Posted on 02/14/2021 10:01:18 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
I am an optimist because:
I believe Christians will soon see Jesus, see many of those that wrote the Bible, see multitudes of angels, etc. I believe Christians’ saved loved ones will soon be raised from the dead, and we will see them (I will soon see my deceased wife, and she will have a new body that will never get sick or die). I believe there is a good possibility that many Christians could go to heaven without getting sick, dying, having to be buried, etc. I believe the gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church, Christians will not go through one minute of the Tribulation Period, Christians will not be on earth when the persecution gets unbearable, Christians will not have to deal with the Mark of the Beast, etc. I believe the gospel will soon go all over the world, multitudes will soon be saved, all Israel will soon be saved, etc. I believe Jesus redeemed this Creation at the same time He redeemed a people on the cross, and the mess this world is in is temporary because Jesus will take this Creation back during the Tribulation Period. I believe there will soon be 1,000 years of peace, justice, and righteousness on earth, Jesus will be worshipped all over the globe, many Christians will have a crown of righteousness for loving His appearing, and Christians will come back to live and reign with Jesus here on this earth for 1,000 years. I refuse to ignore or be in denial about the signs, and I refuse to be pessimistic about the condition of the world because this world is not the Christian’s home, and we win. Finally, I am optimistic because I believe God’s promises, know that He said we can see the day approaching, know that many great prophecy teachers agree that we see the day approaching, and I know that we have much to rejoice about. Here are some reasons why I believe we see the Second Coming approaching:
One, concerning potential corruption in the White House and at the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ): on Feb. 2, 2021, it was reported that Pres. Biden’s pick to run the DOJ’s Criminal Division and one of Hunter Biden’s new Criminal Defense Attorneys are from the same law firm.
Two, concerning a peace treaty in the Middle East: on Feb. 4, 2021, it was reported that UN Sec. Gen. Guterres wants to restart the Middle East Peace Process in the UN Quartet (US, EU, Russia, and UN) meetings.
Guterres thinks the meetings could succeed in producing a peace treaty because Biden “supports a two-state solution between Israel and the PA and will overturn several decisions made under his predecessor, Donald Trump.”
Guterres thinks Trump’s decisions need to be overturned because the Palestinians want a capital in East Jerusalem, plus they want Gaza and all the territory that Israel captured from Jordan in 1967.
Based on Scripture, this writer believes these people are just begging for the judgment of God to fall on this world, and they will come to regret what they are doing.
Three, concerning Jerusalem: on Feb. 4, 2021, the U.S. Senate added a resolution to the Covid stimulus bill that affirmed America’s intention to permanently keep the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
Biden’s administration said it does not intend to move the U.S. embassy, but they support a capital for the Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is a cup of trembling and burdensome stone for the whole world.
Four, also concerning Jerusalem: on Feb. 1, 2021, Kosovo established diplomatic ties with Israel.
Kosovo recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and Israel recognized Kosovo’s independence from Serbia.
The next day, the Arab Parliament condemned the decision and urged Kosovo to reverse it, but that is not likely to happen.
Five, concerning Covid vaccinations: on Feb. 5, 2021, LifeSiteNews.com reported that U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data shows that between Dec. 14, 2020, and Jan. 29, 2021:
35 million people have received one or both shots. There have been 501 reported deaths (453 in the U.S.). There have been 10,748 reported adverse events (sent to doctor; admitted to hospital; permanently disabled, etc.). The average age of those that died was 77, and the youngest person to die was 23. In addition to the above, 139 cases of facial distortion and 13 miscarriages have been reported. In addition to the above, know that on Feb. 8, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the current vaccines may not work on new strains of Covid that already exist.
People may need a different kind of vaccine.
Six, concerning pestilence in Israel: on Feb. 5, 2021, Joel Rosenberg, Editor-in-Chief of All Israel News, correctly pointed out that II Chron. 7:12-14 is God’s promise to heal and forgive Israel in the days of drought, famine, plague, etc., in response to the Israelis humbling themselves, praying and seeking Him.
