QUOTE (Stephen @ May 18 2008, 12:59 PM)

"Remember you said this on May 7, 2008."
>You don't have to remind me of what I said. I have said the same for years, know every related nook and turn of the various theories regarding the Lord's coming judgment, and do not forget anything. Your stand against the Lord's early "harpazo" action is satanically driven in my opinion even though you may not be aware of its origin. So there is no need to debate this issue with me. I also will ask you not to miss-quote me as you did in order to discredit my views. I will catch you every time and you will discount your own reputation in the view of the readers on this forum. Your mix and brand of scriptural content with loose handed foretelling does not impress me at all.
Gideon7620 said,
Interesting, frankly, I think the pretrib fallacy is inspired by Satan. I am very convinced of that. It is believed by most merely because they have been taught to believe it and not because they have studied it for themselves and have become learned in this subject. After the post of Babylon being a mountain, then I will go along and discuss the postrib rapture, fact. I do not believe I misquoted you, as I recall you misquoted your self and denied any link to inferring the Roman Catholic Church was Babylon, as you did. Do not get me wrong, I appreciate your input, but what exactly is your view on the Harlot. These are two completely different views you suggested were right.
QUOTE (Stephen @ May 18 2008, 12:59 PM)
Your view is warped and based upon the idea of "double" fulfillment of O.T. prophecies. The city of ancient Babylon no longer exists in the Middle East and it will not. What is in the development stage there is a confederation and consolidation of 10 Islamic states that will be lead by the little horn presented in Daniel's visions and the same as Revelation's beast. These are the ones who will destroy the "great cty" part of MBG and its location will not be in the Middle East. These same intransigents will also invade and occupy Israel for 42 months.
QUOTE (Stephen @ May 6 2008, 09:42 AM)
"Ever heard of the Inquisitions ? Vatican been mass murdering Jesus's people [labeled "heretics" by the "great whore"] for many centuries.
How people can avoid seeing that the Vatican is the "geat whore" is a mystery to me. It is so obvious.
"seven hills", "shed the blood of martyrs", "fornicating with kings", "very rich", "dominating multitudes of people", fulfillment, fulfillment, fulfillment like nothing else on earth.'
>MBG is much greater than an just an apostate religious system and is "total" intransigent unbelieving humanity existing from the post flood era to this very day. The position of the "woman" at the time of the end is global and her "great city" part is a financial, economic, and commercial trading center ..... not the Vatican. The description in Revelation 17 and 18 is not the RCC. The 7 "hills" are not the hills of Rome either. These are "mountains" dominions, kingdoms of the beast which have existed over time in the Middle East in the scope of the vision. Five of them have fallen and are historical. Five of the "hills" of Rome have not fallen .... this makes no sense at all. MBG is guilty for killing "all" who have been slain on the earth in one way or another. This statement incorporates "all" of the ways in which lost human society [organization] and self government has and eventually will destroy the human spirit .... count them. The other thing one needs to know is that the scope of the visions is limited and it does not include any earthly events from the end of about 33 A.D. to this very day. The unfulfilled portion of the events of the scope are still future. So for example, the crusades and inquisitions are not even in the scope. The idea that these visions described the Pope and the RCC alone is reformation theology which was designed to fit the reformers' day and is not an accurate rendering of the prophetic scriptures.
Gideon7620 said,
For we are told in II Thes.,
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him,
The rapture of dead and living, our gathering together unto him same event as I Thes
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Do not be confused by a false letter, false spirit, or false word, as if it came from us, it did not. The day is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
There must first be a great rebellion, or falling away, an apostasy from traditional order, and the antichrist must be revealed.
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
He must oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, the Jewish Temple must be rebuilt, and the abomination that makes desolate must occur, first, the great tribulation must occur.
2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Paul reminds him, he told them of this before, he even depicts a portion of it in his first letter to the Church of Thessalonica.
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
Pretribers claim this is the Holy Spirit leaving earth with the church. There are two problems with that: the Holy Spirit can never leave earth, even if it did, it would be impossible for people to be saved without his presence as he must be present. In the Great Tribulation time there will be more people saved than ever in history. How can this be if the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, The one to guide us in all truth is gone? It is impossible. At the same time this is there claim or one of them to pretribulationalism and it also is their audiles heal.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th 2:9 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Wait a minute, they say Jesus came in verses 6 and 7, but here Paul tells us no, he will not come until Satan does his horrific work. Even Him, whos coming is after the working of Satan, His coming is after the working of Satan, not before. This verse 6, 7 they try to establish as a second coming. The church age ends they. Claim. But wait a minute, Jesus said his resurrection made the believer a Jew also and that circumcision was of the heart and not flesh. Then they, pretribers say Christ comes again in verse nine after the workings of Satan. When the bible is taken in context and you do not add something imaginary to it, you discover there is and can only be one second coming. Therefore, there is no first, second, secret, invisible coming of Christ. Christ second coming will be loud, powerful, extremely brilliant as the sun, parocia, and there certainly will not be anything secret about it; as in first Thessalonians, it is said the 7th, trumpet sound will be so loud it will wake the dead to everlasting life, those that are alive and remain will be caught up into the clouds of Christ brilliant parocia. There is nothing secret, hidden, or disguised about this event as we see it in I or II Thessalonians. .
