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[Cajun Huguenot]

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Hey again,

I take the Scriptures very seriously and I would never purposefully belittle any aspect of God’s Word. But so called "prophecy experts" are a different matter all together. It is the tendency of so many "prophecy experts" to predict things that tend to not happen. I think that's funny in a sad sort of way. I don’t mind taking a slight jab (brotherly love tap) at a "prophecy expert" who looks in the news paper and says this is the fulfilment of "that verse" and then the situation vanishes and the ‘expert’ is shown to be mistaken.

Here are some examples:

1880:
Rev. Michael Baxter, editor of the Christian Herald, announces in his book The End of This Age about the End of This Century that 1896 would witness the Rapture of 144 000 devout Christians, and that the world would end in 1901.---(NOTE: This prediction failed to happen.)

1973:
Hal Lindsey publishes in his best-selling book 'Late Great Planet Earth' that there will be only one generation between Israel's new statehood and the End Time. Although he does not state the date he provides many of the arguments upon which the date 1988 is based.---(NOTE: a generation in the Bible is forty years. Since Israel came into being in 1948 Lindsey and other "experts believed that "this generation would not pass away before all their prophecies were fulfilled. They were wrong in their views)

Rev. David Wilkerson claims a supernatural vision of imminent world-wide disaster of unprecedented proportions, economic collapse, famine, earthquakes, etc., in 'this generation', leading to Christ's sudden evacuation of Christians and the rise of Antichrist. 'More than one-third of the United States will be designated a disaster area within the next few years. (NOTE: I don't recall 1/3 of the U.S. being designated as as disaster area yet. Perhaps his definition of "the next few years" is more than thirty years.)

1980’s
Edgar Whisenant (former NASA engineer) publishes his book, 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988.---(NOTE: He wrote another book predicting 89 when it became clear that he had missed the 88 prediction.)

Hal Lindsey (of 'The Late Great Planet Earth') writes concerning the so-called 'Jupiter Effect' - 'what we can expect in 1982 is the largest outbreak of killer quakes ever seen in the history of planet earth along with radical changes in climate'.---(NOTE: This did not happen either.)

1988:
Charles Taylor, American prophecy teacher, advertises a Holy Land tour with the incentive that by staying in a hotel on the Mount of Olives, 'if this is the year of our Lord's return, as we anticipate, you may even ascend to Glory from within a few feet of His ascension.'---(NOTE: He is just sort of a kook. Now deceased )

September 11/12 expected as the date of the Rapture by Trinity Broadcasting Network, who cancel their regular programs and run videotapes instructing non-believers what to do if their families suddenly shoot up into the sky.---(NOTE: This is a network of kooks, but the older lady with the big purple hair is a sight to see.)

September 29/30 is published by Hart Armstrong (chairman of 'Christian Communications') as a Rapture Alert date in his publications.---(NOTE: In case you were not aware, there was no "rapture" on this day or any other in September of 1988)

October: Return of Christ as predicted by many Christian evangelicals fails (40 years (a 'generation') + 1948 (Israel's statehood) = 1988). (NOTE: Don't get disillusioned. Many of them changed the generation start date to 1967 after 1988 did not pan out. Israel took over all of Jerusalem in Six Day War of 67. So the Rapture should happen in 2007--story pending.)

Christian evangelist George Curle predicts God's judgement on Antichrist in 1999, the Tribulation in 2002, and Christ's Return and the millennium of Israel in 2005: 'the third Exodus for Israel and believing Gentiles will be accomplished in 2005 AD'. (NOTE: I think 2005 is come and gone, so this too was a miss.)

1991:
Cape Town's Rev. J.S. Malan predicts the beginning of the great Tribulation 'op die laaste' by September 1995 and Christ's Return by 2002.---(NOTE: I we can say for certain that that Rev. Malan missed this one)

1992:
The Tami Church based in Seoul, South Korea, under pastor Lee Jang Rim, distributes the visions and prophecies of it's world-wide membership indicating the Rapture will happen 28th October 1992. (the Millennium will begin 7 years later in 2000 AD).--- (NOTE: Another miss, but it is good to see that Asians and Africans have joined in this "multicultural" silliness.)

October 28th: 20 000 members of the 'Mission for the Coming Days' (Tami Church), spend the afternoon waiting for the Rapture, resulting in great public humiliation to Christians and the amusement of the world. (NOTE: But it was a nice picnic.)

Etc, etc… There would be plenty here to laugh about, if it were not such an embarrassment to the Church and provide so much ammunition for those that hate Christ and desire to belittle the Faith. Hal Lindsey is a bit more careful in his wording, most of the time, but he is the top "prophecy expert" out there and I think his writings on prophecy are only slightly less of an embarrassment. I think his eschatology is (to be kind) not biblical. I think Dispensational theology has caused him to interpret the Scriptures by the Newspaper headlines far too often.

Soli Deo Gloria,
Kenith

 

[Foundthelight]

Ditto
===========
Hey again,

I take the Scriptures very seriously and I would never purposefully belittle any aspect of God’s Word. But so called "prophecy experts" are a different matter all together. It is the tendency of so many "prophecy experts" to predict things that tend to not happen. I think that's funny in a sad sort of way. I don’t mind taking a slight jab (brotherly love tap) at a "prophecy expert" who looks in the news paper and says this is the fulfilment of "that verse" and then the situation vanishes and the ‘expert’ is shown to be mistaken.

