In Christ IS Rapture ready to be Called UP by Christ.
Not ready, the Consequence is to Suffer Wrath.
That Simple.
Glory to God,
Taken
Not ready, the Consequence is to Suffer Wrath.
That Simple.
Glory to God,
Taken
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Your mistaking grace for Grace
Grace is not ignorance, as for grace that is mistaken for nowadays, with just little weeds and goody two shoes types claiming to be grace, fact is they do not understand what Grace truly is, the doctrine of Grace spelt out by the RCC one should look it up and one may get an education and not just a silly ego driven works of miss prissy that can not handle the facts of reality that is everywhere nowadays with there head buried in the sand, claiming another Jesus, like a little pip squeak.
Fact was that Jesus was hated you know and killed due to people who thought themselves good and righteous but they were only self righteous stuck up and did not understand Grace, because Jesus was Grace, not to mention that Jesus pointed out their miss understanding.
Don't worry mate I have come across many a hypocrite pretending to be all graceful in but they turn out to be the biggest snakes in the grass you ever come across.
Grace this word meaning a favour or a gift, a interior strength infused by God, St Paul uses it 110 times to which that we have no claim whatsoever. now I could go on with the RCC doctrine if you want me to educate you on such.
Fact of the matter is it's not about a miss pricy type at all as atheist may claim.
I support the biblical view of a "rapture" , but not in the timing that you expect. To believe that it shall take place at any time now, defies an important scriptural reference, that warns us to not be deceived. It is in found in 2Thes. 2:3- KJV.Yes! My post is similar to one I posted before but to those of us that really believe the rapture may be yet today we feel the need to try to help others to be ready to meet Jesus so maybe you should just put me on ignore!!
I support the biblical view of a "rapture" , but not in the timing that you expect. To believe that it shall take place at any time now, defies an important scriptural reference, that warns us to not be deceived.
It is in found in 2Thes. 2:3- KJV.
"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (the Lord's physical return from Heaven) shall not come, EXCEPT there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"
Unfortunately, there is MUCH deception going on with the "secret rapture" theory.
Not because a "rapture" is not a fact, but rather there is a land slide of error, that has been fabricated and misconstrued, in order to support it.
First and foremost, please notice the word "except" .
The KJV does not use the word "until" , mainly because by the Holy Spirit, we are to know that even Jesus does not know when He shall return, only the Father. So then, by the use of the word "except" , a sense of time cannot be applied, whereas the word "until" does imply time.
In the comparison between "except there be a falling away" , and "until there be a falling away", the word "except" allows for an event to first take place, prior to the Lord's return.
However, the word "until" denotes time, and does not allow for an event to first take place, prior to the Lord's return.
So what is the " event" in 2Thes. 2:3, that FIRST must take place, before the Lord returns?
Ans. "A falling away" from faith!
In Luke 18:8, Jesus says a very important fact about His return and "faith" .
"I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"
It is apparent that "faith" is the determining factor, and not "time", of WHY Jesus shall return.
Since Jesus is deeply concerned about finding any faith upon His return, it begs us to understand and agree that He is not thinking about a general apostasy among the churches, but rather an event of so great severity, that it causes all people everywhere to to NOT HAVE faith at all. Such a severity can only mean that God the Father will realize that there shall be no one that will be able to HAVE faith any longer. It will be through that event that God shall know that no one can "seek Him" , and shall decide that His extension of His Grace has ended. Hence, Jesus returns suddenly, in flaming fire.
So then, what will that event be, that causes people everywhere to have not faith,
and the result the Lord Jesus returns?
Ans. The mark of the beast!
Heb. 11[6] But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
YES! I am in the midst of explaining it, but first I had to lay out the scriptural parameters to reveal the errors.WHY, "WHEN" you, WHO disagrees with Christ Jesus Resurrecting & Redeeming HIS CHURCH UP TO HIM......."BEFORE" The Lamb of God BEGINS the TRIBULATION...
"WITH HIS OWN WRATH UPON THE WORLD"....
Do you feel yourself QUALIFIED to "EXPLAIN" a Rapture Believers...Understanding?
Well, we have the falling away ... a great falling away!"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (the Lord's physical return from Heaven) shall not come, EXCEPT there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"
YES! I am in the midst of explaining it, but first I had to lay out the scriptural parameters to reveal the errors.
As I did say, "Not because a "rapture" is not a fact, but rather there is a land slide of error, that has been fabricated and misconstrued, in order to support it.
In your replies and comments, you contributed much of the error that is being preached about the Lord's "rapture".
You are promoting two false concepts/doctrines that are deeply rooted in the churches: "The Great tribulation" and "That man of sin, the son of perdition", both of which are EXTREME fabrications of misunderstanding.
There is no 7 Year Great Tribulation to come,
and there is no singular, one man band, that they call "THE Antichrist" to come either.
