Posted on 09/05/2014 11:04:14 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Oh, I have to look up your citation, when you so confidently portend to preach form scripture?
No thanks.
A quick search of the catechism gives me three different citations from the New Testament, including Gospel.
I trust the theologians to this matter. If I care to differ with them, I’ll go to seminary.
excerpt from my blog that I got from someone else:
There is no known writing existing, or referred to by other writers, of the pre-trib rapture teaching prior to 1830. None of the early Church fathers or anyone else throughout Church history wrote about the saints being raptured before the end-time Great Tribulation. This does not conclusively mean that the theory is false, only that it is a historical fact that this teaching did not exist among the early Christians or the Church fathers or any Christians throughout history until 1830.
Reportedly the origin of the pre-trib rapture teaching was with a fifteen-year-old girl named Margaret MacDonald in the town of Port Glasgow, Scotland. Supposedly in 1830 she had a dream or vision that Christians were raptured just prior to the Great Tribulation. In 1831 or 1832 a Presbyterian pastor in London, England named Edward Irving heard about this dream or vision that Miss MacDonald had and started teaching it to his congregation. These are well-known reports among scholars of eschatology.
These reports concerning the origin of the pre-trib rapture theory may or may not be true. What is well-documented is the fact that John Nelson Darby, the founder of a group known as the Plymouth Brethren, after visiting Miss MacDonald began teaching this new theory. http://lastdaysministry.com/pretrib.htm
There are prepper threads here and there are prepper sites if you weren’t being sarcastic (I love sarcasm). I, too, am older and single but I will be in church with my brothers and sisters.
(2 Timothy 1:7,8) "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord..."..."for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." (Rev 19:10)
I believe the Grahams are post-trib or at least honest enough to not commit to any theology. Could have been why they are such simple-theological evangelicals. Salvation and care.
There’s the Shepherd’s Prophecy found in the book of Micah which Israel gets more of the Golan heights and beyond.
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