Posted on 07/27/2016 8:46:41 PM PDT by NRx
The Left sabotaged the teachings by watering them down and calling it love, instead of teaching that the hard stuff should be taught with love
Heb 5:13 For everyone partaking of milk is unskillful in the Word of Righteousness, for he is an infant.
Heb 5:14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
But a few additional thoughts.
1) correction will most times feel like contempt to the recipient in this day of age, maybe always, no matter how you do it.
2) Jesus came to divide, a very harsh process. He would speak the truth and many walked away and he let them do so.
Rev 22:18 For I testify together to everyone who hears the Words of the prophecy of this Book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add on him the plagues that have been written in this Book.
Rev 22:19 And if anyone takes away from the Words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which have been written in this Book.
In 1 Thessalonians 4 Paul was comforting those whose loved ones had died (are asleep) and explains that our grief is tempered with the hope of the resurrection (vs 13) because those who are alive “shall not precede those who have fallen asleep.”
“The dead in Christ shall rise first.”
Then, in 2 Thessalonians 2 Paul writes to calm them again because someone said the Lord had already come!
Paul explicitly states that the Lord’s return will not be until after the anti-Christ is revealed. So, the key is the resurrection. There are two. In Revelation 20:5 is the first resurrection of the faithful martyrs from the Great Tribulation and “”the rest of the dead did [do] not come to life until the thousand years were [are] completed.”
The first resurrection occurs AFTER the anti-Christ is revealed and upon the return of the King of kings and those who survive the Great Tribulation join them. Before the destruction of the universe after the thousand year rule, all others are resurrected, believers gathered, to be with God forever. Followers of Satan join him.
Oh, those who are resurrected in the first resurrection (those martyred) rule with the King of kings during the thousand years. The survivors do return to earth with Him, but do not rule with Him. What a wonderful time! I believe they will live hundreds of years, like before the flood. But that is just my opinion.
FOOLS!
I was taught the pre-trib rapture in a Scoffield independent Baptist church. Went to a Christian junior college and met my first Calvinist who was/is a post-tribulationist. After my shock of how a Christian could believe such heresy I went back to my room, cried in prayer for 30 minutes or so, and finally gave it all to God and ASKED TO KNOW THE TRUTH no matter what. I opened my Bible and did my own study. I read the whole New Testament in the coming days and trusted what I read. Still do. Always read the whole chapter of any reference, especially in church.
Wadi el Arish, the River of Egypt.
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Is it the biggest theological fraud inflicted upon modern Christianity?
no.
That’s where my apologetics classes come in ;)
Modern Christianity is pretty much all heresy.
1. Baptizing babies
2. Rapture
3. Instant salvation
4. Religious schools ordaining priests and preachers
5. Paid preachers
6. Gay preachers
7. Ordaining women
8. Pedophile priests
etc...
Jesus and the original Apostles spoke of two completely different types of “believers” in the last days. And they gave some signs to look for...There would be the real believers and those that are basically fooling themselves.
Jesus spoke in plain words when teaching about this state that people would be in during this time period. And He said that the real believers would be few in number. Jesus said that the fake believers will have deceived themselves so completely that they won’t truly understand it until that moment that they are cast out of His presence at the judgement.
Paul gave a couple signs of these fake churches. Paul said some “abstain from meat” and others would “forbid to marry”. And called these the doctrines of the devil. These weren’t just bad doctrines these are signs of false churches. Which among all the “Christian” churches forbids their leadership to marry? Which one doesn’t eat meat?
Another sign is people claiming you can receive salvation without adhering to the eternal laws of God concerning salvation. Instead they rationalize it away as if that gives them a pass at the judgment. But it doesn’t.
Every rationalization always comes back to the same thing, they don’t have to do anything. Jesus Himself said every person that actually enters the kingdom of God will have to be as a little child here on earth. Humble, meek, forgiving, full of truth, repentant... there’s no getting around that for any human being. But the fake believers say all you have to do is believe. Even though Jesus said otherwise... it doesn’t matter to them.
John says there are true Moses like prophets in the last days. Does it matter to the fake believers that they don’t actually know any? Nope. Does it matter that God hasn’t spoken to any of their leaders in 2000 years? Nope. Nothing will change their minds until Christ Himself closes the door on them at the judgement. Jesus said their reaction to being finally made aware of the truth will be “weeping” and “gnashing of teeth”.
And it’s all unfolding the way Jesus and the prophets said it would.
1997? I must re-read my book 88 REASONS WHY THE RAPTURE WILL BE IN 1988!
Then I have another prophecy date made in the neo-nazi SPOTLIGHT tabloid back on Oct 10 1983 that stated the End Times would begin with an universal earthquake in 1983 and the Apostolic Age would begin in on Oct 5/6, 1984.
None of the Prophecies of the end times have ever panned out, so the modern day “pro-fits” of the end times keep changing the dates.
Today’s Christians spend too much time on speculation. So many spend too much their time trying to “prove” the first chapters of Genesis, others spend their time trying to prove Revelation(Apocalypse), and the IMPORTANT part between gets ignored.
I did the same thing.
Sometimes, I think Christians focus disproportionately on homosexuality; maybe it is because society has really encouraged the lifestyle and behavior. There are many ways people fall short of the glory of God; we have to all remember that.
FYI the author is not Catholic. He is Eastern Orthodox. And we don’t subscribe to Purgatory thing.
Umm OK. Not sure what that has to do with anything here since the article is not about Catholicism and the author is not Catholic.
LEFT BEHIND first published in 1995. People were expecting the end to come then but it didn’t, so a series was written. Too many people I know spent all their time reading this series and not reading the Bible.
These books are available cheap at any second hand store, Salvation Army, Goodwill, yard sale, ect, as People finally realized they are FICTION and tossed them out.
I personally dislike religious fiction, except Pilgrim’s Progress. I would rather read the Pilgrim’s Progress or Homer’s Odyssey any day.
Why instant salvation? Jesus forgave the thief on the cross.
What about Enoch’s “obligation”? It says, “Enoch walked with God and was not, for God took him.”
It’s like the TV preachers....none of them actually believe, they’re in it for the money.
I think its the perniciousness of the agenda. It focuses on children and developing teens. There is not a protected class of thieves or murderers that are threatening to use government to force their views on us.
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