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.
“With the breaking of the first seal Jesus begins the wrath...”
Nope. No sale.
There are — explicily named — seven Bowls of Wrath.
There are not Seals of Wrath.
There are not Trumpets of Wrath.
The distinction is not immaterial.
JESUS releases the antichrist upon the world of unbelievers, and specifically upon Israel who makes a pact with the ac, thinking he is their messiah.
Quit being abtruse.
OF COURSE it’s Jesus breaking the Seals!
But they’re not Seals of Wrath, and the trumpets aren’t Trumpets of Wrath either.
The only wrath comes from the Bowls of Wrath, which is why God calls them that.
The Church is gathered/harvested/raptured on The Day of The Lord in full accord with 2 Thess. 2:1ff JUST BEFORE the Bowls of Wrath are poured out (cf. Rev. 14:14-16).
IOW, it’s not “wrath” until the book says it’s “wrath,” and it’s ONLY the Bowls that are designated as bringing “wrath.”
Do you believe there is to be a Great Departure into the clouds to meet the Lord in the Air and return to The Father’s House? And I am not being obtuse.
Paul had taught them then reinforced to them that Believers would not be going through the Tribulation to come (1 Thess 1:10). Had he not taught them such they would not have been upset by the fraudulent letter.
If they had been taught to expect going through at least part of the Tribulation the letter would not have frightened them since the trials they were enduring would be a sign of the imminent return for them.
The hour / time of testing of the unbelievers / earthdwellers is what Jesus assured the churches He would keep them from. The beginning of the seals broken began the testing as shown starting in Rev 6. Notice that the Rev Chaptr 3 is a message not to just the Philadelphis church but to the churches, plural:
Rev 3:13 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
And what had the Spirit just dictated in the Philadelphia Letter? ...
Rev 3: 10 Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
we agree it is Jesus opening the seven sealed scroll, in Heaven, with the redeemed witnessing it, in heaven. That first seal releases the antichrist upon human kind. For satan's man to be released upon humankind the one restraining him prior to that release is taken out of the way. The Holy Spirit indwelling the born again spirits of the Body of Christ no longer restrains the release/
2 Thess 2:1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
That message to the questioning Thessalonians indicate to me that the Day of the Lord cannot come UNTIL the restraining force is removed from restraining the man of satan's choosing. If the man of sin cannot be revealed until the departure happens then the treaty with Israel will not happen until the restrainer is removed ... to allow the antichrist to ride upon the scene.
Absolutely.
We only disagree about the timing.
Here, there, or in the air, as a famous person once said to me, a few weeks ago 😁👍
“...that Day will not come unless the departure comes first,...”
What version renders it “departure”?
Even Darby’s own renders it “apostasy.”
Others use “rebellion,” “revolt,” “falling away,” “turning away” — the only sense in which “departure” can possibly be rightly applied is that of “departure from the faith.” Your attempt to jimmy it in there as a reference to the rapture is no less than a barefaced misrepresentation of the true meaning of the text. Scores of translations and versions of the bible exist; I’ve scanned many, and nowhere have I seen “departure” used in this verse, and certainly not in the sense YOU want to convey: that of leaving a place.
You are certainly entitled to your interpretation of how the last times events play out. You are decidedly NOT entitled to rewrite scripture to support your interpretation.
“Paul had taught them then reinforced to them that Believers would not be going through the Tribulation to come (1 Thess 1:10).”
You here use “Tribulation” where most versions use “wrath.” Again,I ask what version you are using, because they AREN’T synonymous terms.
The Church is certainly spared from the wrath that is to come, but the jury is out on being gone before Tribulation breaks out. You say yes, I say no, and this is a big conversation in The Church.
Dispensational theology has nothing to do with the Gospel.
John 21:22
Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
“four years ago I would have said Mike Pence was a Christian and Donald Trump not one. Now that has flip flopped.”
That’s quite profound — and I feel the same.
“What makes us special?”
What makes us special is that God’s hand and inspiration were front and center when America was born. Other than Israel, America is the only nation like that on earth. He has given us so many opportunities to retain the basic holy ethos and character of our beginning. We have failed — are failing.
Also, we generally have been Israel’s ally when other nations have persecuted Israel. We have protected His chosen people. (The current phony administration will turn that around.)
“I’m so damn confused”
It doesn’t matter. All that matters is that a person is saved and where he’ll end up for eternity. I believe in pre-Trib rapture; other Christians have other ideas. No belief in this regard is a “deal breaker”. Just go with the flow, spread the Gospel, and God will take care of the rest. We see signs and might interpret them differently. Nobody knows.
Yes; see you then! I’m so ready.
Here, there or in the air, bro 😁
“ Dispensational theology has nothing to do with the Gospel.”
Actually, it does.
During the Church Age of Grace, God is gathering those who will complete the Bride and Body of Christ. The day will come when the last soul is saved and there will be a marriage in the heavenlies.
People responding to the Gospel of Grace in this dispensation will complete the Bride of Christ.
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Are we currently in the Garden of Eden?
Are we currently the Jewish nation on earth?
Are we currently in Heaven
If you answer no to these questions, you are a dispensationalist.
You may believe in 1, 3, 7 dispensations.
No matter. You are one.
Also, no matter, it is not required to come to saving faith.
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