Christians have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. There may be people calling themselves Christians who aren't, but if they are Christians, they have the Holy Spirit abiding within them.
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If the rapture is about to happen, what Christians need to be doing is not just preaching the Gospel but praying for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The rapture is a 19th century fable constructed by blokes like John Nelson Darby and popularized by Cyrus Scofield, check your history.
Check the new testament. Enoch and Elijah experienced it. Isaiah 26 alludes to it. Jesus spoke about it in John 14. The apostle Paul wrote about it in 1 Thessalonians 4. Revelations 4, 11 refers to it. It is featured in a Jewish Moed- September, October.
And Christian Bible prognosticators have been predicting the occurrence since 53 AD. I have the list. Herald Camping being the most recent. Those who say it'll happen this March (2013) is another attempt at it.
If people keep saying it's going to happen each year, they will eventually be right.
The Bible talks about the believers meeting Christ in the air before the judgment, that's a very different thing to the rapture idea in most American Christian minds which is just as Big Fudge describes; a 19th C fable cooked up to further an artificial distinction of the people of God.
Isa 14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
Isa 14:17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Barack Obama fits that description perfectly!
In Isaiah 14 right after speaking of Lucifer...he then goes on to speak of the man of sin,or the anti-Christ ,or the son of perdition in whom Satan will dwell. And he describes him...that people should narrowly look upon him...like, how did this vile criminal deceive the entire world,and bring it into desolation. Not like you hear of him in the fairy tail books like left behind.
The spirit of sin
Isa 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Isa 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isa 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
That man of sin in whom he shall fully dwell
Isa 14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
Isa 14:17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Barack Obama fits that description perfectly!
Blessings...
SC
Reality will speak for itself soon enough.It's all a rather accurate description of the King of Babylon who Isaiah was actually prophesying against, seriously just jumping into an oracle part way through is no way to exegete it.
When will you actually wake up and believe all the things which are happening and are in process right now? When your getting a chip in your hand,and your forehead? Is that what it will take for you to believe your Bible?It's all a rather accurate description of the King of Babylon who Isaiah was actually prophesying against, seriously just jumping into an oracle part way through is no way to exegete it.
When will you actually wake up and believe all the things which are happening and are in process right now? When your getting a chip in your hand,and your forehead? Is that what it will take for you to believe your Bible?
By the way...I didn't mean that as far as your faith in CHRIST,and SALVATION is concerned. So sorry if it sounded like that. Eschatology is where our Calvinistic similarities differ. I'm not a Calvinist at all when it comes to Eschatology. Lol...I mean 600 hundred years of future time,and development have passed since him. Lol...But I still very much love his writings.Sigh, it's a lot more humdrum than that, Mammon continues to be what he's always been
Reality will speak for itself soon enough.
Hey...just because that didn't happen doesn't mean a darn thing. People were just warning others of the high probability that something could happen. That's how our Satanic leaders work. Noah was building a ark for a 130 years and telling the people a flood was coming. You will just be a person who knows when it's obvious.Like the "reality" that London was going to be bombed during the Olympics? That a massive disaster was on the way because someone had "seen" it on a playing card??
What exactly is going to happen a week on Friday? Just so that I don't waste time in triviality, like washing the kitchen floor, or something more serious, like doing my essay on evangelism?
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