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Christians: Will Jesus Christ Soon Return?
3/30/02 | AntiDemoCommie

Posted on 03/30/2002 10:45:08 PM PST by antidemocommie

The question is very simple. Is Jesus about to return?

Where are we on God's timeline of events that take place prior to the return of Christ?

Is there really anything holding back the Rapture?

What about the Anti-Christ? Is he alive and well, or has he not been born yet?

Before the Rapture, will we get to see the arrival of the Anti-Christ?

Does current US politics and policies help spread the Good News, or usher in Satan incarnate?

No matter where we are on God's timeline, it is never too late to have your sins washed away and be saved. Easter isn't about chocolate bunnies, and baskets full of candy eggs. Its a reminder that Christ was the final lamb. He died in your place to take the punishment for your sins so that you can have eternal life. All you have to do is say to God that you believe Jesus died in your place and you want to be forgiven of all your sins.

At that moment, your life will forever change. God will forgive you of all sin, and you will be saved. Is God pulling at your heart right now? Is his wonderful Holy Spirit urging you to come to him and ask for forgiveness? Don't wait another minute. Turn to God while you have the chance. He loves you dearly and wants the best for you, and your future. All you have to do is ask, and you'll be saved. God has done everything else, but he won't force you to come to him. Its your move.


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To: antidemocommie
I never advocated changing your mind. Is your mind that weak willed??
141 posted on 04/01/2002 6:17:38 AM PST by PatrioticAmerican
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To: crystalk
I quickly had to calculate Sharon's new catchword today, and its value is 547.

Unlike most people, the number 547 doesn't make me see swirling colors and hear the music of the spheres. Could you favor deaf and blind people like myself with a clue as to what 547 might signify or be linked to either logically or aesthetically?

142 posted on 04/01/2002 8:40:06 AM PST by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
I myself have not had time to begin to evaluate 547, in this context, but it IS the numerical value of the expression "Khomat Magen"-- or "shield outside the (city/state) Wall" --i.e. a project beyond Israel's Green Line to shield it from even being reached, much less breached.

It IS, however a positive number, and appears to be a prime, which is a very good thing to be.

143 posted on 04/01/2002 9:42:40 AM PST by crystalk
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To: Proud2BAmerican
No, we are now in 5762, which IS A YOVEL YEAR!!!

5757 was 5 yrs ago.

144 posted on 04/01/2002 9:45:19 AM PST by crystalk
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To: loulou
Antichrist will be/is a Muslim... He is already alive and an adult, and there have been impressive postings on FR and to me from FReepmail, that he is King Abdullah of Jordan, a descendant of Prophet Muhammad.
145 posted on 04/01/2002 9:47:39 AM PST by crystalk
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To: crystalk
Keep us posted as you discover cognates. Interesting if the government is communicating in gematria, although the Arabs are born experts in this.
146 posted on 04/01/2002 9:48:40 AM PST by RightWhale
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To: al-andalus
That is absurd. Any Andalusian should realize that Antichrist is a Muslim, almost certainly a descendant of the Prophet.
147 posted on 04/01/2002 9:49:51 AM PST by crystalk
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To: antidemocommie
One of the signs written in the Holy Bible that Jesus' time is near left to happen is Israel compassed with armies.

Bethleham,Israel surrounded by Tanks.

148 posted on 04/01/2002 3:30:20 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: Christian_List;Catholic_List;Patent
Bump Ping
149 posted on 04/01/2002 3:31:20 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: Proud2BAmerican
Lasalette

Introduction

On September 19, 1846, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a French boy (Maximin) and a French girl (Melanie) on the mountain of La Salette, France. After thorough investigation of the incidence, the Catholic Church gave approval to the message and secret of Lasalette as written by Melanie. The account was published in Lecce on November 15, 1879 with imprimatur of Bishop Zola of Lecce. The following excerpts are based on its English translation Apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the Mountain of La Salette, the 19th of September 1846 published by the Shepherdess of La Salette.

