"Interpretation" in 2 Peter 1:20-21

[Covenanter]

It's not a question of understanding metaphors, but understanding & interpreting Scripture. Peter writes to "To God’s elect, exiles, scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia," & tells them -
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
He is assuring them that the covenant promise to Israel in Exo. 19 is being fulfilled in them, as a congregation of the redeemed people of God.

All those metaphors which many of us refer to as "spiritual fulfilment of prophecy." But they are not just metaphors, they are real statements of our status as believers in Christ.

Really??? You think you can understand Scripture without understanding the metaphors? The Bible is packed full of metaphors, and the earnest student of Scripture had better understand them and be able to differentiate between a metaphor and a factual statement. For example, "a royal priesthood" is not a metaphor, but "holy nation" is. To miss this is to miss both the Baptist doctrine of the priesthood of the believer and to misunderstand the meaning of "holy nation."

This statement makes me think you don't actually understand what a metaphor is: "metaphor: A figure of speech in which one word is employed for another--a method of description which likens one thin g to another by referring to it as if it were the other one." (Mario Pei & Frank Gaynor, Dictionary of Linguistics, 135)

I think you are deliberately misunderstanding what I am saying in order to post a belittling reply.

Your crowd totally misses it by referring to such expressions as "spiritual," as if the rest of the Bible were not spiritual.

I rephrase what I wrote -
All those SCRIPTURES quoted in the Epistles & interpreted by them are what many of us refer to as "spiritual fulfilment of prophecy." But they are not just figurative language, they are real statements of our status as believers in Christ

The message of Peter was based on the resurrection of Christ. To miss that is to miss the whole Gospel. All through the book of Acts, the resurrection is preached as a vital part of the Gospel, something preachers and missionaries often miss.

The resurrection made Christ King of Kings on the throne of the Kingdom of God, and guaranteed the future reign of Christ on the throne of David. Those are two different thrones in Scripture.

Why do you think I, or anyone else posting, has missed the resurrection of Christ & its significance?

Why do you assert that "the throne of the Kingdom of God, and ....the throne of David." are very different thrones? Scripture please, or is that your own private interpretation?

Does the phrase "this present millennium" mean that you are postmil?

No. It means that the millennium runs from the first century to shortly before the return of Christ.

 

[Yeshua1]

I think you are deliberately misunderstanding what I am saying in order to post a belittling reply.


I rephrase what I wrote -
All those SCRIPTURES quoted in the Epistles & interpreted by them are what many of us refer to as "spiritual fulfilment of prophecy." But they are not just figurative language, they are real statements of our status as believers in Christ



Why do you think I, or anyone else posting, has missed the resurrection of Christ & its significance?

Why do you assert that "the throne of the Kingdom of God, and ....the throne of David." are very different thrones? Scripture please, or is that your own private interpretation?


No. It means that the millennium runs from the first century to shortly before the return of Christ.

Do you understanmd that jesus can be both reigning in heaven, and yet not reigning here on earth, as in Having all things done here as it is now in heaven?

 

[Covenanter]

Do you understanmd that jesus can be both reigning in heaven, and yet not reigning here on earth, as in Having all things done here as it is now in heaven?

No.

Mat. 28:16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’​

 

[Yeshua1]

No.

Mat. 28:16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’​

He is in charge, but he is allowing sin and evil to now still be done, that ceaaes when he sets up His Kingdom here!