Posted on 04/17/2021 7:56:07 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
End Times Ping
This is part 3 of an end times series written by Jonathan Brentner.
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Maranatha!
We can't cancel Religion, Freedom, Sovereignty, Family, Law Enforcement, and Education, and expect any other result.
Pray for the Grace to endure the coming Chastisements.
You will be disappointed id you are expecting to be "raptured".
The word of God never disappoints.
He is faithful, He is true, and so are His promises.
Revelation 2:26
And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
Revelation 3:10
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Are you better than those who endured the Civil War or WWI & WWII?
God doesn’t war against His Children.
I suggest you re-read the context, or better yet, re-read the Word and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you. Be a Berean. You won’t convince me or others who believe God’s Word.
https://www.biblehub.com/greek/5281.htm
5281. hupomoné
Definition: a remaining behind, a patient enduring
Usage: endurance, steadfastness, patient waiting for.
Waiting for what?
1 Corinthians 15:50-54
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
1 John 3:2
1 Thessalonians 5:9
Revelation 3:10
Matthew 24:40-41
Titus 2:13
And if you want to argue about it, take it up with The Lord. These are His plans - ready or not, like it or not, believe it or not. It will come to pass.
And all who BELIEVE IT & YEARN FOR IT, will receive a Crown of Righteousness. I can’t wait for mine!
1st, this IS the Second Coming of Christ, which clearly follows the Tribulation, and not an event preceding or interrupting the Tribulation.
2nd, it is very public and audible, rather than secret or hidden from those not “raptured”.
Matthew 24:37-42, “As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man.” “…Then two men will be in the field; one is taken and one is left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one is taken and one is left. Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.”
Christ seems to be referring to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, as he warned “…this generation will not pass away till all these things take place”.
Also, notice the people taken away in Noah’s time were the unrighteous, not the righteous, which is the opposite of rapture theory.
In Matthew 24:13 Christ promises “…the one who endures to the end will be saved”. This includes Christians who will endure the Tribulation.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52, “Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.”
This also refers to the Second Coming of Christ, in that “the twinkling of an eye” refers to the instantaneous change from a mortal body to a glorified body, NOT to the speed of the rapture.
Its connection to the blast of the “last trumpet”, heralds Christ’s Second Coming. The Catholic Church has consistently interpreted this passage as such for the last 2000 years.
Revelation 3:10 “Because you have kept my word of patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world to test the inhabitants of earth.”
Does the phrase “…will keep you from the hour of trial…” mean that the Church will be “removed” before the Tribulation begins?
No. There are many Bible verses that show that Christ permits his Church to suffer persecution and tribulation. In John 17:15 Christ says, “I do not pray that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one”.
John 16:33 says, “In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 15:19 says that Christians have been chosen “out of the world,” but it does not say that Christians will be ‘taken’ out of the world, prior to a time of persecution.
The Church will endure persecutions and tribulations and it will come through them purified. (Mt, Rm, Cor, Thes, Rev.)
when the Tribulation Period arrives, there will be three global systems on earth at the same time: * a global political system (world government),
* a global religious system (world religion), and
* a global economic system (world control of buying and selling).
Which is not to suggest the Rapture could not occur before they are fully implemented; indeed, the removal of resisting Christians would greatly facilitate their development.
Based on your responses you’re a Preterist.
In other words, your chronology is like scrambled eggs and reversed.
That mind-set also downplays Israel and causes many to think that the Church replaced Israel.
God never changes His Promises. The Church will get it’s reward as will Israel. We have different destinies and promises.
There is no “secret rapture”.
I’ve provided verses straight from the Lips of God as to what this event will be like.
Up to you to believe it or not.
Never before has God condemned His People with the heathen. He’s not about to start now either.
They could very well be fully in place at the time of the Harpazo.
Some people believe there is a gap between the Rapture and the Tribulation. I think that could very well be the case and when you toss in the Ezekiel 38/39 Prophecy, Israel will need 7 years to burn those weapons.
They will also need to run for their survival at the midpoint of the Tribulation from the son of perdition. So, those 7 years must transpire by the midpoint to make the math work.
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The world is on the timeline of God the Father. Period.
We can recognize the coming evil, we can point it out to others, we can “vote against it”, we can protest it, but can we change it?
I am not asking the question to be sarcastic in any way. I am simply pointing out that this singular event and the pieces that are positioned for it are far beyond our ability to change or influence.
Just something I have been reflecting upon recently as I watch the world. Our nature is to resist what we see as wrong and the list is legion today, but at some point no matter how much we resist or decry we have no more ability to change it than we would to move a massive mountain with a shovel.
No it isn’t, God gave us Free Will and we are on that timeline. He is going to let is do whatever.
Agree!
There is no Third Coming of Christ without pretending that coming in the clouds without His feet touching the ground doesn't count.....which is ridiculous.
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I might not have understood your statement above. I agree that we each have free will to believe or not believe and that our salvation is singular.
I guess my questions or thoughts are random musings beyond my comprehension.
Can we as believers delay the end of days? Can the “church” delay it? Can a nation delay it? Should we even want to delay it beyond resisting what we correctly recognize as evil?
The end of this Earth is certain and foretold. No man knows when these events occur and frankly, in the 4 decades that I have had an adult discernment of what was written and the world around me there have been countless voices saying the time is upon us.
I don’t know. I don’t even worry or obsess about it as I did when I was a younger man. At some point, as I matured in my faith, I realized that I should not worry about it. My salvation is not dependent upon this world nor can I, as a parent, son, sibling, mentor, and friend, exercise the free will of others on their behalf beyond striving to be a positive influence.
I am not advocating that we shrug our shoulders and acquiesce to that which we know to be wrong in the world, but I know at some point the path of this world, inhabited by only a fraction of those He created, will end according to His word just as certainly as my mortal life and yours will end.
With that in mind, as fascinating as the prophesied end of days is, my older and wiser self now believes that each of us should be more concerned with our first day of eternity (our own rapture) and less with our last day here on Earth no matter when it occurs or how.
Hope that made sense.
NO, you are the ridiculous one by your own calculations. For if you count Paul's meeting CHRIST on the road to Damascus, then he's already been here twice! And since we are not consulted by GOD as to his comings and goings, how many times might he have been on this planet since it's creation?
You're putting GOD in a box. Saying, "HE can do this or that but definitely NOT something new. Besides most incorrect rapture naysayers are confused by the trumphets of Revelations. Saying the last triumphet is when the Rapture happens because Paul talks about a trumphet.
BUT......when 1 Corinthians 15:52. was written by Paul, (... In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumphet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed).......Revelations had not yet been written. Therefore Paul was NOT writing about the last triumphet of the Tribulation (Revelations).
Where did this nonsense come from that since Yeshua’s feet didn’t touch the Earth then it’s not a Second Coming prior to His Second Coming; who fostered that excuse?
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