Rosenberg noted that Israel’s Covid lockdown has not saved Israel, but God can.
Rosenberg asked Israeli Prime Min. Netanyahu, Pres. Rivlin, and the entire Israeli Knesset to publicly call for a National Day of Prayer based upon God’s promise in II Chron. 7:14.
Based on Scripture (Jer. 18:8), Rosenberg concluded that it is not wrong for other nations to follow God’s instructions in II Chron. 7:12-14.
At the time of this writing, this writer has not seen a response from Israel’s officials.
Seven, also on Feb. 5, 2021, researchers at an Israeli hospital said they have possibly developed a drug that may cure serious cases of Covid.
30 patients with moderate to severe cases of Covid inhaled the medicine for a few minutes once a day for 5 days, and 29 showed definite improvement in just two days (they were released from the hospital 3 to 5 days later).
More tests are planned, but the hospital believes their discovery is a game-changer.
Eight, concerning world government and open borders: on Feb. 1, 2021, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 11 Iranian citizens (6 men and 5 women) when they illegally entered Arizona from Mexico.
Three more Iranians were caught at this same location earlier this year, and others have been caught crossing at other places in the U.S. this year.
Open borders increase the chance of terrorist attacks in the U.S.
Nine, concerning world government and world religion: on Jan. 29, 2021, German Cardinal Gerhard Muller warned that Western capitalists, big-tech giants, and China are forming a dangerous alliance to control what people think, say, and do for the purpose of ruling the world.
Cardinal Muller warned:
That the World Economic Forum (WEF) is using Covid to call for a Great Reset to change the values (sounds like a one-world religion) and subjugate (sounds like a one-world government) the lives of everyone on earth. That this effort to control what everyone on earth thinks, says, and does is a deliberate action, not an innocent endeavor or a conspiracy theory. That Biden is now leading a campaign to “de-Christianize” the Western world (by pushing the Great Reset, promoting abortion, the gay agenda, etc.). He urged Christians not to participate actively or passively in this growing evil.
Ten, on Feb. 5, 2021, it was reported that the U.S. Federal Reserve is working with a group of international central banks (in England, France, Japan, China, Canada, Dubai, Switzerland, etc.) to push the Green Agenda, the Great Reset, the Paris Climate Change accords, the UN 2030 Sustainable Development goals, the world’s economic systems, the world’s depopulation goals, etc.
As I understand what they intend to do, any government, business or individual that wants to borrow money, apply for a grant, receive a stimulus package, etc., will have to commit to the globalist agenda, or they will not get it.
Put another way, people will have to support the globalist agenda to qualify for a loan, grant, etc. (they must submit to qualify, or they will be rejected).
This is not far-fetched. Tucker Carlson recently reported that Bank of America gave credit card information to the FBI on people that purchased items (T-shirts, weapons or weapons-related items, hotel rooms, etc.) in Washington D.C, Maryland, or Virginia on Jan. 5 or 6, 2021 (the day of the capitol takeover).
Eleven, concerning the coming economic collapse and famine: on Feb. 4, 2021, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote an article for Technocracy News & Trends that said global lockdowns have:
Bankrupted 100,000 businesses in the U.S. Impoverished one billion people worldwide. Threatened the food supply of one billion people worldwide. Twelve, concerning persecution: on Feb. 3, 2021, it was reported that a proposed law in Denmark will require all sermons not preached in Danish to be translated into the Danish language and submitted to the government in writing.
Religious groups are protesting this law and expressing concern that approval in Denmark could trigger similar laws in other nations.
The bill is not clear, but religious groups also fear that they will have to submit their sermons to the government for approval before the sermons can be preached.
Thirteen, concerning gun control and world government: on Feb. 1, 2021, it was reported that a bill called H.R. 127 has been introduced in Congress (on Jan. 4, 2021) to track the make, model, and serial number of all firearms, who owns the firearm, the date each firearm was acquired, and where the firearm is being stored; it applies retroactively, and it covers firearms that a person has owned for a long time.
