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  1. Ronald David Bruno

    How many former Catholics are here?

    Wow, that's my story too only it was at age 35 when I became a Christian. I had communion and confirmation when I was 11; so getting out of school was just a cool thing to do, (which happened to be next door from a Catholic school). Once a week for a Catechism class and then on Saturdays, meant...
  2. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    Your spiritual discernment is skewed. Try reading Romans 11. During the GT, a remnant 1/3 Jewish population will be saved, become Christians as did a remnant during His first visit. Take into account the 144k, specifically identified as being from the 12 tribes, male virgins, who prior to this...
  3. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    Why not consider the context. This is an answer to a 3-part question. Jesus was first explaining to the disciples earlier that one stone would not be left on another - referring the destruction of the Temple in 70AD. Then He jumps to the second part, His second coming (almost 2000 years later)...
  4. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    Wow, that's a far-fetched, misinterpretation of scripture. First time I've ever heard of that one. You can't discern the signs, what's going on right now. In our generation there have been continuous attacks, proxy wars against Israel. Iran has been the head of the snake. Israel has been...
  5. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    The Beast ( and Antichrist) gathers ten Islamic nations to attack Israel ( a northern confederacy headed by Iran with the support of Russia, notably in Ezekiel 38-39 (Gog and Magog), and Zechariah 12-14 - (armies against Jerusalem) ... God intervenes ... Christ returns in judgment, as detailed...
  6. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    That's coming. We see attacks on Christianity growing which are severe at times ( Charlie Kirk or people in Sudan getting decapitated); but many subtle forms of persecution too. But when the Antichrist reigns it will be equalivalent to the antisemitic hate growing.
  7. Ronald David Bruno

    Predestination and Freedom Under God

    I agree with everything you said. Well done. People struggle with this concept. A perfect plan was made before the foundation of the world. God factored into His plan all our blunders ... and evil! The Tree of Knowledge of GOOD AND EVIL was there in the Garden before man was made. So we must...
  8. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    This is funny. Everyone in the Eschatology forum seems to have baloney detectors of their own, calibrated to their own views. The flags go up in every single post: " Oh no, you are wrong about this ... scripture says ... bla, bla bla." "The Rapture is before the Great Tribulation ... we are not...
  9. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    I created a hypothetical Great Tribulation period IF the POST-TRIB Rapture was true. I guess you did not get that. I AM NOT A POST-TRIB adherent so I DO NOT BELIEVE THE CHURCH WILL GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE TRIBULATION. I am a Mid-Tribber/7th trumpet/Pre- Wrath adherent to be more concise. BUT if...
  10. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    I guess you did not read the OP. >>PREMILLENNIAL SAFE ZONE, NO AMILLENNIALS PLEASE! I can't enforce this, but I can choose to not respond. You can spin the wheels of other posters though.
  11. Ronald David Bruno

    I am really struggling, with flesh that is puffed up - I don't know how to respond to the law of sin

    The spirit wars against the flesh and vice versa. We all have struggles. Many compromise, give the Lord part of their lives and insist they need other parts - " I'll surrender this and that Lord ... but I need this ... I'm not hurting anyone ... " And they try to justify their sin. Some don't...
  12. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    Disagree with the 144k being a chosen from the past. Revelation was written about 95AD. Israel was already scattered. The 144k are male virgins. That is not symbolic, that is literal and physical. "These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who...
  13. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    I wasn't changing the analogy Jesus gave, I said I knew what it meant, then I went onto a second point. I should have started a new paragraph. I know there will be an element of surprise like when an earthquake happens - for them as they go about their normal routine - which is a blind way of...
  14. Ronald David Bruno

    Do you believe this statement: "Jesus is YHWH", Yes or No?

    Tell me, what "other faith" do you claim to have? If you could please share that. When people put that in their profile, it usually means they are NOT CHRISTIAN. A Jew? Even the non-trinitarian would put Christian in their profile. Is this thread a clandestine effort to derail Christian...
  15. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    Not missing any points. I've studied it for years. I'm very well aware of what "as in the days of Noah ..." means. I also know that "as in ALL HISTORY", man has suffered tribulation, pain, suffering and death, so don't think that we will be spared at least part of the Great Tribulation. It is a...
  16. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    Correct, they meshed all Messianic prophecy together as if there was only one coming. They expected Him to come as a Lion and conquering King the first time around, not a suffering servant who would die.
  17. Ronald David Bruno

    Do you believe this statement: "Jesus is YHWH", Yes or No?

    You can't explain, you do not have faith in Jesus. You have faith in something or someone else. All Scripture is spiritually discerned and so if you have not been baptized by Jesus with the Holy Spirit, you do not have discernment, just like blind men who go into a room and try to figure out...
  18. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    It would seem that if you applied one taken and one left, that 50 percent of the population is taken and 50% destroyed. We cannot use just one scripture to figure this out. Starting with the Seals, the numbers of dead amount to 25 % just from the first four seals. That's two billion ( if we...
  19. Ronald David Bruno

    Do you believe this statement: "Jesus is YHWH", Yes or No?

    Exodus 3:14 was God's introduction ( I Am) to Moses and the Israelites that would later be fully revealed in Christ. And Elohim said unto Moshe, Eh-heh-yeh ashair Ehheh- yeh (I AM WHO I AM); and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the Bnei Yisroel, EHHEH-YEH (I AM) hath sent me unto you. I am...
  20. Ronald David Bruno

    Rapture ... soon?

    Do you mean Matt.24:14 pertains to the Millennial Kingdom? It answers one part of the question the disciples asked about His Second Coming. Romans 15:8 confirms Jesus came as a servant to the Jews as promised in order that the Gentiles would hear the truth as well. This was about His 1st coming...