NOT.

Well God absolutely commanded in his word that sodomites should be executed for thier crime.

If it is in FACT wrong to execute sodomites, then God is wrong, and his word proves to be unreliable and untrue.

If Jesus said in essence "only non-sinners can throw stones"...then why did God command sinners to throw stones in his law!

It would be impossible (and would always have been) to execute any criminal if sinners cannot "throw stones"

If we cannot (by God's command) throw stones...then Moses could not command the guilty to be stoned.

The Law and word of God requires the civil magistrte/authorities to punish criminals for thier crime. If they don't there would be anarchy.

Murderes should be punished, if found guilty the law/word of God requires execution.
Sodomite should be punished, if found guilty the law/word of God requires execution.

Both you and I can preach the gospel to murderers and sodomites all day. That would be a good thing.

Scripture speaks of sanctification as a process....in this context the answer is no.

Scripture speaks of a already "sanctififed" people of God (the covenant community)...in this context the answer is yes.

In one context we are already completely sanctified.

In another context, we are being sanctified, which will only be complete in the next world.

The vision of Daniel 7 is of Christ sitting at the right hand of God, in his Kingdom...Which he did at his asscension in the first century.

SO YES...you are right..Daniel 7 is a close parallel to Matt 24 and Rev 19...I just think your timing is off by about 19 centuries.

Matt 24:30 is the "sign of the son of man in heaven"...That is that Christ is on his throne, at the right hand of God, sitting as Judge, (judgement-clouds)...Which he showed to all the tribes of the land by judging Jerusalem just as he said he would...which he also spoke to the high priest, saying "you will see the son of man at the right hand of God coming on clouds"

The correlation is between Christ sitting at the right hand of God as judge and coming on clouds, judgement...This is Christ's role as king and judge over the earth.

Not his role as a physical cloud surfer at the end of the world.

I am currently writing an exegetical commentary on all of Matthew ch. 24...And I am more then aware that modern day doomsdayers have done nothing but twist and skew this wonderful passage of scripture to fit thier fantastical holywood ideas.

Get rid of the stuff you have heard from these people...and tell me what matt 24:30 means...hint the interpretation is not found on the bookshelves of the "end times" books...It's found in the Old Testament, and it has nothing to do with Jesus coming back to earth while surfing on a cloud 1000 years from now.

Some of these things have been discussed here:
www.reformed.org/forums

kevin wrote:
I see you are fast to comment, but do you bring anything to the table? NO!
What is your thought on Rev. 1:10?

Being you asked I will comment.

John is writing another epistle..this time to the seven Churches.

Who is writing the letter?
"I John, your brother...a partaker in Christ...From the Island of Patmos, on the Lord's Day"

It is a simple epistlic inroduction...carrying the same similarities as the rest of the NT Epistles.

Anyone who wants to use this intro. to form a doctrine in either support of what the Lord's day is, or what it isn't..HAVE MISSED THE POINT.

Paul's greetings are similar to John's here...What type of deep mysteries should we look for in Paul's greetings, and statements about where he is writing from?

It would be funny, except for the fact that you guys are serious!

Now I know why the RC was afraid of printing the bible in the common language of the people. You guys have made the bible a book of fatastical riddles and prophecies which have no bearing in truth or reallity...and then you call it (fantastical 'hollywood' riddles) the word of God.

Do you all actually have a bible?...I see many attempting to quote from it, but then go on to speak about it as irreverant BABBLE.

2Timothy 2
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 16 But avoid irreverent babble...

Our rights are from our creator. We are endowed with unallianable rights, by the constitution, but the authority of those rights comes from God.

If an athiest has no God, he has no constitutional rights being those rights come from God.

Alan Keyes is a candidate I could vote for with a clear conscience.

The things that you mentioned were all your ideas...You seem to think that such things will happen, therefore you have already fell for it...Not only that, but by your posting such nonsense here makes you a proponent of it.

It is the ministers who disregard politics who are failing to preach the whole counsel of God.