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Israel's future and Pat: Your view

On Israel(in alphabetical order):

  • I don't know.

  • Israel should have it's land back.

  • Peace in the Middle East.

  • Something else.


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Jesus Is Real

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Oh yeah I remember so clear when my time was near and my sons birth was close......even at the door. We women do know this all too well.
 
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This stuff, even the bad, it all has to play it self out.
It's going to get bumpy from here, little ones.

There is a Spiritual side (that's Eternal here) of even the prophecies, but this thread is not the place for it.
But Those who are Spiritual must consider this.
Lest we miss our own Visitations in our moments towards The Lord Jesus Christ.
 
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Peace to all those who are honestly trying to understand, I love you.

Let us not strive here, for God's got it all in His Power.
But we must FIRST receive His Power to tell the World about Jesus and His Salvation
that some might hear and be saved by God merely using us, per chance!
There's no strife in JESUS, nor should be IN HIS PEOPLE.

Hubby's gone to bed.....I'm now outta here.
God Bless you all!


Let us also Pray for The Peace of Heavenly Jerusalem (The Church adorned for Her Bride Groom).


In His love,
Connie
 
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jsisrl said:
Oh yeah I remember so clear when my time was near and my sons birth was close......even at the door. We women do know this all too well.
yeh and this scripture tells us more this is definately talking about the End Times but did y'all know there is a day that this points to?
 
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False in your Darbyite fantasies.
But i stand with my amillenialist orthodox Brothers and say That this Theology is True.
 
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I said dum-dee-dum; I did NOT say dumb-dee-dumb.

As for my beliefs, I believe what the Church has believed for 2000 years:

"He will come again in Glory to judge the living and the dead, and his Kingdom shall have no end."

Kepler
 
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Fotios said:
Physical Israel and the Jews have been replaced by the Church and Christians. The Old Covenant has Passed and the New Covenant has been Inaugerated, God's people are those people inside his churches.

Fotios,

Actually the amillenial position does not usually use the word "replace". We see the the "Church" (aka, the "assembly, Greek: ekklesia) as being the true and Spiritual continuation of the "Congregation" (aka, the "assembly", Hebrew: qahal) of the Old Tesament. IOW, Peter, Paul and the rest of the gang are True Israel (the Israel of Faith), while the Jews who rejected Jesus are "Israel of the Flesh".

There were never any promises made to Israel of the Flesh. All the promises of the OT were made to the Israel of Faith, which are the true seed of Abraham.

The Israel of Faith and Israel of the Flesh co-existed for thousands of years, just as the wheat and weeds grew in the same field. (Matt 13:24-30) Unbelieving Jews (just like unbelieving Gentiles) are weeds.

Israel of the Flesh have been pruned off, while non-Jews who believe in the Messiah are grafted into the Israel of Faith.

All of the OT blessings are given to the Israel of the Faith, and all of the curses were taken out on Christ on the Cross.

God, however, has not turned His back on those who are members of the Israel of the Flesh. They are still welcome in His Kingdom, but they must now come in through the only door remaining, which is Christ. When they do, "All Israel (of the Faith) will be saved. "

God has always had, currently has, and will only ever have ONE PEOPLE: his "assembly" (ekklesia=qahal).

So there's no actual replacement, per se. There is a stripping off (of the Israel of the Flesh), and a grafting in (of those who were strangers; gentiles).

Other than this minor quibble...keep up the good work!

Kepler
 
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You know we have a friend over there right now she use to be a missionary and now she lives there and she sends us regular reports from Israel (she lives 10 minutes from the old part of Jerusalem) here is her latest letter to us Erin use to be a moderator here before she moved to Israel and loves all sooo much you can get her updates and read all her past adventures too here

http://www.christianforums.com/t189...e-all-love-reloaded.html&page=11#post21683096
 
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KEPLER said:
So there's no actual replacement, per se. There is a stripping off (of the Israel of the Flesh), and a grafting in (of those who were strangers; gentiles).

Kepler
Grafting into what? If it doesn't look even a tiny bit Jewish then something was replaced!....Yeshua didn't replace Torah, Festivals, Hebrew Prayer, Teachings and Idioms and even Synagoge life ; with Greek or Roman looking things...but man did...

I'm not saying that things have to look exactly the way it was when He was alive BUT I am saying, it was changed ON PURPOSE by gentile antisemetic bullies(Rulers) who wanted nothing Jewish to remain in Christianity.....MEN DID THIS, NOT JESUS!

If you are really grafted into Israel and partakers of the sap of the root, then there should at least be some desire to connect to our Messianic Jewish Brothers and Sisters ;and find out what we've been missing without them all these years...I'm sure in reaching out to them we will be a blessing to them as well...(we NEED each other )

PS I'm not talking to just one person here but to each of us, and hopefully to the heart of each of us...
 
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Tishri1 said:
Grafting into what? If it doesn't look even a tiny bit Jewish then something was replaced!....Yeshua didn't replace Torah, Festivals, Hebrew Prayer, Teachings and Idioms and even Synagoge life ; with Greek or Roman looking things...but man did...
Grafting into the Israel of Faith.


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I'm not saying that things have to look exactly the way it was when He was alive BUT I am saying, it was changed ON PURPOSE by gentile antisemetic bullies(Rulers) who wanted nothing Jewish to remain in Christianity.....MEN DID THIS, NOT JESUS!
Clearly you have never sat down and compared the Chritian litugies with the Jewish liturgy. If you had, you would not make such an uninformed statement.

Aside from that, what do think "neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female" means? I am under no obligation to worship like the ancient Jews did (cf. also Rom 14 & Col 2).


What? Why are almost all the [edit: original question edited]

Tishri1 -- This is the last thing I'm going to say to you...I am not -- and have never been -- "missing" anything in my faith.
 
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Thank you for confirming my definition..
I will now post it to Urbandictionary.com.. to have a wider use of it.
 
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Nothing was changed because of antisemitism. The first step towards accepting Gentiles was taken by the Apostles themselves in Acts 15 and Galatians 3; the pagan calendar was later adopted by the Empire as a form of triumph over the old pagan ways. The same concept applies to wedding rings and icons (which frequently used pagan imagery, like halos, as a signal of ideological triumph. It was a way to say to people, "look to biblical figures, not pagan figures"). No theology was changed.
 
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Fotios said:
False in your Darbyite fantasies.
But i stand with my amillenialist orthodox Brothers and say That this Theology is True.
One of the things I could never grasp was the amillenialism.

Just a comment.

Ed
 
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Edial said:
One of the things I could never grasp was the amillenialism.
If it helps, I never understood the rapture.

And as a Lutheran, I'm sure you know that your denomination is traditionally amillenial.
 
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Scholar in training said:
If it helps, I never understood the rapture.
You mean the rapture itself or the basic 3 views of it?

Scholar in training said:
And as a Lutheran, I'm sure you know that your denomination is traditionally amillenial.
They might very well be. I am not.

Thanks,
Ed
 
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Edial said:
Are you a full preterist or a partial one?
In other words, do you believe that Christ came already?

Thanks,
Ed
An orthodox preterist is the same thing as a partial preterist. I believe in a coming of Christ at 70 A.D.... but I don't believe that the final judgment or general resurrection have passed.
 
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