Posted on 06/21/2021 7:17:57 AM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
Totally sobering and so true my friend!
John 3:36; Eccl. 12:13-14
That’s why Jesus is so ETERNITY crucial for our ETERNAL beings. John 3:3-21
Show me your supremacy.
Hal Lindsey said fifty years ago that the flying metal insects in Revelation were Soviet Helicopters. Who could possibly take any of this seriously?
It’s lost on me.
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The bible says there will be scoffers at the end. God will send powerful delusions to the ones refusing to be saved at the end times. The counties mentioned in the bible are all lining up right now in preparation to attack Israel.
The world 50 yrs ago is totally different from today. Understanding revelations was sealed up until the end.
A broken Mickey Mouse watch, still correctly displays the time twice a day.
The 1920’s author of a coffee table book on dispensationalism, complete with the charts and drawings plaigerized by many preachers since, was the first on this topic. Everybody since, is a parrot, including Hal Lindsey, Hagee, Van Impe, Copeland, et al.
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.
1 Thessalonians 5:9 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ
Matthew 24:40-42 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
Paul makes it very clear that you are misusing those passages, otherwise his personal admonitions would be invalid.
We are called to live each day as if it may be our last. Because we shall not know the hour nor the day Jesus will call us home and we will stand before the throne of justice.
Eternal life is not a yo-yo proposition. You don't receive His eternal life then lose it then get it back through incantations and rituals performed with 'priests'..
The glorious TRUTH IS when you believe in Whom God sent for your salvation you are right then saved. To be saved is to have His Life in your before-dead dead spirit. John 10:27-30 tells us that once He saves us we are in His hands and no one can snatch us from him, not even we ourselves! If you could save you then He went to the cross for not much. But if He sves you, it is then God who is in you both to will and do of HIS good pleasure.
In the Upper Room Discourse given on the night He was betrayed by Judas, none other than Jesus introduces the hidden mystery of His church age and it is Jesus who assures us that he is preparing places for us inthe Father;s House and will come to take us there. God's love is so great and vast and powerful that once He delivers on His Promise to abide in the born again spirit it is He who is then resonsible for His children. Some will grow in grace and knowledge and some wil;l sputter along, but all are His children by the rebirth only He can do.
Once a member of His family, He desires your cooperation to grow in grce and knowledge, BUT your position in His family is not ever again at issue. How mature you become is hopwever an issue which REQUIRES your participation.
There is coming soon a moment when God does something ONLY He can do and that is transform His children into glorified bodies to dwell with Jesus forevermore. in a hyper-dimensional coordinate system you and I cannot see in our current physical configuration. But John indicates that when He appears int he first Heaven to gather us to himself we shall have been transformed into glorified PHYSICAL beings like he is now, for we will then be able to see him in His glorified hyper-dimensional state.
I hope to see you in the clouds, someday, on our way up to meet Him there.
Your passage from Matthew is in regards to Isrfael at the end time, when the one taken is an unbeliever taken as tares away from the field of believer fruit. Matthew 24:40-42 does not belong with the other two passages for it was spoken to Israel not the Church.
The first two are indeed aimed at the Church Age believers.. The last is in fact out of place. But do you actually understand why they do not belong together?
We who are born again are destined to stand efore the rewards throne, in Heaven, before the wedding. The throne of Justice is The Great White Throne of Judgment which comes just before God makes a new Heavens and New Earth, after the millennial reign of Christ for 1000 years with the Church Age believers reigning with Him.
Would you like to give additional witness of these issues, Sisters?
HAH! Have never seen the Chrome symbol in quite that way!
Well I know what you are feeling but Christians will rather not express this, because of 2 Peter 3:4. And please understand that we apply this verse to our understanding of the pre-tribulational rapture.
At any point in time, there would be a plausible description of the Tribulation world. I consider this normal behavior among those of us who take a certain view of imminence. Plausible because Scripture prophecy is not written to satisfy curiosity. Plausible because at every moment the mystery of iniquity is already at work, and the only reason we do not have the world under the destructive power of the Red Dragon is because of 2 Thess 2:7.
Catholicism is NOT a "works based religion and your attacks are founded in ignorance of Church history and doctrine.
Your understanding of Scripture is not endowed with any authority.
You have it precisely right, MHG, and I look forward to the day of the rapture which, seems to me, can’t be far off.
Hebrews 6:4-6 “For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.”
Rightly DIVIDING the Word is your weakness. The Catholic ritual path to work for eventual purgatory and maybe Heaven is your error. I was born again in 1972. The work God has done on and in me there is not enough time left for you to experience. But I still hope to see you in the clouds
Sorry, Catholic, you are clueless to the meaning of that passage in the letter to the Hebrews. But the very fact that it was in a letter to the Hebrews could help you if you had the spirit in you.
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