Paul, Jude and Peter make it clear there are items of the faith that we all believe, everything else we are to be general about.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.
What the prophets spoke about regarding the present Church age 70th week tribulation, redemption of Israel and Second Coming are not optional for us, as they were the foundational principles of what Jesus and the Apostles taught and believed.
What we need to do is LEARN about them, not ignore/reject them, walk on by and look the other way. This abject failure is now commonplace in these LAST TIMES in these latter day Churches. I know this is true from MANY MANY personal experiences in different so-called Churches.
I mean Acts 2:17 is a direct reference from Joel 2:28 for pity's sake.
You know.....the birth of the Church? You would think people would find this to be relevant.....right?
Act 2:17
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
1Pe 1:20
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
1Pe 1:5
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1Jo 2:18
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Jde 1:18
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Heb 1:2
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by
his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Jas 5:3
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
2Pe 3:3
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Isa 2:2
And it shall come to pass in the last days,
that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
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