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1 posted on 04/16/2019 4:47:05 PM PDT by lightman
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THank you for posting the admirable Mark Tooley. He is of course a United Methodist, and one of the best I know of.

He'd make a good Catholic. Already is, in a sense, God bless him.

2 posted on 04/16/2019 5:07:37 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Let us commend ourselves, and one another, and our whole life, unto Christ Our God.")
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Christendom got itself into trouble when it mixed itself up with secular government prior (WELL prior) to the return of Christ.

The Constantinian deal worked, or seemed to work, as long as it lasted with Constantine. People were willing to give lip service to Christ, if not more, and there was peace and halcyon times for Christians. Constantine delivered a quid pro quo for the blessing, if he wasn’t a believer outright. The problem here was that as much of a breather as it was, it shouldn’t have been a permanent dwelling place for Christendom. Corruption DID enter the church this way, and that American Indian would be right if that’s his angle on things. And yet on account of His promise, Jesus kept this badly afflicted church alive.

Anyhow, God does say that fields bearing thorns and thistles will end up being burned — that doesn’t mean condemned to hell, it means in the fashion that agriculture would clear land.


3 posted on 04/16/2019 5:08:12 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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Fire is used to cleanse and is used to describe both the nature of judgement to come and the place of judgment for the damned.

For such a redeemed structure to be burning from within, the part that reaches to God collapsed, and this in a part of the world where He is ever less welcome?

This seems like prophetic statement, both about the judgment to come “soon” for the evil now within His Church, per modern prophecies, and about His Judgment to come later for heaven and earth per Scripture.

5 posted on 04/16/2019 5:14:58 PM PDT by GBA (Beliefs => Reality. Change your mind > Change your world.)
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For all the evil that the Nazis did they actually respected most of the old churches.

Even though publicly the government will say it was an accident, we all know that there has been ongoing harassment and vandalism of the churches in France. I wonder who could be doing all this damage. The fact that nobody will come out and say it is disgusting.


9 posted on 04/16/2019 6:12:36 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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