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Present Tribulation vs. Future Tribulation
bibleprophecyblog.com ^ | July 6, 2011 | Dr. Thomas Ice

Posted on 10/04/2013 2:11:50 PM PDT by jodyel

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To: editor-surveyor
>>It is impossible to converse on Biblical issues if one is Biblically illiterate.<<

No that I agree with you on. You have exhibited very little knowledge of scripture and have posted very little scripture to back up what you say. I specifically asked for scripture reference and what do I get. A snide remark about “impossible to converse”. No scripture reference as I asked mind you only the snide remark. Scripture reference for what you said? NONE.

>>Understanding of the Revelation is dependent on understanding Yehova’s calendar, and his feasts. those are the foundation of understanding.<<

No, the rest of prophesy recorded in scripture is needed to understand Revelation. THOSE are the foundation of understanding along with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Your date setting is totally against scripture.

>>The days between are when Satan’s armies are vanquished.<<

You think it takes “days” for Christ to defeat those armies? Guess again.

Now, how about the scripture that shows the "two sabbaths apart"?

241 posted on 10/07/2013 1:21:50 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: smvoice

Our position will be in the New Heaven/New Earth when the old Earth and heavens are burned up.

We do have a purpose in the interim, and that purpose is back on Earth.


242 posted on 10/07/2013 1:22:08 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor; CynicalBear

Cynical Bear is not making fruit salad. Cynical Bear understands clearly God’s word. Don’t start with the precious snide remarks. It doesn’t befit you. Scriptural debate can be hardcore sometimes. But wrestling in the mud just makes us pigs. :)


243 posted on 10/07/2013 1:24:28 PM PDT by smvoice (HELP! I'm trapped inside this body and I can't get out!)
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To: editor-surveyor; CynicalBear; jodyel

WRONG. And I could show you that. But it entails RIGHTLY DIVIDING God’s word of truth. And I KNOW you’re not interested.


244 posted on 10/07/2013 1:26:07 PM PDT by smvoice (HELP! I'm trapped inside this body and I can't get out!)
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To: CynicalBear

It is yourself that has zero understanding of the scriptures.

You have no understanding of the feasts, or the calendar, judging by your posts here, and you reject the plain scriptures WRT the resurrection, and replace them with vapor.

You want to be let out of all that Yehova has declared, and yet enjoy the pleasantries of the heaven that you have created, not the one that Yehova has.


245 posted on 10/07/2013 1:26:35 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
>> Please give you scriptural source for the plan you have to repopulate the Earth.<<

That’s rather audacious. You don’t supply scripture that I ask for but then ask me to support with scripture? It’s the Jews who repopulate the earth. Current believers were raptured prior to the seven year tribulation, believers who didn’t take the mark of the beast during the tribulation were killed, and those who did take the mark of the beast were killed by Christ at Armageddon as I showed from scripture in my last post.

>> How have you determined who is evil, and how does that relate to your plan?<<

From scripture. Those who took the mark of the beast are evil and killed by Christ, those who did not take the mark were killed by the anti Christ.

Oh, and if you’re going to continue with the “fruit salad” type snide this conversation will cease.

246 posted on 10/07/2013 1:32:47 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: smvoice
>>AMEN, CB. We, the Body of Christ, were NEVER promised to live as mortals during the millennium.<<

After beating the swords into plow shares we would get those white robes dirty! :-(

247 posted on 10/07/2013 1:34:31 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: editor-surveyor; CynicalBear; jodyel
Let me ask you something, editor. IF we, the Body of Christ, are not Israel, why would we have need of "feasts, or calendars? All things meant for Israel. How do I KNOW that we have no need for these things?

"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things TO COME; but the body IS of Christ." (Col. 2:16,17).

Did you get that? Paul wrote it. Through the Holy Spirit. It is part of "But Now" that the Body of Christ is in, right now. Of course, it always helps to rightly divide God's word of truth. Just so you don't get confused with which program you're in right now..

248 posted on 10/07/2013 1:37:21 PM PDT by smvoice (HELP! I'm trapped inside this body and I can't get out!)
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To: editor-surveyor
Still no scriptural support. Doubling down on the date setting?

>> You have no understanding of the feasts, or the calendar<<

I know them and understand them. I know the Jewish at least as it is today. I also understand that past prophesy has been connected to feast days. What you don’t seem to get is that there were many trumpets sounded in Israel that had nothing to do with feast days. And setting dates for what Jesus said “no man knows the day or the hour” is something you need to think about.

249 posted on 10/07/2013 1:42:58 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear

That should read “Jewish calendar”


250 posted on 10/07/2013 1:45:24 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: smvoice

>> “Let me ask you something, editor. IF we, the Body of Christ, are not Israel, why would we have need of “feasts, or calendars? All things meant for Israel. How do I KNOW that we have no need for these things?” <<

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That is a question out of abundant rejection of Yehova’s word. The feasts are commanded for the entire world, not for Israel. They have been celebrated since the days of Adam.

They are primarily for us. The spring feasts heralded the first coming of Yeshua, and the fall feasts herald our Resurrection, at Yom Teruah, Our living with Yeshua on out return to Earth with him in the Millennium, at Sukkot, and our new beginning in the new heaven and new Earth, at “The Last Great Day.”

If you wish to avoid those appointments with Yehova, I know that he will accommodate you, but why would you?

