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the Mark of the Beast, Daniel's 70th week, and Pastor Bill Macgregor

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Super Kal, I am a futurist, but not a dispensationalist. Some futurists are dispensationalists, but not all.
i heard you. and to be clear, i wasnt calling you one.
i was simply acknowledging why someone else would call you that, and that im starting to wonder about you.
i still didnt call you one, though.
so save the threats for those like jerryhuerta, who actually call you a dispie.

and your view of the rapture is still the same as the dispensational view. you place it before the tribulation, and your view requires imminence. the only difference between yours and theirs is you define the tribulation as 3 1/2 years, while taditional dispies define it as the full 7 years.
 
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Every one is a dispensationalist per that metric. So people should stop using what every one is in a derogatory manner, and then you all won't be in denial so much.

There was no church in the OT according to the church post the Cross. No one was called a Christian in the OT.

Mediation is pointless. There was one Atonement and Cross since before creation. No one is denying the Word is the same person as Jesus. The actual point is how one applies the Atonement throughout time.

What people have an issue with is time after the Second Coming for the Jews, including the 1,000 year reign. Amil see all as the church with only one judgment. But the Millennium is not only for the Jews. There are a remnant from all Nations. Most pre-mill are wrong in thinking the church is on earth during the Millennium. The church remains in Paradise from the 6th Seal until the New Jerusalem comes down after the Millennium.
 
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and your view of the rapture is still the same as the dispensational view.
no-one that I know of refers to any rapture timing view as the "dispensational view".

The traditional view are pre-trib, mid-trib, pre-wrath, post trib.

You and Jerry don't seem to understand what is the backbone of dispensationalism - the seven dispensations.

Someone who doesn't believe in that system of seven dispensations is not a dispensationalist. Futurism is not a sub-sect of dispensationalism.

You yourself have views in common with dispensationalists. For example, you believe that Jesus is the messiah. Does that mean your view is the dispensational view? Do you not see how offensive your and Jerry's tactics are?

Debate dispenstationalism with persons who actually claim to be dispenstaionalists and not drag others into that debate by FALSELY saying or inferring their view as being dispensational....especially since you don't mention any of the seven dispenstations of that system. I am not interested in the war that you and Jerry want to wage.

If you or anyone else want to talk about futurist view, fine. But don't drag dispensationalism into it, and accuse me of it.

btw, what is your rapture timing view ?

the only difference between yours and theirs is you define the tribulation as 3 1/2 years, while taditional dispies define it as the full 7 years.

No, actually I don't ever use the term "the tribulation" in expressing my view. I use the biblical based term of "the great tribulation".

The great tribulation begins with the setting up of the abomination of desolation statue image. The great tribulation lasts 1335 days, based on Daniel 12:11-12.

Here is a timeline critical path chart I made of the 7 year 70th week of Daniel 9:27. On the chart near the lower third of it - you will see the "Great Tribulation, 1335 days (highlighted in blue)


 
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I like your chart, well done. It seems we are close in agreement, yet I believe it's a mid-trib rapture and did this chart a few years back.

 
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Obviously, you hold an open theist perspective.
No, I just accept there is one God for all humanity, and that God did call out people at certain times for His will and plan on earth.
 
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You really cannot figure out 42 months is 3.5 years, yet you claim a 7 year tribulation with a half way point? You do know half of 7 is 3.5?

Satan is in control for 42 months. Some Amil want that to be Satan's little season, then a Second Coming. But Armageddon is not the Second Coming. Every one knows when Armageddon happens, to bring an end to those 42 months along with the 7 vials of God's wrath on Satan's government, described as Babylon and the religious harlot. Satan and the FP.

Do you think the 7 vials of God's wrath is the sign of the Second Coming, and the church is raptured in the midst of the 7 vials? That is the order of the events leading up to Revelation 19.

Think about Matthew 24. You have the Aod for 3.5 years, then you want there to be no Satan during a time of the greatest tribulation? How can you have Satan in control for 42 months, and then no one in control for the next 42 months? Even you have to put the tribulation first, and then go back to the AoD, and then leap frog over the Tribulation, to the Second Coming.

How is leap frog better than a reverse order? And the fig tree is mentioned last, so you have to leap frog over the first 3 events, then back to the tribulation, then back to the AoD, and then leap frog to the Second Coming.

I am terrible at pig Latin.
 
