Posted on 06/03/2020 8:56:08 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The Bible reveals that Satan's final game plan is for the entire world to worship him by taking a mark (greek: Charagma = imprinted mark in) on their being. Similar to the Bible’s account of Satan coming to Jesus Christ in Luke 4, Satan offers "the world" to people if they will bow down and worship him. We should not be surprised when we read stories about celebrities, world leaders, and elites being involved in Satanic rituals (e.g. spirit cooking, Epstein's Island, Hillary's seances, etc.) Satan promotes people if his demands for worship are met. In the end, he gets his worship from most of the world. People who desire to "gain the world" in exchange for their soul (Lady Gaga being one of many recent celebrities claiming she bowed to Satan in order to become a star.)
Since Satan is a spirit. He must use physical men to accomplish his specific physical goals. Judas Iscariot being an example of Satan actually entering into someone to do his bidding. In the last days Satan will find a man wholly devoted and capable of fulfilling his plan on earth. A man we will soon know as Antichrist. Note that the Greek Prefix, "Anti", many times means "against", or "in opposition to", but not always. It can also mean "in place of". With "Christ" meaning "anointed". So while Antichrist will be against Jesus Christ, he most likely will appear to be a savior of mankind "in place of" Jesus Christ and claiming to be anointed...
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“I think our time is about up on this rock anyways. The way this world is ramping up, they are ready for the AC anyways as it stands.”
I must agree. Since Jesus went to Heaven to prepare for us, Christians for centuries have believed that the end was imminent. We’ve always believed that, too, but the events of the last six months have clearly set things in motion to set the stage for a truly imminent end.
I’m so ready. I hope and pray that all of my nieces and nephews are saved — would hate to think they would be in this world when the SHTF.
He could touch Job, and did. He just couldn’t kill him
Agreed!
Sure...I included Abraham with Israel. He is the “father” of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Patriarchs of nation of Israel
I know of no reformed post millennialists although there are probably some out there. That school of eschatology really faded out in the 60s. There are many of the reformed school who believe in the growth of ungodly government attempting to impose itself globally- both scripture and history support this and Rome is an excellent example presaging this. Yes, if you believe God can see into the future once saved always saved is a logical consequence. If one takes the mark it shows they were never saved which is why you don’t take it whatever your theology.
I have no idea what “scribal change” means unless you are referring to copying errors, which were not uncommon but we have so many manuscripts of NT that they are easy to spot. 95% of all variants among manuscripts are spelling differences and word order difference - which is easy to occur with Greek, the meaning is the same. In Koine Greek there are at least a dozen different ways you could correctly write “ John loves Mary.” Most of the other variants are scribes accidently skipping a line and leaving it out or mistaking someone’s handwritten margin comments as part of the text and including it in the copy as part of the scripture. We can be confident that 99% of what you read today in a good translation is what was written by the author.
incorrect. He afflicted Job greatly with sores and disease. Satan used BOTH people and the physical world to torment Job.//
This was a specific case not a typical case. God had to remove the hedge around Job to allow Satan to do anything directly to him.
I'm not talking about copyist errors. I mean conscious changes made by the scribe where either the text says one thing and is changed to say something else or where the scribe makes up an entirely new piece of content not in the original and tries to pass his change off as part of the original text.
An example of the first type would be changing "Mary" (of Bethany) to "the sisters" with the accompanying verbs scratched out and switched from singular to plural in the Book of John. I wouldn't say that is nefarious, but it is a conscious change and not a dropped letter or some other kind of goof. It's obvious that the scribe thought about it first and then changed the text.
The second type is the wholesale insertion of new content like the second ending of Mark or the Johannine Comma. Both of these are attempts at pious fraud.
what conceivable basis is there for saying this? There is nothing in scripture which suggests Satans power against Job was specific to that situation. Just because God chose to reveal that specific case in his revelation doesn’t mean there couldn’t have been many other similar situations. There are many scholars who contend that Job’s tribulations are symbolic of the battle all Godly men and women face in the battle against Satan.
Actually, you’re not far off from the truth!
Well, the comma Johanneum comes from the Latin Vulgate and was a corruption that entered the Greek manuscripts. There is nothing to suggest it was done intentionally. I am willing to give Jerome the benefit of the doubt on this.
Or it was in the bottom of the trash can, and never got quite emptied all the way.
Tell us what that word ‘count’ means.. 666 is Satan’s number. Who tempted Christ, sure was not some mere Roman. Who shows up on this earth first claiming to be the Messiah? Who is that tree of the knowledge of good and evil.. when was that knowledge gained? and who was it that seduced Eve.. Adam partied willingly.. in a fig grove. Things hidden over a long period of time..’count’!!!
“ This was a specific case not a typical case”
what conceivable basis is there for saying this? There is nothing in scripture which suggests Satans power against Job was specific to that situation. ////
Of course there is read no further than Job 1:10
Job 1.10-11 is just Satan making the false claim to God that Job only loves God because he has been greatly blessed. I don’t see how that supports your claim at all.
Who is the Beast power?
Who is the Antichrist power?
What is the Mark of the Beast?
666?
Why don’t you just ask these people? Of course they are all dead but I would consider them all knowledgeable.
http://www.redeemerfw.org/resources/reformers_antichrist.pdf
Technology alone would say that our window is short for the appointed time.
Israel being a nation for over 72 years is the real big indicator as well.
I pray your family is saved asap (mine also). It really does seem like imminent might be next week or next month.
It's from the practice of gematria in which every letter has a corresponding numeric value. You add up the value of all the letters to get a total. The value for NRON (Nero) is 666.
666 is Satan’s number.
No. It's the number of a beast which is a metaphor for a man (Rev. 13 18). The man is Nero.
Israel was “born” the same year I was.
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