Posted on 07/21/2022 4:17:50 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Thanks for preaching Jesus!
bkMk
Praise Jesus!
All the talk of the rapture tickles the ears. Yes. There is a rapture - when Jesus returns.
Most are so emotionally linked to their idiolectic misunderstanding of this that they cannot see, imagine or comprehend anything other than a pre-tribulation rapture.
Just one comment: Whatever occurs, I pray that the heart of every servant of Christ (my own included) is so enraptured by the thought of preaching Jesus that they will beg to be ‘left behind’ (no matter the tribulation) to share the Gospel with the lost. Anything else is selfish.
Blessings and Shalom to you all. John 17:15
Your Brother in Christ.
Well, that was a couple very interesting articles.
I’m about the same,
No one comes to the Father
But by Christ Jesus.
Jesus Christ
And Him Crucified!
The apostle Paul knew Judaism, and the appointed feasts of Israel, better than any of us today. Paul was a Jew of Jews. He said in Col. 2:16,17, that the seven appointed feasts of the Lord, “are a shadow of things to come” to the body of Christ.
Now, let us examine these feasts, first the spring feasts: Passover through Pentecost.
1. On the day of Passover observed by Jews in Paul’s day, and still today, is when Jesus the Passover Lamb was crucified.
2. At to Pentecost, “Now when the day of Pentecost was fully come,” Acts 2:1, “they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,” v. 4.
The spring feasts, thus, were fulfilled to a tee, right at God’s appointed time.
Then came the long growing season of “four months and then cometh the harvest,” John 4:35, the appointed fall feasts of Trumpets, day of Atonement, and Tabernacles, to take place at harvest time.
Now, the harvest in Jesus’ parable of the wheat and tares, Matt. 13, concludes the long growing season, but what does Jesus say happens first? The tares are separated from the wheat to be burned first. What does this correspond to in endtime prophecy, but the times of antichrist and the mark of the beast - which does indeed separate the tares from the wheat, the tares will take the mark. Then the harvest of the wheat.
Of course, and my old friend RWC won’t agree, but Jesus said nothing whatsoever about a harvest of the wheat preceding the separation out of the tares. What is thus pictured is: first the antichrist, then Jesus Christ, i.e., his coming and the rapture, or harvest of the wheat.
And what prophetic “shadow to the body of Christ” for that second coming and rapture, are the fall feasts after the long growing season, but the Trumpets, day of Atonement, and feast of Tabernacles?
The feast of Trumpets long understood by Judaism to denote the eschatological “days of Awe” and repentance for the nation (to Christians the seven trumpets in Revelation). The day of Atonement denoting their redemption. Followed by the feast of Tabernacles, their feast of harvest, it having been gathered in.
Some Bible prophecy commentators use “three R’s” to describe the fall feasts> Repentance (Trumpets), Redemption (the day of Atonement), and Rejoicing (Tabernacles).
As “shadows of things to come” to Christians: the Trumpets the rise of antichrist (when the tares will be separated out); the day of Atonement the second coming and rapture (the harvest of the wheat and burning of the tares); Tabernacles the millennial kingdom.
These are God’s appointed feasts, prophetic signs to the body of Christ. Not the Tish B’Av of the Rabbi’s.
And, as the spring feast were fulfilled right on time, so will the fall feasts. The spring feasts, long growing season, and fall feasts, God’s appointed “times and seasons” (1 Thess. 5:1).
“And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.” -Revelation 13:7
Link to Part - 1
While I agree that we do not know the day, nor hour, I get tired of people misinterpreting Matthew 24:36.
It DOES NOT say it CANNOT be known. It merely says that no one knows but the Father.
Maybe a quibble, but if you start misusing Scripture for this, it's easier later on to misuse it for other things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoDX7XLMazM
Bkmk
Indeed Sis.
We’re one day closer either way :)
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