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Tragically, total defeat is the only option when dealing with the IRGC nutters.
There is no sneaky rapture. But there is a sneaky rupture, which is what will happen to the faith of those who believe the devil's sneaky rapture lie when it doesn't happen.
What is testing us is the Donald. He didn’t bother to prepare America for this war, and his numbers are, as a consequence of that, lower than ever.
He is also misinterpreting article five in the NATO treaty. NATO is not a draft treaty where you’re hauling your allies into a conflict you have started yourself.
As I've previously mentioned, I believe Israel is not saved under a different covenant than the Gentiles; both are saved solely through faith in Jesus Christ under the one Covenant of Grace. While some suggest a future, large-scale conversion of ethnic Israel (Romans 11), they are grafted into the same olive tree—the church—as Gentiles.The Church age corresponds to Ruth gleaning.
Israel’s national restoration corresponds to Naomi’s fullness.
Both converge in the Davidic Kingdom.
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The New Covenant has DIFFERENT ASPECTS in consideration of the "who" and the "when" of receiving it.
A Biblically supported nuance that seems to be far above the pay grade of the Biblical illiterate deniers.
These DIFFERING ASPECTS hard "hard wired" into the Biblical narrative both OT and NT.
For example the story of Ruth and Naomi and the Kinsman Redeemer.
The Kinsman marries the gentile bride Ruth, Naomi obtains her land, title, and secures her future in it.
There are many other examples of this "hard wired" codified (and actually written in code BTW) support for the future for National Israel in the New Covenant.
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The book of Book of Ruth is often taught devotionally, but it also serves as a prophetic type — illustrating the distinction between national Israel (Naomi) and a Gentile bride (Ruth) while showing how both ultimately share in covenant blessing.
Below is a structured summary along those lines.
Naomi — A Picture of National Israel
Her Condition
Famine in Bethlehem → departure from the land
Loss of husband and sons
Emptiness (“Call me Mara”)
No redeemer operating on her behalf yet
Prophetic parallel:
Israel scattered among the nations
Spiritual barrenness
Under discipline
Covenant promises dormant but not cancelled
Naomi is not replaced — she is restored.
Ruth — A Picture of the Gentile Church
Her Identity
A Moabitess (outside covenant privilege)
No legal claim to Israel’s promises
Comes purely by grace
Personally chooses Naomi’s God
“Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.”
Prophetic parallel:
The Church comes from the nations
Saved apart from land or national promise
Brought near by grace, not genealogy
Gains intimate relationship to the Redeemer
Ruth is not given Israel’s national inheritance — she is given a bride’s position.
Boaz — The Kinsman-Redeemer
Boaz redeems:
The land (Naomi’s inheritance)
The bride (Ruth)
This mirrors Christ as:
Redeemer of Israel’s covenant promises
Bridegroom of the Church
But note the nuance:
Naomi’s inheritance is land-based and covenantal
Ruth’s inheritance is relational and marital
Different spheres, same Redeemer.
How Both Fulfill the New Covenant — Differently
The New Covenant (Jeremiah 31) is made with “the house of Israel and Judah.”
In this typological reading:
Naomi (Israel)
Receives restoration to inheritance
Experiences covenant faithfulness
Ultimately rejoices when the child (Obed) is born
Ends full — not empty
This parallels:
National repentance
Regathering to land
Kingdom blessing
Davidic throne fulfilled
Ruth (Gentile Church)
Receives personal redemption now
Enters intimate union with the Redeemer
Bears fruit through grace
Is brought into the lineage of David
This parallels:
Spiritual regeneration
Union with Christ
Heavenly identity
Co-heirship through grace
The Nuanced Differences
Naomi (Israel) Ruth (Church)
Earthly inheritance Heavenly calling
National covenant Spiritual union
Land restored Bride relationship
Prophetic fulfillment in kingdom Present spiritual fulfillment
Public national redemption Personal redemptive intimacy
Both share redemption — but the purpose differs.
The Larger Prophetic Pattern
Ruth takes place “in the days when the judges ruled” — a time of chaos.
Many dispensational teachers see the pattern:
Israel in discipline (Naomi bitter).
A Gentile bride called out (Ruth).
The Redeemer revealed.
The land restored.
Joy in Bethlehem.
Davidic line secured.
In that framework:
The Church age corresponds to Ruth gleaning.
Israel’s national restoration corresponds to Naomi’s fullness.
Both converge in the Davidic Kingdom.
The Main Truth
God does not cancel promises.
He fulfills them according to their original intent.
Israel is restored as a nation.
The Church is joined as a bride.
The Redeemer secures both.
Different roles.
Different spheres.
One covenant faithfulness.
One Redeemer.
Covenant Theology teaches that there is only one covenant of grace, initiated in Genesis and fulfilled in Christ, that saves sinners in both Old and New Testaments.
There is no separate, parallel path to salvation for ethnic Jews. Both Jewish and Gentile believers are saved by grace alone through faith in Christ.
The Church is seen as the continuation of the true Israel of God, not its replacement, which now includes both Jewish and Gentile believers.
The current hardening of Israel is temporary, designed to allow the inclusion of the "fullness of the Gentiles". Romans 11 indicates a future mass conversion of ethnic Jews to Christianity.
Paul’s metaphor in Romans 11:23-24 indicates that when Jews turn to Christ, they are "grafted in" to the same single olive tree (the church).
The church does not replace Israel; it is the fulfillment of Israel, incorporating both believing Jews and Gentiles.
The Deliverer (Jesus) comes to remove ungodliness from Jacob, placing saved Jews in the same body as Gentiles.
And just to refresh your "memory":
The FIRST Coming of Christ Jesus the Kinsman Redeemer was for ISRAEL.
