The problem I see between the letter and the spirit is this... in post #49, you were being quite literal, even to the point of arguing that the word "day" should be capitalized big D.
Yet in post #43, you went beyond Scripture in introducing a red dragon, while Scripture speaks nothing about that.
So either way, one can fall into a trap.
Hebrews 7:25 KJV
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
The verse of Hebrews above quoted refers to JESUS as "he and 'him" again "he". But when I write this verse and countless
other verses I capitalize "He and Him" because refers to my Lord JESUS Christ, not to a common man. And I always capitalize the name of my Lord. And God I capitalize too.
For examples(my post #47): -> John 1:11-13->11 He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.
12 But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of GOD, even to them that believe on His name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of GOD.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world->(satanic world of the red dragon-Revelation12:9), but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
In my posts #43 and 47 I referred to the verse above where our Lord JESUS prays to the Father and makes intercession
for them which GOD the Father has given Him, but He interceds not for the world.
And in parentesys I wrote (satanic world of the red dragon-Revelation12:3 and 9)->9 - And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.->(The great red dragon will be cast out from the midst of GOD's people who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:->Ephesians 1:3-10, and so on. Alleluia!)
But the Saviour JESUS Christ did not interced for the world-> (world of the red dragon)->Revelation 12:9. As is written in John 17:12:->While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name those that Thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost,
but the son of perdition that the Scripture might be fulfilled.->(now, in the time of Apocalypse, he is called red dragon-Revelation 12:3-4 and 9);
By the way, in my study of the Word of GOD(I always capitalize),
2Thessalonians 2:3-4 refer to the son of perdition, who is the MAN of sin
(Genesis 3:1), and he is the dragon as is written in
Revelation 13:11, and so on. In fact, he will manifest himself as a lamb, a false lamb,
a false messiah-> (John 5:43-47, take a look), and False Prophet(REVELATION 16:13).
But in 2Thessalonians 2:3-4, the son of perdition will manifest himself as God->
(here I cannot capitalize, of course), as follow:
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ->(that Day is the current seventh and last Day, or seventh and last millennium. We are living in the turn from the sixthj to the seventh and last millennium. I would say, it is midnight on GOD's watch)
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that
he as God sitteth in the temple of GOD, shewing himself that he is God.(Fake), ->(who will oppose and exalt himself above all as God, and as God will sit in the Great City of Jerusalem, where our Lord JESUS was crucified, spiritually called Sodom and Egypt->
Revelation 11:8.
I hope to be better understood with these explanations of mine.