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Those that love not the truth shall perish; that is why it is very important to know what you believe and why, especially with this matter.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Guess what, God will send you strong delusion, and you will believe a lie if you currently are a pretriber and are unsaved, and you are here when Satan appears. Now do not get me wrong, I believe even if you are a pretriber and you are saved, that if Satan does appear, he will not be able to deceive you. The Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit works in the saved and he will lead you to all truth, even if what you think you believe to be truth is not truth, HS can change that in an instant. If your life cycle and time allows you to be here as an unsaved person that thought you were Christian, You will believe his lies. Evidently, the inference is possibly such were never Christians. Oh they had bus routes and tried to preach God's word. They even tithed and did many other works. God will not allow true believers to be vulnerable to this deception
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. He will only allow the self righteous glory hounds of our churches to fall prey to Satan's deception.
Keep in mind this is all being done to edify the body of Christ. For too long, we have aloud corrupt American politics, lost ministers, and a sinful culture to lead us in the wrong directions. Some worship an evil government that has misconstrued our constitution to the point of uselessness. Many follow preachers, especially in large churches, that have misled flocks to hell with false doctrines, corrupt practices, and a wicked beliefs system. These preachers live in ivory towers and even now can not imagine what it is to pay $4.00 per gallon for gas. The common every day person knows, but these pretiber preachers, especially large church preachers have not the faintest ideal. They are merely political pawns used by extreme right wing politicians to mass up votes for them. I have learned a lot about American Politics, economics, and religion in the past 10 years, especially in the past 3 or so. It is a vicious cycle and frankly it does not matter who gets in office. Decision are being decided in the back somewhere/ now do not get me wrong. I voted and I voted for Ron Paul. At least he tells the truth and understands what is going on. Will he win, no, not even if he does win.
We are living in the final years before the coming of Christ. We will see tribulation, no doubt in my mind. Christ will not come to save anyone from the wrath of the antichrist, at least not yet, no doubt in my mind. Some will be deceived and follow the antichrist, because he will come in peaceably, as an angel of light. Satan’s ministers transform themselves into ministers of light, and unless you know some bible they will deceive you, even a pastor or should I say wolf in a local church can bring great deception, corruption, and destruction to lives in a local church congregation. I have seen it over and over again in right wing, independent, fundamentalist, Baptist churches. There is not anyone farther from the truth than many of these. Do not get me wrong. I am Baptist, but I am shameful to say that and say it with hesitation. I have seen the lives these so called cult leaders have wrecked.
Well anyways, I will show that mountain equals nation or empire if you would. Then I will move on to the second coming, The Blessed Hope in which we will cover in quite a bit of detail. For those of you interested, I suggest you read all the accounts of the second coming in the Gospels, and also in I, and II Thessalonians. It will make it easier to understand and you will be able to see this pretrib, wishful thinking fantasy is just that, a fantasy of false doctrine. If I can help one person learn this true ancient doctrine, it will be well worth the efforts put forth. Pretribulationalism recently came on the scenes in the 1800's, Postribulationalism goes way back to the scriptures and even unto all of the early church fathers. Would you rather believe a bunch of disgruntled American pastors from the 1800's that obviously stretch the truth or our fathers, like Justin Martyr from the second century, who died for the cause of Christ,btw, They do not have to stretch the truth in the bible and obviously they did not fear dying for Christ. The truth is plainly there. It does not require a pastor or pope to teach you. You can learn it as a Christian for yourself, by laterally interpreting it. The pretribers claim to be verbal plenary, literalist in there interpretations, but you will discover quickly, there is nothing literal about their interpretations. They are hogwash interpretations that lack common sense and common decency. I believe these false doctrines were created by a satanic conspiracy and most likely by unsaved men
This post has been edited by Gideon7620: Today, 10:04 AM
Well anyways, I will show that mountain equals nation or empire if you would. Then I will move on to the second coming, The Blessed Hope in which we will cover in quite a bit of detail. For those of you interested, I suggest you read all the accounts of the second coming in the Gospels, and also in I, and II Thessalonians. It will make it easier to understand and you will be able to see this pretrib, wishful thinking fantasy is just that, a fantasy of false doctrine. If I can help one person learn this true ancient doctrine, it will be well worth the efforts put forth. Pretribulationalism recently came on the scenes in the 1800's, Postribulationalism goes way back to the scriptures and even unto all of the early church fathers. Would you rather believe a bunch of disgruntled American pastors from the 1800's that obviously stretch the truth or our fathers, like Justin Martyr from the second century, who died for the cause of Christ,btw, They do not have to stretch the truth in the bible and obviously they did not fear dying for Christ. The truth is plainly there. It does not require a pastor or pope to teach you. You can learn it as a Christian for yourself, by laterally interpreting it. The pretribers claim to be verbal plenary, literalist in there interpretations, but you will discover quickly, there is nothing literal about their interpretations. They are hogwash interpretations that lack common scenes and common decency. I believe these false doctrines were created by a satanic conspiracy and most likely by unsaved men It is so incredibly unbelievable that Justin Martyr, in spite of being martyred knew the tribulation was not upon the church yet.