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Posted on 03/24/2024 5:42:22 AM PDT by cuz1961
MARCH 24, 2024
The Rampant Practice Of Mocking The Rapture Should Remind Us That Time Is Running Out
By Amir Tsarfati March 24, 2024
As we await the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13), there are a myriad of indications that the hour is late and the time of our redemption is near. We can certainly see indications of the nearing end of the church age in all that Israel is experiencing. We can also note that the Ezekiel war must be coming in the not too distant future in light of developments related to that battle. Add to those, the move toward globalism, evil and good exchanging definitions, and on and on the evidence of the lateness of the hour goes.
There are also signs within the church that things are wrapping up, and, sadly, they are negative. The Bible does not say there will be a huge revival or global Great Awakening prior to the rapture. As a matter of fact, it says the opposite will be taking place.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 KJV – “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
2 Peter 3:3-4 KJV – “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
When sound doctrine is not endured, there are consequences that will be experienced by those who will listen to teachers that scratch their itching ears with things that aren’t true. This will contribute to the scoffing that Peter says will be present in the last days. The Greek word translated as “scoffers” can also mean “mockers”, and it is the same word that would be used to describe false teachers.
To scoff or mock the teaching of the rapture of the church is to not endure sound doctrine. The rampant practice of mocking the rapture of the church should remind us that time is running out and the church age is rapidly coming to a close.
When you talk about Christ and you deny His resurrection, your whole faith is basically gone. But when you talk about Christ and you don’t deny His resurrection but you deny His coming back to take us, then what’s the point of His resurrection? You’re doubting the literal promise of His physical return to this Earth; not just to touch Earth with His feet, but to meet us in the clouds and take us to be with Him.
John 14:2-3 KJV – “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
What makes this statement valid is that three days after His death, Jesus rose from the dead. Forty days after He rose from the dead, He ascended into heaven where He had come from and He did so in front of eyewitnesses. After He ascended into the clouds and disappeared from the eyewitnesses’ view, two angels said to the men:
Acts 1:11 KJV – “Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”
Jesus said in John 14 that He would receive us, and Revelation 19 makes it clear that when Jesus comes “in like manner” we will be with Him. That means we have to already be there in order to come with Him at His return. There is only one way that can happen, and that is the rapture.
[The presence of] scoffers tells us the hour is late and mockers will not endure sound doctrine, which includes the rapture of the church. This should create a sense of urgency in us for the lost and perishing around us, and raise our expectancy for that “moment and twinkling of an eye” experience we are all longing for. Sadly, many are not expecting what we are told is coming.
Matthew 24:44 KJV – “Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”
These people are acting the same as the individuals in the days of Noah. Everybody knows that in the days of Noah, there were very few people who prepared themselves for something great. What is it that the rest of them did? The Bible says in Matthew 24:
Matthew 24:37-39 KJV – “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
They didn’t want to hear what Noah had to say. They didn’t want to listen to the warnings that God, through Noah, was speaking to the people. So, just like those scoffers, they say, “Everything will stay the same.”
Why are they doing that, do you think? To put people to sleep and steal their hope. You see, the hope of the coming of Jesus is the most important thing that a believer can hold onto today and is the number one thing Satan wants to steal from you. And he’s going to use scoffers – sometimes from within, most times from outside – to tell you, “Where is the promise of his coming?”
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus.
Sure bro. You’ve turned a false doctrine into an essential truth. You need to rethink your faith.
No, it is not. “Replace” and “fulfillment” are obviously completely different things.
I am not a biblical scholar. I don’t see in the sciptures where believers will be spared tribulations or the Tribulations. I guess it’s how you read and interpret the word/way. Do not be discouraged if the rapture from the tribulations does not occur in you human/fallible way. Be prepared to go through the hardest testing ever. Just my opinion.
If that makes you feel better, no worries.
But “the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.”
Including the unconditional Abrahamic Covenant and land promises.
Anything else is simply theft from Israel.
It’s a fact, not feelings. Feelings have nothing to do with it. It’s all about the truth, and the Truth will set you free.
Try the facts of Romans 11
And the unconditional Abrahamic Covenant.
You can hate on the pre-mid-post tribulation rapture all you want, but it doesn’t shake my faith in Christ. My faith is not based on the rapture. If it were to be undeniably proven false right now, I would still have the same faith I have now.
I could argue that by you refusing to believe in it (even by showing you all the verses-which I know you will confuse with the second coming), that you deny Christ’s very own words and therefore have no faith in him. There’s no point in arguing it. But the least you can do is use scripture instead of the already proven wrong, Darby theory.
