Posted on 02/01/2011 8:00:07 AM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
LOL- that is definitely a bone of contention among Bible-believing Christians!
In a 1997 essay Futures for Sale, my friend Thomas C. Smedley boldly suggested that "Science Fiction should be used to represent a future filled with hope, rather than despair." I liked his conclusion:
Interesting, interesting. That sounds very like SF writer's L. Neil Smith's opinion in On a Clear Day You Can See Bulgaria -- But Who Wants to Look?.
Tom Smedley used to post in Freerepublic. Haven't seen him in quite a while. Last post is in '07.
What 70th week are you referring to? The only 70 week period in the Bible, in Daniel 9, was finished two millennia ago. There is no future weeks from this period.
I don’t believe in an any moment signless rapture. I believe the rapture occurs and the Day of the Lord begins immediately on the same day which marks thd end of the Great Tribulation and commences the DAy of the Lord which I also believe will correspond to the Feast of Trumpets and will be the first of the fall feasts to be fulfilled in accordance with His Second Coming. Just as the 4 spring Feasts beginning with Passover were fulfilled in His First Coming.
Interesting theory, but it doesn't seem to jibe with any of the passages I quoted to you.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. (2 Peter 3:10)What is the day of the Lord, and how do you squeeze a millennial kingdom into Peter’s timeline?
The day of the Lord doesn't begin anything, except for the passing away of the old “earth and the works in it.” You seem to think it begins something, but it doesn't, at least not according to the Bible.
Then we have to examine what Paul says about Christ’s kingdom.21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.Paul tells us the “the end” coincides with Christ’s coming and the resurrection of the saints. At His coming He delivers up the kingdom to the Father, vanquishing death. In 1 Thessalonians 5, Paul tells his readers that Christ comes “as a thief in the night,” and warns them to be prepared, “Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.” This would fit with Peter’s picture of the “day of the Lord” coming as a “thief in the night” initiating the new heavens and new earth.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.
23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming.
24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.
25 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. (1 Cor. 15)
But this theory doesn't fit with passages like 2 Peter 3:10 and 1 Cor. 15. There's no room for a “thousand years” between the day of the Lord and new heavens and new earth. They are coincidental events.
I have it on good authority that this gent still posts, albeit under a pseudonym. His wife pointed out that potential employers might not appreciate hard-edge, brilliant, and politically incorrect punditry.
I have it on good authority that this gent still posts, albeit under a pseudonym.
Cool.
His wife pointed out that potential employers might not appreciate hard-edge, brilliant, and politically incorrect punditry.
There is that, there is that.
There's enough out there under my real name that I'll never work at a place big enough to have a real HR department. Why make it easy for them?
"Lee N. Field" is a pseudonym that I started using nearly a decade ago on Internet gunfora. It's instantly recognizable as such to a gunny, but looks like a real name to others.
Bad theology makes bad politics, and vice versa.
You would think that the Futurists could clean up on Intrade but for some odd reason the money doesn't follow the mouth.
This is no surprise, because I have heard often that the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been called a pharoah because of the situation going on in Egypt.
But that doesn’t make him a pharaoh biblically speaking, does it? If someone calls me Nebuchadnezzar are there Bible prophecies that apply to me?
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