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To: steve86; metmom; CynicalBear; presently no screen name
You truly do believe your Church is Spiritual Israel, don't you? And that you will be hiding in catacombs with your Crucifixes and Rosaries, trying to endure to the end..If you are alive at this moment, you are in the age of grace. You have been promised BY GOD to be kept from the wrath to come. (Rom. 5:9-11). Moreover, "God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Thess. 5:9-11).

This age of grace is about forming the Church the Body of Christ, whose promises and assurances are heavenly, not on this earth.

Our mission during this age of the Grace of God is found in 2 Cor. 5:14-21. We are to preach the gospel of reconciliation between God and man (the gospel of the grace of God). And we are to beseach others in Christ's stead, to be reconciled to God by the finished work of Christ. "Behold NOW is the accepted time: behold, NOW is the day of salvation." 2 Cor. 6:2.

But this age of grace will not last forever. It will end when the last person who is to make up the Body of Christ is saved. At that point, Christ will return to the AIR and we, the living, and those believers who have died will meet Him and thus shall we ever be with the Lord. Then God will turn His eyes toward Israel and the tribulation will begin. Do you have any idea what the tribulation is about? It is NOT about Catholics hiding in the catacombs praying their rosaries and having mass.

Your chance of salvation and avoiding the wrath of God being poured out on you is NOW. What do you think will happen to those people, during this age of Grace, who heard about the free gift of salvation through the finished work of Christ, and rejected it for their own works of righteousness?

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thess. 2:11,12. They did not receive the love of the truth while they had the chance. They rejected it for the love of their Church's doctrines, traditions, and false belief that salvation was to be found in a church, not the finished work of Christ.

So the problem is, you are not Israel. Israel is Israel. Your chance to escape God's wrath is now. To reject it is to go into God's wrath with your eyes wide open. Until God sends a strong delusion that those unbelievers should believe a lie. There will be no endure to the end to endure. That is for Israel. Not an institution that claims she is spiritual Israel during this time when God is dealing with man in grace through faith.

53 posted on 01/08/2012 5:17:36 PM PST by smvoice (Better Buck up, Buttercup. The wailing and gnashing is for an eternity..)
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To: smvoice

We have room in our catacomb for you, too!


55 posted on 01/08/2012 5:22:50 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: smvoice; steve86; metmom; presently no screen name

The life of those “left behind” will not be a pleasant one. Those who will be shocked to realize that the disappearance of millions and finally understand that Christ indeed was the only way and turn to Him will need to understand that death will be their only way. Attempting to “go with the flow” and survive will result in damnation. The call is to turn to Jesus now. Not Jesus and something else but Jesus alone.


56 posted on 01/08/2012 5:32:54 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: smvoice
Good post...I agree. The mission was given to us by Christ and what we are to be doing...as many who will come. Then the curtain will come down and the next act will begin...thank God we will not be here to live it!

All these worldwide crisis’s are being pushed and manipulated to bring about the destruction of the nations and more importantly leaderships who stand in the way of this One World Order....and the consolidation of monies worldwide with it....which cannot be fully realized without bringing with it the religions of the world into some sort of Unity. That Unity will come as truth is suppressed more and more.

The stage being set where all nations will be ultimately crying out for someone to stop the destruction they themselves cannot......and then the man of the hour will step up. We already see these leaders saying they don't have the answers.....and we'll see more and more of them stating so..or being eliminated.

The so called Arab Spring has nothing to do with the populace revolting against their leadership....but everything to do with them being manipulated to do so. They have to have the Muslim nations included for the oil wealth and the dependency the world has to it. That's why Obama will never ever let our nation develop it....and why the EPA is so powerful to stop it here.

What a web is spun when man thinks he can build another tower of Babel or a world of Utopea....But we know the ending...we win!

103 posted on 01/10/2012 10:43:49 PM PST by caww
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