To: Smittie; xjcsa
Yes it's true that every generation believes it's the last, but Israel wasn't around during the previous ones, so that's how we know his return is near. What makes you think modern Israel is at all related to biblical Israel?
IOW, what makes you think Israel is “around” biblically speaking?
12 posted on
02/24/2009 1:12:44 PM PST by
topcat54
("Dispensationalism -- like crack for the eschatologically naive.")
To: topcat54
[Smittie:]
Yes it's true that every generation believes it's the last, but Israel wasn't around during the previous ones, so that's how we know his return is near.[Topcat:]What makes you think modern Israel is at all related to biblical Israel?
IOW, what makes you think Israel is “around” biblically speaking?
Exactly. Plus, if modern Israel is the key and the Dispensational view is correct, shouldn't Edgar Whisenant have been correct about the "rapture" being in 1988?
14 posted on
02/24/2009 1:47:50 PM PST by
xjcsa
(And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
To: topcat54
dozens and dozens and dozens of
SCRIPTURES for one.
63 posted on
02/25/2009 11:06:39 AM PST by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: topcat54
There is enough information to stimulate good debate.
We’ll know for sure eventually. ;)
68 posted on
02/25/2009 11:30:17 AM PST by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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