Mat 15:24 - But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
The SECOND Coming of Christ Jesus the Kinsman Redeemer will likewise be for ISRAEL.
Evidently, your despising of Israel has made you blind. Whereas my love for Israel has given me sight.
And a thought had crossed my mind: if you were to be "left behind" at the rapture, you will have no one to blame but yourself.
He doesn't care about sundry laws, or even polls, as Trump is done after this term. But understand that nobody else really cares about "international law" either, it's all political grandstanding self-righteous jawboning.
This war debacle has ONE primary salient purpose: the PRESERVATION of the Nation Israel, the people whom God foreknew. And of course setting the stage for the fulfillment of all "end-time" prophecy.
Isa 46:10 - Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’
While the above makes for interesting reading, the Old Testament as filled with numerous types and shadows that prefigure Jesus Christ (the antitype) through people, events, and institutions.
The types of Christ include, Adam (federal head), Isaac (beloved son), Joseph (suffering/exalted savior), Moses (mediator), Melchizedek (priest-king), and David (shepherd-king).
These types are not coincidences; God sovereignly ordered history to provide imprints of Christ before his arrival.
Colossians 2:16-17 teaches that ceremonies are shadows, while Christ is the substance, the "reality" or "antitype". These shadows show that the Covenant of Grace was already being administered in the Old Testament, pointing forward to its fulfillment.
The Old Testament church is the same covenantal community of God as the New Testament church, merely under a different administration. It is defined by God's covenant, as the "visible church" (covenant community) and typologically manifested through patriarchal families and the theocratic nation of Israel.
I don't accept the idea of the pre-tribulation rapture of the Church. We consider it to be a modern (19th-century) innovation rather than historic orthodox doctrine. We believe in a single, visible second coming of Christ at the end of history, rather than a secret rapture followed years later by a second return.
Yes I believe we should forget about trying to find out what God has deliberately hidden from us.
Satan can disguise Himself as much as He likes, but Gods Word reveals that it is impossible to deceive His elect. We know what God has revealed and we don't want to know those things He has hidden from us.
I'm not sure if you're aware of the fact that "a day" can represent a year in the bible. So yes, nobody knows the year or the hour of Christs return.
Yes my Minister does teach me not to be concerned about when Jesus might come back. He teaches that us that believers are already saved, so we don't need to fear the coming judgement of sinners.
The "we should watch" is an exhortation to personal obedience and discipline, we're not waiting for the "Man of war" to come and wage war against us. That's what the wicked should be worried about.
We believe all of the prophecies, but we don't interpret them in the same way you do. Nothing in the Bible is written in a simple "non-arbitrary" way. Every verse needs to be understood in it's intended context, and it must line up with every other verse in the Bible, which deals with that particular matter, doctrine or prophecy.
Most if not all denominations, interpret the scriptures by subjecting them to their own preconceived expectations of what the scriptures should be saying. I don't think any of them allow the Bible to interpret itself. This is why there are 49,000 Christian Denominations in 2026, each claiming to poses the correct interpretation, while contradicting each other.
I believe we should read the Bible and believe the Bible. The Bible gave us the exact year that Jesus would be crucified, it also gave us the exact year that the Jews would return from Babylon during Daniel's time. There is no Biblical basis to say that God would hide the year from us. You are making up a Biblical basis that does not exist and you are denying the Biblical basis that does. God tells us the end from the beginning, this is proof that He is God and there is none like Him.
If God needs the US to save modern Israel, then he's not God
No, it will be with Israel whom he will bring with him. All Israel, the remnant of just men made holy throughout the ages, who are all saved in the same manner, through the new covenant removal of their sins. That kingdom will never be uprooted as the OT prophets foretold.
Your replacement theology false doctrine has already been debunked at every point.
And because you recklessly adhere to it, I realize that you WILL not accept the clear meaning
and intent of these passages either.
Go ahead......continue to defy and deny the Biblical truth of God's eternal love for Israel.
The consequences of such folly are inevitable and tragic.
The strength of the Hebrew here is astounding and beyond debate.
Nobody in their right mind disputes the clear indented message of these passages.
Hos 3:1
Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
Hos 3:2
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Hos 3:3
And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
Hos 3:4
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
Hos 3:5
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
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Isa 54:5
For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Isa 54:6
For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Isa 54:7
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Isa 54:8
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
(“everlasting kindness” חֶסֶד עוֹלָם (chesed olam), contrasted with "for a moment".
Unbounded in time from the speaker’s perspective
Indicates permanence or indefinite continuity due to intentional rhetorical contrast.)
Isa 54:9
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Isa 54:10
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
Isa 54:11
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Isa 54:12
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Isa 54:13
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
You have offered nothing in the way of actual biblical proofs to support your anti-Israel replacement theology claims.
Specious opinions are a dime a dozen and useless.
Contrarily, I have offered a caseload that is far beyond refutation.
Oh and BTW, there are lots of interpretations. But only one is correct. Or none.
The idea that there are many equally correct interpretations is, on its face, untenable.
You are obviously arguing from the perspective of unbelieving pharisees who do not see Christ, and out of necessity shift everything to the future. But it's clear that the last days the prophets were referring to in many cases were the last days of Israel nearly 2000 years ago. For example:
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 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: Acts 2:17
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 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; Hebrews 1:1-2
But pharisees are blind to what scripture plainly says and can't see the obvious because they are not of faith, thus everything is worldly to them.
That passage (often quoted by the replacement theology crew as some kind of proof) I have already debunked.
And yes, it is another passage far too difficult and nuanced for the hacks and duffers who profess but do not understand.
BOTH of Peters speeches (Acts 2 and 3) undoubtedly convey (and are MEANT to convey) the certain return of the kingdom to Israel.
Act 1:6
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
Act 3:21
Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.