II. The Message

  1. "Melanie, what I am about to tell you now will not always be a secret. You may make it public in 1858."
  2. "The priests, ministers of my Son, the priests, by their wicked lives, by their irreverence and their impiety in the celebration of the holy mysteries, by their love of money, their love of honors and pleasures, the priests have become cesspools of impurity. Yes, the priests are asking vengeance, and vengeance is hanging over their heads. Woe to the priests and to those dedicated to God who by their unfaithfulness and their wicked lives are crucifying my Son again The sins of those dedicated to God cry out towards Heaven and call for vengeance, and now vengeance is at their door, for there is no one left to beg mercy and forgiveness for the people. There are no more generous souls, there is no one left worthy of offering a stainless sacrifice to the Eternal for the sake of the world."
  3. "God will strike in an unprecedented way."
  4. "Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! God will exhaust His wrath upon them, and no one will be able to escape so many afflictions together."
  5. "The chiefs, the leaders of the people of God have neglected prayer and penance, and the devil has bedimmed their intelligence. They have become wandering stars which the old devil will drag along with his tail to make them perish. God will allow the old serpent to cause divisions among those who reign in every society and in every family. Physical and moral agonies will be suffered. God will abandon mankind to itself and will send punishments which will follow one after the other for more than thirty-five years."
  6. "The Society of men is on the eve of the most terrible scourges and of gravest events. Mankind must expect to be ruled with an iron rod and to drink from the chalice of the wrath of God."
  7. "May the curate of my Son, Pope Pius IX never leave Rome again after 1859; may he, however, be steadfast and noble, may he fight with the weapons of faith and love. I will be at his side. May he be on his guard against Napoleon: he is two-faced, and when he wishes to make himself Pope as well as Emperor, God will soon draw back from him. He is the master-mind on the sword he wished to use to force his people to be raised up."
  8. "Italy will be punished for her ambition in wanting to shake off the yoke of the Lord of Lords. And so she will be left to fight a war, blood will flow on all sides. Churches will be locked up or desecrated. Priests and religious orders will be hunted down, and made to die a cruel death. Several will abandon the faith, and a great number of priests and members of religious orders will break away from the true religion; among these people there will even be bishops."
  9. "May the Pope guard against the performers of miracles. For the time has come when the must astonishing wonders will take place on the earth and in the air."
  10. "In the year 1864, Lucifer together with a large number of demons will be unloosed from hell; they will put an end to faith little by little, even in those dedicated to God. They will blind them in such a way, that, unless they are blessed with a special grace, these people will take on the spirit of these angels of hell; several religious institutions will lose all faith and will lose many souls."
  11. "Evil books will be abundant on earth and the spirits of darkness will spread everywhere a universal slackening in all that concerns the service of God. They will have great power over Nature: there will be churches built to serve these spirits. People will be transported from one place to another by these evil spirits, even priests, for they will not have been guided by the good spirit of the Gospel which is a spirit of humility, charity and zeal for the glory of God. On occasions, the dead and the righteous will be brought back to life. (That is to say that these dead will take on the form of righteous souls which had lived on earth, in order to lead men further astray; these so-called resurrected dead, who will be nothing but the devil in this form, will preach another Gospel contrary to that of the true Christ Jesus, denying the existence of Heaven; that is also to say, the souls of the damned. All these souls will appear as if fixed to their bodies)."
  12. "Everywhere there will be extraordinary wonders, as true faith has faded and false light brightens the people. Woe to the Princes of the Church who think only of piling riches upon riches to protect their authority and dominate with pride."
  13. "The Vicar of my Son will suffer a great deal because for a while the Church will yield to large persecution, a time of darkness and the Church will witness a frightful crisis."
  14. "The true faith to the Lord having been forgotten, each individual will want to be on his own and be superior to people of same identity. They will abolish civil rights as well as ecclesiastical. All order and all justice would be trampled underfoot ,and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension would be seen, without love for country or family."
  15. "The Holy Father will suffer a great deal. I will be with him until the end and receive his sacrifice."
  16. "The mischievous would attempt his life several times to do harm and shorten his days but neither him nor his successor will see the triumph of the Church of God."
  17. "All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds."
  18. "In the year 1865, there will be desecration of holy places. In convents, the flowers of the Church will decompose and the devil will make himself like the King of all hearts. May those in charge of religious communities be on their guard against the people they must receive, for the devil will resort to all his evil tricks to introduce sinners into religious orders, for disorder and the love of carnal pleasures will be spread all over the earth."
  19. "France, Italy, Spain and England will be at war. Blood will flow in the streets. Frenchman will fight Frenchman, Italian will fight Italian. A general war will follow which will be appalling. For a time, God will cease to remember France and Italy because the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been forgotten. The wicked will make use of all their evil ways. Men will kill each other, massacre each other even in their homes."
  20. "At the first blow of His thundering sword, the mountains and all Nature will tremble in terror, for the disorders and crimes of men have pierced the vault of the heavens. Paris will burn and Marseille will be engulfed. Several cities will be shaken down and swallowed up by earthquakes. People will believe that all is lost. Nothing will be seen but murder; nothing will be heard but the clash of arms and blasphemy."
