Posted on 09/30/2014 11:41:47 AM PDT by NYer
1. I don’t think you’d gain any weight if you were raptured.
2. I would hope that, if not raptured, the unmanned car would not hit you and your car.
:-)
Nick Cage can really identify with that.
What with losing his castle in England, his castle in Germany, and his other seven houses, and all that.
Both good points.
No, I’m not kidding.
No, He wouldn't know. Collectively the believers are the bride of Christ. In a Jewish wedding the groom "prepares a place" for he and his bride. When the father decides the time is right and all has been prepared the father tells his son to go get his bride. The son does not know until that very minute.
no way for us to know that. I take him at his word that not even Christ himself the son knows- even now. So I don’t subscribe to your theory but it is pointless to argue about such mysterious matters.
I never saw that movie. Thanks for putting it up here, ifinnegan. People like you make FR fun.
Larry, you always pull through with comedy relief. : )
I watched him in ‘The Knowing’ - sure a little bit ‘otherworldy’ with the Albino-Angel-Guys towards the end, but they actually didn’t put his Christian Pastor-father, mother and sister in a bad light - but that he was missing something. I prayed that he would be more open about the end-times as described in Revelation and the rest of the Bible. God’s Word does not return void - and I hope more seeds are planted in him with this role.
He called me a Christian Taliban and lives in New England.
“There are 3 things (if you can bring more ideas to the table, I’m all ears!) that could be considered to be “holding back” the anti-christ from being revealed.”
Well, here is the problem that I have with this line of thinking: it’s unverifiable, and therefore, any conclusions you draw from it must be tentative ones.
The Bible simply doesn’t tell us what will be taken away before the anti-Christ is removed. We can speculate, and make deductions, and perhaps even guess correctly, but without seeing the prophecy fulfilled (or some further divine revelation), we will never have a certainty that we are correct. So, knowing that, I think we shouldn’t make statements like this:
“Anti-Christ will not be revealed until the church has been removed and is no longer stopping the evil.”
After all, that statement expresses a certainty which we just don’t have. Then, if you are trying to use such uncertain ideas to support other deductions and extrapolations (the pretribulation rapture), you are on even shakier ground.
Now, I wouldn’t be so much of a stickler on this if the pretrib rapture folks would just say “we think the rapture might happen before the tribulation, because we make the following deductions...”. Yet, you don’t often hear them say things like that. Most of the time, their statements are much more final and certain, as if their interpretation is based only on Scripture, and not on their own fallible interpretations of it.
Cage doesn’t “choose” to do roles anymore. He owes so much money to the IRS, he will literally do any movie that will pay his asking price. Just look at the recent stuff on his imdb page, and I think you will see what I mean.
I agree, it is much easier to confess to God than another man, because, after all, God already knows!
There are many opportunities to confess sin in public. The most effective is the “don’t do what I did” confession explaining the real consequences of one’s sin in counseling another. There are consequences within you always whether you are self aware or not; even beyond what society deals out if you are caught.
The rules of God are to keep one healthy and sane and on a larger scale, society the same. It’s better than whispering secrets to the Priest or even like minded congregations.
So true.
Do think God has appointed His people to wrath?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3209503/posts?page=96#96
Well, if God has it in mind to touch his heart, He’ll do it, regardless. I hope it happens.
Amen.
I hope more seeds are planted in him with this role.
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