The Rapture

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Originally Posted by VCO

Revelation 9:6-11 (NKJV)
[SUP]6 [/SUP] In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
{NEVER HAS HAPPENED YET, BUT IT WILL!}
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lol this has happened many times through history.


[SUP]7 [/SUP] The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. {THESE ARE DEMONS} On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. [SUP]8 [/SUP] They had hair like women's hair,
{THE ROMAN SOLDIER WAS REQUIRED TO KEEP HIS HAIR MUCH SHORTER THAN A WOMAN'S}
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Not the auxiliaries like the ones who invaded Palestine.

The hair like women's hair demonstrated they were against God

However I think they were the demons behind the Roman armies or whoever.
 
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valiant said:
lol this has happened many times through history.




Not the auxiliaries like the ones who invaded Palestine.

The hair like women's hair demonstrated they were against God

However I think they were the demons behind the Roman armies or whoever.
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just passing by and letting u and everyone else know palestine doesnt exist. there is only Israel. No palestine ever existed.
 
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valiant said:
lol this has happened many times through history.




Not the auxiliaries like the ones who invaded Palestine.

The hair like women's hair demonstrated they were against God

However I think they were the demons behind the Roman armies or whoever.
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Then Romans need to be told not to hurt grass and tress,and not kill but sting for 5 months,and somehow be repelled at Jews marked by God.

The obvious insect interpretation is off the table of coarse.
 
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Joel 3:4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

 
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Locutus said:
Joel 3:4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

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You're using a modern usage of the word Palestine and looking in the wrong place. The "palistinians were Philistines.

Though the definite origins of the word Palestine have been debated for years and are still not known for sure, the name is believed to be derived from the Egyptian and Hebrew word peleshet. Roughly translated to mean rolling or migratory, the term was used to describe the inhabitants of the land to the northeast of Egypt - the Philistines. The Philistines were an Aegean people - more closely related to the Greeks and with no connection ethnically, linguisticly or historically with Arabia - who conquered in the 12th Century BCE the Mediterranean coastal plain that is now Israel and Gaza.
 
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If the KJV translators who were guided to do a better job than the Greek texts then who am I to dispute when they wrote Palestine.
 
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i wish the rapture would happen now.......... tomorrow is always spooky
 
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Muzungu256 said:
i wish the rapture would happen now.......... tomorrow is always spooky
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Not gonna happen my man - long since gone.

What's with this "spooky" bizness?

I always look forward to tomorrow - If I wake up I don't have to look for my obituary in the newspaper..:p
 
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Locutus said:
I always look forward to tomorrow - If I wake up I don't have to look for my obituary in the newspaper..:p
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i dont look forward to waking up in general.............. but as many have asked u here; why did only a small percentage (very small) of christians get to expeirence the rapture???? isnt it supposed to include the dead(all dead) and living saints (all living at the time)?
 
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Snoozy said:
the bible says da word palestine 0 times case closed.
u are just being politically correct and using the current made up term.
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It also never uses the term Israel. But I use the term which will be understood by modern readers.
 
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Muzungu256 said:
i dont look forward to waking up in general.............. but as many have asked u here; why did only a small percentage (very small) of christians get to expeirence the rapture???? isnt it supposed to include the dead(all dead) and living saints (all living at the time)?
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Because just like Christ's birth, death and resurrection it occurred at the right time:

Gal 4:4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

Rom 5:6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
If the resurrection had happened, then Death would no longer exist.

Locutus said:
Because just like Christ's birth, death and resurrection it occurred at the right time:

Gal 4:4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

Rom 5:6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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Muzungu256 said:
alright. so do u think its right to say that the death discussed in 1cor15:55-56 is sin????????
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No the death being discussed isn't sin, it's literal death of the body. The sting of death is SIN because SIN causes the 2nd death. The law is the strength of sin because where there is no law there is no SIN.
 
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What was the importance of the destruction of the temple?

I will add more to the answer in due course

1) it was the fulfilment of Daniel's 70th week, and in particular marked the midpoint of the week when the sacrificial system was terminated

2) It marked the end of 40 years of grace for apostate Israel, showing that God is a God of Mercy, and that he extends mercy to all, even when Justice demands blood

3) it marked the discontinuation of the Old Covenant

4) it was prophesied by Christ on 3 occasions in his last week before being crucified
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I see it as Christ's sacrifice ended the sacrificial system. I agree that 40 years later they were forced to stop sacrifices with the destruction Jerusalem but any sacrifices they made after Christ were not valid to God. I don't believe God would accept a lamb after the real Lamb was sacrificed.
 
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