  21. "The righteous will suffer greatly. Their prayers, their penances, and their tears will rise up to Heaven. And all of God's people will beg for forgiveness and mercy, and will plead for my help and intercession. And then Jesus Christ, in an act of His justice and His great mercy, will command His Angels to have all His enemies put to death. Suddenly, the persecutors of the Church of Jesus Christ and all those given over to sin will perish and the earth will become desert-like. And then peace will be made, and man will be reconciled with God. Jesus Christ will be served, worshiped and glorified. Charity will flourish everywhere. The new kings will be the right arm of the holy Church, which will be strong, humble, pious in It's poor but fervent imitation of the virtues of Jesus Christ. The Gospel will be preached everywhere and mankind will make great progress in it's faith, for there will be unity among the workers of Jesus Christ and man will live in fear of God."
  22. "This peace among men will be short-lived. Twenty-five years of plentiful harvests will make them forget that the sins of men are the cause of all the troubles on this earth."
  23. "A forerunner of the Antichrist, with his troops gathered from several nations, will fight against the true Christ, the only Saviour of the world. He will shed much blood and will want to annihilate the worship of God to make himself be looked upon as a God."
  24. "The earth will be struck by calamities of all kinds (in addition to plague and famine which will be widespread). There will be a series of wars until the last war, which will then he fought by the ten Kings of the Antichrist, all of whom will have one and the same plan and will be the only rulers of the world. Before this comes to pass, there will be a kind of false peace in the world. People will think of nothing but amusement. The wicked will give themselves over to all kinds of sin. But the children of the holy Church, the children of my faith, my true followers, they will grow in their love for God and in all the virtues most precious to me. Blessed are the souls humbly guided by the Holy Spirit! I shall fight at their side until they reach a fullness of years."
  25. "Nature is asking for vengeance because of man, and she trembles with dread at what must happen to the earth stained with crime. Tremble, earth, and you who proclaim yourselves as serving Jesus Christ and who, on the inside, only adore yourselves, tremble, for God will hand you over to His enemy, because the holy places are in a state of corruption. Many convents are no longer houses of God, but the grazing-grounds of Asmodeas and his like. It will be during this time that the Antichrist will be born of a Hebrew nun, a false virgin who will communicate with the old serpent, the master of impurity, his father will be B.. At birth, he will spew out blasphemy; he will have teeth, in a word, he will be the devil incarnate. He will scream horribly, he will perform wonders, he will feed on nothing but impurity. He will have brothers who, although not devils incarnate like him, will be children of evil. At the age of twelve, they will draw attention upon themselves by the gallant victories they will have won. Soon they will each lead armies, aided by the legions of hell."
  26. "The seasons will be altered, the earth will produce nothing but bad fruit. The stars will lose their regular motion. The moon will only reflect a faint reddish glow. Water and fire will give the earth's globe convulsions and terrible earthquakes which will swallow up mountains, cities, etc..."
  27. "Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist."
  28. "The demons of the air together with the Antichrist will perform great wonders on earth and in the atmosphere, and men will become more and more perverted. God will take care of his faithful servants and men of good will. The Gospel will be preached everywhere, and all peoples of all nations will get to know the truth."
  29. "I make an urgent appeal to the earth. I call on the true disciples of the living God who reigns in Heaven; I call on the true followers of Christ made man, the only true Saviour of men; I call on my children, the true faithful, those who have given themselves to me so that I may lead them to my divine Son, those whom I carry in my arms, so to speak, those who have lived on my spirit. Finally, I call on the Apostles of the Last Days, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ who have lived in scorn for the world and for themselves, in poverty and in humility, in scorn and in silence, in prayer and in mortification, in chastity and in union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world. It is time they came out and filled the world with light. Go and reveal yourselves to be my cherished children. I am at I your side and within you, provided that your faith is the light which shines upon you in these unhappy days. May your zeal make you famished for the glory and the honor of Jesus Christ. Fight, children of light, you, the few who can see. For now is the time of all times, the end of all ends."
  30. "The Church will be in eclipse, the world will be in dismay. But now Enoch and Eli will come, filled with the Spirit of God. They will preach with the might of God, and men of good will will believe in God, and many souls will be comforted. They will make great steps forward through the virtue of the Holy Spirit and will condemn the devilish lapses of the Antichrist. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! There will be bloody wars and famines, plagues and infectious diseases. It will rain with a fearful hail of animals. There will be thunderstorms which will shake cities, earthquakes which will swallow up countries. Voices will be heard in the air. Men will beat their heads against walls, call for their death, and on another side death will be their torment. Blood will flow on all sides. Who will be the victor if God does not shorten the length of the test? All the blood, the tears and the prayers of the righteous, God will relent. Enoch and Eli will be put to death. Pagan Rome will disappear. The fire of Heaven will fall and consume three cities. All the universe will be struck with terror and many will let themselves be led astray because they have not worshipped the true Christ who lives among them. It is time; the sun is darkening; only faith will survive."
  31. "Now is the time; the abyss is opening. Here is the King of Kings of darkness, here is the Beast with his subjects, calling himself the saviour of the world. He will rise proudly into the air to go to Heaven. He will be smothered by the breath of the Archangel Saint Michael. He will fall, and the earth, which will have been in a continuous series of evolutions for three days, will open up its firy bowels; and he will have plunged for eternity with all his followers into the everlasting chasms of hell. And then water and fire will purge the earth and consume all the works of men's pride and all will be renewed. God will be served and glorified."



