Posted on 10/27/2022 3:59:23 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The Rapture transformation is kind of analogous to a TV signal which requires a tuned receiver to receive the TV signal.
The revealing of truths such as dispensations, pre-trib rapture, antichrist, tribulation period, etc. originates in divinely-inspired, infallible Scripture, not with Darby, not with straw-man misprepresentations of Darby, nor with forerunners of Darby who, as documented by numerous sources, held those or very similar views.
And to get to the heart of the matter... For anyone honestly interested in exegetical analysis of relevant passages of Scripture, here’s more help:
God’s Plan for the Ages - Dispensations
Each class in this series is available free online in 3 formats: audio, video, and written. (The latter may be partly paraphrased. I’m not sure.)
https://deanbibleministries.org/doctrines-topics-menuitem/disp-menuitem
The 3rd and 4th classes in the above series might be of special interest:
What is a Dispensation?
https://deanbibleministries.org/index-of-topics-2/message/3-what-is-a-dispensation/read
Dispensations: Truth and Fiction
Fully agree.
Another excellent resource for those who are open to the truth:
The Coming Kingdom
by Dr. Andrew M. Woods
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KVVY4F4
Dr. Woods also taught a series of classes based on this book. The classes are available free online, in video, audio, and transcript form:
https://slbc.org/series_event/the-coming-kingdom/
(Classes are listed beginning with the most recent. Scroll to bottom of page for class #1.)
Oops, my typo: misprepresentations = misrepresentations
You are a Preterist, as are most Catholics. The Reformers were Historicists, as I am. It is historical fact that Preterism and Futurism come from the Catholic church, and specifically from the Jesuit order. It was all part of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Your denial of it changes nothing.
Regarding times and seasons, which bible prophecy states your church would try to change and manipulate.
The church is the one founded by Jesus at the Pentecost.
Jesus left us the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic church as seen in 1 Tim 3:15 “God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth”
Your 7th day Adventist cult was founded in the 1800s by your proohetess and besides the non Christian beliefs you’ll started with that Jesus ain’t, as the 7th day Adventists did and your fellow cultists the jehovah’s witnesses do believe, Gid.
You also retain the non Christian ideas of Jesus as an angel Michael and the soul sleep.
——>The church is the one founded by Jesus at the Pentecost.
I agree with you there.
——>Jesus left us the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic church as seen in 1 Tim 3:15
Not your church. No Church of Christ would incorporate the occult, paganism, tradition, changing the commandments of God, and rampant homosexuality.
——>Your 7th day Adventist cult was founded in the 1800s by your proohetess and besides the non Christian beliefs you’ll started with that Jesus ain’t, as the 7th day Adventists did and your fellow cultists the jehovah’s witnesses do believe, Gid.
Well, I have little knowledge of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
But, I am part of the REMNANT CHURCH, mentioned in Revelation 12:17
17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Your church has CHANGED the commandments of God (or thought to, and you certainly don ‘t keep the 7th-day-Sabbath) and you do not have the testimony of Jesus Christ, which is the Spirit of prophecy. So, you lose on both points. And again, it also doesn’t help your church when 4/5 Vatican priests are gayer than a $3 bill, drug-fueled homosexual orgies at the former residence of your now dead pope, etc... Scandalous, actually.
Also, every Protestant Reformer believed as I do that your church is the Antichrist power.
Lastly, on the subject of Michael the Archangel, I agree with your fake saint Melito, when he said..
The Lord Jesus Christ is acknowledged as the perfect Reason, the Word of God; who was begotten before the light; who was Creator with the Father; who was the Fashioner of man; who was all things in all; Patriarch among the patriarchs, Law in the law, Chief Priest among the priests, King among the kings, Prophet among the prophets, ARCHANGEL AMONG THE ANGELS.
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc2.v.xv.xix.html
——>Non Christian idea of...soul sleep.
Yeah, I wonder where SDA’s get that idea from? (lol)
http://www.biblelightinfo.com/death.htm
THE SLEEP OF DEATH
Now notice how Jesus himself describes death-
John 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
John 11:12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
John 11:13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
John 11:14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
Mat 9:24 He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
Mark 5:39 And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
Luke 8:52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
Luke 8:53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
In Jesus own words above, death is described to be like a sleep.
Job 14:10 NIV But man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.
Job 14:11 As water disappears from the sea or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,
Job 14:12 so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep.
Psa 13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
False, Jesus left the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church as seen in 1 Tim 3:15
This most definitely was not the Ellen G White cult of the Seventh Day Adventists.
You, being an Adventist, are part of those following the false prophet written about in Revelation.
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