I get so sick of doomsday prophecies based on imaginative interpretations of Daniel/Revelation/Thessalonians etc, etc.
First, show me where the word “Rapture” is in the Bible. Any Bible, except the Latin Bible Jerome translated, who barely understood Greek or Hebrew, and had a transliterated word, instead of “grasp, seize, hold,” for harpazio. ([FONT="][/FONT]ἁρπαγησόμεθα[FONT="])
These constant false scenerios, which do not come to pass make Christians look stupid and naive. The constant prophecying the end, when it never happens, is an insult to God.
Jesus told us to occupy till he comes. That means walking with him, preaching the gospel, caring for the sick, the poor and living for Christ. We should be doing this, whether Jesus returns today, or in a thousand years!
Scare tactics are not the way God chooses to meet people. At least, not these blasphemous pronouncements of the end, especially when the Bible specifically tells us we are not to know the time.
“[/FONT]But as for that day and hour no one knows it—not even the angels in heaven—except the Father alone.” Matt 24:36
Do you know the hour, the day or even the year? Because then you know more than Jesus! And that is arrogant and not true! You simply are not an oracle of God. God has left us his Word, not so people can make up things based on a particular soteriology, to scare people into the Kingdom of God! Well, unless God truly saves them, they are not saved, and will walk away when the inevitable failure of these end times prophecies come to pass!
First, show me where the word “Rapture” is in the Bible. Any Bible, except the Latin Bible Jerome translated, who barely understood Greek or Hebrew, and had a transliterated word, instead of “grasp, seize, hold,” for harpazio. ([FONT="][/FONT]ἁρπαγησόμεθα[FONT="])
These constant false scenerios, which do not come to pass make Christians look stupid and naive. The constant prophecying the end, when it never happens, is an insult to God.
Jesus told us to occupy till he comes. That means walking with him, preaching the gospel, caring for the sick, the poor and living for Christ. We should be doing this, whether Jesus returns today, or in a thousand years!
Scare tactics are not the way God chooses to meet people. At least, not these blasphemous pronouncements of the end, especially when the Bible specifically tells us we are not to know the time.
“[/FONT]But as for that day and hour no one knows it—not even the angels in heaven—except the Father alone.” Matt 24:36
Do you know the hour, the day or even the year? Because then you know more than Jesus! And that is arrogant and not true! You simply are not an oracle of God. God has left us his Word, not so people can make up things based on a particular soteriology, to scare people into the Kingdom of God! Well, unless God truly saves them, they are not saved, and will walk away when the inevitable failure of these end times prophecies come to pass!