150 posted on 04/02/2002 5:46:30 AM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: matamoros
As I stated in another post,many point to the CURRENT Pope falsely. The RC Church will (is) being attacked by the evil one to the point of infiltrating. Too anyone doubting or knocking the teachings of the RC Church. I ask why is it modern day devil worshippers (ask any local police departments) physically steal the Host (Holy Communion) in their black masses to the devil.If the sacrament at Holy MAss were not real (sacred) (of God) then why would they steal holy hosts and mock the Holy Mass?

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SAINT MALACHY

151 posted on 04/02/2002 6:04:48 AM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: antidemocommie;ALL

WORLD RELIGION PROMOTED BY THE U.N. WILL BE THE WORKS OF THE ANTI-CHRIST.


152 posted on 04/02/2002 6:12:17 AM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: antidemocommie
Israeli Army Deliberately Killed Christians in Bethlehem.
153 posted on 04/02/2002 9:14:20 AM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: who knows what evil?
"...What makes American Christians think that are so privileged that they will never face the level of suffering that their brethren overseas face on a daily basis? Are they uninformed? Or are they just arrogant? Hundreds upon hundreds of Christians are being slaughtered in China, the Sudan, Indonesia, and so forth; and yet Christians in this country just go about their la-de-da daily lives, convinced that they will be "raptured outta here..."

I can only imagine the type of people you call Christians. There are many loving, prayerful, dedicated Christians in the USA, that understand full well the slaughter of fellow believers elsewhere. Are you saying that unless someone is "slaughtered" or denied freedom to worship openly (as in many countries), that they are arrogant or uninformed?

154 posted on 04/02/2002 11:28:40 AM PST by monkeywrench
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To: Proud2BAmerican
Actually the comments I made in that post come from a book I read. I do not believe everything that is said. I posted it hoping I would get some comments about the info and maybe some more insight.

I do not engage in the other religion bashing. And I certainly did not mean to demean you or anyone else. I probaly should have stated that those were not my thoughts but from someone else.

Since the bible says there will be one religion, I suspect catholics and the pope will be involved. It is easy to see the hindus and buddahs following a new age religion but the muslims present a big problem.

The bottom line is I was hoping there would be some discussion of my post. I did not mean to insult anyone.

155 posted on 04/02/2002 12:32:04 PM PST by winodog
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To: 2sheep
See post 155? I do not understand the tripod icon.
156 posted on 04/02/2002 12:35:07 PM PST by winodog
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To: Fifth Business
See post 155. I am certainly not positive about all those statements but many of them can be backed up.
157 posted on 04/02/2002 12:37:38 PM PST by winodog
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To: monkeywrench
Are you saying that unless someone is "slaughtered" or denied freedom to worship openly (as in many countries), that they are arrogant or uninformed?

No.



158 posted on 04/02/2002 1:34:32 PM PST by who knows what evil?
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To: antidemocommie
BTTT for further discussion and interest.
159 posted on 04/02/2002 7:10:38 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: winodog
Now what do you see?  This is from the King of Jordan's site, uploaded to FR.


160 posted on 04/02/2002 7:13:29 PM PST by 2sheep
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