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Posted on 07/25/2009 2:40:04 AM PDT by Quix
The Bible says we cannot know the time of the Lord's return (Matthew 25:13). But the Scriptures make it equally clear that we can know the season of the Lord's return (1 Thessalonians 5:2-6):
"You yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night... But you brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night or darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober."
This passage asserts that Jesus is coming like "a thief in the night." But then it proceeds to make it clear that this will be true only for the pagan world and not for believers. His return should be no surprise to those who know Him and His Word, for they have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to give them understanding of the nature of the times.
Furthermore, the Scriptures give us signs to watch for — signs that will signal that Jesus is ready to return. The writer of the Hebrew letter referred to these signs when he proclaimed that believers should encourage one another when they see the day of judgment drawing near (Hebrews 10:25-27). Jesus also referred to the end time signs in His Olivet Discourse, given during the last week of His life (Matthew 24 and Luke 21). Speaking of a whole series of signs which He had given to His disciples, He said, "When you see all these things, recognize that He [the Son of Man — that is, Jesus] is near, right at the door" (Matthew 24:33).
A Personal Experience
Every time I think of "Signs of the Times," I am reminded of a great man of God named Elbert Peak. I had the privilege of participating with him in a Bible prophecy conference held in Orlando, Florida in the early 1990's. Mr. Peak was about 80 years old at the time.
He had been assigned the topic, "The Signs of the Times." He began his presentation by observing, "Sixty years ago when I first started preaching, you had to scratch around like a chicken to find one sign of the Lord's soon return."
He paused for a moment, and then added, "But today there are so many signs I'm no longer looking for them. Instead, I'm listening for a sound — the sound of a trumpet!"
The First Sign
One hundred years ago in 1907 there was not one single, tangible, measurable sign that indicated we were living in the season of the Lord's return. The first to appear was the Balfour Declaration which was issued by the British government on November 2, 1917.
This Declaration was prompted by the fact that during World War I the Turks sided with the Germans. Thus, when Germany lost the war, so did the Turks, and the victorious Allies decided to divide up both the German and Turkish empires.
The Turkish territories, called the Ottoman Empire, contained the ancient homeland of the Jewish people — an area the Romans had named Palestine after the last Jewish revolt in 132-135 AD.
In 1917 Palestine included all of modern day Israel and Jordan. In the scheme the Allies concocted for dividing up the German and Turkish territories, Britain was allotted Palestine, and this is what prompted the Balfour Declaration. In that document, Lord Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, declared that it was the intention of the British government to establish in Palestine "a national home for the Jewish people."
The leading Evangelical in England at the time was F. B. Meyer. He immediately recognized the prophetic significance of the Declaration, for he was well aware that the Scriptures prophesy that the Jewish people will be regathered to their homeland in unbelief right before the return of the Messiah (Isaiah 11:11-12).
Meyer sent out a letter to the Evangelical leaders of England asking them to gather in London in December to discuss the prophetic implications of the Balfour Declaration. In that letter, he stated, "The signs of the times point toward the close of the time of the Gentiles... and the return of Jesus can be expected any moment."
Before Meyer's meeting could be convened, another momentous event occurred. On December 11, 1917 General Edmund Allenby liberated the city of Jerusalem from 400 years of Turkish rule.
There is no doubt that these events in 1917 marked the beginning of the end times because they led to the worldwide regathering of the Jewish people to their homeland and the reestablishment of their state.
Since 1917
Since the time of the Balfour Declaration, we have witnessed throughout the 20th Century the appearance of sign after sign pointing to the Lord's soon return. There are so many of these signs today, in fact, that one would have to be either biblically illiterate or spiritually blind not to realize that we are living on borrowed time.
I have personally been searching the Bible for years in an effort to identify all the signs, and it has not been an easy task to get a hold on them. That's because there are so many of them, both in the Old and New Testaments.
I have found that the best way to deal with them is to put them in categories, and in doing that, I have come up with six categories of end time signs. We will explore these catetories beginning in Part 2 of this series.
Theotokos is not an English word...So I wouldn't know what you are talking about...Translate it into English and I can respond...
