This isn't in reply to the previous thread but to the topic of this post which has caused much confusion and division amongst many believers. Even at my home church.
I wonder why people always are digging for some hidden meaning to the scriptures? It really bewilders me when someone says, "this is what that passage (really) means". Shouldn't the passage mean exactly what it says? When John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son....." Does this passage mean anything other that what it is saying? If it does "really" mean something else, then we're all in big trouble.
How can the following passages mean anything other than Jesus will return after the great tribulation (Math 24:29) and the "elect" aren't gathered until (Math 24:31).
Mat 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet , and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
And these also.......
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet shall sound , and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Mat 24:39 And knew not until the flood came , and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
I understand why pre-tribulation "theory" is so popular. These are going to be some very troubled times ahead, and they are closing fast. Our first instinct is to find a way to "get the heck outta here!" Even if it means manipulating scripture to ease our fears. But if we're walking as we should with God, He will deliver us right in the midst of it all. Out of the lions den, the firey furnace, and as "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee."
Hallelujah!
I wonder why people always are digging for some hidden meaning to the scriptures? It really bewilders me when someone says, "this is what that passage (really) means". Shouldn't the passage mean exactly what it says? When John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son....." Does this passage mean anything other that what it is saying? If it does "really" mean something else, then we're all in big trouble.
How can the following passages mean anything other than Jesus will return after the great tribulation (Math 24:29) and the "elect" aren't gathered until (Math 24:31).
Mat 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet , and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
And these also.......
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet shall sound , and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Mat 24:39 And knew not until the flood came , and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
I understand why pre-tribulation "theory" is so popular. These are going to be some very troubled times ahead, and they are closing fast. Our first instinct is to find a way to "get the heck outta here!" Even if it means manipulating scripture to ease our fears. But if we're walking as we should with God, He will deliver us right in the midst of it all. Out of the lions den, the firey furnace, and as "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee."
Hallelujah!
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