Every Prophet tells us about things that must happen before that glorious Day.
You ignore them at your own risk.
You dismiss the Gospel as "milk for the masses" at yours.
The Lord does give us time periods and we do have the historical record; the Babylonian conquest of Judah was in 586BC, which enable us to correlate with Gods 7000 year plan for mankind.
It's your belief/contention that God has a 7000 year plan for mankind. Humans have, in fact, been around for longer than this.
Besides which, God is outside time and not bound by our man made calendars.
The saying; 'pre-trib', is not Biblical, just a saying of those who believe the false 'rapture to heaven' theory.
But it's a phrase used about end times.
I didn't say that it was Biblical, neither was I arguing for, or against, its usage. I used it as an example of "end times jargon" that I don't involve myself with.
If the Lord asks you to do something, would you say: Nah, get someone else?
If I believed the Lord was asking me to do something I'd pray further about it and ask a wise Christian for counsel.
There are ways of checking these things out - calls to mission or ministry should be submitted to the church for confirmation, for example, and it will be the church which commissions and sends the person to the are that God wants them.
If God wanted me to do something he'd give me the gifts, and the confirmation, to do it.
Even my wife says I should study other scriptures, which I do every Sunday via the sermon.
If you can call the Scriptures that I wrote about the cross a "preachy sermon", can call clergy who preach it as "brain washed" and dismiss them as "milk for the masses", you need to do more than look up a few Scriptures that may be used in a sermon. You need to go back to school.
If anyone dislikes what I present, then just leave this Forum. But let me say, my replies to you and others, allows me to better present what the Prophets said.
It's your interpretation of what the prophets said which is highly suspect.
You also don't seem to understand that if a prophet has said that something will happen, then it will. You show me a prophet who said, "thus saith the Lord ............. oh wait, I was confused about the Lord's timing." Or, "this is what the Lord says .................. so I made a mistake; I'm only human."
But that is what has happened in your case.
IF the prophets foretold something for 2012, did it happen? If not, was it because the prophet's words were wrong, or because your interpretation, and application, of those words was off?
I have a very good and comfortable life now. I try to live as the Lords light and salt here, after a career of multiple mission deployments and raising a family, etc.
I'm very pleased for you.
What's that got to do with correctly interpreting the words of the OT prophets, living till you're 120 and going to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple?
