(May 23, 2012 at 12:00 pm)Insanity x Wrote: When I see all this loved up bible nonsense it makes me want to go quote some of the more interesting parts of the bible. You know like "I [Jesus] will kill her children with death." 2:23 RevelationsALTER2EGO -to- INSANITY X:
The book of Revelation uses mostly figurative language. If you'd bothered to read Revelation 1:1, you would have realized that.
"A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent forth his angel and PRESENTED IT IN SIGNS through him to his slave John," (Revelation 1:1)
In other words, Revelation 2:23 is not talking about a literal woman named Jezebel or her literal children. Jezebel was an evil queen from the Old Testament who existed many centuries prior to the writing of the book of Revelation. Jezebel married Ahab, the Israelite king of Judah, and turned him onto Baal worship. (You can read this at 1 Kings 16:29-33).
Because of the influence of the literal Jezebel, she caused Baal worship to become rampant among Jehovah's people. So the use of her name at Revelation 2:20 is intended to help people reflect on what she symbolized in real life: an unrepentant and evil woman who represented false religion.
"{20} 'Nevertheless, I do hold this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and misleads my slaves to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols. {21} And I gave her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her fornication.' " (Revelation 2:20-21)
By the time we read Revelation 2:23, which you quoted, we should understand that it's talking about false religious leaders ("Jezebel") and their followers (symbolize as "Jezebel's children"). And since the woman Jezebel and her children are not literal people at Revelation 2:23 but are instead symbolic of false religious leaders and their followers, likewise, the mentioning at verse 23 that "I will kill her children with death" is not with reference to literal children but rather to the destruction of all those who refuse to separate themselves from false religious teachings.