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no-one that I know of refers to any rapture timing view as the "dispensational view".
many dispies i know of do.

The traditional view are pre-trib, mid-trib, pre-wrath, post trib.
im very well aware of the different views

You and Jerry don't seem to understand what is the backbone of dispensationalism - the seven dispensations.
actually, i do. i used to be one myself.
the seven different eras, or "epochs"- what they used to call it- is a part of it, but surprisingly enough the teaching of the different "epochs" is not where dispensationalism started..

this whole school of thought was first surmised by Edward Irving because of the pre-trib view. Samuel Tregelles writes in his appendices in his book The Hope of Christ's Second Coming that the first belief that was created to make pre-trib "acceptable" was to make Israel and the Church two separate identities. around that time there were many other theories that were floated, such as the belief that there was a "first-first resurrection" a "second-first resurrection" in order to make the pre-trib view acceptable, but that was all speculated in 1827. it wasn't until John Nelson Darby who started to formulate a theology based around the pre-trib view. it was Darby, Bullinger, and Scofield who made it into a more fleshed out theology in the span of 70 years, with the basic understanding of what "classic" dispensationalism teaches with the culmination of the Scofield Reference Bible released in 1907, and the Dallas Theological Seminary in 1923, after Scofield's death, by Lewis Chafer, who called Scofield his mentor.

so yes, im extremely familiar with Dispensationalism.

Someone who doesn't believe in that system of seven dispensations is not a dispensationalist. Futurism is not a sub-sect of dispensationalism.
like i noted above, this was further developed later on in the 19th century. it is a characteristic of dispensationalism, but not the defining characteristic, not historically, anyway.

You yourself have views in common with dispensationalists. For example, you believe that Jesus is the messiah. Does that mean your view is the dispensational view? Do you not see how offensive your and Jerry's tactics are?
ONCE AGAIN, I never said you were a dispensationalst.
jerryhuerta did.
I did not.
next time you falsely accuse me of calling you that, i will report you, because I never once called you a dispensationalist.
i believe you when you say you're not one, for the most part... but, like i said earlier, i have my doubts, because two major characteristics of your "personal" view lines up with the accepted dispensational view, whether you want to believe that or not.

btw, what is your rapture timing view ?
im classic post-trib

i dont see evidence for the great tribulation starting with the image of the beast. Daniel 9:27 states when the last seven years starts-with that covenant with many- and Revelation states that the time that the beast will make war with the saints lasts 42 months, or 3 1/2 years, Revelation 13:5, Daniel 7:25... Jesus said it was shortened for our sake, Matthew 24:22, so technically, that "great tribulation" period lasts 3 1/2 years. not 7 years like dispies claim, not 75 days as Bill MacGregor claims, and most certainly not 1335 days as you claim

Here is a timeline critical path chart I made of the 7 year 70th week of Daniel 9:27. On the chart near the lower third of it - you will see the "Great Tribulation, 1335 days (highlighted in blue)
yeah, i dont really care for charts, mostly because dispies are the ones obsessed with charts, and I've seen my fair share over the years...
and before you fly off the handle and pop a vein, that's not me calling you one.
 
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many dispies i know of do.
I have never hear a single person refer to a rapture timing view as the "dispensational rapture". I think most dispensationalists hold the pre-trib rapture position.
next time you falsely accuse me of calling you that, i will report you, because I never once called you a dispensationalist.
You were insinuating it though.
i dont see evidence for the great tribulation starting with the image of the beast.
The image of the beast is the abomination of desolation, which will be placed on the temple, at which time the Jews in Judea should flee to the mountains.

The timeframes associated with the abomination of desolation are 1290 days and 1335 days. I show the two on my chart below.

Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

In Matthew 24:15, Jesus referred to the abomination of desolation and Daniel the prophet.

The term great tribulation (1335 days long) is in Matthew 24:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

The tribulation of those days (1290 days long) is in Matthew 24:
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: (the sixth seal event of Revelation 6:12-15)

1290 days from when the abomination of desolation statue image is first set until the sign of the Son of Man in heaven.

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.








 
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Why would Satan accuse us of being naturally born into Adam's dead flesh?
Why are you asking me this? When did I say that Satan accused anyone "of being naturally born into Adam's flesh"?

Satan accused Job of living righteous, only because God was good to Job.
Where are you getting that from?

