He's got some videos Purple. I watch a lot of his stuff for finding out what's really going on with our evil government that you will never hear on the lame stream media
lol, lame stream media...I like it. I am so adopting the phrase
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He's got some videos Purple. I watch a lot of his stuff for finding out what's really going on with our evil government that you will never hear on the lame stream media
Especially when the numbers were bogus to begin with. According to what I read, there are about 2.18 billion Christians worldwide. Of that number, roughly 63% are Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox. Those folks generally believe nothing even remotely like what B2 is on about. Of the remaining 37-38% who are Protestant, the enthusiasm for End Times fantasizing is confined largely to American evangelicals and fundamentalists, who make up a relatively small percentage of the world's Protestants.
So, a billion who believe in Luciferian conspiracies, android antichrists, multiple returns of our Lord, restoration of the temple and temple sacrifice, and most of the other arrant nonsense that had been attached to futurist eschatology? Not even close. A few million, maybe tens of millions here in the States. But still a smallish minority of the Church Militant.
Androids and all? Literally? Luciferean conspiracies? All that science fantasy arglebargle is literally mentioned in Scripture? Where?
Houly said:Literal global tribulation, during which all of mankind will be directed to receive the mark of the beast, reject Jesus Christ, and worship the Antichrist: a man who will perform great signs, stand in a temple in Jerusalem, and declare himself to be the Messiah, since that is what scripture literally tells us.
A few million, maybe tens of millions here in the States. But still a smallish minority of the Church Militant.
Houly said in post 68:
. . . there will be a literal global tribulation, during which all of mankind will be directed to receive the mark of the beast, reject Jesus Christ, and worship the Antichrist . . . since that is what scripture literally tells us. The tribulation idea isn't a "conspiracy theory." It's a literal reading and acceptance of prophecy.
Houly said in post 68:
Except for the billion or so of us who agree with him that there will be a literal global tribulation, during which all of mankind will be directed to receive the mark of the beast, reject Jesus Christ, and worship the Antichrist: a man who will perform great signs, stand in a temple in Jerusalem, and declare himself to be the Messiah, since that is what scripture literally tells us.
Quantum Paradise said in post 69:
A lot of things still have to happen before Jesus returns, and I highly doubt it will all unfold over the course of a year or two.
Jipsah said in post 71:
The Antichrist will fulfill 2 Thessalonians 2:4 after he by force takes control of a 3rd Jewish temple . . .
Ain't one.
Jipsah said in post 71:
The Antichrist will fulfill 2 Thessalonians 2:4 after he by force takes control of a 3rd Jewish temple . . .
Ain't one.
Jipsah said in post 71:
and has the abomination of desolation (possibly a standing, android image of the Antichrist . . .
Like the android figure of Lincoln at Disneyland.
Jipsah said in post 71:
As there's no "the antichrist" in Scripture, I don't see that as a problem.
Jipsah said in post 73:
Androids and all? Literally?
Interplanner said in post 76:
If literal is ordinary sense, the most literal reading of Mt 24 & //s is that they refer to what happened to them in that generation until you get to the 'immediately after this' point of v29.
It is confusing, bizarre, and fantastical to think that this kind of warning and instruction was given to them but actually was meant to be about things thousands of years in the future.
Interplanner said in post 76:
If literal is ordinary sense, the most literal reading of Mt 24 & //s is that they refer to what happened to them in that generation until you get to the 'immediately after this' point of v29.
gasman64 said in post 77:
You will be in your own personal version of "Left behind" Start doomsday pepping now. You won't do well in the wild I would think.
B2, do you actually have a couple of underground storehouses? Why would you need it if you are going to be one of the raptured?
My in-laws bought some property about 15 years ago in the arm pit of Northern California because my mother-in-law convinced my father-in-law that Y2K was going to be the end of the world. They stockpiled my father-in-laws machine shop on the property with seven years of food supplies for their family, ya know, in case the whole rapture thing doesn't pan out and they're stuck here for the "tribulation".
Such a load of rubbish.
gasman64 said in post 93:
B2, do you actually have a couple of underground storehouses? Why would you need it if you are going to be one of the raptured?
I wouldn't say that they were looney. I think that they may have had some concerns about the timing of the rapture. And were taking precautions, the best they could. Although the notion that somewhere in California would offer a safe heaven is pretty unrealistic imo.Whatever worldview my in-laws have that compelled them to do something as looney as what I mentioned in my last post.
Because Jesus won't come and gather together (rapture) the church until immediately after the future tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24 (Matthew 24:29-31; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8). That's why the marriage of the church doesn't happen until Revelation 19:7, in connection with Jesus' 2nd coming and the bodily resurrection of the church at that time (Revelation 19:7 to 20:6; 1 Corinthians 15:21-23,51-53; 1 Thessalonians 4:15-16). Matthew 24:30-31 refers to the same 2nd coming of Jesus and gathering together (rapture) of the church as 2 Thessalonians 2:1, which refers to the same 2nd coming of Jesus and catching up together (rapture) of the church as 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17.
Jesus won't return and gather together (rapture) the church until sometime after there's a falling away (an apostasy) in the church, and the Antichrist sits in a 3rd Jewish temple in Jerusalem and proclaims himself God (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4, Daniel 11:31,36, Revelation 11:1-2, Revelation 13:4-8), and the abomination of desolation (possibly a standing, android image of the Antichrist) is set up in the holy place (the inner sanctum) of the 3rd Jewish temple (Matthew 24:15-31, Daniel 11:31). For when Jesus returns to gather together (and marry) the church he will destroy the Antichrist (2 Thessalonians 2:1,8, Revelation 19:7,20). Before Jesus returns, the church will have to go through the future, literal 3.5 years of the Antichrist's worldwide reign (Revelation 13:5-10, Revelation 14:12-13, Revelation 20:4-6, Matthew 24:9-31).
At Jesus' 2nd coming (1 Thessalonians 4:15; 2 Thessalonians 2:1, Matthew 24:30), the church will be resurrected and caught up together/gathered together (raptured) (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; 2 Thessalonians 2:1, Matthew 24:31), not to remove the church from the earth (Proverbs 10:30, John 17:15,20), but to take the church only as high as the clouds of the sky to hold a meeting in the air with the returned Jesus (1 Thessalonians 4:17).
At that meeting, Jesus will judge everyone in the church (Psalms 50:3-5, cf. Mark 13:27) by their works (2 Corinthians 5:10, Romans 2:6-8, Luke 12:45-48, Matthew 25:19-30). And then Jesus will marry in the clouds the obedient part of the church (Revelation 19:7-8, Matthew 25:1-12), those in the church (of all times) who "overcame" (Revelation 3:5). They will then mount white horses and come back down from the sky (the first heaven) with Jesus (Revelation 19:14) as he defeats the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of the beast) and all the world's armies (Revelation 19:15-21). Jesus will then make the marriage supper of Revelation 19:9 for the resurrected and married obedient part of the church in the earthly Jerusalem (Isaiah 25:6-9; 1 Corinthians 15:54). Jesus and the obedient part of the church will then reign on the earth for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:4-6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 2:26-29).