It doesn't matter if you are wrong or right. Because it has no bearing on your salvation. And is certainly not worth fighting with our brothers and sisters in Christ over.
Let's say the End Times begins:
Pre Trib rapture occurs, we can auto scratch off the other two and just ignore them.
I just wanted to briefly address this ^ "option" [in bold ^ ] (provided it takes place that way).
My view is that, in this case (and perhaps some of the other viewpoints, but especially this one... so let's pretend for a minute that this is the one...), while we can "auto scratch off the other two and just ignore them," I don't believe "that's the end of that".
I believe that "
what we've said today [in this present age]" will have great IMPACT on those who will continue on the earth FOLLOWING "our Rapture/The Departure," and this is no small thing... rather, it is of GREAT consequence TO THEM
(and *this* is
MY concern, when I personally am discussing such a Subject on these Discussion Boards... not merely believers/Christians existing today [who will indeed experience/participate in the Rapture, in the event that it should occur in the next few moments--THESE folks (of today) I am not so concerned with... but those folks who FOLLOW on, on the earth, here to experience the trib yrs because they weren't saved yet at the time it happens... what we share
NOW *does* affect THEM
then, and I take that responsibility very seriously...
rather than to think to myself, "welp,
some of us were *right* and now that
THAT'S over, let's get on with the *party!* dancin' in the streets of gold!"
No... there's more to it than that, and
that is, "how [what we say
NOW] will affect THOSE ppl
THEN" (
it's not all about US--meaning, these "discussions"
, or this specific Subject in particular)]
Next scenario: Pre trib does not occur, and we see the actual rise of the BIG antichrist (not the ones referred to as more than one existing, but THE BIG DADDY of antichrists.)
Well, we can scratch off pre trib when that happens. So the we just do what we're supposed to do until mid or post happens.
And if mid doesn't happen?
[...]
Because when you fight over whose interpretation is right (when really it could be any) you're not standing up for the Word of God.
You're fighting for your own ego. Sowing division. At that point, Lucifer has won.
On that point ^ (in bold), consider a post I made in a different thread, not long ago:
Post #142 (different thread) -
https://christianchat.com/threads/t...lessed-hope-of-the-saints.195611/post-4438835
[quoting]
"The Rapture: Precisely When?" - Kenneth S Wuest
"The answer to these questions will only be convincing to the reader if it is based upon the rules of Biblical exegesis. [...<snip>...] That interpretation which is based upon the above rules is to be regarded as correct until it can be shown by the reapplication of the same rules that an error of human judgment has crept in.
"There is such a thing, therefore, as a scientific method of studying the Word. The student who follows the rules of an experiment in chemistry brings that experiment to a successful conclusion. The student who does not ends up with an explosion. Just so, the student who conducts his study of the Bible along the scientific lines noted above arrives at the correct interpretation, and the student who does not at the wrong one. The exegetical method the student uses in answering the question with reference to the time of the rapture will determine whether he believes in a pretribulational or a posttribulational rapture.
[...]
"The words "a falling away" are the Authorized Version rendering of
apostasia. [...<snip>...]"
[end quoting small excerpt; more at link]
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I believe the Subject of "eschatology" (in Scripture) is just like any other Subject (in Scripture)... but we don't say, "any interpretation could be right" (at least on most all of those *other* Subjects), so that there's actually no sense in preaching ANYTHING *
in there* as "definite TRUTH" coz it's
all a matter of interpreting it in any way each person prefers, thus we come to a myriad of conclusions, but never coming to any one "meaning" (what was meant by the author/Author). Pointless, unless one simply likes to waste other's time, or something (like, say, by preaching a sermon in church, or by facilitating a Bible Study, or such like). = )
Just my two cents. Feel free to take it or leave it.