Those that already own firearms will be required to take a psychological evaluation, be subjected to a criminal background check, and their spouse and at least two family members or associates must be interviewed by a licensed psychologist.
Congress has not yet voted on the bill, but it is important to understand that Biden has promised gun control legislation, and many politicians want to disarm America before they surrender the sovereignty of the U.S. to the UN.
Gun sales have broken all records since this bill was introduced.
Finally, if you want to go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.
Sabbath remains on Saturday (sobota).
Christian’s worshiped and worship the Lord on the first day of the week, Niedziela, Domenica, Dimanche.
Acts 20:7
On the first day of the week we came together to break bread
This is after John 20:19
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!
Didache
Chapter 8 fast on the fourth day and the Preparation (Friday)
“But every Lord’s day . . . gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure.
“We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead” (Letter of Barnabas 15:6–8 [A.D. 74]).
Justin Martyr
“But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead” (First Apology 67 [A.D. 155]).
Your founder and proohetess Ellen g white wrote
“Every species of animal which God had created were preserved in the ark. The confused species which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the flood. Since the flood there has been amalgamation of man and beast, as may be seen in the almost endless varieties of species of animals, and in certain races of men.” (Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 3, p.75).
That’s your Adventist belief system, eh?
Your founder and proohetess Ellen g white wrote
“The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God Almighty.” (Letter 32, 1999, quoted in the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Vol. 5, p.1129).
That’s your Adventist belief system, eh?
Your founder and proohetess Ellen g white wrote
Jesus entered the most holy of the heavenly sanctuary, at the end of the 2300 days of Daniel 8, in 1844, to make a final atonement for all who could be benefited by His mediation.” (Early Writings, p.253).
“It was seen, also, that while the sin offering pointed to Christ as a sacrifice, and the high priest represented Christ as a mediator, the scapegoat typified Satan, the author of sin, upon whom the sins of the truly penitent will finally be placed. Christ will place all these sins upon Satan, … so Satan, …will at last suffer the full penalty of sin.” (Great Controversy, p.422,485,486).
That’s your Adventist belief system, eh?
so you believe Jesus came in 1844?
We are not under the law but under grace...If you want to keep the Sabbath as a holy day, go ahead...If you don't want to, no big deal...
Interesting thing about the Sabbath is it's the only Commandment that has become insignificant for the church...It IS however a shadow of things to come during the Kingdom of Heaven rule of Jesus Christ...
Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
My allegiance is ONLY to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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“Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible,” (Catholic Mirror, September 2 and December 23, 1893)
“Protestants . . . accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change . . . . But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in accepting the Bible, in observing the Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope,” (Our Sunday Visitor, February 5, 1950)
“...the “end” of the Temple would follow the preaching of the gospel throughout the civilized world, the Roman Empire.”
I’ll take “Foreshadowings” for 800.
So, preaching the gospel throughout all peoples on the globe would, then, precede the end of more than just a temple.
We are not under the law but under grace...If you want to keep the Sabbath as a holy day, go ahead...If you don’t want to, no big deal...
“Those who seem to have no desire for loving obedience to God typically quote Romans 6:14 alone and never verse 15 which informs us that being under grace is not a license to continue in sin. You will also be unlikely to hear the two verses previous to it, which say, Romans 6:12-13 “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”
And how about the verse after verse 15 which states that grace is not a license to continue in sin. Romans 6:16 “Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
So what does one choose? To continue in sin unto death? Or to obey the law, that is, obedience unto righteousness? An easy choice for those who truly love God and desire to spend eternity with Him and have access to the tree of life. Revelation 22:14 “Blessed are they that do his Commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”
Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
The 7th day Sabbath is not a SHADOW Sabbath. But, these are:
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/shadow.htm
Compare Ezekiel 45:17. The 7th day Sabbath is CLEARLY not included as a SHADOW Sabbath (Ceremonial law).
17And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
We are not under the law but under grace...If you want to keep the Sabbath as a holy day, go ahead...If you don’t want to, no big deal...
If you want to have other gods before the Lord, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to make graven images and bow down to them, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to take the name of the Lord in vain, NO BIG DEAL...
