Posted on 04/19/2010 11:45:07 AM PDT by TaraP
The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed...
Come like a Flood of *LIGHT*
Yes...That is what I mean..:)
“I guess a fair question could be....
*As Christians will we be a witness to the signing of Israel’s 7 yr Peace Treaty?*”
I am a Pre-Tribulation Rapture person so I wold say No. There are plenty of other things happening in this world though, that no matter where you sit on the Rapture its hard to miss that something is happening and God’s clock is clicking so much closer to midnight.
Pan-trib.
It’ll all pan out in the end.
Mid-October 2006? Yikes! Three and a half years after that is: April 2010!!!
No, based on 2 Thessalonians 2:6-8:
6And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. 8 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
The Antichrist will not be revealed until the One Who restrains him, the Holy Spirit who indwells those who have accepted Christ as Savior, is "taken out of the way", or removed.
The Church will be gone before the Antichrist is revealed.
Gosh, I would think that something of that significance would need to be a public event. But maybe a secret agreement would be possible, or maybe something that is reported but not recognized for what it is. Good question.
Can’t believe you haven’t seen this yet.
Yes, but I think the Antichrist is already at work, we now have the Antichrist’s spirit in the world...
My understanding is we will not be here when he is announced. (Saying he is GOD in the temple)
When I was a young Christian in the 1970’s I got caught up in all of those end-time books lining the bibles book stores shelves. The most notable was Hal Lindseys, The Late Great Planet Earth.
Although they were fascinating reading for a young Christian, so much of it seemed too far fetched to believe that it could happen in my life time. 150, 200 years out maybe, but not in my life time.
Boy has times changed, and my feelings about when these events could happen.
CASHLESS SOCIETY?
In the 1970’s the thought of using a debit card almost anyplace, including vending machines and parking lots seems just too far out. Yea, someday way off into the future. Well today I go weeks without paper money or coin. I can probably can go without it all together, if it wasn’t for the coffee kitty at work.
ONE WORLD LEADER?
This was always a great mystery. How could one man become so popular so fast as to set him self up as God in a short 3 ½ years. Mystery no more. I am not saying Obama is the Antichrist, but his coming from nowhere in such a short time to become a Godhead among his Koolaid drinking followers that spread beyond our borders, is just too strange. It shows you how fast the real Antichrist can enter the World Stage.
WORLD GOVERNMENT?
Hard to fathom in the 1970’s. Now, its something even the main stream media is picking up on. And the World Wide Web, not something Hal Lindsey even dreamed of, now makes a World Government an easier thing to accomplish.
THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION?
The Temple would have to be rebuilt, right? Well there is serious talk of it now. News story from 5/26/09 Raad Salah: Netanyahu will Try to Rebuild the Jewish Temple http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131578
Yikes sorry Quix!
He is always first with ST!
I believe that since his identity has already been revealed- that he will be the one who confirms a peace contract with Israel and the nations- and that revealing to the world cannot occur until the "One Who restrains", or the Holy Spirit, is removed, we have to be gone before the contract is confirmed.
There are a few different theories about “the one who restains.” Some say the Holy Spirit, that is, at the pre-trib rapture of the church. (But how do people get saved during the following period?) Others think it refers to the Roman government. Others think it means America gets taken out. Others think it’s Michael the archangel.
Maybe it’s just that we have so much access to so much information that it feels differently but it does feel like we are rushing toward some kind of conclusion, doesn’t it?
Amen to that!
Genoa you made an interesting observation.....Since Satan (The Father of Lies) knows he cannot do so many of his outright deceptions in the world with the (Church) still here, how do we know many of these events are not happening behind the scenes...*In Secret*
I mean Obama was elected by devious means to fool so many....
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