Posted on 11/13/2011 5:02:38 PM PST by Brian Kopp DPM
It is a pernicious deception.
This should be of interest to many fellow FReepers.
HahaHa...Not to me...
This is one good fairy tale...But I've got the real book of the prophets...I know how it turns out...And this ain't it...
And what's comical is that your early church prophets got most all of their stuff out of the scriptures, albeit with their own perversions and twists inserted, and you guys don't even know enough scripture to realize it...
Sometime after that? I think not. Scripture clearly states its Jesus and the armies from heaven who come to kill the beast and his armies.
Revelation 19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
I find it extremely troublesome that in that entire article there is not one reference to scriptural proof of allegations or ideas put forth.
An anti-Semite IS someone who hates Jews.
You know, like all the anti-Mormons are *hate* Mormons.
And all the anti-Catholics *hate* Catholics.
Those two are thrown around enough on FR for the term anti-Semite to legitimately mean someone who hates Jews.
And sad to say, like it or not, the Catholic church has not been much of a friend to Jews in the past and I haven't seen any recent proclamations that give me much reason to think that's changed.
Also, Uriel-2012 is quite astute in his observation that the Catholics, as usual, aren't quoting Scripture but the traditions of men.
Let us know how that one world religion works out for y'all. K?
Fatima, as I’m sure you are aware, is a city in Portugal where the Mother of Jesus, “Our Lady of Fatima,” appeared to three shepherd children in 1917.
Pure fantasy. There is a rapture at the very end. The idea of a rapture that occurs years before the Second Coming (i.e., the "pre-tribulation rapture" believed by most Americans who believe in a "rapture") is false and was never taught prior to Darby.
ABSOLUTELY WRONG!
It's merely the Biblical truth long held by many--since the earliest days of the authentic Church of Jesus The Christ.
Here's some more early evidence . . . to add to much repeatedly posted on FR but denied by many RC's. Sometimes it's surprising that they admit that the sun has come up!
http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1114
Just because it is
RCC/Vatican-Ashteroth-Mary-Cult
!!!TRADITION!!!
to deny facts, evidence and THE TRUTH
AS THE TRUTH
does NOT alter THE TRUTH whatsoever.
Some Proddys will hopefully continue to post THE TRUTH as long as God grants us opportunity and breath to do so.
. . . at least until THE RAPTURE . . .
But your popes says we are brothers in Christ, kinda...You gonna kill all your brothers???
The Tribulation period is a period of judgment on the earth.
True believers, those who have put their faith in Christ for salvation, have already been judged.
The other thing is that there’s simply no point in having believers taken out before the judgment if they’ve all been killed off for not taking the mark of the beast. Since they’ve already been killed off, there’s no need to rapture them, as described in Thessalonians.
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Kind of like how the assumption of Mary wasn't church doctrine until the 1900's......
For that matter, most of the doctrine about Mary didn't come til later. If something being realized later in time is an indicator of it's validity, there is none for most of the stuff about Mary.
Having a "miraculous event" occurring at a town There is no Mother of god nor If you were not so ignorant of the WORD of G-d Seek YHvH in His WORD. Isn't just like the Evil One to confuse
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
those without scriptural discernment.
named after Mohammed's daughter.
The height of deception.
any queen of heaven except in Paganism.
So says the Holy WORD of G-d.
you would know when YHvH sends messages to man,
they are always sent by Messengers (Angels).
Never by dead saved sinners.
Ouch....
Their bibles are called catechism...IThess. 4 is not in their bible...Nor is 3 or 2...
Here's another I'd not seen before:
FROM
http://www.raptureforums.com/Rapture/raptureorigin.cfm
The Origin of the Concept of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture Dr. David R. Reagan "The Pre-Tribulation Rapture is a johnny-come-lately idea that is too new to be true." This is the most common argument that I encounter against the concept of the Rapture of the Church occurring before the Tribulation begins. There are several problems with this argument. The first is that it ignores the fact that the Bible teaches that end time prophecies will not be understood until the time comes for the predicted events to take place. When the prophet Daniel was given some specific prophecies about the end times, he complained to the Lord that he did not understand them. The Lord responded with these words: "Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end times" (Daniel 12:9). Jeremiah was told the same thing by the Lord on two occasions (Jeremiah 23:20 and 30:24). Waiting on Events In like manner, before modern times, how could anyone understand the prophecy in Revelation 11 about the killing and resurrection of the two witnesses of God? That prophecy says that the whole world will look upon their bodies and witness their resurrection and rapture to Heaven (Revelation 11:9-12). No one could understand this prophecy before the development of satellite television communication in the 1960's. In summary, the Bible clearly teaches that the understanding of end time prophecy will be progressive in nature. We will understand more of the prophecies the closer we get to the time of their fulfillment. Waiting on Proper Interpretation This spiritualizing approach to the interpretation of Bible prophecy proceeded to dominate theology for the next thousand years. Protestants adopted it after the Reformation and expressed it in the Postmillennial view that emerged in the mid-17th Century. Both Amillennialism and Postmillennialism are based on the assumption that Bible prophecy does not mean what it says. I grew up in a church that taught that assumption. It was a conservative, fundamentalist church that interpreted the Bible literally from cover to cover except for prophecies related to the Second Coming. The First Coming prophecies were accepted as literal. But the Second Coming prophecies were dismissed as allegorical or symbolic or apocalyptic - which, to us, meant that they had to be spiritualized. The Impact of Literal Interpretation The revival of literal interpretation began in earnest among the Puritans in the 17th Century, and it quickly led to an understanding that the Rapture would be an event separate from and preceding the Second Coming. Puritan leader, Increase Mather (1639-1723), argued "that the saints would be caught up into the air" and thus escape the world's final conflagration. 