Posted on 03/29/2010 4:05:06 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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1 Thessalonians 4: 13 - 18:
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Yup. We’ve been hearing that for the last 2000 years.
OH my!
I just learned recently that Jesus spoke about Hell more than anyone else in the New Testament!!!
I do believe He knows the Truth about it, don’t you?
If it was something Jesus warned about, I believe it is something we can also use to warn others about.
I know this. Jesus came and lived and died and rose again so that whosoever will turn to Him will be SAVED FROM ETERNAL HELL!
Their names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Jesus told his disciples when, after they came back from going two by two into the towns there, casting out demons and healing diseases in all those towns - that while it is understandable to be happy about all that happening (and all that is happening TODAY as well) - it is much more a cause of Joy to know our names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life!
And NOTHING that happens, nothing we do or say, no devil from hell can erase that name from His Book of Life!
Why did Jesus say this?
Because if our name is not in the Lamb’s book of Life, then we will stand at the Great White Throne Judgement spoken of in Revelation 20. And all who stand there will be given the sentence of eternal death in hell!
whew.
No one wants to be in that situation.
Jesus came to be sure all whosoevers who will shall escape hell.
Are you among them whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of Life? Then REJOICE and spread the warning - and the Joy!
Yes - ok - thanks for the blessing.
Israel is the key to the “time” in which we live.
Just as we can watch the clouds, the events happening all around us, read the Word, we can watch Israel.
Through watching what is happening, has happened, to Israel we can know how soon is His appearing.
The only think worse than going to Hell is going to Hell from a church pew.
Nah; I jjust stepped back and he slowed down.
However, since tornadoes (tornados??) skipped thru Indianapolis about 6 years ago one did lots of damage to southern Indianapolis, and did jump over my daughters house with not much damage while houses two doors away got hit really hard.
(They WERE in the basement praying!)
Come on in boys; the waters fine!
--Delmar
I get it.....
ND i'VE HEARD THAT hARRY tRUMAN WAS THE first WORLD LEADER TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE THAT FACT.
anyone want a CAPSLOCK key? it works RANDOMmlyY!
Yes, we can look at the signs of the times. Even if I knew, however, that the end was tomorrow....I would still plant my garden and apple trees today. I think that's the fundamental message that the Lord gives us concerning the grand scheme of things.
And since we can't know, by Divine Wisdom and decree, that the end "will be tomorrow", I think I'll go out and roto-till my tomato patch.
I will also look forward to our post-Rapture chat. God Bless you!!
Absolutely true. We are told to be ready to give a defense for the hope within us AND we have the model of Paul, Peter and others speaking out about the truth. These two expressions are part and parcel of our life in Christ.
The difference I detect between this and the tone on the initial thread is whether one thinks a frenetic tone about the message (bordering on panic) is needed or whether we are called to a calm, deliberate disclosure of the truth.
People are hungering for intimacy with the Lord in a way that I have not seen before.
All things are going to be shaken from their foundations, and this may start in the house of God first. This is a good thing, and we should not fear. We should not be disstressed at all the upheaval occurring around us. We need to stay in the Word and close to Him to keep our focus sharpened upon Him and not stressed out.
- Luke 21:31
Likewise!
Excellent words - thank you!!!
Yes Jesus is RESTORING everything - His Church, Homes, Marriages, Cities, States, Nations (our Nation), and especially the individual lives and health and circumstances and families in this nation and all over the world!
This truly is a YEAR OF RESTORATION!
And you are so right - we are NOT to be fearful or even anxious about all the events we see taking place every day.
We ARE to just relax and watch Jesus at work, his angels (our angels) at work, and rejoice in it all!
And we are even privileged to have a part it in all through our prayers for all our beloveds, for our businesses, our communities, our states, our nation, for israel, for the world....committing them ALL to the One who is Restoring all things! I pray for all who do not know Him to be saved to the uttermost!!! And He is graciously doing just that!
Along with everything else....
It is just a joy.
Thanks again and Maranatha to you!
Amen. We witness to Jesus Christ before all men because God has determined that the preaching of the Gospel is the way and means of God, the Holy Spirit, reaching His children -- through the teaching of the written word of God.
All in all, a wonderful plan for redemption. His word endures. His word does not fail. His word convicts sinners and sanctifies His flock. His word realigns our minds from self-love to Christ alone.
"... God speaks to us now, in Scripture, not only mediately through his representatives, but directly through the Scriptures themselves as his inspired word. The Scriptures thus become the crystalization of God's authoritative will. We will not say that Christianity might not have been founded and propagated and preserved without inspired writings or even without any written embodiment of the authoritative apostolic teaching. Wherever Christ is known through whatever means, there is Christianity, and men may hear and believe and be saved. But God has caused his grace to abound to us in that he not only published redemption through Christ in the world, but gave this preachment authoritative expression through the apostles, and fixed it with infallible trustworthiness in his inspired word. Thus in every age God speaks directly to every Christian heart, and gives us abounding safety to our feet and divine security to our souls. And thus, instead of a mere record of a revelation given in the past, we have the ever-living word of God; instead of a mere tradition however guarded, we have what we have all learned to call in a unique sense "the Scriptures."
You will not know the day or the time or the hour. Only my Father in heaven knows that..............paraphrasing.
I look forward to meeting you then, too!
Thank you so much for sharing your testimony, dear brother in Christ!
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