Is a “Cashless Society” a Sign of the End?

American Vision ^ | July 20, 2009 | Gary DeMar

[Quix]

I prefer to communicate such truth to those with ears to hear and eyes to see.

There are ample places on the web if one’s own synapses have trouble arriving at a list of possibilities and choosing the most plausible one.

[just me]

I am complete in Christ... I know this.. God is with us... All we have to do is believe..... May God bless you with the truth..... Free in Christ is a beautiful thing.

[jusduat]

I know that I am in my end times. If Jesus delays his
return, it will not be very many years until I go to him.
Even so.....

[guitarplayer1953]

There is the parable of the man retrieved by the good Samaritan brought to the inn and he paid two days lodgings and then said that he would return. one day = 1000 years two days and I will return = 2000 years the time is neigh.

10:33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, 00504 10:34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine,(spirit & new birth) and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 00505 10:35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence,(two days wages) and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

[Quix]

Amen and likewise.

Blessings,

[Quix]

You are not alone in such a state!

Blessings,

[Jo Nuvark]

Interesting to use the story of the good Samaritan
as a metaphor for when Jesus will return for us.

[Frumanchu]

I prefer to communicate such truth to those with ears to hear and eyes to see. There are ample places on the web if one’s own synapses have trouble arriving at a list of possibilities and choosing the most plausible one.

Wow...and we Calvinists are the ones who get accused of selectively preaching and browbeating?

Your witness stinks, friend. The fact that you show such open contempt and hostility towards those who do not share your eschatological views makes it clear that a) your priorities are WAY out of whack, and b) you don't seem to be interested in extended much grace to anyone, regardless of the fact that they profess faith in the same Christ that extended you and I both enough grace to save our rotten, sinful souls.

How you can be at ease professing Christ out of the same mouth you use to attack others is truly beyond me.

[Quix]

Am quite happy to extend grace to individuals.

Perspectives that I believe will result in folks needlessly ending up in hell are a serious concern.

Some I have a fair amount of hostility toward those perspectives.

[Quix]

Thanks for your very personal assessment of my witness and my priorities.

I shall take your assessment under prayerful advisement.

Cheers.

[Lee N. Field]

What is replacementarian?

Quix's personal term for those of us who happen to believe what Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:

11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—
12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility

[topcat54]

Your characteristic paradoxical confirmation of the truth is persistently welcome.

And your largely vacuous comments are never welcome, just annoying.

[Quix]

Another confirmation.

How nice.

Thanks.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I've been following a little bit of the discussion on "Replacementarians."

From what I gather, Quix believes you're one if you believe that the Christians replaced Abraham's seed (children.)

Lee N. Field references Ephesians 2 which says that our faith in Christ makes us eligible to the promises of God's covenant with Abraham. (made us both one)

Nowhere does the Bible say that we replace Abraham's seed. On the contrary, the Bible says we are joined together with Abraham's seed and counted eligible to the promises God made to Abraham.

No one has yet received the promises God made to Abraham, not even Abraham. Hebrews says this is so.

Hebrews 11 (known as the "By Faith" chapter) Verse 13:

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.

Verse 39:

These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

So, I'm confused what all the fuss is about. We Christians didn't replace Abraham's seed, we are counted as his seed by faith. Together, with Abraham and them, we will receive the promises God made to Abraham. There can be no argument to that truth.

[Lee N. Field]

Nowhere does the Bible say that we replace Abraham's seed. On the contrary, the Bible says we are joined together with Abraham's seed and counted eligible to the promises God made to Abraham.

You got it.

"And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. "

[Cvengr]

"But never fear that you will be deceived into receiving the mark of the beast because if you love and serve God, you will not and cannot reject him."

We are also commanded to never sin again. Technically, if we remain in fellowship with Him in all things, it isn't necessary for believers to sin again, yet we also know that if we calim we do not sin, we are liars. A parallel argument could be made that if we love and serve Him, we will not and cannot sin again.

On the other hand, there might have been a reason for our Lord and Savior to have made a statement about a series of events which wouldn't transpire for several millennium, but had such devastating consequences for the souls which He loved, that He believed it appropriate to foretell these events, even some 2 millennium in advance of their fruition.

These events might be so ever literal that they were well foretold millennium in advance of their actual occurrence.

[BuckeyeTexan]

There is a difference between sin committed by unbelievers and sin committed by believers. The former sin leads to death, the latter does not.

I John 5:16-18

If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that. All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death. We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.

I'm not sure I agree with the parallel argument you suggest. I'll have to think about that one and get back to you.

My point in the statement you quoted was really that loving and serving God is a choice and it is, by definition, the opposite choice of rejecting God. Those receive the mark will make a conscious choice to reject God. We have already made our choice and therefore need not fear changing our minds. The parallel you offer is that of choosing sin. Continuing to sin as a believer is the flesh struggling with the spirit. There is no parallel struggling that takes place in loving and serving God. You either love him or you don't. (Note that I'm not implying that there aren't times when we are closer to God in our walk with than at other times.)

I'm not following your last two paragraphs. To what are you referring?

[Cvengr]

It is true, that He provides for our Spiritual Life, but it is false to assume Israel and the Church are the same.

Go back and read Scripture containing His Word.

Let God provide for our understanding, rather than resting upon our understanding to know Him.

[Cvengr]

Why do you teach, since in that time, His Word will be written in the hearts and minds of His people, no longer requiring one to teach one other about His Word.

[Cvengr]

The issues of sin have already been resolved at the Judgment at the Cross. Sin isn’t the issue.

The issue is to remain in fellowship with Him in all things. There is also explicit warnings given regarding the Mark of the Beast.

There are plenty of heinous, very evil sin, much more evil than taking on a mark of the Beast or even pledging allegiance to the devil, which are forgiven upon returning to God and confessing one’s sins to Him. The significance of the Mark of the Beast is much more profound, worthy of His Prophecy some 2 millennium before the event.

Some, if not the majority of Prophecy is very literal, not symbolic.

Technically, all sin leads to death, a state of existence involving separation, but in the case of believers, our post-salvation sin isn’t as much an issue as us returning to Him, so that we might continue in His Plan, and for Him to further sanctify us.

With respect to unbelievers, they already are condemned for they do not have a regenerated human spirit, nor are able to perceive the spiritual life until they have faith alone in Christ alone.

With respect to believers, the sin unto death is a state wherein our continued life in the body and soul out of fellowship, and continuing to reject Him, no longer has potential for any good by divine standards to perform His Plan.

Many believers sin, after salvation, never able to lose salvation, but simply are leaving rewards on the shelf as eternal memorials of our foolishness.