Posted on 09/08/2023 4:39:47 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
In a recent Lifeway poll they found only 2% of churches in the USA teach Bible prophecy. This is an amazing latter-days stat for several reasons:
1- Roughly 30% of the Bible is prophetic. They’re ignoring almost 1/3 of the scriptures.
2- 100% accuracy in past prophecies fulfilled literally separates the Bible from every other book on the planet. It not only claims to be written by God, it proves it by predicting the future.
3- The entire Book of Revelation was prophetic when written. Today everything from Revelation 6 forward is still in the future and likely to be fulfilled within the next 7-14 years.
4- The Book of Revelation is the only book that promises Believers a special blessing for even trying to read and understand it.
Revelation 1:3 KJV – “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”
I once read comments on Rev. 13:16-17 (Mark of the Beast) in a turn-of-the-19th-century commentary. The writer explained that each bank could have a person standing inside with a list of those forbidden to bank, and unless you got the OK-nod from him, they wouldn’t let you transact business.
(Excerpt) Read more at harbingersdaily.com ...
Which is nothing short of anti-semitism and makes The Lord a liar.
Excellent list there! 👍
The technology and Israel back in the land for over 70 years screams that the last days are here.
Absolutely!
Problem #1 is that folks hardly ever vet what is preached in sermons.
Being Bereans is a must these days.
And sadly I can only find churches online that preach prophecy.
They are truly rare and you are tremendously blessed if you are a member of one that does preach this topic.
They have zero capability of interpreting Romans chapter 11.
Unfortunately not..
Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.What is this scripture preaching to Abraham before the Bible was written? If God is the author and he sees the end from the beginning, then it was written from the beginning. Are you saying that the Gospel of John is not included in the profitable part of scripture because it was written after?
I honestly believe that most pastors don't understand prophecy and its relevancy for today's happenings.
I also believe that the enemy is purposely blinding today's church from what is about to take place, thereby leading to emergence of the Laodicean church, the one where Jesus is knocking at the door but not being invited in.
God inspired or God breathed the biblical books. He did not author them word for word.
The Bible is not the Quran which Moslems believe was written word for word by their Allah.
God breathed so told through mortal mens writings.
Galatians 3:8 is not scripture preaching to Abraham, ratherScripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham,
God inspired the words written by men.
What Jesus left us was His community of believers.
If one quotes just Tim then one must conclude that what was written after should not be included.
The slogan of Dispensationalism is, “All Scripture is for us, but it is not all to us, or about us.”
Namely the non biblical idea that “Some parts of Scripture have particularly the Church in view. Other parts belong to the Jews. Therefore, certain sections of the Bible have nothing to do with this present age, but belong to the past and abrogated old dispensation, while other sections concern the future great tribulation, a period which occurs after the Church has departed the earthly scene. Still other portions apply only to the earthly millennial kingdom of Christ.”
This hacking method of interpreting Scripture chops the Bible into such small fragments that the Christian is robbed of much of the promises of God.
The inspired “rightly dividing the Word of truth” (II Tim. 2:15) does not mean we are to dissect the Bible into pieces, making it a sort of crazy-quilt.
Rather it means “to hew a straight line through the Word of truth.” But the line Dispensationalism makes through Scripture is disjointed, slip-knotted, sheep-shanked, strained and broken with many gaps intervening along its shabby, ludicrous length.
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.I will argue that that author of the passages in the Old Testament that testify of Christ, knew Christ or at least knew about him. There are many examples like the life of Joseph or the second Psalm or Isaiah 53 that are obvious, but as you see Christ more and more in scripture you ask, is Christ the main character even of the Old Testament?
Your answer has nothing to do with my point on expository preaching.
for example if a pastor preaches from the book of Romans and goes verse by verse and exposits, i.e. explains the verses, then nothing is missed in that book in that the topics that are brought forth in the verses, sin, the cross etc...are brought forth. To go verse by verse in a book prevents a preacher from just preaching on a favorite topic. It forces the preacher to preach the context of the book and not just preach via prooftext.
Here is good article to further clarify what i mean.
https://www.gotquestions.org/expository-preaching.html
I also do realize the majesty of scripture, its inerrancy, infallability and that it is the sole rule of faith to help us learn more about and know God and what He expects from us.
Ummm yes i do totally get...i dont think you get what I am saying...MY hope, as the song goes, is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness. My hope is built on the attributes of God that He can be trusted. My hope is built on the promise of scripture that I have union with Christ thru the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, That God is my rock and refuge and an ever present help in times of trouble. My hope is built on whatn Christ has done as He works in and thru me to sanctify me and bring me to Himself.
Yes Jesus is most definitely coming back. He may be coming back in my lifetime, he may be not coming back in my lifetime but either way THAT is not my hope. My hope, is in what He promised, my union with Him and the salvation that He provided and in His trustworthiness and faithfulness.
My whole point to you was that many today who call themselves Christians rely on being removed from this world, raptured. before the tribulation and start of the outpouring of wrath. It is actually your position/the articles (in the OP) that we would escape any tribulation that would weaken the ability of the believer to withstand them..It gives the believer an out to say hey we are gone so i dont have to worry or live for God.
Having been to eastern Europe on mission trips when the soviets were in power and bringing in bibles and relief goods to believers in those countries i can easily attest that they went thru a lot of tribulation and had their faith refined and tested, as did mine. I did not look at prophecy for my strength when I could have been arrested and thrown into jail at anytime. I looked to the promises of scripture, the faithfulness of God, His attribute, my union with Christ as my strengtyh during those times.
And yes i can easily point out where the death of Christ was prophesied...so no reason to be snarky.
Also WHERE in what i wrote above did in infer I dont want Him to come back or think His kingdom isnt something to hope for? If you accuse me of that then you are bearing FALSE WITNESS!!!
Again my whole point is that PROPHECY SHOULD NOT BE THE REASON WHY ONE LIVES THEIR LIFE AS A BELIEVER BUT RATHER THAT WE SHOULD LIVE OUR LIVES AS BELIEVERS BECAUSE WE KNOW HIM, TRUST HIM, ARE UNITED WITH HIM (caps for emphasis..i am not yelling)
And I am far from woke
Roving you wrote: Jesus himself said we were to look to the sky. A lot of churches don’t talk about sin and where it can lead you. Maybe your pastor don’t want to hurt no one’s feelings.
No offense but that is laughable.. As i wrote to roman my whole pont is that prophecy doesnt dictate how we live as a believer but rather what should dictate how we live is that we know who God is (His attributes), what He requires (obedience), that we are united with Christ, that we are saved by grace thru faith. None of that requires looking “up to the sky” to give us hope. What gives hope is the promises of God that lead to salvation, that He can be trusted and is faithful.
My church and pastor do talk of sin and how to live for Christ every Sunday and are not man centered but God centered.
What books do we consider to be scripture?
The books that the councils of the 2nd and 3rd centuries held to be scripture. Note that the Ethiopian church has the most number of books in scripture - 84.
The author of the Pauline epistles is, well, Paul who was inspired by God. Paul wrote as a human inspired by God.
The author of the passages in the Old Testament that testify of Christ - whether Moses or Ezekiel or Isaiah or Daniel didn’t KNOW Christ as we know Him, they knew Him as the Word of God, as God in short.
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.When you find something concealed in scripture, it is more likely that God put it there and not men. How common is that? In fact the men that recorded God’s inspired word likely did not know or understand many of the things they were writing. I wonder if Paul studied his letters as we do since he knew he was writing scripture.
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