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The Suspicious Observer website says there is a gigantic galactic molecular cloud that is moving through our solar system, that affects the sun and its planets, causing a change in gravity.

The site says, due to molecular accretion the mass of the sun is increasing, and will cause the sun to have an increase in solar flares, and eventually a micro-nova.

The Bible seems to support their take on such things.

The 12 disciples asked Jesus what would be the signs of his 2nd coming and end of the world, Matt. 24:3. His principle sign was the fig tree, when you shall see it putting forth its leaves you know summer is nigh, Matt. 24:32.

The nation state of Israel according to Jesus, is that principle sign, Shortly after WW2, many centuries after the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD, the nation state was reestablished. And, even recently, has been making headlines.

And this is where, first the Soviet Union, and now Putin’s Russian coalition, enter the prophetic picture. First the Soviets and now Putin, have consistently backed the Muslim enemies of Israel since the reestablishment of the nation of Israel. These things concurrent with the major prophetic sign of the “budding of the fig tree.”

Those who watch the unfolding of prophetic events foretold by Jesus in Matt. 24, see the prophecy of Gog-Magog, Ezekiel 38, concurrent with his words about the fig tree. What could the hegemon northern confederacy north of Israel and headed by “Gog,” as described in Ezekiel 38, be but Russia’s Putin and his allies? Most interestingly, those allies Ezekiel 38 accurately identifies.

It is no coincidence that these things are played out before our eyes, and at this particular time, as the Bible says they would.

So, yes, as one who believes God knows the future, as we stand now at this point in time, sees Putin and his Muslim confederation prophesied in Ezekiel 38, as Gog-Magog.

Charismatic eschatology, especially that of the NAR, is a combo of preterism and post-millennialism. Another name for it: “Kingdom Now Dominionism” (millennial kingdom).

Which features something they call, “the seven mountain mandate.” They believe they have a mandate to take dominion over the seven power centers of the world, its politics, finance, religion, entertainment (especially the media), etc.

Once they have taken the “dominion” over these, the world will have a thousand year utopia of peace and prosperity...after which, the 2nd coming of Jesus. Hence, “post” millennialism.

Never mind the fact that the Bible teaches no such thing.

A Christian nation was no doubt what the Christians fleeing religious persecution in Europe had in mind. But most nowadays, give the Freemasons and the Illuminati a pass on the role they played in the founding of this country.

Freemasonry holds to pantheist universalism, America should be a pluralist society embracing any and all religions whatever they be, seeing the idea of a “Christian nation” as sectarian. Founding fathers such as Washington, Ben Franklin, Jefferson, were Freemasons.

The affection of Franklin and Jefferson, for instance, for the religious aims of the Illuminati in Europe, was also widely known...at least at one time.

Were it not for the hand of Freemasonry, the Christian aims of the original pioneers of this country would have carried the day, this would indeed be a Christian nation.

Here’s a youtube video that speaks to these things.
“The true religious aims of the Founding Fathers/The Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-myElJB_VNg

The goat-like Baphomet puts me in mind of “the Gates of Hell” in Matt. 16, where Jesus took his disciples to. It was there at Caesarea Philippi Pantheists worshiped the goat-like god Pan. This is where the caricature of the devil in people’s minds of a goat-like figure comes from.

Jesus took his disciples to experience this place, “the gates of hell,” because he knew he would shortly be crucified, and the disciples’ mission field would be “the gates of hell,” a world ruled by the devil.

Yet the church he would found, with his apostles its foundation, Himself its chief cornerstone, would prevail. Upon Peter’s revelation and confession that Christ is “the Son of the living God,” he said, “the gates of hell would not prevail against it,” verses 15-18.

Wars and rumors of wars indeed.

Even the newly elected president of Argentina is beating war drums, he’s calling for Argentina to take the Falkland Islands. We should say try again, as the iron lady Thatcher of Britain sent the Argies home with their tails between their legs the first time they tried it.

Preterists, Historicists, and Futurists.

At our present point of time in history, Futurists - I’m one of them - see AI playing a major role in the end time great tribulation when those who don’t know God nor their Bibles will worship the image of the beast.

Not so the Preterists and Historicists:

Not so the Preterists as they see the prophesies about the great tribulaton and the beast, or antichrist, fulfilled over 1900 years ago (the fall of Jerusalem, 70AD).

And not so the Historicists as they see the prophecies about the great tribulation and antichrist an ongoing thing throughout history during the last 1900 years...not future. The antichrist, or beast, is not an individual according to them.

In which way did you mean the word, “Catholic?” International or universal, as Protestants and Evangelicals see it? Or the way the Papacy sees it?

