The Lords Day

[BrightCandle]

We don't spend a lot of time on prophecy. It's about the least important thing the bible teaches. What we unformly find is that people who make it a major thing are all messed up. They even turn the reassurance Revelation gives into a scarry thing, can you imagine? They seem to think being terrified saves people. They tend to think the Gospel of Jesus is observation of all sorts of laws. They replace the Bible with their unique revelations.

Lutherans, even liberal ones, tend to be sola scriptura. That would be a Protestant root thing. People who hunger after prophecy don't tend to be sola scriptura. If we are going to throw stones about abandoning Protestant roots, I'd say I can't think of a group that has made prophecy a major thing in their teachings who are sola scriptura. They test things not against scripture, but against the claimed revelations of their prophets.

The AntiChrist is not a fundamental Christian Doctrine. Scripture does not link it to salvation. It's strange to say people are abandoning Protestant roots over nonfundamentals. If the Pope as AntiChrist is a fundamental doctrine in your understanding, you better do some work on your understanding.

Marv

Marv: Your church founder had A LOT to say about the Pope being the Antichrist! His last book written clearly identified the Papacy has fulfilling the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation and Thess. 2. When it comes to prophecy, why would God inspire John to write the last book of the NT, the book of Revelation, if he didn't want his church to know what was coming in the future. In the first chapter is states that those who read this book and understand will be blessed. Jesus inspired the book of Revelation, and wants his church to be wise, and not walk in darkness so that the events of the last days catch us unaware.
It is so sad that the majority of Lutherans seem to have abandoned their historic Protestant roots and doctrines, and diluted them to the point now where they are very much the same as the rest of the dying mainline Protestant churches.