Posted on 07/02/2013 5:05:25 AM PDT by Gamecock
Some years ago websites were set up to send post-Rapture messages to loved ones. It required users to provide a password that they had to submit at intervals or the messages would be sent.
This gave some wit a naughty idea. They set up a website to get this information and messages, then they got a bunch of fake names and addresses, to send these messages randomly to the emails of the senders and receivers.
So, all at once, people would get emails from people that did not exist, claiming to have been their friend. Who they, of course, would not remember.
Fortunately, the wits wised up and decided to not send out all these fake emails, as it might have resulted in some real harm, not just confusion.
Why do so many content themselves being liked to cattle and sheep?
Does not the shepherd feed himself of the flock?
Do you honestly suppose that a shepherd when hard pressed would sacrifice his life in exchange for one of the flock?
Better to give a sheep away and live to fight another day :)
Give thanks that both of your feet hit the floor. Some veterans don’t have their feet anymore.
Or that you aren’t ravaged by diabetes and had to have your feet removed.
Always, give thanks.
We must live every day as if Jesus might return that day. We don’t know when will come.
We do not know the day or hour when He will come. Or, more likely, when we will go to Him.
In the wake of a death in the family I've been hitting the resurrection passages a lot this past couple weeks. The resurrection is the great hope the new testament points us to, far more than just "dying and going to heaven" (though that is certainly there).
"And the dead in Christ will rise first."
Why disappointed you are still here? God gave you the life to live and praise him. whether here or in the next life, be with God.
Part of the tension of life in this age.
I watched 'Thief in the Night' as well...I am convinced that I read in the scriptures that events in the film will happen as portrayed...
If one takes the Gnostic view that everything here is bad and evil, one longs for death, even until suicide (Cathars) and see's the entrance of children as a perpetuation of maya...
"Life for me has become utterly unbearable with all that is going on."
I certainly understand the sentiment.I hope you take the following as an encouragement!
John 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape
Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before *Him* endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before *us*
"Sometimes I am convinced the rapture has happened and I didnt make the cut"
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
1 John 5:5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Mark 5:36 ...Be not afraid, only believe.
God bless
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