Posted on 05/21/2011 2:47:16 AM PDT by Making_Sense [Rob W. Case]
Its currently about 8 pm in Sydney, I guess there were no Christians there.
LOL!!!
I think he needed to explain whether or not he would come at 6pm central time, pacific, mountain, or what have you. Or is God supposed to wait until each time zone around the world reaches 6:00? LOL!!!
he forgot to factor in daylight savings time,,wait an hour to be safe.
Great article, Rob....thanks for posting.
Having served God in various ministries for over 45 years, I have at one time held most of the popular views of His 2nd coming.
I now am an agnostic as to “when” He is coming - I don’t know.
But I’ve come to boil down the essentials for every believer to this, and it is extremely simple:
1. He is coming;
2. No one knows when;
3. We are clearly told all will be not expecting Him, many not ready. Indeed, no one knows the time;
4. We all must be ready, live each day as if He is coming in hours, if not minutes;
5. If we love Him, we will “long for His appearing”, “love His appearing”, knowing this world is not our home, and desiring at all times to rather “be with Him.”(many who believe in a soon Rapture live in a manner showing they clearly do not believe this, or that they think their lifestile and walk are irrelevant to His coming - to their peril);
6. If we have the attitude “He is not coming soon..”, we are condemned for this attitude;
Regardless of one’s doctrine, Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib, Post-Trib, partial Rapture, a-Trib, these six essentials are clear. It’s not the doctrine that is essential, but the heart attitude - and life that results.
Oops, forgot to include most important point: tons of scriptures emphasize and warn that we must “be ready” for His coming, and this is the most important element.
Any doctrine or belief that leads us to NOT “be ready” thus cannot be of God.
Whenever He comes I will be ready. If it happens to be 6 pm today. I am ready and unafraid. Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior and being with Him isn’t a bad thing.
LLS
I’m not holding my breath.
Examples -
"That guy was really 'Camping' at the craps table"
"What a Camper!!!!"
Camper is the new Clymer!!! LOL! (for all you FR oldtimers)
Anyone know if Camping considered the ten-day calendar correction in the 18th century that moved Washingtons birthday from 2/12 to 2/22?
Those chosen "in Him" before the foundation of the world have no reason to fear. By God's shear grace they were elected by Him, given a new heart, a regenerated mind, and a measure of faith out of the spiritually dead. Not because of anything they would do, otherwise there would be grounds for boasting.
Thus Salvation is completely of the Lord and the one who believes can have full assurance since they have eternal life "He who believes in the Son has eternal life" - The Lord Jesus Christ (John 3:36).
Good article. Thanks for posting.
THX THX.
In my heart, he never left me.
Nice one Bob!
That is a wonderful checklist. Those general points are compatitble with every generation. because no matter what, every one of those points will always be true regardless. Thank you.
Beware. The attitude of the humble servant is, “I am an unworthy/unprofitable slave/servant...”
Those who really are ready will know their own failings, weaknesses, frailties, and that they “are but dust”, and feel that they are never ready.
Generally, one who believes that he/she is ready knows not their own heart or the immeasurable holiness and righteousness of God. Yes, our only plea is not “I am ready”, but His blood was shed for me....I have no righteousness of my own - He alone IS my righteousness.
I am not judging you. But scripture is clear: “Let he who thinks he stands beware lest he fall....”
I do not feel/believe that I am ready as I should be. Only that by His grace and His finished work am I ready.
I do long for His appearing, to see His face, and my heart cries the last words of the Bible: “Come, Lord Jesus! Come!” If today is that day, wonderful- even though I believe that Camping and his followers are deceived. Still, I’d prefer to see His face - TODAY!
Camping is a victim of replacement theology. IMHO the lie of replacement theology is almost as insidious as idolatry. The key to holistic understanding of Bible prophecy is to understand the role of Israel in it. God keeps his promises to Israel. This is a model to the rest of us that he will keep his promises to us as well.
A majority of the church going world has been victimized. I believed the lie for 35 years. During the past 20 I have been seeking the truth and only recently did I stop saying IMHO replacement theology is a lie and replaced it with: Replacement theology is a lie dropping the IMHO. For those that do not know, Replacement theology is the lie that the Church has replaced Israel in God’s plan.
The church was polluted by Replacement theology early on. Origen and Augustine, early Fathers of the church, were the first to muddy up the scriptures in this way when they arrogantly took on the mantle of Israel for themselves. Martin Luther apparently did not study it and this lead to his anti-Semitism and Hitler. In many ways IMHO it is like a reverse of the circumcision party that led to Acts 15.
This replacement theology lie has lead to the church we have today. Everyone is running around not knowing what is happening in these end times we are in. The truth is The Church, the Bride of Christ, has a role and Israel has a role. Think of men and women, children and parents, husbands and wives, angels and people, dogs and cats, sheep and goats, wheat and tares. All these have roles God invented.
So the solution: Open your Bible, drop your preconceived notions and open your mind, ask God to reveal the truth about all this Israel stuff written in the Bible. The Lord Jesus Christ is central in it all. Gods Grace and Mercy is incredible, He does all the work. Faith and hope and love permeate the entire Bible and the greatest of these is love.
well I woke up a few minutes agi and realized God passed me over for the rapture (big time /S)
This Bozo should have been able to definitevely predict the hour.
Frickin Charlatan...
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