All of that foolishness is based upon the word "until", denoting a time to come, and not on the word "except", which allows for an event to come.
That event is "that Day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,..." 2 Thes. 2:3.
"A falling away" is that event,
and not a time of a fictitious "7 Year tribulation", or a time for a singular, miraculous man, that they call " THE Antichrist".
The Day of Lord's visible and audible return from Heaven in flaming fire, is a simultaneous event of rapture for all born again Christians, both the dead and alive, and destruction for all the unsaved. His Return shall deliver both at the same time!!
So then, prior to the Lord's return in flaming fire, what is the event that shall precede it??
Ans. A falling away (from faith).
Now, we must look for the event that shall cause "a falling away" .
I perceive and discern that it shall be the mark of the beast, of which BTW, is not your fictitious babble about a singular man, they love to call THE Antichrist.
In the KJV, there is no such singular being that is described.
2 Thes. 2:3-12 is written in the PLURAL and should be understood in the plural!
In God's mind, Israel as a nation is as equal to the Gentiles, ever since Christ's first appearance.
IT...Christ redeeming His Church..
BEFORE God redeems His Israel.
Nope. Right ON point according to Scripture.
"IF" "chruches" are "promoting THOSE TWO THINGS"....Bravo.
I however Received NO Teachings of "such TWO THINGS" from ANY man-made church.
My Knowledge comes FROM Scripture.
My Understanding comes FROM God.
Your rejection of what I believe is clear...
What is NOT CLEAR...is WHAT you believe, IS more beneficial THAN Scripture itself.
So ... what is your understanding that opposes a SEVEN Year Tribulation?
Do you believe in any Tribulation?
If so what is the timeframe?
Who does it affect?
Why does it affect them?
Here again I will disagree with you.
AGAIN you are saying what my beliefs ARE....according to what YOU have Decided my beliefs are based ON.....and your rendition of my beliefs are not accurate.
Basically you are disagreeing with your own claims.
And so? "That Day of the Lords
RETURN TO EARTH
shall not occur Until there IS a falling away.
NO ONE HAS SAID OTHERWISE....
SO WHY Are YOU TRYING TO PRETEND ANYONE HAS DISAGREED WITH THAT KNOWLEDGE?
So you call it an EVENT...
How long does that EVENT LAST?
Who IS the "falling away" participants in this thing you call and EVENT ?
So you say it is not a "ficticituous 7 year tribulation"....
For one thing, I do not believe a 7 year time frame IS fictitious.
For another thing, DURING the 7 year time frame .... the Falling Away, Does not happen all at once....(lest you believe Individuals do not have freewill to DECIDE ON THEIR OWN)....and the Falling Away, is NOT an EVENT, it something INDIVIUDAL men Decide "DURING" Within a "portion" of the Seven Years....
Actually, the Day of the Lord....is revealed throughout Scripture....Which simply REVEALS the "Lords" ...
imminence, nearness, and expectation:
And there there IS the "TERRIBLE DAY OF THE Lord".....The Expectation of the "Son of man"...
......RETURNING "TO".......EARTH...
All ALL THE PEOPLE "ON" the Earth SHALL SEE HIM.....and do what?
WAIL....!!
Really? You are going to be "ON" Earth when the Son of man returns....and you are going to LOOK UP AT HIM.......AND WAIL, "crying IN PAIN"? Okie dokie.... NOT ME, I will BE WITH the Lord, IN PEACE, JOY, COMFORT.....NOT Wailing in PAIN.
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Thanks again for repeating....UNDISPUTED knowledge....NO ONE has said OTHERWISE...
Already know the CAUSE...
How about you Focus "ON" WHO is Falling Away and IDeNtIFY "THEM".
There are many who are AGAINST- Christ...
Past, Present & Future.
There IS ONE SINGULAR man....
"The man of lawlessness".
"The son of Perdition".
"The man of sin".
"The mark of his name"
The man, the son, his name.......all Singular Scriptural revealings.
You may think it fictitious...but Scripture doesn't and neither do I.
Uh...error..
2 thes 2
Rev 14:11
Eh....Read again...
2Thes.2
[1] Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
[2] That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
[3] Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
[4] Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that heas God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
[5] Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
[6] And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
[7] For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until hebe taken out of the way.
[8] And then shall that Wickedbe revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Glory to God,
Taken
Well, we have the falling away ... a great falling away!
Caused mostly by these 2 false doctrines:
(1) eternal security, OSAS
(2) habitual (unrepentant) sinning is okay
Taken wrote:
And so? "That Day of the Lords
RETURN TO EARTH
shall not occur Until there IS a falling away.
NO ONE HAS SAID OTHERWISE....
SO WHY Are YOU TRYING TO PRETEND ANYONE HAS DISAGREED WITH THAT KNOWLEDGE?
So you call it an EVENT...
How long does that EVENT LAST?
Who IS the "falling away" participants in this thing you call and EVENT ?
