Posted on 01/03/2011 12:53:13 PM PST by TaraP
'A lot of people might think, 'The end's coming, let's go party.' But we're commanded by God to warn people'
RALEIGH, N.C. If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she'll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here.
Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011.
To get the word out, they're using billboards and bus stop benches, traveling caravans of RVs and volunteers passing out pamphlets on street corners. Cities from Bridgeport, Conn., to Little Rock, Ark., now have billboards with the ominous message, and mission groups are traveling in countries from Latin America to Africa to spread the news outside the U.S.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
“God doesnt care who wins a Football game, how you or I die, how long we live, or under what conditions.”
So, then, do you believe that the following scriptures apply to spiritual gifts only and never material?
Matthew 7:7. Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.
7:8. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
7:9. Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone?
7:10. Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent?
7:11. If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?
Oh gosh, I guess I should read a little closer! You got me! :)
Yup, those apply to spiritual ONLY.
Do you think a crew drowning in the ocean are seeking safety? Are they asking for their lives? How about the staving in India and other countries ... those that don't survive ... suppose maybe they sought food? Perhaps they asked for bread? Life is chuck-full of examples - our lives are our personal spiritual test of worthiness. How we live, the choices we make (given the option of performing good or evil) are the tests that will ultimately determine our worthiness to progress. Those who prey upon the weak, who rejoice in evil - that is their 'true' spiritual form, and that is their final spiritual reward. When we die, how we die - is meaningless in the eternal perspective - what matters is what we did with the time we were allotted, were we 'Good'?
Are you serious? That shows absolutely NO knowledge of God’s Word and the accuracy of the prophecy in It. I’m thankful I set my priorities straight and know His Word.
I’m confused. Are you saying that the Rapture and/or Apocalypse has happened? Recently?
No, I suppose you’re saying that we’ve seen much bible prophecy fulfilled, perhaps some of it portending the end times. Of course, I’m still waiting for someone to tell me a prophecy BEFORE it happens rather than afterwards which is the definition of prophecy after all.
I prophesize that’ll never happen though. (Because when people DO, like the article we’re commenting on, they always end up looking like the loonie toons they are.)
You’ve written nothing that hasn’t been written a million times before for 2000 years.
You did not cite a single FUTURE prophecy. Only alluded to some that happened in the past, which of course, one can do with anything from Nostradummy to a magic 8 Ball.
I’m not mocking anything. I’m just trying to understand how something can be called prophecy but only look to fit things into the past. I was a big Jack van Impe (and his lovely wife Rexella) for years. Loved that stuff. (I did mock him, I must admit.) Guy is tenacious, I’ll give him that. He’s batting 0% lifetime, but he keeps plugging along.
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