People have a tendency to focus on the obvious exoteric meaning and ignore the hidden esoteric meaning.
Edit: See this post from u/sleepydude
Last year this space force logo was posted.
At the time I analyzed the logo and gave my analysis about it's numerology or whatever, but it wasn't well received.
IDK who designs these logos but they are always full of satanic bullshit.
Some pastors I've been following are JD Farag, James Kaddis, Tom Hughes, Jan Markell, and Amir Tsarfati.
McAfee anniversary , SCOTUS decisions, Julian Assange extradition, Ghislaine sentencing incoming. It felt like a lot of things were converging, and now Q has returned. Good shit.
I guess that would be one way to send coded messages.
Too bad I don't have TS.
This is how researchers estimated it has taken 4,500 years to sprawl to its current size.
It seems this plant has been growing since the time of Noah's flood.
https://answersingenesis.org/bible-timeline/timeline-for-the-flood/
Using the Bible, well-documented historical events, and some math, we find that the Flood began approximately 4,359 years ago in the year 1656 AM or 2348 BC.
I think it is more embarrassing that people don't know what the word "hypothetical" means.
We are in the middle of an "almost tetrad" of blood moons in which a total lunar eclipse occurs every 6 months. There was one last May and November and there will be one this May and November as well. The one in Nov 2021 was only a .97 magnitude eclipse which is why they call it an "almost" tetrad.
The one coming up on may 16th of 2022 is the third of four.
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/tetrad-super-tetrad.html
If your friend will abandon you over something like this then they were never your friend to begin with.
I remembered watching this video and thought I would leave it here. He gives the history of sodom and gomorrah and travels to the site of ancient gomorrah to see the sulfur for himself. I thought it was interesting.
https://youtu.be/QPISpAasD3M?t=1490
Here's a video that I had just watched where they are discussing why the economic situation is going to be much worse than anyone realizes. (James Kaddis and Monkey Werx)
If you watch the 10 minutes or so from where I timestamped the video you'll get the gist of it. There's an annoying audio bug partway through, but its worth hearing what they had to say. Basically the shutdowns in China are about to make all the incoming economic problems much, much worse.
I should have probably made a post about it because it is significant.
There are underground churches all over the world that are experiencing tremendous persecution right now, China, Iran, Lebanon, etc. I've seen beheadings and all sorts of terrible things happening to the church. America is caught in a normalcy bias thinking it can never happen to them.
Even aside from the Great Tribulation, things are going to get MUCH worse. Soon people wont be able to get food, even here in the US. It's gonna get bad. Really bad. Nothing is going to stop the antichrist system. It is coming upon the world even as we speak, and we don't have any more time.
Even if we are taken up, God will raise up strong leaders for those who come to faith during the tribulation. I do think a lot about the people who will go through it.
As someone who believes in the rapture, I have asked myself many times - what are we leaving behind for those who will come to faith during the tribulation.
About rapture doctrine being dangerous, I think that a lot of people who argue against pretribulation rapture are a little overly obsessed with thinking that some will become apostates if they have to go through tribulation, but I would urge you to consider this passage:
1 Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things. 2 For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. 3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him. 4 Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. Romans 14:1-4
We all have to make sense of scripture for ourselves, and whether we are taken up before, during, or after the tribulation will make no difference to those who truly belong to Him. If anyone's name is written in the book of life, God will make him stand.
25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. 26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. 27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 30 I and My Father are one.” John 10:25-30
Anyway, thanks for indulging me and watching the study. We might disagree about certain things, but we are still brothers in Christ. God bless.
I heard about this last year, here's a video.
Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior, my King. He paid the price for me with His blood, and I belong to Him. Blessing and honor and glory and power be to the Lord Jesus Christ!
It's okay, I forgive you. We just need to always try to have love and grace when discussing biblical issues with our brethren.
I was drafting a reply to describe what I believe and why, but it was lost so I have been forced to rewrite my reply (which has now taken most of my day). I will post links to some things that I think should be compelling if you are at all interested.
So far I have only addressed the issues you had brought up and I have yet to make any arguments regarding a pretribulation rapture.
I want to express that I grew up in a church that taught pretribulation rapture and in fact I did not accept this idea and refused say dogmatically when I thought the rapture would occur because I could not find any verses that I believed showed definitively when the rapture was supposed to occur. Therefore I had prepared my heart to suffer through the tribulation.
It wasn't until a couple years ago (I am in mid thirties now) that I came to believe in a pretrib rapture after watching a study on 2 Thessalonians and the meaning of the Greek word ἀποστασία. I am now convinced that "falling away" is incorrectly translated, and that the original meaning for the word ἀποστασία was "departure", which could have been translated as either spiritual departure or physical departure depending on the context in which it is used.
It would appear, in my opinion, that the context in 2 Thessalonians favors a physical departure interpretation, in which case our gathering together to him would have to occur before the man of sin is revealed.
I don't really want to spend any more time discussing these things or going back and forth as I have already spent too much time on this. Although I do not intend to convince you that this is the correct interpretation, if you are interested you can study it for yourself and come to your own conclusions as the Lord leads you.
Here is a link to the study I referenced in case you are interested.
Here is a link to a document on the same topic
He has some other videos on rapture typology that I would suggest watching.
