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I didn't say that. I intended to say that it is important to preach the gospel to unbelievers first.What is is about Matt 24, 2 Thess 2, Rev 13, or the everlasting gospel in Rev 14 that requires us not to tell people how to be saved in your POV
What was the book called.As you delight in Scripture, you might delight in Watchman Nee's rare description of it from all Scripture, difficult to find online or in print. Happy searching if you delve into this.
I don't remember though I read it in paperback long ago , and sometimes when I could find it pdf online too. It's part of what's called the white covers, by cfp - Christian Fellowship Publishers... (avoid lsm, living stream ministry or publishers - they corrupted the books on purpose so the leaders could exert more power , as if) ....What was the book called.
I once had one of his books, Sit, Walk, Stand, I think it was called.I don't remember though I read it in paperback long ago , and sometimes when I could find it pdf online too. It's part of what's called the white covers, by cfp - Christian Fellowship Publishers... (avoid lsm, living stream ministry or publishers - they corrupted the books on purpose so the leaders could exert more power , as if) ....
I once had one of his books, Sit, Walk, Stand, I think it was called.
He told them to repent.Is not that what Jonah, sent by Yahweh, did though, in /to Nineveh ? He apparently did not tell them they had any way to escape destruction.....
In Scripture he only told them they were going to be destroyed. No mention in Jonah's proclamation described of anyway to escape destruction ....
and although spared once, Nineveh was later destroyed anyway.
In the world today, most end up destroyed ....
Well you chalk it up to an unnecessary curiosity? Why do you do that when Jesus, Paul and John spoke about the subject. Yes some can go to the extremes but it seems you want no genuine discussion on it at all.There seems to be in Christianity a curiosity or fascination with end times prophesy. Those that more forcefully proclaim their prophecies are seen as more biblically knowledgeable and receive the attention of many.
Jesus did warn that all should be prepared.Some stir up fear in our hearts...
Sure balance is the key but we are to allow the Lord's coming teachings to motivate us to stay pure.Is this what we should be doing with our walk with the Lord on Earth? Is this what He told us to do?
That just means don't be all bent out of shape being worried but take things to God in prayer.Jesus words are
Take no thought for tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself, sufficient in the day is the evil thereof.
But he still wanted us to know some things just not to every precise detail that we might like to know.It is not for you to known the times or the seasons which the Father Has fixed by His own authority
Is there any need to stereotype people who talk about prophecy? I'd say not.Many will talk prophecy, very few accept correction.
Can be if one isn't balanced with it all not dealing with everything else Jesus says we're to do or mediate on.I believe that prophecy and end times obsession are a distraction that keeps us from concentrating on what Jesus really wants us to do.
True. People can think I've got a few years before the rapture or the Lord's coming, not realizing their day of leaving this earth might be now.Thus while we should not ignore the end times, it is more likely that death will catch up with us first, so we need to prepare ourselves for both events as they are equally inevitable, and the way we do that is the largely, perhaps entirely, the same, for each scenario.
I don't see that happening in most of all congregations though. I notice some big online ministries perhaps are over too much into it.....and I wonder why? Every news item that takes place shouldn't be looked upon as a sign but some do fall into that.But when you have congregations talking about the end of the world every week as the predominant subject, that is evidence of a church which has gone off course.
Yes exactly. My brother's excuse for becoming apostate is because being led to believe the rapture was around the corner, he didn't bother preparing for the future through education etc. I said bro, at any time you could've been taken out by a bus.True. People can think I've got a few years before the rapture or the Lord's coming, not realizing their day of leaving this earth might be now.
True. People can think I've got a few years before the rapture or the Lord's coming, not realizing their day of leaving this earth might be now.
I don't see that happening in most of all congregations though. I notice some big online ministries perhaps are over too much into it.....and I wonder why? Every news item that takes place shouldn't be looked upon as a sign but some do fall into that.
My cousin has a Turkish wife from one of the minorities. She says her people are Armenian or Syriac, but the Turks call them Assyrian. They are not allowed to speak their own language as the Turks say they don't have minorities.Actually Nineveh still exists, but its known as Mosul. The city and the surrounding plains are home to a substantial number of Iraq’s Christian population, which is why when ISIS took the city in 2014 it was such a disaster for Christianity in the Middle East. Thankfully they are gone, but that was a genocidal nightmare. The Yazidis of Sinjar got the worst of it however, poor people, kyrie eleison.
The Oriental Orthodox churches (Syriac Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Ethiopian Orthodox, Eritrean Orthodox, Indian Orthodox) and the Assyrian Church of the East (and the closely related Ancient Church of the East) commemorate this with an annual three day total fast on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday following what in the West we know as Septuagesima, as my Coptic friend @dzheremi will confirm.
Urmia on the other hand, was destroyed, but the tribe of Assyrians from that city still exists.
I think there can be a ditch on both sides of the road. One can put too much emphasis on it setting aside things which provide spiritual growth or they never talk about the Lord's return at all. Jesus did, Paul the Apostle did, and Peter and John as well. The coming of the Lord teaching was to be at least a part of exhorting the saints.Indeed, fortunately this problem seems confined to a certain category of non-denominational churches, megachurches and new aliturgical denominations which tend to be some combination of evangelical, charismatic or restorationist, frequently with a heavy emphasis on some form of dispensationalist eschatology. You would not encounter this at a Lutheran or Anglican church or a traditional Congregationalchurch like Park Street Church in Boston, or a liturgical Methodist church like the Epworth Chapel on the Green in Boise, Idaho.
Actually Nineveh still exists, but its known as Mosul.
The city and the surrounding plains are home to a substantial number of Iraq’s Christian population, which is why when ISIS took the city in 2014 it was such a disaster for Christianity in the Middle East.
Thankfully they are gone, but that was a genocidal nightmare. The Yazidis of Sinjar got the worst of it however, poor people, kyrie eleison.
The Oriental Orthodox churches (Syriac Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Ethiopian Orthodox, Eritrean Orthodox, Indian Orthodox) and the Assyrian Church of the East (and the closely related Ancient Church of the East) commemorate this with an annual three day total fast on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday following what in the West we know as Septuagesima, as my Coptic friend @dzheremi will confirm.
Urmia on the other hand, was destroyed, but the tribe of Assyrians from that city still exists.
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