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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: EveryHome Ordered by Date |
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1 | No hope for unity of faith? | Hebrews | EveryHome | 1390 | ||
Another good insight or two by charis. The model for "the church" in newly evangelized places in this world seldom follow the American approach unless it is a church planted by a denomination. Generally you will find the "house church" or as one ministry as started all over this world... "Christ Groups". These begin to function as true churches in my opinion. Your dream is already coming true in many places in the world charis. India, China, Nepal are prime examples with much evidence available. I don't know what you are doing with your life but, and I wouldn't be surprised if you are already working in full-time ministry, you should think about examining some of these wonderful evidences of the truth of your dream and comments. The Lord is going to receive the glory... no matter how hard the church tries to get it! Until then. | ||||||
2 | What is the point? | 1 Thessalonians | EveryHome | 1330 | ||
Dear charis… there are major differences between "date setting" and attempting to understand the "timing" of Christ's return! Coming to a conclusion, through study of Scripture, about the accuracy of the Pre Wrath Rapture position is a very healthy and needed Biblical exercise. Remember, I am Arminian and believe very deeply that apostasy is possible. Let me elaborate on the impact of this. First, if the Pre Wrath Rapture is correct, the church will enter the seventieth week of Daniel to encounter the difficulties of that period and the Antichrist himself. If it does so, having been taught and convinced of an imminent pretribulation Rapture and the absence of any personal tribulation or persecution (because you are already raptured), the consequences will be calamitous. The church will enter that period unprepared, spiritually naked, vulnerable, and ripe for the Antichrist's deception. A questioning of the trustworthiness of the Word of God will naturally follow. It could be a spiritual catastrophe - a "Pearl Harbor" of incalculable proportions - a satanically planed sneak attack. I totally agree with your admonition to live a life of expectancy and to get with the program. Perhaps here is the ultimate error of pretrib rapturism. It holds out the false hope of imminent rapture, instead of the true hope of "expectant" rapture. What Scripture does teach is "expectancy" as you so often exhort charis. Any generation could be called upon to enter the seventieth week of Daniel and there, in the midst of adversity, to remain true (remember the Arminian blood). But with the certain hope that those who endure to the end will be delivered by rapture before the Day of the Lord wrath is poured out on the unregenerate world. They will not know the hour or the day, but they will know the general time period. I believe that Pre Wrath Rapture teaching becomes a supreme catalyst for holy living (2 Peter 3:11). Charis, if what the church has been taught… no persecution… no tribulation… straight to heaven on a cloud… turns out to be incorrect… then apostasy will bloom. It will become very easy to doubt the Word of God (as you were taught it) if you are a pretriber… going through the portion of the Tribulation enacted by Satan. So let me answer your gentle question about "Why would you want to?" by saying that I believe the church should be prepared for a portion of what we call the Tribulation or she will flounder under the attack of Satan and many saved souls will become apostate. The church will be unprepared to evangelize the lost world. This plus the previously mentioned belief that Pre Wrath Rapture teaching is a genuine catalyst to holy living is my response. Blessings! | ||||||
3 | who is She referring to? | 1 Pet 5:13 | EveryHome | 1297 | ||
The NLT is probably a better translation of the verse..."Your sister church here in Rome sends you greetings, and so does my son Mark." 1 Peter 5:13 |
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