Posted on 05/21/2007 6:59:42 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
That is awesome and I'm looking forward to it but be very careful about what it means. It does not mean we will be taken away before the time of Satan. This verse was reference to the 2nd advent of Christ, not a "rapture" as taught today.
2Thess.2:2.Not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
3.Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.
10.And with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11.And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie.
My belief is that the "lie" is rapture. God sends this delusion to test us. Let no man deceive you!
Jesus "foretold us all things" and He never told us we would be taken from the tribulation. He did say that He would "never leave us or forsake us". He loves us so we have nothing to fear. Rather than rapture us away He taught us what to do in Matthew 24 (which He began with "Let no man deceive you"), Mark 13 and Luke 21.
When He comes again, 1 Thess 4:, it will be the 2nd. advent and all are changed. What a wonderful time.
At the 2nd coming he steps physically on the mount of Olives. These are 2 different events imo.
We may interpret the scriptures differently, but you are no less my brother or sister. Meet you there one way or the other, sooner or later. ;)
Praise God!
Although I fully believe in the Rapture from my own studies, if I am wrong though He slay me yet will I trust Him.
Thank you for your kind reply. It's a touchy subject for many. If I may say one more thing on the subject - if you are correct and there is a rapture then we will all be changed. We would have no choice. If someone comes saying he is Christ, acting like Christ and wants you to follow him just pinch yourself - If you are in a flesh body it is the anti-christ (instead of christ). Don't follow him and always remember, he's really good at deception because "The whole world will wonder after him".
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Good advice.
If I hear no trumpet, start flying upward, and become immortal
I will know he aint the one. ;)
I see what you mean all the time. It’s 100% britney spears in the creative artistic department, too.
Here’s a possible answer to your question from a Rabbi’s sermon notes: http://tinyurl.com/p8688
I recently heard about that and think about it a lot. I also think about the music and dancing ((yeah!))
Me, too! Heaven will not be a boring church service. We’ll do everything up there that God wishes we’d do down here (smile) to worship and praise His glorious person.
Yes, I expect we are. This vale of tears holds nothing for me besides my family and my concern for their salvation. That’s why I’m still here, I think. My family is my ‘assignment’ from God.
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