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Post by january on Nov 21, 2008 10:13:52 GMT -5
What is your view of eschatology, or the End Times?
The views range from Amillennialism, which is the general view of the mainstream churches, such as Anglicanism, Catholicism, Orthodoxy, through to Dispensational Pre-millennialism, which believes in the rapture of teh church and a variety of dispensations through the ages.
Others hold to Partial or Full Preterism, which holds that the end times events took place partially or wholly in 70AD.
But what is your view?
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Post by Rev. Jim Cunningham on Nov 21, 2008 12:15:49 GMT -5
According to Scripture, the End Times occurs in this order:
The rise of a one world financial system and a one world government.
The rise of the Antichrist.
Antichrist establishes peace in the Middle East.
The rise of a one world religion established by Antichrist.
Persecution of believers by Antichrist ("He shall make war with the saints and overcome them").
God counter-strikes the Antichrist's kingdom with horrific plagues.
Jesus returns in the clouds with His angels in all His glory.
The dead in Christ rise incorruptable and meet Him in the air.
Believers still left alive change incorruptable and rise to meet Him in the air.
We, with Christ, then descend upon Jerusalem.
Christ touches down upon the Mt. of Olives, which splits open.
Christ obliterates the armies of Antichrist "by the sword of His mouth".
Christ casts the Antichrist and False Prophet into the Lake of Fire.
Christ binds Lucifer and casts him into the Bottomless Pit for 1000 years.
Christ and His people reign over the earth from Jerusalem for 1000 years, during which time the rest of the world brings tribute to Jerusalem year by year.
At the end of the 1000 year reign, Lucifer is loosed from the Bottomless Pit.
Lucifer gathers the nations of the world against Christ and His people in Jerusalem.
Christ obliterates them.
Unbelievers are resurrected.
The universe is brought to an end in fire.
The Judgement commences.
Lucifer and the Lost are cast into the Lake of Fire.
A new heaven and new earth are created.
Marriage supper of the Lamb.
God and His people live together forever.
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Post by botfield on Feb 10, 2009 14:38:50 GMT -5
So does this make you a pre, mid or post-tribber, Rev. Jim? I am Pre-Trib myself.
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Post by Rev. Jim Cunningham on Feb 15, 2009 17:48:25 GMT -5
LOL, actually, none of them. I do not believe in this "rapture" myth that has infested the church like the black plague since its satanic invention back in Ireland in the 1800s. Remember, the Tribulation is God's attack against the antichrist and his kingdom - not against us. God's attack on Egypt when pharaoh enslaved the Hebrews was a foreshadowing of the end times. Notice that God took His people out of Egypt AFTER He destroyed it - not before. The Hebrews were right there in Egypt while God devastated the entire Kingdom. The more God punished pharaoh, the more pharaoh persecuted God's people, until God brought pharaoh to his knees. Ditto for the end times. This is why it is written TWICE, once in the Old and once in the New Testaments, that the antichrist "shall make war against the saints and overcome them." We will be here. In fact WE are the whole reason God is unleashing His wrath against the enemy in the first place. I recommend that believers not believe the "rapture" lie. Jesus is not going to make some secret appearance, and then come back a third time. It is written, "Behold, He cometh with clouds and EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM, and they also which pierced Him, and ALL kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen!" -Revelation 1:7
"'And they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced!' And they shall mourn for Him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day shall there be a great mourning..." -Zechariah 12:10 However, the Bible teaches the Resurrection. I believe in that. Rev. Jim
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Post by botfield on Feb 16, 2009 11:10:34 GMT -5
That does make sense. Can you recommend any good eschatology teachers who believe and teach as you do, please? Thank you.
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Post by paisdulo316 on Sept 23, 2010 2:02:49 GMT -5
Yes i do agree with this I do not believe in the rapture It is a very dangerous teaching to mislead christians They think they get more than one chance to be saved This is not the case, Jesus says take care no man decieves you
You have one life only , live it and do it properly in Christ Jesus footsteps, take up your cross and be a christian.
Don
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