," by which is signified where the loves of falsity and the lusts of evil are (n.
835), these are what they will be infested by interiorly; for everyone in hell is tormented by his own love and its lusts, for these make the life of everyone there, and it is the life which is tormented; wherefore there are degrees of torment there according to the degrees of the love of evil and thence of falsity.
REVELATION 20:15 This is simply metaphoric symbolism in reference to those who had not lived in accordance with the Lord's commandments in the Word and did not believe in the Lord being condemned by their rejection of our Lord.
Revelation 20:15 (King James Version); Exploring the Meaning of Revelation 20; Revelation 20 (King James Version)
Spiritual Meaning of REVELATION 14:15
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5,
65,
170,
258,
342,
343,
344,
415,
465); here the angelic heaven, because it is said that he went out "from the temple," and by "the temple" is signified heaven as to the church (n.
191,
529,
585); for there is a church in the heavens equally as on earth.
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642); that "to send His sickle and reap" signifies to make an end and execute judgment, see above (n.
642,
643). By "for the hour is come to reap" is signified that it is the end of the church. "For the harvest is dried up" signifies that it is the last state of the church; by "harvest" is signified the state of the church as to the Divine truth; the reason is, because from the harvest grain is procured, from which bread is made, and by "grain" and "bread" is signified the good of the church, this being procured by truths. That this is the signification of this passage, may be seen more clearly from those places in the Word where "harvest," "reaping" and "sickle" are mentioned, as in the following:--
I will sit to judge all the nations; put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; for their wickedness is great (
Joel 3:12, 13).
Cut ye off the sower, and him that taketh the sickle in the time of harvest (
Jer. 50:16).
The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor; yet a little while, and the time of harvest will come (
Jer. 51:33).
It shall come to pass "hen the standing corn of the harvest is gathered, and his arm reapeth the ears; in the morning thy seed flourisheth, the harvest shall be a heap in the day of possession, and desperate sorrow (
Isa. 17:5, 11).
The husbandmen were ashamed, because the harvest of the field perished (
Joel 1:11).
Jesus said to the disciples, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already to harvest. I sent you to reap (
John 4:35-38).
Jesus said to the disciples, The harvest is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into His harvest (
Matt. 9:37, 38;
Luke 10:2).
In these passages, and also in (
Isa. 16:9;
Jer. 5:17; 8:20), the church as to the Divine truth is signified by "harvest." But all the things which are contained in these verses in this chapter, and also in the two chapters which follow, were foretold by the Lord in the parable concerning the sower and the gathering of the harvest; which, because it teaches and illustrates what they signify, shall be adduced:--
Jesus said, The kingdom of the heavens is like unto a man that sowed good seed in his field, but an enemy came and sowed tares; when the blade was sprung up, then appeared the tares also. The servants said, Wilt thou that we gather them up? but He said, Nay, lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them; let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn; but gather the wheat into My barn. And the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Explain unto us the parable. Jesus said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man (or the Lord); the field is the world (the church); the seed are the sons of the kingdom (the truths of the church); the tares are the sons of the wicked one (falsities from hell); the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the consummation of the age (the end of the church); the reapers are the angels (the Divine truths): as therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the consummation of the age (at the end of the church) (
Matt. 13:24-30, 36-43).
Spiritual Meaning of REVELATION 14:15
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