Here are some examples:

1880:
Rev. Michael Baxter, editor of the Christian Herald, announces in his book The End of This Age about the End of This Century that 1896 would witness the Rapture of 144 000 devout Christians, and that the world would end in 1901.---(NOTE: This prediction failed to happen.)

1973:
Hal Lindsey publishes in his best-selling book 'Late Great Planet Earth' that there will be only one generation between Israel's new statehood and the End Time. Although he does not state the date he provides many of the arguments upon which the date 1988 is based.---(NOTE: a generation in the Bible is forty years. Since Israel came into being in 1948 Lindsey and other "experts believed that "this generation would not pass away before all their prophecies were fulfilled. They were wrong in their views)

Rev. David Wilkerson claims a supernatural vision of imminent world-wide disaster of unprecedented proportions, economic collapse, famine, earthquakes, etc., in 'this generation', leading to Christ's sudden evacuation of Christians and the rise of Antichrist. 'More than one-third of the United States will be designated a disaster area within the next few years. (NOTE: I don't recall 1/3 of the U.S. being designated as as disaster area yet. Perhaps his definition of "the next few years" is more than thirty years.)

1980’s
Edgar Whisenant (former NASA engineer) publishes his book, 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988.---(NOTE: He wrote another book predicting 89 when it became clear that he had missed the 88 prediction.)

Hal Lindsey (of 'The Late Great Planet Earth') writes concerning the so-called 'Jupiter Effect' - 'what we can expect in 1982 is the largest outbreak of killer quakes ever seen in the history of planet earth along with radical changes in climate'.---(NOTE: This did not happen either.)

1988:
Charles Taylor, American prophecy teacher, advertises a Holy Land tour with the incentive that by staying in a hotel on the Mount of Olives, 'if this is the year of our Lord's return, as we anticipate, you may even ascend to Glory from within a few feet of His ascension.'---(NOTE: He is just sort of a kook. Now deceased )

September 11/12 expected as the date of the Rapture by Trinity Broadcasting Network, who cancel their regular programs and run videotapes instructing non-believers what to do if their families suddenly shoot up into the sky.---(NOTE: This is a network of kooks, but the older lady with the big purple hair is a sight to see.)

September 29/30 is published by Hart Armstrong (chairman of 'Christian Communications') as a Rapture Alert date in his publications.---(NOTE: In case you were not aware, there was no "rapture" on this day or any other in September of 1988)

October: Return of Christ as predicted by many Christian evangelicals fails (40 years (a 'generation') + 1948 (Israel's statehood) = 1988). (NOTE: Don't get disillusioned. Many of them changed the generation start date to 1967 after 1988 did not pan out. Israel took over all of Jerusalem in Six Day War of 67. So the Rapture should happen in 2007--story pending.)

Christian evangelist George Curle predicts God's judgement on Antichrist in 1999, the Tribulation in 2002, and Christ's Return and the millennium of Israel in 2005: 'the third Exodus for Israel and believing Gentiles will be accomplished in 2005 AD'. (NOTE: I think 2005 is come and gone, so this too was a miss.)

1991:
Cape Town's Rev. J.S. Malan predicts the beginning of the great Tribulation 'op die laaste' by September 1995 and Christ's Return by 2002.---(NOTE: I we can say for certain that that Rev. Malan missed this one)

1992:
The Tami Church based in Seoul, South Korea, under pastor Lee Jang Rim, distributes the visions and prophecies of it's world-wide membership indicating the Rapture will happen 28th October 1992. (the Millennium will begin 7 years later in 2000 AD).--- (NOTE: Another miss, but it is good to see that Asians and Africans have joined in this "multicultural" silliness.)

October 28th: 20 000 members of the 'Mission for the Coming Days' (Tami Church), spend the afternoon waiting for the Rapture, resulting in great public humiliation to Christians and the amusement of the world. (NOTE: But it was a nice picnic.)

Etc, etc… There would be plenty here to laugh about, if it were not such an embarrassment to the Church and provide so much ammunition for those that hate Christ and desire to belittle the Faith. Hal Lindsey is a bit more careful in his wording, most of the time, but he is the top "prophecy expert" out there and I think his writings on prophecy are only slightly less of an embarrassment. I think his eschatology is (to be kind) not biblical. I think Dispensational theology has caused him to interpret the Scriptures by the Newspaper headlines far too often.

Soli Deo Gloria,
Kenith

He will come like a thief in the night. We do not know when. We just need to always be prepared.

I wish more of these kooks would remember this. But then, they wouldn't draw as many superstitious people into their churches. For it is the weak in faith and superstitious that fall for this nonsense.

 

[James1979]

You're right Christ said he will come like a thief in the night for those who are not watching. But those who are watching Christ will not come like a thief unto them.

 

[Foundthelight]

You're right Christ said he will come like a thief in the night for those who are not watching. But those who are watching Christ will not come like a thief unto them.

Like I said, we must always be prepared.