Posted on 10/09/2001 9:19:31 AM PDT by FresnoDA
All of the Old Testament points to one person - The Lord Jesus Christ. Most of New Testament prophecy deals with the destruction and doing away with the Old Convenant and Jerusalem. The Church - the chosen people of God; the Royal Preisthood; the Holy Nation - is now waiting for one thing to be fulfilled - the blessed hope, the appearing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Take Psalm 91 which you say relates to the Gulf War. Well it talks about thousands falling at his right side and ten thousands on the other, or whatever. God didnt write Psalms to the Iragi people. they were the only ones that suffered those kinds of casulties. The US had a little over a hundred casualties. You are treating Psalms as an open Rosharch test.
Its easy to find prophecy in anything if the original writing is vague and you are looking to fill in the blanks. If someone said that each of the Psalms discussed the anti-christ you could probably find something in each if you were willing to stretch it far enough.
I don't expect you to like me, or any other follower of Jesus, in fact I don't really mind if you go as far as beating or killing followers by the hundreds as others like yourself do .
You see, we (I and other believers in the Truth) know what's expected . We're the most mocked and spit on group out there, and we know our place . You can easily say a prayer and invite Jesus into your life . If you did this seriously and became Christian you'd try to share Jesus with others and those who didn't realise how great He is to have would soon not be your friend . However, I bet you're one of the millions that would love to silence all Christians and have them believe as you do . That's ok .
Bleat like a goat .
Cheese .
There shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things wi-with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friends hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight O'clock.
I assume you meant to say "THAN" instead of "THEN". Either way, your statement is either the most sadly misinformed statement I've seen today or simply the loud obnoxious braying of someone who likes to mock others without having anything of substance to offer.
The original post is a stretch and should probably be ignored, but your silly mockery really makes you look like a fool.
At some point these "7 year" planners are going to figure out that they did the math wrong.
I am a Christian (devout Roman Catholic w/ a Phd., whooopedoo) and I don't think your comments are in any unreasonable or obnoxioius. Real Christianity does not revile people or groups and claim they are going anywhere at at, hell or otherwise. For the simple reason that we don't know where they're going. No knowledge of it. Nothing. Nada. Just as no one has ever seen God, except one.
I agree w/ you about the braying jackasses in fundamentalist relions, whether they be Christian, Muslim, or the Latter Day Right Handed Red-Headed Footwashing Holy Rolling Ass-Kickers of Upper Iowa.
As CS Lewis said (arguably the most educated man of the 20th century), "we don't know about other faiths, because we were quite simply given no instructions either way concerning them. Maybe they don't need it." he said.
And of course St Augustine said in reference to the same topic, there are many in the City of Man that are not in the City of God, and many in the City of God that are not in the City of Man. In other words we emphatically do not know what is in other people's heart, and the Catholic prayers for the dead are ultimately directed on behalf of "those whose faith is known to You alone."
End of argument. More decent people have been driven away from the Faith by these simperingly or bombastically condescending quarter-educated self described Christians than are brought into the Faith by the non-agressive efforts of us who don't tell it to people who are not interested. It's THE most obnoxious kind of person on earth, IMHO.
On a bus or a plane or anywhere comes the question:
Excuse me sir, but is this seat saved?"
"Well no I don't think it--"
"And by the way, are YOU???"
This is probably one of the reason you find barf bags on all of these conveyances.
All the best,
Maturing
God isn't.
You are.
But like others you're apparently too big of God . Or so you think . You've heard my end, probably a million times, you don't care . That's cool .
2nd Tim 3
Cheese .
Is there a prophecy in Psalm 101 that will be fulfilled in 2001? Just how significant is this psalm in God's plan for the return of Christ and the establishment of His kingdom? For the past several years we have followed the progressive prophetic unfolding of the Psalms. Each psalm appears to be related to a corresponding year in the twentieth century - that is, Psalm 1 corresponds to 1901; Psalm 17 alludes to 1917; Psalm 48 matches 1948; etc. This 19th book of the Old Testament appears to be an unmistakable overview of the 1900s. We have observed with astonishment how the Psalms speak about the conclusion of Israel's long exile and their return to the Promised Land.
That's interesting. I've seen it mentioned elsewhere, before, and I really don't know what to think about it. It's something that's been around in various Christians' thinking for a number of years. I don't know where it originated.
Just keep in mind -- that it's highly speculative. It's not something that forms part of the foundational thinking for the Rapture, the Tribulation, the return of Christ and so on. But, there may be something to it. It's just that it's not very well developed -- if there is anything to it.
No matter whether there is or not, one has to take this with a "grain of salt" -- even being a Christian. There are other things like that, too -- that people bring up that have to be just taken very carefully. They cannot form any part of the foundational teachings of Christianity and they certainly have nothing to do with salvation. And Salvation in Jesus Christ is the main message for each individual. But, with that kind of caution having been said, I might mention something more about it.
If you look at Psalms 117 to 119, I think those are significant Psalms in light of this type of speculative thinking. So, if someone were to transpose the year/Psalm type of thinking on this -- one might actually conclude that this had something to do with the setting up of the Kingdom on this earth (somewhere in the range of 2017 to 2019, depending on what each of those Psalms meant).
If one were to speculate backward, then one could say that 7 years prior would be the rough and approximate time for the Rapture (or around 2010-2012). But, once again -- this is simply speculation on the basis of a questionable theory.
But, a glance at Psalm 109 (perhaps 2009?) seems to have something to do with the Antichrist. Psalm 110 may have something to do with the beginning of the Tribluation and with the Rapture having happened.
It's all too vague and "rough" of an idea to be sure. But, it's interesting speculation, anyway.
ASIDE FROM THAT, the idea of the Rapture, the Tribulation and the coming of the Lord to set up the Kingdom on this earth and rule all the nations from Jerusalem -- doesn't reside in these kinds of speculations, but from other more substantial teachings of the Bible (albeit, not without dispute among Christians, themselves as to the exact details).
ANOTHER SUCH MORE INTERESTING IDEA is something I've posted on Free Republic (a while back about the 7 Festivals of the Lord.
The Seven Festivals Of The Messiah at http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a39e032ca390d.htm
I said in that posting --
What is shown here is how the seven Feasts of the Lord, are fulfilled in the ministry of Jesus Christ, throughout the course of the history of the world. The first four Feasts have been fulfilled, up through the Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost. The next one to be fufilled is the Feast of Trumpets, related to the Rapture. And then in quick succession comes the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) and the Feast of Tabernacles (the Millennial Reign of Christ).
You might examine that -- in light of this more speculative idea about the Psalms.
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