Your quote from Paul shows your lack of comprehension of the scriptures. He wrote that is support of holding fast to the Lord’s feasts and sabbaths, why would you try to turn it against his purpose?


251 posted on 10/07/2013 2:01:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: CynicalBear

You just proved that you have no understanding.

The trumpets declared in prophecy are a well documented pattern, that you do not understand so you dismiss them with ignorant hand waving. There is zero ceremonial use of the shofar outside of the specific blasts that were given at Sinai, and are carried on today. That pattern is to continue until all things are accomplished, and we reside in the “new Jerusalem.”

That is what yeshua said at the beginning of his ministry.


252 posted on 10/07/2013 2:09:06 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Still………..no………scripture……..for the question I asked. Unless you can show scriptural support for your positions editor this conversation is not going anywhere. Let’s see the scripture that supports your beliefs. If you can’t do that perhaps a web site that explains it from scripture.


253 posted on 10/07/2013 2:18:51 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear
>> “And setting dates for what Jesus said “no man knows the day or the hour” is something you need to think about.” <<

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I've set no date. Your reading is lacking.

1Thes.5

[1] But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
[2] For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
[3] For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
[4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
[5] Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
[6] Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
[7] For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night

Why will that day not overtake the Thessalonians as a thief? And more to the point, why would you not wish to share in the same knowledge that keeps them in the light?

The familiar "no man knoweth the day or the hour" refers to the fact that the beginning of the month is defined by the first sighting of the new moon, which was not predictible for several reasons, one of which was the weather in Jerusalem, and Yom Teruah is the only feast that begins with the new moon. The unpredictability actually remains today, in spite of our prowess with computers.

254 posted on 10/07/2013 2:20:39 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: CynicalBear

Had you ever read the scriptures you would know exactly where the feasts are defined, and how they are observed.

I did post the passage in 1Thessalonians that declares that their knowledge of the feasts is why they will not be overtaken by the resurrection like a thief.

Oh, and How about that scripture that tells us about your imaginary pre-trib rapture? You have not revealed it to us yet.


255 posted on 10/07/2013 2:26:51 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
>> I've set no date. Your reading is lacking.<<

Yeah, my reading is lacking. You use 1Thes.5 to counter my quote of “no one knows the day or the hour” but you try to imply that we should? You do realize that Jesus was saying even He didn’t know. But still here you are claiming it will fall on one of the known feast days of the Jews. And you say my reading is lacking? Perhaps you need to begin to read scripture rather than whatever you are getting those beliefs from. I’ll give you a hint to start. 1 Thes. 5 was talking about the beginning of the tribulation which will be preceded by the rapture of the church. It’s Israel that will think they will be living in “peace and safety”.

256 posted on 10/07/2013 2:32:27 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear
You will note that they are "The Feasts of the Lord," not of Israel.

Lev.23

[1] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
[2] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
[3] Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
[4] These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
[5] In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
[6] And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
[7] In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
[8] But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
[9] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
[10] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
[11] And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
[12] And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
[13] And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
[14] And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
[15] And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
[16] Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
[17] Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
[18] And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
[19] Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
[20] And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
[21] And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
[22] And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
[23] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
[24] Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
[25] Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
[26] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
[27] Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
[28] And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
[29] For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
[30] And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
[31] Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
[32] It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
[33] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
[34] Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
[35] On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
[36] Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
[37] These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
[38] Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
[39] Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
[40] And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
[41] And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
[42] Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
[43] That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
[44] And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

257 posted on 10/07/2013 2:35:23 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: CynicalBear

>> “You do realize that Jesus was saying even He didn’t know.” <<

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That was mostly cultural tradition. The reason that someone on Earth couldn’t know for sure was that it could be clouded at sunset, so the new month couldn’t be declared under that circumstance.

And 1Tessalonians was not speaking about the trib, but the Resurrextion. There is no reason no matter how far fetched, to think it had anything to do with the beginning of the trib, since that is defined by the abomination.

>> “But still here you are claiming it will fall on one of the known feast days of the Jews. And you say my reading is lacking?” <<

Absolutely! The feast Yom Teruah can only be defined by the sighting of the new moon, and if it is cloudy at sunset there is no moon.

The new moon is always difficult to see, partly because it appears in different positions each month.

Get educated.


258 posted on 10/07/2013 2:45:39 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
>>Oh, and How about that scripture that tells us about your imaginary pre-trib rapture? You have not revealed it to us yet.<<

1 Thess 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

If you were familiar with the trumpets that sounded to tell the Israelites to move you would understand what that last trump means. When the Israelites were to move there were a series of trumpets blown. Each time one was blown a tribe would be told to move. The last trump was blown when the North tribe of Israelites, which was the last to move, was to move out. All this can be found in Numbers 10. That was Paul’s reference in 1st Corinthians 15. That was written around 59AD which was 37 years before the vision and writing of Revelation in 96AD.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

There are many others.

259 posted on 10/07/2013 3:13:30 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: editor-surveyor; CynicalBear; jodyel

I’m not the one rejecting God’s word for today, for the Church the BOdy of Christ. YOU are. The Scriptures are plain, easy, and comprehensible to anyone who is saved, even a babe in Christ. You reject His timeline at your own choice. I didn’t write it. He did.


260 posted on 10/07/2013 3:31:08 PM PDT by smvoice (HELP! I'm trapped inside this body and I can't get out!)
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