> The event of "a falling away" shall be caused by "the mark of the beast", of which is nothing near or even close to what the churches are saying.
So you say it is not a "ficticituous 7 year tribulation"....
> Yes, a time of a " 7 year tribulation" is fictitious. It's due to a terrible misunderstanding of Daniel.
For one thing, I do not believe a 7 year time frame IS fictitious.
> You can only believe in what the churches say, if the Lord has not revealed to you his Truth through the scriptures alone.
For another thing, DURING the 7 year time frame .... the Falling Away, Does not happen all at once....(lest you believe Individuals do not have freewill to DECIDE ON THEIR OWN)....and the Falling Away, is NOT an EVENT, it something INDIVIUDAL men Decide "DURING" Within a "portion" of the Seven Years....
> You do not understand the parable of the Wheat and the Tares. The Tares are FIRST gathered to be burned. That gathering will be accomplished through the mark of the beast. Many shall "fall away" from faith.
In God's mind, Israel as a nation is as equal to the Gentiles, ever since Christ's first appearance.
Being Jewish is no longer recognized by God, for any special privileges. Any other understanding is false, due to extreme analytical study by the fleshly mind, and not by the Holy Spirits revelation of God's thoughts about his own words.
Again- You do not understand the parable of the Wheat and the Tares. The Tares are FIRST gathered to be burned. That gathering will be accomplished through the mark of the beast. Many shall "fall away" from faith.Eh so you do not agree with me trusting what Scripture says.
Can't disagree with what is your belief, since YOU merely present what you are AGAINST.
Glory to God,
Taken
Earburner wrote:
2 Thes. 2:3-12 is written in the PLURAL and should be understood in the plural!
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Taken replied:
Eh....Read again...
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Earburner's reply:
OK! Let's read that in the plural:
2Thes.2
[1] Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
[2] That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
[3] Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first (plural), and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition (plural);
> Why should that be read in the plural?
Ans. How many people remain to be "the natural man", the unsaved?
Ans. Many
Are they not also "that man of sin, the son(s) of perdition"?
> Why did I say "son(s)" of perdition in the plural?
Ans. Did you forget that Jesus called Judas Iscariot a "son of perdition"? Since he is one, and now there is another (others), it most definitely is plural.
> What does perdition mean?
Ans. Destruction.
All who remain to be " the natural man", will be destroyed! Do you agree or disagree?
[4] Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
> Jesus revealed that our bodies are that temple of God, the place of where He desires to dwell. John 2:21.
> If a man hath not the Spirit of God within him, who is dwelling in that temple, if it's not Christ? Rom. 8:9
Ans. The natural man, that man of sin, the son of perdition. 1 Cor. 2:14
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[5] Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
[6] And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
[7] For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
[8] And then shall that Wicked (plural) be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
[9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
[10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
[11] And for this cause God shall send THEM strong delusion, that THEY should believe a lie:
[12] That THEY ALL might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
> When the Lord returns in flaming fire, who shall be destroyed? Only satan, or ALL who remain to be the natural man, that man of sin, the son(s) of perdition (destruction)?
Again- You do not understand the parable of the Wheat and the Tares. The Tares are FIRST gathered to be burned. That gathering will be accomplished through the mark of the beast. Many shall "fall away" from faith.
You are reading too much into it.Reread your OWN post.
A man Judas...is not THE son or THAT man of perdition.... The Son, THAT MAN is singular, and he has a Nane, and he will exalt himself ABOVE God....
Did Judas do that?
> When the mark of the beast is manifested and enforced, many will then "fall away" from faith. Because of that, God the Father will then know that people will no longer have faith to seek Him, and for that, He will send Jesus, in His full glory of eternal flaming fire to rapture all his Saints. The age of the grace of God will have ended. The rapture of his church and the destruction of the unsaved will be simultaneous. Through the mark of the beast, the "tares" will have been gathered, to be burned. The "wheat" shall be instantly gathered unto the Lord, and shall be transformed immediately at His appearing, to meet the Lord in the air, who has brought with Him all who had died in faith believing.You make accusations and KNOW nothing about me.
> I know about your doctrinal belief system.
You are all over the place...
> Your doctrinal belief about what you call "THE" Tribulation, is fabricated from many, many interconnected false concepts. You will not let go of them easily, so that they can be displaced by the Lord's truth. From my perspective, you are all over the place.
...and avoiding your BELIEF concerning the Tribulation...
> I am avoiding nothing about my belief. Many Christians do go through great tribulation.
How long does it last?
> For some, a life time. This generation is not the only generation that will have fulfilled Rev. 7:14
Where will you be and why?
Never the less, a remnant out of each generation have come to Jesus as being their Messiah/Savior, and shall continue to do so until the age of the grace of God ends.That has not come into fruition.
Seems you have not noticed the DIVISION....
Jews for the most part do no believe Jesus is their Christ Messiah!
Glory to God,
Taken