The closest English translation would be "God bearer", but you've already made it clear that you subscribe to Nestorianism.
Photos are easily faked.
Is his employer a Jewish psychic from Brooklyn who converses with an entity named “Z”?
>>Theotokos is not an English word...So I wouldn’t know what you are talking about...Translate it into English and I can respond<<
I wouldn’t suggest Google nowadays but Bing is very helpful.
>>Is his employer a Jewish psychic from Brooklyn who converses with an entity named “Z”?<<
I’ll have to find out.
Which becomes even more likely when the ONLY source of the photo is a website for some fringe group which believes that everyone who does not believe EXACTLY as they believe is damned.
Where is this two sided cross?
It still looks like mary/child on one side and christ on the other.
Sorry pal...You mean it's not Catholic...And I agree with that...
There's no need to even go beyond John. 6...
Joh 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Joh 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
Sorry buddy, the heresy's all yours...You own it...I know nothing about the Nestorians but I'll bet they were a far sight closer to God than your religion ever was...
Years ago I would often ask people if they were a Christian...The Catholics always said NO...They always said they were Catholic...I have never had anything in common with a Catholic so I guess if you want to call yourself a Christian, I'll have to find another word to describe myself...
I'll just call myself a bible-believing disciple of Jesus...You can have the Christian name...I don't think it's going to fit very well though...
Because you’re not affected by “Mary syndrome”, you don’t see it as evil.
Others do.
So then, since you are siding with Nestorianism, at what PRECISE moment did Jesus Christ become God?
It took your religion 400 years to acknowledge that God is a Trinity...
Followers of the Apostles knew about the Trinity for 400 years before your crew would accept it...So now your group is an expert on the matter, eh???
Aside from the fact that your religion now boasts about the Trinity, it's clear they never did and still don't know what It is...
Where do you guys get off criticizing Spirit filled, Bible believing Christians???
You ought to pick up a Bible and do some serious praying and ask God to show you something...
I ask God to put the fix in for ya...
No she's not...I don't know about Marysecretary but I'm having fun watching you squirm...
Followers of the Apostles knew about the Trinity for 400 years before your crew would accept it...So now your group is an expert on the matter, eh???
You base this on what EXACTLY?
Aside from the fact that your religion now boasts about the Trinity, it's clear they never did and still don't know what It is...
Where do you guys get off criticizing Spirit filled, Bible believing Christians???
Where did the "Bible believing Christians" find the word "Trinity" in the Bible? For that matter, where did they get the Bibles?
WHO compiled the Canon of Scripture and WHEN? Please be specific.
>>Where do you guys get off criticizing Spirit filled, Bible believing Christians???<<
ROTFLMBO!!!!
You’re not seriously asking this?
Okay, so where do “you guys” get off criticizing Spirit Filled, Bible believing Christian Catholics?
Thanks for the best laugh of the morning. “Sweet” “Christians” who come on to threads and bash the Catholics suddenly get indignant.
I have seen that people get defensive when backing into a corner. Have you noticed that Wagglebee?
Don't make stuff up...I said that I know nothing about Nestorians...But I do know some bible...And I'll bet if I searched a little bit, I'd find that the Nestorians refused to bow down to your pope...
>>It took your religion 400 years to acknowledge that God is a Trinity...<<
Studying other languages can help with understanding History. My 9 & 11 year olds study Latin and it helps tremendously.
“The word trias (of which the Latin trinitas is a translation) is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about A.D. 180. He speaks of “the Trinity of God [the Father], His Word and His Wisdom (To Autolycus II.15). The term may, of course, have been in use before his time. Afterwards it appears in its Latin form of trinitas in Tertullian (On Pudicity 21). In the next century the word is in general use. It is found in many passages of Origen (”In Ps. xvii”, 15). The first creed in which it appears is that of Origen’s pupil, Gregory Thaumaturgus. In his Ekthesis tes pisteos composed between 260 and 270, he writes.....
>>And I’ll bet if I searched a little bit, I’d find that the Nestorians refused to bow down to your pope...<<
Understanding that the doctrine is identified with Nestorius (c. 386–c. 451), Archbishop of Constantinople, I would say, wrong.
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