It Couldn't Be Happening Now - Right?

alleyesonCHRIST ^ | 5/11/2010 | Charles C. Matthews

[Constitutions Grandchild]

“The generation which is alive” is how the text reads (I’m doing this from memory), I believe. Biblical scholars have always taken that to mean the generation born to the event — which in this instant case would be the “Baby Boom” generation. I’ve forgotten just how long a biblical generation is (I don’t teach anymore, so some of this stuff fades, but I think I remember it is 20 years). It’s funny how the “technicalities” fade, but the gist remains. The key to the entire prophesy hinges on “the fig tree”. All other archetypes of Antichrist caused horrible persecutions and committed horrendous sins, but the one to come will have his poop together in one bag and be able to put it all together. Every one before was a wannabe. I think that’s why it is so vague in some respects. All things had to come together (the perfect storm, so to speak). The Age of Grace (i.e. the restraint of the Church) has to be removed. All other factors must align and when chaos is complete - BAM! We get soup. If you stand back and look at the whole line of things that had to occur: 1) Israel reborn; 2) the world brought together by instant news, the Internet which makes us smaller; 3) total economic chaos; 4) the rule of law going out the window; 5) the church leaving; 6) a form of punishment no longer practiced or unheard of comes back in vogue (beheading infidels); 7) un-churched blaming God and religion for the chaos and war; 8) drug use 9) black arts/secular humanism being touted as ways to find god; 9) the world aligning itself against Jerusalem; 10) total break down of morals and sexual promiscuity — I think you can pretty much assume (only because Israel did not exist until 1948 and was thought to have been replaced by Christians as the favored branch grafted into the original olive tree [replacement theology]) that we are it. Doesn’t mean we will ALL be alive at the moment, but remnants of the generation will be. It will happen when things finally reach the tipping point. That’s why, I believe, Jesus said even HE didn’t know the day or the hour.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

One last thought. Because of the influence of replacement theology, Christians put themselves in the story wherever the faithful Jew is blessed, cursed, whatever. We are “grafted” into the olive tree which is “refreshed” and strengthened by the new sap. It may not be Christians, but the Jew who was born into Israel after 1948. Remember, 144,000 “faithful Jews” will be the last ones out — the ones who come to believe and preach in the absence of the Church. When the Jew finally accepts and believes (during the Tribulation), those who were caught up with the Lord will return and turn off the bubble machine. Fun and games with old Ned are over.

That’s when those who have died not in the faith are also resurrected and will get personal face time with God. I’m not going to enjoy it, but I’m really curious to hear how they’re going to try to justify their behavior.