@Aaron Abke - Saul/Sheol is fulfilling the role as the devil in the Bible, where he is accurate on prophecy, eschatology, theology, and the point we should recognize is he is prophesied to be creating a 'Covenant of Death' about the 'Chief Cornerstone', in the 'Middle' of the 'Bed' of 'Adultery' (Isaiah 28:15+18).
What Shaul is quoting about the return of the Lord on the sky comes from these verses: Zechariah 9:14 (Isaiah 29:6-7, Jeremiah 23:19), Zephaniah 1:16-18, Joel 2:1, Isaiah 18:3, Jeremiah 4:21, Hosea 8:1, Jeremiah 6:17.
I decided to quickly Google AI Paul's statements to see if you're accurate at accusing him on stating the 'Time is at Hand' (Eggizo - G1448), yet if we Bible word search this, we can see Saul isn't using it contextually at that time period - which you're implying he meant.
The next step to be logical with our workings, was to test if Paul gave additional prophecies that still have to come to pass before Judgement Day & the Resurrection of the Dead comes, and he clearly does in 2 Thessalonians 2:-12, 1 Timothy 4:-13, etc.
These verses speak of the End Times, where some will challenge the drinking of alcohol, the eating of meat, and marrying (Babylonian Jews Vs Essenes); plus Saul thought a Lawless one would come, where they'd claim to 'be God in the Temple of God'...
The problem they're not realizing within all of their conflicting Pharisaic tampering, is that they've made the Messiah into that prophesied idol (John, Paul & Simon petros).
I admit I was the same as you to begin 24 years ago, I thought it was all a Paul Conspiracy..
Then when I was challenging Christians online, where there was this forum called ChristianLinks . com - they'd spend ages arguing that both the Gospel of John & Paul, showed that Christ was wrong in the Synoptic Gospels.. ????
I then had to re-read the Gospels more closely, and realized that the fraudulent Gospel of John was made up by the Pharisees/Sanhedrin (based on the witness statements within it), and then I had to repent to God, at having ever accepted some of its precepts - as it is accusing God of first degree murder (Balaam Teachings).
Within all the study, I've then had to realize that Yehoshua/Yeshua called Simon 'petros' one time in Matthew 16:18 to fulfil prophecy in Zechariah 3:9, and Isaiah 8:14.
Over the last 22 years of debating online, I've then slowly realized, that God ordained all of these contradictions, and it is all prophesied, as thus to not call it a Conspiracy (Isaiah 8:12) - when it was foreknown how Immanuel's testimony would become a corrupt 'Covenant of Death' to the nations.
I really like your valour Aaron at trying to address what you see as morally wrong.
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