If you don’t want to honor your father and mother, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to kill (murder), NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to commit adultery, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to steal, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to bear false witness against your neighbor, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to covet your neighbor’s belongings, NO BIG DEAL...
Hey Iscool, WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL???
The BIF DEAL you have yet to comprehend is, this is the Age of Grace not the Law. This is the age of Grace, salvation by faith alone (no works of ritual repetition) in Christ alone. Your works are filthy rags to God’s Righteousness. There is not one stitch you can add to the Righteousness already imputed to every Christian. But you cultists will keep believing you can add your rags to earn eternal life. THAT is the Big Seal a cultist like you misses.
Matthew 5:
17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Fulfill = clarify even further in more detail, AS HE DOES further down in the chapter...thou shall not kill, shall not commit adultery, etc...
The moral, 10 commandment law, stands in it’s entirety until the end of this world.
People on this site keep saying that it’s impossible to keep the law. Well, not according to the words of Christ...
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
But, WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL...right Iscool???
Your works are filthy rags to God’s Righteousness. There is not one stitch you can add to the Righteousness already imputed to every Christian.
2 John 2:
1My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
SIN IS TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.
Again, not salvation through works, but OBEDIENCE BECAUSE OF GRACE.
I will have to assume that you do not know him (because you don’t keep His commandments)
I will assume that you are a liar (because you say you know Him but you don’t keep His commandments)
I will assume that the love of God is not perfected in you (because you don’t keep his word)
THAT’S A BIG DEAL...
so you believe Jesus came in 1844?
If He did, we wouldn’t be here right now, right?
You Catholics ask some really dumb questions sometimes.
How much can you or I add to the righteousness GOD imputed to me when I first believed and was born again, born from above?
The Biggest Deal is God gives eternal life by abiding in the spirit of those who are in the Body of Christ Believers family. What could your White queen add to that perfect righteousness? So what can you do better?
All the doctrines against which the Reformers had protested were thus again formulated and strengthened by Rome. All the rites and practices which the Church in the Wilderness had straggled to escape were incorporated more strongly than ever into papal tradition by the twenty-five sessions of the council between 1545 and 1563.
Henceforth, the Papacy was to have only one mission in the world, namely, to command nations and men everywhere to submit to the Council of Trent. The new slogan now invented, which must go reverberating throughout the earth, was, “The Council of Trent, the Council of Trent, the Council of Trent.”
7 Froude, The Council of Trent, pp. 174, 175; Muir, The Arrested Reformation, pages 152, 153; also M'Clintock and Strong, Cyclopedia, art. "The Council of Trent." 8 Holtzman, Kanon und Tradition, page 263. (see 1444 below) 9 Pallavicini, Histoire du Concile de Trent, vol. 2, cols. 1031, 1032.
Cronos: "Nah, that was a long time ago"
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/bssb-1443-1444.htm
We have studiously and accurately collected from the New Testament every available proof that could be adduced in favor of a law canceling the Sabbath day of the old law, or one substituting another day for the Christian dispensation. We have been careful to make the above distinction, lest it might be advanced that the third (in the Catholic enumeration the Sabbath commandment is the third of the commandments) commandment was abrogated under the new law. Any such plea has been overruled by the action of the Methodist Episcopal bishops in their pastoral 1874, and quoted by the New Your Herald of the same date, of the following tenor; "The Sabbath instituted in the beginning and confirmed again and again by Moses and the prophets, has never been abrogated. A part of the moral law, not a part or tittle of its sanctity has been taken away." The above official pronunciamento has committed that large body of Biblical Christians to the permanence of the third commandment under the new law.
The Israelites and Seventh-day Adventists are witnesses of their weekly desecration of the day named by God so repeatedly, and whilst they have ignored and condemned their teacher, the bible, they have adopted a day kept by the Catholic Church. What Protestant can, after perusing these articles, with a clear conscience, continue to disobey the command of God enjoining Saturday to be kept which command his teacher, the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, records as the will of God?
https://www.romeschallenge.com/downloads/RomesChallenge.pdf
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