Just so you'd quit whinin' I looked up your man Ribera...He hung arund in the 16th Century...Catholic...Although he believed in some sort of Rapture, because of his Catholic upbringing he couldn't piece the scriptures together enough to make sense of it...
But that's as far back as your history books go??? Many of the early church fathers spoke of the Rapture...You ought to check them out...
Just so you’d quit whinin’ I looked up your man Ribera...He hung arund in the 16th Century...Catholic...Although he believed in some sort of Rapture, because of his Catholic upbringing he couldn’t piece the scriptures together enough to make sense of it...
First, he’s not my man. He would be YOUR man, because he is literally the one who began the lie we all now know as the pre trib rapture theory. Also, first time you have ever heard of him or looked him up? What took you so long? SouthernClaire knew “every dam* thing” about him. You’re late to the picnic.
No, Iscool. Jesuit Ribera PURPOSELY distorted scripture to convince Protestants and the rest of the world, who were accusing the Catholic Church of being the Antichrist power, that the Antichrist was some guy at the end of the world and could in no way be the persecuting Antichrist power at that time (which they were). He PURPOSELY created a FALSE theory (Futurism) to deflect suspicion somewhere else and far away from the Catholic Church. The whole mission of the Jesuits on this earth was COUNTER REFORMATION. Didn’t you know that? Have you ever read the Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction. You should if you haven’t read it already. They SWEAR allegiance to the Catholic Church and the POPE. Here’s a little taste if you want to click on the link:
“I furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity present, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants’ heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the Society of Jesus.”
Did the Protestant Reformers buy it? NO THEY DID NOT. They told the Catholic Church to get lost.
The ECF were HISTORICISTS, not FUTURISTS. That is a fact. Repeating the lies of Andy Woods, Ken Johnson, and the like, won’t change the facts.
Here’s some information AGAIN for you to look at (if you want to). You follow the Catholic Church and you don’t even realize it. That’s the sad part.
The Catholic Origins of Futurism and Preterism
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/antichrist.htm