More Evidence The End Is Near

[ewq1938]

BETELGEUZ is the brightest star of this constellation. It means, the coming branch.

Or the foot that crushes.
Jesus is coming 7th trump to crush the enemy.

BETELGEEZUS?

 

[Keraz]

BETELGEEZUS?

Nah; BETEZELBUB

Looking to the stars for signs, is occultic.

 

[rwb]

It looks like you didn't read what I said. I believe the gathering together refers not to a rapture, but to the beginning of Christendom. God's people were gathered into the kingdom, which is Christendom. Do you not believe that Christendom began in the 1st century AD? Do you not believe that the new covenant replaced the old in 70 AD?

I assumed you were speaking of the elect being physically gathered from the graves and those who are still alive at His coming. I believe that Christ ushered in His Kingdom when He came. It is a spiritual Kingdom we can know of and enter when we are born again. Yes, we were first called Christians in the 1st century AD, and the spiritual Kingdom of God replaced the physical Kingdom when Christ came to earth a man, made atonement for sin and defeated death. This happened when Christ came. What happened in 70 AD was the finality of the Old Covenant ceremonial and sacrificial laws. Many times, God warned Israel that if there was no repentance and returning to Him, they would be utterly destroyed. That destruction by the wrath of God came just as God had promised it would, because when Christ came, He found them to be an apostate, and adulterous people, telling them their house had become completely desolate to God.

 

[Freedm]

The new covenant replaced the old at the cross.

Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Heb 9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Heb 9:18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
Heb 9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Heb 9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Heb 9:21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Heb 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Heb 9:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Heb 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Heb 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Exactly. This new covenant establishes the kingdom of God / the kingdom of Israel / the kingdom of Heaven / Christendom. These are all the same thing, and it is into this kingdom that we were gathered at that time.

 

[Freedm]

I assumed you were speaking of the elect being physically gathered from the graves and those who are still alive at His coming. I believe that Christ ushered in His Kingdom when He came. It is a spiritual Kingdom we can know of and enter when we are born again. Yes, we were first called Christians in the 1st century AD, and the spiritual Kingdom of God replaced the physical Kingdom when Christ came to earth a man, made atonement for sin and defeated death. This happened when Christ came. What happened in 70 AD was the finality of the Old Covenant ceremonial and sacrificial laws. Many times, God warned Israel that if there was no repentance and returning to Him, they would be utterly destroyed. That destruction by the wrath of God came just as God had promised it would, because when Christ came, He found them to be an apostate, and adulterous people, telling them their house had become completely desolate to God.

I knew we could find some common ground.