Posted on 05/08/2020 4:37:58 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
When you have true faith you do not worry at all.
Thanks and Amen!
GREAT POST. God has given us very few keys as to timing. We are not appointed to wrath but to salvation. So before wrath is obviously correct.
“[T]hat day shall not com except there come a falling away first, and that may of sin be revealed . . . . “ II Thess 2:3.
God has carefully crafted His description of the timing and the events so that careful readers who get to the end conclude that it is not possible to know even very much about the times and the seasons. An “hour when you think not”.
Ah yes,
The rapture.
One of those American born (dispensationalisms - thank you John Darby) ideas in that sea of 10,000 Christian flavors today where without any true traditions or apostolic succession we just reinvent Christianity.
If Luther would have known the unforeseen consequences...
The longer the practice of abortion continues, the shorter the time before this tribulation thing - of that I’m certain. I had hoped it could have been stopped in the first term of Trump’s reign. Now I’m not so sure he will even have a second chance to stop the slaughter of the innocent. Concerning the question you raise, we may not have long to wait to learn the answer.
The Rapture will not happen until the Church the Body of Christ is COMPLETE. When the Holy Spirit baptizes the LAST person, who believes and accepts the Gospel of the GRACE of God for his/her salvation, into the Body of Christ,then and only then will Christ come for the Church the Body of Christ. There is no reason for us to remain after the Body is complete. And BTW that is a SPIRITUAL BAPTISM that the Holy Spirit performs to place us into the Body. Not physical. It has NOTHING to do with water. It is spiritual.
You seem so sure of your smugness. Care to share?
Kinda late in the week for a sermon search...
To die is to have your nature solidified, as in The due is cast.
Please provide chapter and verse for no Christians will endure life on earth when god pours out his wrath, and what/where in the timeline you consider the wrath occurring - during the great tribulation?
Imho the rapture is in the future.
This is a heresy and when the rapture does not happen people will be scandalized out of their faith. This is terrible and I will pray for those who fall for this error
At some point, every believer has wondered if the Rapture is imminent. It’s only natural to ask if Jesus is coming back today, tomorrow, or in fifty years. Now, we know that Jesus told us we can’t know the day or the hour, but we’re pretty sure we are the exception—because we’ve been staring pretty hard at star charts, numbers, newspaper headlines, and yes, even our Bibles, and we’ve cracked the code.
Jesus will return by December 31, 2020. There are millions of pieces of evidence all throughout the Bible, but we’ve narrowed it down to just the top 18. You’ll be convinced—we guarantee it.
1.) He didn’t come back every other time some quack predicted it, so this time it must be true. Every time someone’s come along and claimed that Jesus would come back in 1988, 2000, or 2012, that person’s been wrong. So the law of averages would seem to suggest that we’ve gotta be right at least one time. Maybe this is the one!
2.) The final “TRUMP” has resounded. Donald Trump = fulfillment of biblical prophecy. Make prophecy great again! 3.) We’re not totally sure how Obama ties in, but rest assured it’s all his fault. Thanks, Obama!
4.) 2020 breaks down to the formula 2 x 0 – 1 + 8 = 7, the number of the Lord. Wow! This is powerful evidence that 2020 is the year the great tribulation will kick off.
5.) The sheeple are finally waking up to global conspiracies like chemtrails, the moon landing hoax, and the globe earth myth. The new world order is going to rise up to crush those who have discovered the truth that we’re living on a flat earth and we’re covered in nasty government chem trails. The tribulation will soon follow these upheavals! Stay strong, Christian soldiers!
6.) Something about Israel and a bear and a dragon. Israel is a nation again, and the Bible talks about bears and dragons and harlots and stuff. We’re not sure how that all connects, but you’d better look to the skies. It’s happening!
7.) The 2010 Karate Kid remake. Our top sources in the spiritual realm told us that judgment day was moved up a few centuries once Jaden Smith’s remake of the classic ’80s film hit theatres.
8.) Hal Lindsey got raptured last week, and the Bible says he will be taken roughly one year before everyone else. This fulfillment of biblical prophecy puts the start of the tribulation squarely in 2020. Hal Lindsey’s rapture was just the first fruits of what is coming.
9.) Well, whaddya know. The laptop we’re typing this up on just hit 20% battery life. Coincidence? I think not. Make sure to pay attention to seemingly random numbers throughout your day, and you too can become a biblical numerology expert.
10.) Stranger Things hit in 2016. Stranger Things Season 4 hits in 2020. What does this leave for us in 2018? Nothing but fire and brimstone.
11.) Some guy on the internet told us so in a crazed YouTube video called WEEKLY PROPHECY UPDATE. What’s more reliable than reading prophetic texts with a grounded hermeneutic? Crazed YouTube videos, that’s what! If a guy who calls himself the Third Eagle of the Apocalypse says Jesus is coming back, who are we to question him?
12.) Tim Keller’s church recently pulled off this really weird ballet dance thing that made us kinda uncomfortable. We watched this video earlier this year, and we weren’t sure what we were seeing, but we’re gonna have to err on the side of caution and conclude it’s a pretty clear sign that the coming of the Lord is at hand.
13.) Climate change is making hurricanes and turning the frogs gay. Every time the average global temperature moves up a tick, the Lord is one step closer to whisking us all way to the sky. Not to mention all the hurricanes and gay frogs! Hurry up, Jesus!
14.) The voices in my head told me so. We’ve all been having these crazy dreams where a voice whispers, “Jesus is coming back in 2020” very clearly to us. The voice sounds a little bit like Christopher Walken. Preeeeeeetty sure that’s indisputable proof of a 2020 rapture date.
15.) We bought Chick-fil-A for lunch recently and the total was $20.20. Can you say “sign from God?” Because we sure can!
16.) 2020 backwards is 0202, which probably has something to do with Daniel or Revelation or something. Amazing!
17.) If you stay up for 48 hours straight, drink lots of coffee, and squint really hard at “2020” it kinda looks like Jesus. Try it. It really works! This is just more confirmation that our prophecy is going to come true!
18.) Because nobody will buy a prophecy book that says we simply can’t know when the End Times will kick off. We’re gonna level with you here: we simply can’t sell you a boring line like “Jesus is coming soon, but we’re not sure exactly when, so trust in Him for salvation and pursue holiness.” How many copies would that book sell? 3 or 4? But if we set a date, we’re sure to rake in the big book royalty dollars. There you have it, crystal clear! Now get your affairs in order!
Note: Due to the volatile nature of biblical prophecy, The Babylon Bee reserves the right to retract our prediction after 12:00 a.m. on January 1, 2021, postpone the date by a couple years, and retain all credibility as a source of prophetic predictions. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
Die is cast.
I am thankful for John Darby. The Brethren Movement, Assemblies, Gospel Hall’s, have produced most of the best commentaries on the Bible I have ever read.
Obviously making it up after the time ran out.
Whenever someone doubts the rapture I have two thoughts. One, why the snarky sneer? Two, what do you do with 1 Thess. 4?
Of course it is. Everyday believers wake up on this Earth is another day we can rest assured that the Body is not yet complete. That we should preach the reconciliation of 2 Corinthians for this day. We don’t know who the last member will be. But He does. That’s why it’s so incumbent on us to be ready to preach the Gospel of the GRACE of GOD.
he still would have left the corrupt church that wouldn’t reform itself.
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