“It seems that Chip and others now want to claim we are the anti-Christ, because we believe the plain truth of scripture.”
Consider the source. I’ve read his posts and I’m not surprised he’d come up with that one eventually.
The first part of the statement above remains a brazen falsehood.
The 2nd part posted above remains a brazen falsehood as well.
The associations and observed FACTS about the similarities and historical, current and logical future uses of such a perspective as the REPLACEMENTARIAN one are
HYPER-CONVINCING
the REPLACEMENTARIAN perspective
The proponents of the perspective have had umpteen upon umpteen threads and thousands of posts to demonstrate otherwise and the examples, instead, get brazenly worse and worse. One begins to wonder whether there's a true interest, provision, tolerance for the TRUTH of Scripture really resident within the thought system much at all.
Or is it all such a slick TRADITION OF MEN/DOCTRINE OF DEMONS foisted from the pit of hell so smoothly that unwitting otherwise authentic Christians have just swallowed it hook line and sinker as so many did "Higher Criticism" a century or two ago.
I'm convinced that there are psychodynamic and sociological reasons at work as well but the real rot must be a slick deception in the demonic realm as outlined above. A number of the proponents, at least hereon, are, to my mind, mostly earnest authentic believers truly seeking to know and walk with God.
On the other hand, even with some of them, the flavors, nuances, . . . something . . . of the presentation of the horrible Scripture mangling PERSISTENTLY HAVE VIRTUALLY ALL the earmarks of hell as origin. That's hard to explain--even given the most charitable desire to do so in a favorable light . . . unless what I've described above has more than a little basis in fact.
”Luk 21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Now that is the plain truth of the scripture...
So why do you keep saying you believe the plain truth of the scripture??? The plain truth of the scripture says when Jesus comes at His 2nd coming, they will see Him...You can't get any more plain than that...
Therefore, you DO NOT believe the plain truth of the scripture...
Mar 13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven
And you don't believe God here either...
So God sent his multitudes of angels from one end of Heaven to the other and collected his 'elect', including those on and in the earth
And then what did He do with them???
You don't believe that happend...And that's more plain truth of the Bible...
It appears that the plain truth of the scripture has escaped you...
It's toooooooo bad that you failed to read John's epistle before spouting off about your preteristic Gnosticism. Keep using that preterist shovel of yours and you will only be digging a deeper hole for yourself.