Posted on 05/13/2016 1:46:18 PM PDT by amessenger4god
West. And a lot closer to the ground.
Matthew 24
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
lightning = light shining, the gleam of a lamp (not necessarily lightning)
So as the gleaming light emanates out of the east, and manifests/sheds light in the west, so shall also the coming of the son of man be.
First in the east, and then in the west.
Look west. That makes sense with the verse about the eagles.
Thanks for that completely “on target” rebuttal.
I must be at the wrong conservative site...
We can stop reading right here and all go home. Total fruitcake.
Interesting.
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Amen....
No one is predicting the hour but Jesus did tell us that we can know the season.
There is nothing wrong with watching the signs of the times and knowing it is near.
Res ipsa loquitur.
Interesting.
I really don’t see the US military participating in a war against Israel. We’re pretty far gone, but not THAT far gone. Frankly, I don’t see many US service members accepting orders to do so. (I know more than a few.)
In fact, one reason the US may not be mentioned much in prophecy is that we basically may sit the war out while questioning the motives of Magog. IOW, the US is the nation referred to as the “ships of Tarshish,” not Spain.
I do however see the EU going there and attacking Israel en masse. There has been a growing broad streak of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment in Europe for a LONG time now.
But I could be wrong. In fact, I probably am — not much of a Biblical scholar.
The destruction of Jerusalem did not herald the Parousia (coming of the Son of Man). Jerusalem is rebuilt and there are Jews and Gentiles living there in tension as we await the Messiah.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches :
Yes there is. How many will fall away when the false prophecies fail to materialize? How many will die without seeking Christ, because they thought they had more time than they actually had? How many more reasons do we need to give the world to mock Christ? Isn't it hard enough to witness to a hostile world, without giving our enemies more failed false prophecies to use against us?
There is nothing new under the sun. Wars? What about the last century? Disease? What about the Black Plague, or the influenza following WW1? Evil? How about slavery? Lynching? Persecution of Protestants? There are plenty of others.
Have you noticed how many who have predicted when the end would happen who turned out to be wrong? 100%. With a batting average like that, why continue to push their prophecy?
Read Matthew 24.
If Jesus thought being aware of the signs of the end were wrong, He would not have given them to us.
And besides, people fall away because of SPECIFIC prophecies where people predict the day and the hour which Jesus said KNOW ONE would know.
They followed false teachers. THAT’S why they fell away.
I have read Mat 24. When he said to watch for the signs, he was talking about events that would happen in the disciples' time. He also says "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but the time is not yet."
When he gets to the part where the end comes, we'll all just be going about our business working in the fields or whatever our vocations are when it occurs. No one will have a clue it's about to happen.
And besides, people fall away because of SPECIFIC prophecies where people predict the day and the hour which Jesus said KNOW ONE would know.
You don't have to give a specific date that misfires to be a false prophet. I've been hearing "the signs are all there" for decades without it happening, and current events are always manipulated to fit prophecy. How many times does that have to fail before we stop discrediting Jesus' name with our own misinterpretations.
We don't know when He is coming. We don't know if it will be tomorrow or 500 years from now, and if we did we don't know that we even have that much time. All we know is that we need to repent and accept Christ.
I’m missing your point.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church has NO reference to any “rapture”.
Neither does it allow the preterist teaching that there was a Parousia in 70 AD.
We still await the fulfillment of the promise of his coming (Parousia).
And where did I insinuate a Parousia in 70 A.D.?
It seems you’re the one conflating Parousia with the Christians leaving Jerusalem before its destruction in 70 A.D.
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