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)
Luke 24:1 says Jesus was raised on the first day of the week which is Sunday. There is simply no way you can twist this to make His crucifixion land on Wednesday, regardless of any supposed wandering sabbath day.
Indeed, it is not well known that Hebrew days began and ended at sunset, unlike ours (at least in America) which effectively begin and end at sunrise, though literally at midnight.
I feel it necessary to warn against this false teaching about when Christ died and was raised.
1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron" 1 Timothy 4:1-2
Jesus could not have died on a Wednesday and been raised from the dead on a Saturday. This is a lie from the pit of hell, and here is why.
All four books of the Gospel state that Jesus died on a preparation day. This could not have been a preparation day for the Passover feast because Jesus and his disciples ate their Passover meal just before he was arrested.
It had to be Friday, the preparation day for the Shabbat, and the Gospels expressly say so.
Matthew 27:62
"Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,"
Mark 15:42
"Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,"
Luke 23:54
"That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near."
John 19:42
"So there they laid Jesus, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby."
Furthermore, Luke 24:1-3 tells us this extremely important detail:
"1 Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus."
It says Jesus' resurrection was on the first day of the week. The first day of the week in Hebrew culture is Sunday.
In the same chapter, Jesus appears on the road to Emmaus and the text says this in Luke 24:13:
"Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem"
This conversation took place the same Sunday that Jesus was raised from the dead.
During the conversation, they said this to Jesus in Luke 24:21:
"But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened."
Friday, Saturday, Sunday. The third day.
People who insist that Jesus died on Wednesday and was raised on Saturday use Matthew 12:40 as justification for their belief because it says "three days and three nights" so they deny the Friday to Sunday account, however this ignores what all these verses I have quoted plainly say and makes the gospel authors out to be liars, which they are not.
Ellicot's Commentary for English Readers says this about the matter:
That the very difficulty presented by the prediction of “three days and three nights” as compared with the six-and-thirty hours (two nights and one day) of the actual history of the Resurrection, is against the probability of the verse having been inserted as a prophecy after the event. (3) That if we believe that our Lord had a distinct prevision of His resurrection, and foretold it, sometimes plainly and sometimes in dark sayings—and of this the Gospels leave no room for doubt (Matthew 16:21; Matthew 26:32; John 2:19)—then the history of Jonah presented an analogy which it was natural that He should notice. It does not necessarily follow that this use of the history as a prophetic symbol of the Resurrection requires us to accept it in the very letter of its details. It was enough, for the purposes of the illustration, that it was familiar and generally accepted. The purely chronological difficulty is explained by the common mode of speech among the Jews, according to which, any part of a day, though it were but a single hour, was for legal purposes considered as a whole. An instance of this mode of speech is found in 1Samuel 30:12-13, and it is possible that in the history of Jonah itself the measurement of time is to be taken with the same laxity.
and Barnes' Notes on the Bible says this:
Three days and three nights - It will be seen in the account of the resurrection of Christ that he was in the grave but two nights and a part of three days. See Matthew 18:6. This computation is, however, strictly in accordance with the Jewish mode of reckoning. If it had "not" been, the Jews would have understood it, and would have charged our Saviour as being a false prophet, for it was well known to them that he had spoken this prophecy, Matthew 27:63. Such a charge, however, was never made; and it is plain, therefore, that what was "meant" by the prediction was accomplished. It was a maxim, also, among the Jews, in computing time, that a part of a day was to be received as the whole. Many instances of this kind occur in both sacred and profane history.
Recall the stories of illegal immigrants receiving thousands of dollars on EBT cards. Seems significant.
I find more significant is their reference to a "watcher".
Here are the relevant segments from the article relating to the question in your title as to whether there is evidence pointing to a Taiwan CCP conflict. These are from statements by Xi Jinping and China Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lijian, and by any objective measure would constitute evidence that China intends to invade Taiwan.
A new video circulated among Chinese Communist Party channels has warned China will destroy Japan with nuclear weapons in a "full-scale war" if Tokyo interferes militarily in Taiwan.
When we liberate Taiwan, if Japan dares to intervene by force – even if it only deploys one soldier, one plane or one ship – we will not only return fire but also wage full-scale war against Japan itself.
I must stress that, Taiwan is part of China and the Taiwan question is purely China's internal affair. China never allows interference in the Taiwan question in any form by any country.
China must and will be reunified. A complete reunification of China is most beneficial to regional peace and stability.
I didn't post this to make an argument for or against your assertions, but simply as a reminder that the threats China made against Japan last year were a significant reason that many people began to expect that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan might be imminent.
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ICYMI: last October Israel's new Prime Minister Naftali Bennet met with Vladimir Putin over their military operations in Syria. Here's a video explaining the meeting.
Israeli PM Bennett Meets Putin in Russia as Iran & Syria Tensions Grow | Watchman Newscast
You reminded me of this video I saw a while back.
Here's an interesting video about the conspiracy to hide the vowels of God's name.
This is drone footage from Reuters.
Is that a skull and bones on his cross?
https://twitter.com/CPAC/status/1497733981839708170
And they so far allowed him [Putin] to get away with this travesty and assault on humanity. That's what it is. This is an assault on humanity, it's so sad. Putin is playing Biden like a drum and it's not a pretty thing as somebody that loves our country to watch. Just not a pretty thing to watch." - DJT at CPAC
Assault on humanity sounds like a condemnation to me.
Ryan Pitterson discusses occultism and 33rd Degree Freemason Albert Pike's writing on the Caduceus of Hermes Link
The entire video is a good watch. It goes into a lot of occultist symbolism and I would recommend his whole Nephilim series.
I thought I would share a couple additional videos
Here is a lecture on the reliability of New Testament manuscripts and Textual Criticism.
How Badly Was the New Testament Corrupted? | Veritas at SDSU (2018)
The title is hyperbolic but in short the conclusion is this:
The New Testament text in all essentials and in the vast majority of particulars is absolutely certain
Here is a bible conference from Lamb & Lion Ministries discussing whether the biblical stories of the flood, the thousand year kingdom, the creation week, and the rapture should be taken literally.
Can the biblical books of Genesis and Revelation really be taken literally?
I heard about this last year, here's a video.
https://youtu.be/sFk_doKh2Yo?t=452