02-27-2008, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by armourbearer  Jer. 25:15, 17, "For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it... "Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me."
Literal? or parable?
Zech. 11:4, 7, "Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter... And I will feed the flock of the slaughter ... and I fed the flock."
Literal? or parable?
Hos. 1:2, 3, "And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for theland hath committed great whoredoms, departing from the Lord. So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son."
Literal? or parable? In all three cases the prophet is told to do something in order to convey the message the Lord had given him, but in none of these cases is there any compelling evidence that the actions were literally done. |
Id rather consider it typological. An actual event I am certainly compelled to believe, that also represents the whoredom of Israel. It is much more than a parable though. Regardles, where Calvin dreamed up this nonsense of "he laid before them masses of figs." is in left field. A field that one could only fiend with a supernatural compass.
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Once in a while you can get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right."
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