Rapture Proof & The Ancient Jewish Wedding
Rapture Typology Pre-Tribulation Rapture Proof
1 Thessalonians rapture study (starts at 44:00)
Finally here is a link to a document disseminating pretribulation rapture myths.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=symp_grad
If you don't want to watch many long videos I understand. I used to avoid long videos, but now all I do is watch bible studies, prophecy videos and lectures all day every day because I have become very passionate about prophecy.
Anyway, never stop seeking the truth and God bless.
You think the great white throne judgment is only for those who live in the thousand year reign?
THAT is pretty weird.
It is for all those whose names are not written in the book of life.
And yes, there will still be sin in the thousand year kingdom.
https://davidjeremiah.blog/what-is-the-millennium-7-answers-to-7-questions/
I don't appreciate the attitude or the fact that you intentionally twisted what I said in order to scoff at me, and even so your argument is wrong.
36Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”
37He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. 40Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
This is very straightforward. This parable is not a rapture reference, this is the great white throne judgment at the end of the thousand years.
You are conflating separate events. The resurrection in 1 Thessalonians 4 is not the same event as the resurrection in Revelation 20. Read back one chapter. Revelation 19:7 is the marriage feast of the lamb with his bride clothed in fine linen. Then after the marriage feast, the armies of heaven come down with the Lord, once again clothed in fine linen. These are the saints who were raptured. Then, after the Lord's victory, the thousand year reign begins in chapter 20 when the resurrection of the tribulation saints occurs.
Since the saints are married to the Lord Before the "first resurrection" at the start of the millenial kingdom as in Revelation, how then would the dead in Christ "rise first" before the living saints are taken up, as in Thessalonians?
Neither can we who are alive and remain meet Jesus in the air AFTER he defeats the beast and then after which the tribulation saints are resurrected because it clearly says we are with him BEFORE these things at the wedding feast and the second coming.
The resurrection in Revelations 20 and the one in Thessalonians 4, therefore, cannot be the same event.
Thessalonians 4 (resurrection and then rapture) has to happen before the wedding feast. Then the Revelation 19 wedding feast happens. Then the Lord returns with the saints to defeat the beast. Then the Revelation 20 resurrection happens.
Oops, he's white. Move along, nothing to see here.
This is an archive of a masonic website I stumbled upon while doing some research that says a lot about the meanings of symbols such as crosses and what-have-you.
A cross in the shape of an X is apparently a Saint Andrew cross
No, you are wrong. Jewish Sunday begins at sunset on Saturday. The angels came and moved the stone away in the night.
Please consider this writing from the apocryphal Gospel of Peter describing the opening of the tomb: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelpeter-brown.html
[25] Then the Jews and the elders and the priests, having come to know how much wrong they had done themselves, began to beat themselves and say: 'Woe to our sins. The judgment has approached and the end of Jerusalem.' [26] But I with the companions was sorrowful; and having been wounded in spirit, we were in hiding, for we were sought after by them as wrongdoers and as wishing to set fire to the sanctuary. [27] In addition to all these things we were fasting; and we were sitting mourning and weeping night and day until the Sabbath.
[28] But the scribes and Pharisees and elders, having gathered together with one another, having heard that all the people were murmuring and beating their breasts, saying that 'If at his death these very great signs happened, behold how just he was,' [29] feared (especially the elders) and came before Pilate, begging him and saying, [30] 'Give over soldiers to us in order that we may safeguard his burial place for three days, lest, having come, his disciples steal him, and the people accept that he is risen from the death, and they do us wrong.' [31] But Pilate gave over to them Petronius the centurion with soldiers to safeguard the sepulcher. And with these the elders and scribes came to the burial place. [32] And having rolled a large stone, all who were there, together with the centurion and the soldiers, placed it against the door of the burial place. [33] And they marked it with seven wax seals; and having pitched a tent there, they safeguarded it. [34] But early when the Sabbath was dawning, a crowd came from Jerusalem and the surrounding area in order that they might see the sealed tomb.
[35] But in the night in which the Lord's day dawned, when the soldiers were safeguarding it two by two in every watch, there was a loud voice in heaven; [36] and they saw that the heavens were opened and that two males who had much radiance had come down from there and come near the sepulcher. [37] But that stone which had been thrust against the door, having rolled by itself, went a distance off the side; and the sepulcher opened, and both the young men entered. [38] And so those soldiers, having seen, awakened the centurion and the elders (for they too were present, safeguarding). [39] And while they were relating what they had seen, again they see three males who have come out from they sepulcher, with the two supporting the other one, and a cross following them, [40] and the head of the two reaching unto heaven, but that of the one being led out by a hand by them going beyond the heavens. [41] And they were hearing a voice from the heavens saying, 'Have you made proclamation to the fallen-asleep?' [42] And an obeisance was heard from the cross, 'Yes.' [43]
And so those people were seeking a common perspective to go off and make these things clear to Pilate; [44] and while they were still considering it through, there appear again the opened heavens and a certain man having come down and entered into the burial place. [45] Having seen these things, those around the centurion hastened at night before Pilate (having left the sepulcher which they were safeguarding) and described all the things that they indeed had seen, agonizing greatly and saying: 'Truly he was God's Son.'
It describes two angels bringing Jesus out from the sepulcher "in the night in which the Lord's day dawned" (which is Sunday)
Maybe, maybe not.