This “fight” about the rapture has been getting more intense recently, which one has to question, why?
I’m not sure who’s fighting about it. Most Christians through church history have placed their hope in the physical return of Christ (essential doctrine)not some made up comic version.
It seems to me that, in dispensationalism, “The Rapture” takes the place in their theology that the resurrection should.
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ok.
i am done pulling punches.
you know damn well it was ILLEGAL TO OWN copies of the Scriptures... .. for most of the 1600 years under Catholicism ..........people dont believe what they dont know cuz they weren't allowed to read it....... ... If , 'father' never read those to the congregation then that explains the preterists favorite refrain of " most Christians throughout history.." the catholic had folk burned at the stake for having a bible of their own. .... ..https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/persecution_persecution/#:~:text=There%20was%20a%20time%20in,were%20martyred%20for%20doing%20both.... .. There was a time when there was no printed Bible in English. There was a time in England when under the Roman Catholic Church, it was illegal to translate the Scriptures into the common language from Latin. There was a time when it was illegal to read those illegal translations in public–or to own one..... ... .. There were times when people were martyred for doing both........ ... .. ... In England, William Tyndale, who became known as the Father of the English printed Bible, was forced to leave England in 1525 because of the wide-spread rumors about his project to prepare an English New Testament. He ended up in Germany near Martin Luther and in 1525, the first English Language New Testament was printed and copies smuggled back into England. ........ ......... ...Tyndale was finally captured in Belgium and his last words before ..... he was burned at the stake in 1536 .... ... ...for printing common language Bibles were: “Oh Lord, open the King of England's eyes.” This prayer would be answered just three years later when King Henry VIII finally allowed, and even funded, the printing of an English Bible. But before that, Myles Coverdale and John Rogers (who used the name Thomas Matthew) continued the work of Tyndale and moved the English Bible project forward. Coverdale finished the translation of the Old Testament and in 1535 he printed the first complete English language Bible. John Rogers went on to print the second complete English Bible in 1537. What is unique about the work of Rogers is that this is the first Bible completely translated from the original Greek and Hebrew sources. Since it was printed using the alias name Thomas Matthew, it is commonly called the Matthew's Bible. The significance of this Bible is that it set up the basic content, sources, and format of our present English Bible. Rogers was eventually burned at the stake for his translation work . /
they burned folk at the stake for having their own Bible
or one written un their language.
so take your
” most for most history didnt believe in “ crap
they didnt know cuz they weren't taught and couldn't find out for themselves by reading the bible .
so your #1 argument is a foul misdirection at best, and the most damning proof about the total dishonesty and bait and switch of preterism.
You lost me there. It was only illegal to use copies of heretical and poorly translated versions of the Scriptures, especially ones with erroneous and propagandized footnotes. People that could read could and did possess their own personal copies of the Scriptures both in Latin and the vernacular. Examples of many of them on on display in museums across Europe and the great spiritual writers of those times (both lay and religious) make reference to having them in their spiritual writings and quote Scripture directly from them. The rest of your post is equally misinformed.
AGAIN
here you are,,
” The Basher of the Accused” (tm)
bashing AGAIN
like a fanatic pagan
and lets face it
the pagans couldnt defeat the church so they joined it with their misuse of......
... Jesus’ pun .. ...... ...( petra/boulder/confession of faith /// pertros/pebble / peter ).....
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..of Christ that they invented the papacy with.
catholism is paganism that disguised their idol worship in christian names and costumes.
and took the scriptures away from the brethren so no one could figure that out. i think there have been millions of past and present true Christians attending catholic churches in spite of its deception . ... so bash away, AGAIN ,,its what you do. even your threads that promote anything are just bash threads in drag. .
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. you LIE
your a liar
and your father is the father of lies.
you rape the texts, the scriptures and truth.
its
what
you
do
when you arent burning folk at the stake
like Tyndale.
...1635 spit.
you
are
disgusting.
When a personal resorts to unhinged personal attacks, they have lost the argument. Good day.
. People that could read could and did possess their own personal copies of the Scriptures both in Latin and the vernacular
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your lies are so easily disproven
then you just repeat your lie like ms13nbc
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. People that could read could and did possess their own personal copies of the Scriptures both in Latin and the vernacular
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like tyndale ?
Tyndale in 1635 tried..
and got burnt at the stake
theres direct proof of your lie.
your lie was exposed and resisted.
and you run away
just
like
satan
The rest of your post is equally misinformed.
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. where have iheard that lately..
..oh ya
democrats
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matxists
media
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unhinged
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. my facts HINGE on history.
deal with it or not.
just quit lying,. or can you ?
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