Subject: RAPTURE |
Bible Note: Hi Kalos, How can you possibly have expectancy without immenency? Mar 13:33 Watch! Be wakeful, and pray. For you do not know when the time is. Mar 13:34 As a man going away, leaving his house, and giving his slaves authority, and to each his work (and he commanded the doorkeeper, that he watch), Mar 13:35 then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early; Mar 13:36 so that he may not come suddenly and find you sleeping. Mar 13:37 And what I say to you, I say to all. Watch! The doorkeeper knows that the master is not returning suddenly if he knows that the master will come only after the newspaper slaps the porch. He does not have to watch for the returning master. He only needs to start watching once he hears the whump of the daily news. Just as the one who believes that Jesus will not come until after the abomination of desolation, for instance. They only need start watching for Jesus once they have seen the abomination standing in the Holy Place. And so imminence IS clearly taugh in the doctrine of expectancy. Because expectancy relies on imminence, and to try to remove imminence from expectancy makes expectancy no longer expectant. Love in Christ, Mark |