Posted on 07/05/2010 6:39:06 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
Then would it be eastern standard time or GMT or Israeli time?Instead of 3pm it might be 3:02 pm and 3.1416 seconds if we figure Pi into the time scheme. I’m not trying to scoff, God will come when he figures he is going to!
“I heard that a record number of Jews are accepting Christ as the Messiah”
Perhaps from some of these or their offspring God will draw his 144 thousand special saints”whose song, no man could learn”!
But then don't come on my posts
Label it "Caucus", and keep the overt hostility down ("Caucus threads are closed to any poster who is not a member of the caucus. ... The “caucus” article and posts must not compare beliefs or speak in behalf of a belief outside the caucus."). Otherwise it's fair game.
then I don't want to read any more disparaging remarks about "futurists" or "dispensationalists" or any of the garbage I've been treated to for years.
Maybe I'll just bookmark that post for later use, the next time someone starts ranting about "antisemitic replacement theology".
Don't like "dispensationalist"? "Dispensationalist" is what your school calls themselves. What would you prefer? "Futurist", likewise, is fairly innocuous.
I've had outright denials of prophetic Scripture thrown at me for years.
Whats the matter? The post hit a nerve?
Don't like "replacement theologist"?
Because it's stupid. It's a word you-all use as a pejorative, and we do not use. We keep telling you-all what we actually hold, and you-all Just Don't Get It.
If you consider the factual name of your belief to be a "pejorative", then maybe there's something wrong with what you believe.
At least I can back up my "futurist" and "dispensationalism" with Scripture.
And we do get it. That's your problem.
By the way
It's what your religion teaches you to believe. Live it, love it, own it.
my religion is "Christian". Or do you deny that to people who don't toe the line of your eschatology?
It looks a lot like people who feel threatened. The same people, every thread, same responses that can't be substantiated with the Bible they claim to believe.
my religion is "Christian"
Well as you know from your faithful surfacing on all the Replacement Theology series I've been posting, Adolf Hitler was a "Christian" and a firm believer in replacement theology.
Sure you want to call yourself a Christian?
Not only does He want us to be on watch, He promises us a crown of righteousness for doing so.
"Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." (2 Timothy 4:8).
You are a true friend and I look forward to meeting you in person shortly!
Thank you for the encouragement, presently no screen name.
It is wonderful in the midst of those who would love for us to just shut up!
AMEN, dear friend. We shall meet soon! Maranatha!
Where I think we might be misinterpreting Matt24 is thinking that it is a human generation. In v.33 Jesus says when you see all these things, know that it is near. IOW, the people that are alive at the time of the tribulation, not the first generation in a regathered Israel.
I completely agree that Jesus is addressing this to the Jews of Israel and not the Gentiles that become Christians. I think he is telling us that Christians aren't present during this in v.31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
I went to look that verse up and up came a reference to ‘writings of early church fathers’ that said there weren’t enough numbers of converted Jews for this number to come from them so they referred to Gentile Christians as a ‘Spiritual Israel’. WOW.
I love speaking with Jesus believing Jews because they have such a detailed grasp of the history, a knowledge of the OT that I could never gain by reading, but most times I have a clearer picture of forgiveness of sin and the Hope of Heaven. It seems together we have a complete story.
FWIW, in both passages I don't think the Fig tree represents Israel as it often does in Scripture. I believe in this instance and in Matt 24 that the trees are the signs we should recognize that the end of times is imminent.
Isn't this just disgraceful? Instead of believing God's Word, they just changed the meaning to make it fit. And the beginning of false prophets, false religions, and false doctrines were born. Just because they did not trust what God said.
I agree with you on this.
No, no, no. Lets argue, Scripture always holds up. If I'm wrong show my why in Scripture.
From what I've read Romans 11 makes Covenant Theology impossible. It's plain that God is not done with the Jews.
I get so much out of these threads when we go back and forth on something. Eschatology tends to get a bad rap, but it really opens up Scripture.
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