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Originally Posted by OBW
Whole lot of interesting stuff here. But it is even more interesting that the whole idea of a rapture (as taught in dispensational theology) has only been around for 200 years.
I fear that we ultimately waste too much time trying to pin down details and minutia from types, figures, and metaphors. There is too much clearly in the scripture (including in the NT) that is not about the rapture or the end times that is mostly ignored.
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Glad you found a "whole lot of interesting stuff here". That said, you 'fear'?? Why? While we are to grow in Christ, to edify and build up His body, to be witnesses and share the gospel to unbelievers, we are instructed to look up.
Pick and choose what we want to get out of the bible are we??
The Jews who for ions were looking for their Messiah missed Him or rejected HIM when He came. I guess they could not accept their KING being born in a lowly manger.
NOT saying if you or believers do not want to believe the rapture is at hand 'you will be left behind'. NOT SAYING THAT AT ALL! Still I believe it pleases the Bridegroom to be looking and waiting for Him.
For me and a whole lot of people, the Holy Spirit put it in our hearts to 'look up for your redemption draws nigh'. I was looking for Jesus to return back in the LC days!
And here I am.. still on earth..waiting..waiting and waiting some more.
I remember going through a study in Daniel a few years back and discussing Daniel 12: 9-10
Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Surely in the last 200 yrs or so, more and more prophesy has been revealed to the church by the Holy Spirit. Not that everyone has got it 'right'.
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But we would rather pine about the "by and by" at the expense of the "here and now."
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I totally
but respectfully disagree with this comment here. This thread was created for this topic and this topic was discussed by Nee and Lee although quite convoluted imho. And this topic is BIBLICAL. So if you or other people don't like this thread, don't come here. Simple as that!
There are many threads on this forum I bypass because they do not interest me. They do not interest me because I was not in the LC that long of a time nor did I experience horrific pain at the words of elders or 'leading ones'.
On that note:
Peace be unto you and the forum from God above.