Biblically Optimistic and Gospel-Based
"For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." (Luke 21:22)
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Posted on 07/20/2009 12:16:39 PM PDT by topcat54
"For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." (Luke 21:22)
I agree with this only to a point. While the understanding needs to be applied against the backdrop of what the people then knew, we must be mindful that John, for instance, saw visions of what was to come. Since he didn’t know what he saw, he had to use what he knew. That’s why if he had seen things like helicopters or modern day warfare, it might be hard to describe.
Likewise, when I think of how we are told that all the world will see Christ come, even if God chooses not to do it supernaturally, with CNN and modern satellite feeds, it would be easy to do these days.
It’s certainly a sign that few people have any these days.
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Indeed. We have been for 2000 years.
"Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour." (1 John 2:18)
The Hal Lindsey scam of all times.
OVERT OBVIOUS
LONG LIST
OF EVIDENCES
THAT THESE ARE THE END TIMES.
. . . .
EVIDENTLY STILL DENYING, at some level,
That
1. Israel became a nation again in a day in 1948 just as Scripture predicted—thereby jumpstarting the prophetic clock’s increasing pace forward.
2. For the first time in knowable history, certainly since the prophecy was made—we now have the technology to insure that the TWO WITNESSES of the GREAT TRIBULATION and their bodies lying dead in a Jerusalem street as Scripture predicts can now be seen by the whole world.
3. For the first time in knowable history, the MARK OF THE BEAST CAN be implemented with the computer chip implant world wide making it not possible to buy or sell without it--just as END TIMES prophecies in Scripture predict.
4. Knowledge has expanded geometrically as Scripture predicts for the end times . . . and is spread abroad all over the world in unprecedented fashion by the net as can be obliquely inferred from the Scripture.
5. Travel also is now as predicted for the END TIMES in Scripture for the first time.
6. ISRAEL IS BESIEGED ON ALL SIDES by the specific countries Scripture predicts for the END TIME just as Biblically predicted.
7. Jerusalem is a terrible burden around the neck of the countries of the world just as Biblically predicted for the END TIMES.
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. . .
. . .
I realize preterists, a-mills, REPLACEMENTARIANS have absolutely no to little interest in Scriptural facts or truth but it is wise to at least post it nevertheless.
LOL. Sigh.
Thanks.
It’s a persistent pleasure to see
UNMITIGATED BRAZEN NONSENSE
posted under the REPLACEMENTARIAN perspective.
I can say that when I find myself to be cashless, I start praying for the end (of the pay period).
I will be sending the IRS my IOU with a promise to pay within the next century!
There's a line of thought which says this passage has nothing to do with cash, one-world government nor a physical mark, be it a microchip or some other means of identification.
Rather, the hand is a symbol of physical labor and the forehead is a symbol of intellectual thought. All work can be encompassed by these two symbols. Thus, wickedness will reach such a level that only those whose activity, be it physical or intellectual, is inspired by Satan (i.e. who carry the mark of the Beast) will be able to prosper amidst such evil.
Those who follow Jesus will "not be able to buy or sell"; meaning that they will be ostracized and marginalized.
Just sayin'.
Not as sensational as the "one world" theory, but "the end is nigh" gang could give it a passing thought.
Most of us sorts
prefer to give our
time, energy and thoughts
to . . .
reasonable facts and conjectures.
That noise doesn’t qualify.
A day with the Lord is as a 1000 years.
Einstein said that the only reason for time was so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Another scam. Tim LaHaye found out there was more money to be made in writing fiction. Plus you have a built in excuse -- "it's only fiction" means it doesn't need to be true to reality (i,e,. the Bible).
The "Christian" buying public has never proved itself to be very discerning in these matters. They like to have their ears tickled.
I’m beginning to see that prophetic speculation is taking place on the fringes of the Christian publishing industry.
"Captain Obvious, please pick up a courtesy phone."
We are in the endtimes.
Statement of faith for these people?
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