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  1. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    He didn't remove them from it, but carried and protected them through it. And in this way, Noah's Ark, CrowCross ~ the boat itself ~ is a shadow, a type of Jesus, our Savior Who carries ~ is carrying ~ us through the flood. They did, but Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord and so did not...
  2. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    You're not wrong about that, CrowCross. I might call it something like head-in-the-clouds arrogance... kind of a double-whammy... At any rate very uncalled for... unbecoming, and certainly not Christ-like. Grace and peace to you.
  3. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    In the sense that God's plan for the fullness of time was in place then, yes. And that God is eternally present. "I tell you..." <chuckles> The Bible is true, yes. Agreed. <smile> Which is the age to come. <smile> <sigh> Ah, well, most everyone here would say that, Scott. God's Word is...
  4. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    There will be no judgment in heaven. When the final judgement is executed ~ by Christ Jesus, of course ~ heaven will be "brought down to us," as John "saw," and we "see" in Revelation 21:1-8. And, as the old hymn goes, heaven and earth will be one. <chuckles> Um, yes. <smile> It was what...
  5. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    Hmmmm. There is no... trip... <smile> Except maybe to where the final judgment takes place, which, like you say is certainly not "beyond the stars"... it will be somewhere on this planet. Jerusalem? The Mount of Olives? Maybe. I think not, though; it sure would be a whole bunch of people...
  6. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    Goodness gracious. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Wow. Grace and peace to all.
  7. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    It is. And, regarding the "rapture" itself, foisted upon the text without warrant. In order: John 14:2-3 "In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will...
  8. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    "The winepress thingy." I gotta remember that one... <chuckles> What is the function of a winepress, Rebuilder? A winepress is a device used to extract juice from crushed grapes during winemaking, right? This is an image of the final judgment. The Lord will remove us... in a certain...
  9. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    You are certainly welcome to your opinion, no one is depriving you of that, CC. <chuckles> Actually it does, if only in the sense that, as the angel says in Acts 1, He will return exactly the way he left. So, other than that He will come down out of the sky -- which will be an extraordinary...
  10. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    Repost: There is only one second coming. It is a terrible misreading of Revelation to think everything mentioned is strictly chronologically sequential. What John is given is not just one vision but seven concurrent visions ~ each one spanning the same time period. Jesus's return and the...
  11. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    It was the... state of things... how unbelievers were living... then, now, and up to the end of this current age. Jesus will bring all that to an end when He returns. Goodness gracious. Grace and peace.
  12. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    Right back atcha. "social economic conditions"... <chuckles> Revelation 8:1 ends John's first (of seven) visions, and Revelation 8:2 begins the second. As I said above to Rebuilder, it is a terrible misreading of Revelation to think everything mentioned is strictly chronologically...
  13. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    There is only one second coming. It is a terrible misreading of Revelation to think everything mentioned is strictly chronologically sequential. What John is given is not just one vision but seven concurrent visions ~ each one spanning the same time period. Jesus's return and the second...
  14. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    If by saying Jesus mentioned "social economical conditions" you are referring to Him saying that many will be "eating and drinking" and such, those are the "conditions" now, during the tribulation period, and at the end of the current tribulation period. They are going about their business with...
  15. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    <eye roll> Where are you talking about, CrowCross? Grace and peace.
  16. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    Because you brought it ("social economic times") up, and it has no relevance. Again, nothing to do with "social economic times." You should quite at these "gotcha" grabs, because you're reeeeeeeally bad at it. <smile> Grace and peace.
  17. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    No one was "removed" from creation. They were spared of the judgment God placed upon the world in Noah's day and Sodom and Gomorrah in Lot's. And so it will be in the final judgment: clothed in His righteousness, we will stand in the judgment and will not be subject to the second death. No...
  18. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    "Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world" (Hebrews 1:1-2) This is but one; Jesus appears ~ as a type/shadow ~...
  19. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    Always did... Maybe you are, now... Nothing to do with "social economic times"... But they had no idea sudden judgment was about to come upon them... It will be sudden and unexpected, yes. Well, no, I explained it at the time the flood came in Noah's day... it's suddenness and...
  20. PinSeeker

    Connecting the dots = a pre-tribulation rapture.

    Maybe this will clear some things up for... some folks... Noah's flood does not represent the tribulation, it represents... is, actually... God's judgment exacted on the wicked. As such, it is a picture of the final judgment that will be rendered after the time of tribulation, and after...