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To: xzins; P-Marlowe; Lee N. Field
Coming in clouds (rapture) as a prelude to the 2nd coming is scriptural. That’s why dispensationalists believe it.

I have no doubt that in your theological worldview that is a correct statement. Dispensationalists believe many strange and unique ideas, most are based on a bit of the truth.

I'm presently reading a facinating little book called The World's Crisis and the Coming Christ by TJ McCrossan. It was written in 1934 and contains all sorts of interesting dispensational ideas about Christ's return. To the uninformed in 1934 it makes perfect sense. He lays out lots of good stuff for “spirit-filled saints” about our Lord's “soon coming”, stuff like automobiles and Mussolini, earthquakes in China, a road that was being built through Palestine, a railroad from Joppa to Jerusalem. He claims that Luke 21:9-11 predicted the “awful war of 1914-1918”. He explains how the “signs in the sun, moon, etc” is a prediction of the League of Nations. He's a Greek scholar so there lots of Greek phrases to dazzle the uninitiated.

He says, “Several splendid Bible students believe and teach that “this generation” of Matt. 24:34, etc, as spoken by the Lord Jesus, began on Dec. 9, 1917, when General Allenby took Jerusalem.” According to this fine dispensational scholar this fact means “we may expect Him to come now at any moment.” (p. 247)

Shades of Chuck Smith. I see where he gets it from.

86 posted on 12/01/2008 9:32:59 PM PST by topcat54 ("Friends don't let friends become dispensationalists.")
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To: topcat54; xzins; enat
EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM.

Did that happen TC?

88 posted on 12/01/2008 10:43:07 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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