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Posted on 09/21/2002 1:14:43 AM PDT by chance33_98
Bumping up the Rapture index....(hey, I am christian, I am allowed to poke fun at myself - but if anyone else does it, it is hate! - oh wait, that's the liberal line)
Mar 13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for [such things] must needs be; but the end [shall] not [be] yet.
Luk 21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end [is] not by and by.
The end comes when people are saying "peace", not "war".
Amo 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
The famine of the end times is not for bread, but for truth.
Actually, what I find more than slightly alarming is that millions of Americans are aborting their children....
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Some see revelations as an analogy to their own life struggles, others to the struggles of countries and ideas through the ages, and some to the church. Agree with it or not (the book) it has guided many in their darkest hour by showing that there is triumph in the end.
And because we do not know when the end is, and because the lord told us to watch for the signs, it should then be no surprise that publications/sermons/etc should be prevelant through the ages on the topic - some only want to make sure they are watching so as not to be caught unawares.
I do think the mass marketing thing is a bit much :) Although to be honest, would rather see movies about that then some of the liberal crap I see all over the place!
Jesus did say "it is finished" when he was on the cross. So I believe the end started there. The latter days are now though, IMO. I think there's a difference between the end and the latter days. Of course each generation did not pass away until the end came, for the end comes when you die, no matter when it comes for the living. Each person that has died has taken his or her test and is ready for the millenium..
Somehow, 2,000 + years, with someone, somewhere, screaming that ' THE END IS NIGH ", is more than a bit much. It's also blasphemous. Jesus stated that NO ONE will know when it is " end times ".
But as my previous post show, He gave us clues as to the season. While we hear of wars, the very end is not close. When we hear "peace and security", watch out. We don't know the day and hour but we are to watch for the season.
The Book of Revelations ( which I have read several times, in my life ) has been abused and ill used, by many people, for their own vainglorious agendas. Far too many Christians, throughout millenia, have thought themselves to be more knowing than Jesus. He said that NO ONE, not a single human being, would know when the end would come. What good does it do to speculate / claim that " THE END IS NIGH " , when it is then proven that it isn't ? That makes people skeptical and some to lose faith.
Me ? I'll just wait for GOD to make that decission. I don't fear GOD's will.
Too late!
Enoch was raptured.
Elijah was raptured.
Jesus Christ (aren't we to follow in His likeness?) was raptured.
No rapture in the way rapturists put forth, that 1/3 of the world's population is going to disappear leaving everyone else wondering what happened. It's not going to happen.
Believe whatever you want to. The spreading of this junk, especially when it earns anyone money and / or power, is blasphemous.
If that's all it takes for a person to lose faith, they probably didn't have that much to begin with. We need to know when the season is near so that we are not fooled by the antiChrist. He's going to pretend to be Messiah. If we don't know that the end is not yet, we may be fooled.
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