To: fish hawk
Who would have thought that Free Republic would spark a Biblical research project on Saturday but it seems to have. As I read Matthew 24 it seems to me that verses 24:27 et al deal with the return of Jesus Christ and that that return will be obvious to all, unlike the false prophets. And the verses you cite seem to me to say that the world will be oblivious to God up until the Second Coming in the same manner that he people of Noah’s time were oblivious to the hand of God until the flood started. It seems to me that verses 24:40, and 24:41 continue describing the gathering of the elect that was under way in verse 24:31. Anyway, FWIW that is how I understand the passages. A VERY interesting afternoon.
116 posted on
10/13/2007 12:13:50 PM PDT by
Nuc1
(NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
To: Nuc1
122 posted on
10/13/2007 12:28:52 PM PDT by
Uri’el-2012
(you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
To: Nuc1
I hear you and understand,
But why were we instructed to comfort each other with the promise of a rapture?
1 Thessalonians 4:18
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
124 posted on
10/13/2007 12:31:34 PM PDT by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: Nuc1
I hear you and understand,
But why were we instructed to comfort each other with the promise of a rapture?
1 Thessalonians 4:18
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
125 posted on
10/13/2007 12:31:34 PM PDT by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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