Posted on 08/20/2009 12:30:40 PM PDT by IbJensen
Nothing in that doctrine calls for more wheat than tares, and when speaking of the narrow gate, the Lord said Few there be that find it.
I could believe that about the authors.
I don’t believe that about the major high integrity responders hereon.
Troublesome.
So . . . how does such a perspective
detect the difference between
“a dress rehersal for the Tribulation.”
and
THE REAL GREAT TRIBULATION?
And, it seems, to me, that the bulk of the REPLACEMENTARIANS et al
have already decreed by the brilliance of their tidy little boxes, that 95% of the GREAT TRIBULATION PROPHECIES
were already mystifyingly fulfilled in 70A.D.
regardless of the illogic of that; the rubber history of that etc.
I can see what you mean. An interesting idea.
Certainly there seems to be a vast overabundance of reliance on man bringing in the ‘Millenial Kingdom’ all by his own brilliance and sweat.
Thx.
The rest of the world belongs to him, thus he does whatever he wants through them, but even one Christian diminishes his kingdom. Those not written in the Book of Life are his to torment, possess, drive mad, whatever he wants
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!"
-- Luke 2:14And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
-- Romans 8:28
I feel an ice age coming on
The Bible does mention a time when the sun is 7 times hotter.
I don’t recall if that’s during the Great Tribulation or at the end of this present earth & universe’s etc’s life.
The Hopi’s believe the sun is going to be hot enough to destroy all life not hiding for a few weeks sufficiently underground. They are reportedly planning on insuring seeds etc. are with them during that time.
Certainly it has nothing to do with man, pollution etc.
This thread is goint to reach 1000 pretty soon I think
Usually Calvinists are the ones charged with exclusivity. 8~)
In Matthew 7 Christ is cautioning us about the rigors of the Christian life. But there have been billions of Christians who have been given faith in Christ. That's more than a "few," so Christ must not be speaking of quantity as much as quality.
After all, it's a wheat field, not a tare field.
May God abundantly bless you and the new family!
We shall see. The other side tends to lose heart soon after concluding that our side can’t or won’t be cowed into silence.
It’s very sad to me that many aspects of the merits of our side are not being addressed much at all by the other side.
Talking like ships passing in the night is such a waste too much of the time, imho.
Thx.
Perhaps hosepipe has the solution or work-around for you, i.e. the sleep mode setting in CMOS.
The only other thing that comes to mind is a virus (or anti-virus sales gimmick) trying to load up with the operating system, i.e. to stay resident but crashes because it is incompatible.
bump & goodnight.
I might hang around and write me a story though.
I agree Quix. Some people are blinded by the pope’s words.
And inbetween, there's nothing that says things can't look a whole lot like a dress rehearsal for the Tribulation.
My sense was that post-mil looked back into history, and that it saw either Nero or some other Caesar as the Anti-Christ. I saw it easily aligning with the preterist outlook that much of biblical prophecy had already been fulfilled. I also saw it thinking that since this tribulation was past that all that remained was the gradual displacement of the kingdoms of this world with the Kingdom of Christ, at the end point of which He would reign. At one point (that point?) this world would end and a new world would begin.
Am I correct in thinking that post-mil no longer looks for a prophesied, rising anti-christ and an accompanying period of tribulation? Your quote above would seem to indicate that sometimes things might look like such, e.g. perhaps Hitler's Europe, but that that period truly was in the early years of Christianity.
Also, if that was a past period, then what is the threat that many see with the Catholic Church, calling its pope "antichrist." Is that a metaphor for an ac-like interference with Kingdom Christianity?
I think she meant in the wheat field and not in the whole wide world. If there are more weeds in the wheat field than tares, she is correct, it would then be a tare field with scattered bits of wheat. The parable, though, assumes a wheat field.
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Hope you had a good sleep.
That’s troublingly shocking, to me. Almost as shocking, or more so, than the Pope’s words.
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