2 Most people I encounter seem to believe that the concept of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture originated in the writings of C. I. Scofield, as expressed in his famous study Bible that was published in 1909. It is true that Scofield's writing helped to popularize the idea, but he was by no means the originator of it. Historical Development Paul N. Benware, in his book, Understanding End Times Prophecy, notes that many writers in the 17th and 18th Centuries began to speak of a Rapture separate and apart from the Second Coming: 3 Peter Jurieu in his book, Approaching Deliverance of the Church (1687) taught that Christ would come in the air to rapture the saints and return to Heaven before the battle of Armageddon . . . Philip Doddridge's commentary on the New Testament (1738) and John Gill's commentary on the New Testament (1748) both use the term rapture and speak of it as imminent. It is clear these men believed that this coming will precede Christ's descent to the earth and the time of judgment. The purpose was to preserve believers from the time of judgment. James Macknight (1763) and Thomas Scott (1792) taught that the righteous will be carried to heaven, where they will be secure until the time of judgment is over. Tommy Ice, the director of the Pre-Trib Research Center, asserts that the first person to spell out in detail the idea that the Rapture would occur before the Tribulation begins was a Baptist leader named Morgan Edwards. 4 This remarkable man was born in Wales and preached at churches in England and Ireland before emigrating to the United States in 1761 to become pastor of a church in Philadelphia. He proceeded to become the founder of Brown University and was recognized as the leading Baptist historian of his day. As early as the 1740's Edwards was espousing a pre-tribulational viewpoint in his writings about eschatology. The difference in his view and the modern Pre-Trib concept is that he believed the Rapture would occur in the middle of Daniel's 70th week, about 3½ years before the Second Coming. The Modern Pre-Trib View Darby decided to leave the Anglican Church. In the years following, he and other dissenters from the established state church inaugurated a movement that came to be known as the Plymouth Brethren. In 1826 Darby broke one of his legs, and during the long convalescence that followed, he engaged in an intensive study of the Scriptures that convinced him of the clear distinction between the Church and Israel. He also became convicted of the imminent return of Jesus. Thus, by 1827 he had developed the fundamental principles that would come to characterize a new theological system that would be called Dispensationalism. The Dissemination of the View Harry Ironside (1876-1951), the popular pastor of the Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, preached the concept in his sermons and books during the 1930's and 40's.9 In 1970 Hal Lindsey published The Late Great Planet Earth and once again the viewpoint was expressed in a best seller.10 The 20th Century ended with the view being espoused in the "Left Behind" block-buster series of books written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. 11 Attacks on the View The first problem with MacPherson's assertions is that we know that Darby developed his concept of the Rapture's timing in the winter of 1826-1827, some three years before the prayer meeting in Scotland. The second problem relates to a strange aspect of MacPherson's book. In an appendix, he reproduces Margaret MacDonald's handwritten account of what she said at the 1830 meeting, and there is nothing in it that even suggests a Pre-Tribulation Rapture!14 But the biggest problem with MacPherson's assertion is that it is really irrelevant. The crucial question is not where the Pre-Tribulation Rapture concept originated; rather, the only question that matters is whether or not it is biblical. Ancient Examples of the Concept One of the early Church Fathers, The Shepherd of Hermas, writing in the early 2nd Century, makes an interesting observation about "the great tribulation that is coming." He says, "If then ye prepare yourselves, and repent with all your heart and turn to the Lord, it will be possible for you to escape it, if your heart be pure and spotless, and ye spend the rest of the days of your life in serving the Lord blamelessly."15 In medieval times evidence of pretribulational thinking can be found in the recently discovered sermon attributed to Ephraem the Syrian.16 This sermon, which was written sometime between the 4th and 6th Centuries, encourages believers to prepare themselves for meeting the Lord because "all the saints and elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins." Scholars believe this text was derived from the writings of the original Ephraem who lived from 306 to 373 AD. He was one of the leading theologians of the early Byzantine Church.17 It is very likely that there were always some forms of premillennialism and pretribulational thought throughout the Middle Ages but, if so, these viewpoints had to be expressed underground because they violated Catholic dogma. Sects like the Albigenses, Lombards, and the Waldenses were attracted to a literal interpretation of the Bible, but little is know about their detailed beliefs because the Catholic Church declared their writings to be heretical and destroyed them. Concluding Observations My final observation is that I am not dogmatic about the timing of the Rapture. Unlike some of my colleagues who are downright uncompromising about the timing, I prefer to say that "I believe the best inference of Scripture is that the Rapture is most likely to occur before the Tribulation begins." The Bible never clearly states when the Rapture will occur, and there is, therefore, legitimate room for differences of opinion. Article used and reposted here with the expressed written permission of the author Dr. David Reagan. Original Article end quote
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The Pre-Tribulation Rapture Was Taught by the Early Church !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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