A giant among the early fathers was Irenaeus, who originally was from the Smyrna church in Asia Minor, before he became pastor at Lyons, France. Where he as a youngster knew Polycarp, who in turn was a disciple of the apostle John.

Irenaeus wrote, “what was invisible about the Son is the Father; and what was visible about the Father is the Son.” The apostle John said as much in John 1:18, and also the apostle Paul in Col. 1:15 (the Son is “the image of the invisible God”).

Oneness Pentecostals simply believe that the Father is not an old grey bearded man, as pictured so often in middle ages art, but is Spirit, Christ said in John 4:24, “God is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.” God the Father an invisible and omnipresent Spirit that fills the universe.

While the Son has flesh and bones, Christ said, “a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have,” Luke 24:39.

Oneness Pentecostals thus believe in the Father and the Son, they do not deny the Father as some here on this thread allege. They do not believe in “Jesus Only” as some on this thread also allege. They believe the Father is as the New Testament describes him, eternal and omnipresent Spirit, visibly revealed in the Son.

The governor of Georgia attended the last Davos meeting. When he comes back from this next one, lets see if comes back pushing their theme of trust (so called).

Shame on Georgia for electing such an idiot.

I’m relieved to hear him say he has not settled on a running mate, meaning Nikki Haley is just a rumor. If he had picked her, I wouldn’t be voting for him. If so, it would indicate he hasn’t learned a thing about having people on his team from the swamp.

The Ted Stevens International Airport, Anchorage, Alaska, has a bronze statue and plaque of former Alaska US Senator Ted Stevens. Mentioned on the plaque: he had been in WW2 one of the C-46 pilots who “flew the hump.”

“And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.” 2 Thess. 1:7,8. KJV

Paul continues in the same vein in 2:1, speaking of the same coming he had just described.
“Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him.”

The “coming” here is the one he had just described. Which is after the tribulation when he comes in judgment (Matt. 24:29-31). Not a secret rapture.

Concerning that “day,” the day of his coming, a day of judgment, he goes on to say:

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, the son of perdition.
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” verses 3,4.

The full preterists say the opposite. The rebellion and the antichrist came first, then came the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto him. They have the rebellion, the antichrist, and our gathering unto Christ as past events, not future, Having already taken place about two thousand years ago.

Likewise, the pre-tribs on FR choose to be deceived, which Paul clearly warns against, teaching that Christ comes first (in an alleged pretrib rapture), and NOT THE ANTICHRIST as Paul clearly says.

The apostle Paul says the rebellion and antichrist comes first, and we should not be deceived on this by any means.

The ECF writings of early Christianity, have Jesus’ resurrection on the first day of the week... not Saturday.

It is groups like the Seventh Day Adventists, who have an axe to grind on this issue, who believe having church on Sunday was not observed in church history until Constantine, while having Jesus resurrected on Saturday.

Again, the ECF long before Constantine, believed otherwise.

Thank God for Peter Jones. Very few in Christendom even know what Gnosticism is. He has a way of explaining it, that most can understand. Having read his material, I see the evil fruits of it all around us.

I went to your link. It had good stuff on the ECF and the restrainer. The ECF are also very good on the rapture and the 2nd coming issue, which they uniformly saw as one event...not the two separate events of the pretribs.

Thanks for the pic. Sheesh, in comparison to the others the C-130 looks like one of the Alaska bush planes we have around here.

The Russian one looks ridiculously huge. Since their country is so huge, they must think their planes have to be.

I would think a big heavy plane like a C-130 would handle that kind of weather better than most planes. Am I right?

I went to your ECF links, good info. The ECF believed that the then-existing Imperial Roman Empire would be taken out of the way, then would arise a ten nation consortium (ten horns).

These things would have to occur before a “little horn” would arise among the ten, who would be the man of sin, the antichrist.

This deserves repeating: the imperial Roman Empire that existed in their times, would have to be “taken out of the way,” before “that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming.”

The historic evidence, is Imperial Rome was what hindered the appearance of antichrist. It was Imperial Rome that had to be “taken out of the way,” not the church in an alleged pretrib rapture! There is no evidence in the writings of these men that they believed the hindrance was a pretrib rapture.

These things, including the antichrist, are “first,” then Jesus Christ (his singular undivided 2nd coming destroys the antichrist).

Did the Euphrates dry up?

>I might add, and Hal Lindsey’s people don’t what to hear this, but has the antichrist appeared? Let no man deceive you 2 Thess. 2:3.4 warns, the antichrist has to come first... not a pretrib rapture.