Where Is America In The Last Days?

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[Patmosman_sga]

With your vivid imagination, you should be a novelist. You might give Tim LaHaye a run for his money.

I've already been raptured, so I probably wouldn't buy your book. But the Christian fiction market could always use some healthy competition!

 

[Josiah]

Originally posted by Patmosman_sga
With your vivid imagination, you should be a novelist. You might give Tim LaHaye a run for his money.

I've already been raptured, so I probably wouldn't buy your book. But the Christian fiction market could always use some healthy competition!

Why, that wouldn't be a PRETERIST view, now would it?

Perhaps (only perhaps) you didn't read the message to PRETERISTS at the beginning of this thread?

By the way, What's it like to have a new glorified body? Is it true that there's no pain and that you can just kind of "appear" wherever you want to? OH, please tell me what THAT'S like!!!

(How did it feel to get "raptured"? Didja kinda tingle all over or whut??)

 

[Patmosman_sga]

Originally posted by Josiah


Why, that wouldn't be a PRETERIST view, now would it?

Perhaps (only perhaps) you didn't read the message to PRETERISTS at the beginning of this thread?

By the way, What's it like to have a new glorified body? Is it true that there's no pain and that you can just kind of "appear" wherever you want to? OH, please tell me what THAT'S like!!!

(How did it feel to get "raptured"? Didja kinda tingle all over or whut??)

I am not a preterist. See my post, "Two Approaches to Eschatology" in the Spirituality, Religion and Ethics forum.

As for being raptured, here is my response to the "Pre-trib, Mid-trib, Post-trib" question on the Poll forum:

Not a day goes by that I don't have to endure some form of "tribulation," so I find even the suggestion that Christians will "escape the tribulation" to be absurd on its face. Try selling that "pre-trib" stuff to Christians in the Sudan and see how many blank stares you'll get.

Likewise, however, not a day goes by that I don't experience, in one degree or another, being "caught up" into a very real experience of the presence of Christ, so I find even the suggestion that his coming again is not imminent to be equally absurd. To live as a Christian in the midst of this crooked and perverse generation is to live in a constant state of being "caught up" in the mysterious reality that is Christ crucified and risen, showing forth his presence through word and deed, being ready for his appearing at any moment while, at the same time, being fully prepared for a long and often painful journey to the Promised Land.

I probably won't spend too much time on this forum, seeing that its "official" definition of eschatology is shallow and one-dimensional.

 

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Originally posted by Patmosman_sga
With your vivid imagination, you should be a novelist. You might give Tim LaHaye a run for his money.

I've already been raptured, so I probably wouldn't buy your book. But the Christian fiction market could always use some healthy competition!

No need for me to tell you what I think you should be/ or where you can go for that matter. See ya, wouldn't want to be ya.

 

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[postrib]

...to be snatched out of here unexpectedly...

Note the "if" in the following verse: "IF therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee" (Revelation 3:3). Paul confirms that if we watch for that day it will not overtake us as a thief: "Yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night... But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief... let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch" (1 Thessalonians 5:2, 4, 6).

...Our warning signs are here now. It could be anyday...

I don't believe the Bible anywhere says that Jesus can come to gather us together any day, but says the opposite (2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, compare Matthew 24:29-31). In 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, I believe Paul makes clear that two big signs -- the apostasy and the abomination of desolation -- must occur before the day Jesus comes to gather us together, for Jesus' coming to gather us together must destroy the Antichrist (verse eight).

 

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[Tallyn]

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