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Maranatha!
Just as long as you recognize that we are now 46 months after the Revelation Chapter 12:1-2 Great Sign in the Heavens.
Excellent and thought-provoking article. Thank you for posting it. It is patently clear that God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. MARANTATHA!
A worthy read RWC....
Seems to me the Scriptures confirm we’ll be leaving before the Tribulation...in fact it’s the next prophetic event as I understand it. Jesus did say we’re to watch for HIS coming to meet Him in the clouds....but I see others looking for the anti-Christ instead and lots of guessing about who it will be.
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We should note that the four Gospels not only share a unique perspective of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection, they do so with four particular audiences in mind.
Lots can be learned by studying the discrepancies and contradictions in the gospels.
For instance,the Mount of Transfiguration.
Mathew and Marks versions shows it two days before Luke’s.
And given Marks version actually gives the number of demon possessed swine as about 2,000, one can conclude that Luke’s version would seemingly have to come to pass after 2 days or 2,000 years.
If a day is as a 1,000 years and 1,000 years as a day.
A problem though arises.
The Transfiguration is a rapture picture. A picture of the Messiah in His Kingdom on the Mount.
But only 3 of the 12 disciples went up the mount to see Him come in His Kingdom.
The remaining 9 disciples were stuck on the ground. Fighting and losing to demons.
Until He came back down the next day, and healed the boy.
The whole 12 didn’t go up the mount. Only 3 didn’t taste death till they saw Him come in His Kingdom.
Only a remnant of His went up the mount.
The rest were down on the ground fighting,and losing, against demons.
In that scenario, a small remnant gets to escape with the King.
While the rest of the disciples of the King are left to fight, and lose to demons.
Until He returns.
And it seems that Lukes version is held 2 days later than Mathew and Mark.
About 2,000 demon possessed swine years is almost up.
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I guess I missed it. Oh, well.
The Heresy of the Pre-Wrath Theory
The author is calling a minor tweak of bog standard dispensationalism a "heresy".
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The author asks who is “the one who restrains until he is taken away” that Paul references in Thessalonians. The author states it is one of two things: 1) government or 2) Michael the Archangel.
I believe he Paul is talking about the Body of Christ.
Eph.2:11-16. Paul refers to the The Body of Christ as The One New Man, made up of both Jewish and Gentile believers
So when he also speaks of “...only he who now lets will let until he be taken out of the way...”
I know the Church is given a feminine Bride of Christ reference, but Paul also gives the Church the Body of Christ a masculine reference, the One New Man.
IMHO
The author asks who is “the one who restrains until he is taken away” that Paul references in Thessalonians. The author states it is one of two things: 1) government or 2) Michael the Archangel.
I believe he Paul is talking about the Body of Christ.
Eph.2:11-16. Paul refers to the The Body of Christ as The One New Man, made up of both Jewish and Gentile believers
So when he also speaks of “...only he who now lets will let until he be taken out of the way...”
I know the Church is given a feminine Bride of Christ reference, but Paul also gives the Church the Body of Christ a masculine reference, the One New Man.
IMHO
These discussion are always about being RIGHT and the other guy wrong.
We like the details because then we have the illusion of being in control.
Major in minors and and minor in majors.
Is not the MAJOR MESSAGE be ready?