You are trying to say nothing is wrong with Christians, therefore Satan can no longer accuse us.
Are our sins not forgiven and covered by the blood of Christ? Of course. So, what can he accuse us of? Did you even bother reading Romans 8:31-36? Paul said that no one can make accusations against us or condemn us. Was he wrong? You think Satan can do that even though Paul said no one can?

The point Paul was making is that when Satan accuses us, Jesus reminds God that He is the Atonement.
Where did Paul make that point? Nowhere. You're making that up. He asked who can make a charge (accusation - same thing) against us and said no one can. But, here you are saying that Satan can do that. You clearly do not understand what Paul was teaching in Romans 8:31-36.
 
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I like your chart, well done. It seems we are close in agreement, yet I believe it's a mid-trib rapture and did this chart a few years back.

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I appreciate the fact that you made an effort to put everything on a chart to organize end times events in relation to each other.

One of the issues I have with the mid-trib view is that it locks in the rapture timing to a very narrow ban.

Contrary to what I think Jesus said about not knowing what day our Lord comes, in three places in Matthew 24:

42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

And in Luke 21:34-36 (which is where I adopted the term "anytime" to describe my rapture view. Anytime rapture view.)

34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

The great tribulation actually begins 75 days before the exact mid-point. When the abomination of desolation statue image will be set on the temple mount.

So a mid-trib rapture timing to miss the great tribulation would not work.

 
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I have never hear a single person refer to a rapture timing view as the "dispensational rapture". I think most dispensationalists hold the pre-trib rapture position.
You seem to believe a lot of the same things that dispensationalists do, so it's a little confusing as to why you are denying that you are a dispensationalist.

Your view of the timing of the rapture is very similar to theirs except you say it has to occur before the great tribulation instead of right before a 7 year tribulation period. So, your view is pre-great trib instead of pre-trib. I don't see your view of the timing of the rapture as being significantly different than a typical dispensationalist.

Your view is also very Israel-centric as is typical of dispensationalists as well. It seems like the only difference between you and a typical dispensationalist is that you see the timing of things a little differently than a typical dispensationalist does.
 
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You seem to believe a lot of the same things that dispensationalists do, so it's a little confusing as to why you are denying that you are a dispensationalist.
Because I don't accept the backbone doctrine of dispensationalism of it's seven dispensations "system" of seven ages of how God relates to man.
 
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Your view of the timing of the rapture is very similar to theirs except you say it has to occur before the great tribulation instead of right before a 7 year tribulation period. So, your view is pre-great trib instead of pre-trib.
My "Anytime rapture view" is anytime (a window) between now and when the Antichrist goes into the temple, sits, claims to be God.

That act by the Antichrist triggers the beginning of the Day of Lord, not the great tribulation, which is triggered by the abomination of desolation statue image setup on the temple mount..


Different from my Anytime Rapture view, the pre-trib rapture, holds that the rapture takes place in a window between now and when the 70th week begins.
 
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The 70 weeks of Daniel 9 are determined upon Daniels people, the Jews, and Jerusalem. Not on 7 dispensational ages of dispensationalism.

Why don't you go to some dispensationalist site and copy and paste one of their charts of the 70th week of Daniel 9, so I can point out how my chart(s) is not the same as theirs.
 
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My "Anytime rapture view" is anytime (a window) between now and when the Antichrist goes into the temple, sits, claims to be God.
So, in your view, how much time could pass between the rapture "and when the Antichrist goes into the temple, sits, claims to be God"? Any amount of time? Or is there a limit (if so, what is it)? If it's any amount of time is that what you really believe, that there could be a long time between the rapture "and when the Antichrist goes into the temple, sits, claims to be God"?

That act by the Antichrist triggers the beginning of the Day of Lord, not the great tribulation, which is triggered by the abomination of desolation statue image setup on the temple mount..
So, what do you believe is the duration of the Day of the Lord and what do you believe is the duration of the great tribulation? Do you believe the great tribulation begins while the Day of the Lord is still going on? Do you think the Day of the Lord and the great tribulation end at the same time?

Different from my Anytime Rapture view, the pre-trib rapture, holds that the rapture takes place in a window between now and when the 70th week begins.
Yes, I acknowledged that your view is a bit different from pre-trib. But, it seems similar. In each case, it has to happen before a time of tribulation.
 
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Nah, I'm not that interested in this to take the time to do that. I'll just take your word for it that you're not a dispensationalist and that you just have some similar beliefs as they do.
 
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