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WWIII
Jul 24, 2006 10:15:36 GMT -5
Post by Life Alas Merch Man on Jul 24, 2006 10:15:36 GMT -5
So what do y'all think about the middle east right now!? Last night my pastor did a prophecy update message, and he was just talking about what the Bible says is going to be happening at the point of the rapture, and how God can just rapture the church anytime now, cause everything the Bible says will happen in the last days has happened, and is happening. (i.e.:knowledge increase, earthquakes, wars and rumors of war, famines, lawlessness, giving in marriage, and that it would be like the time of Noah, before the flood.) Well anyways if you look up the facts of what is happening and what the Bible says will happen, they both line up. i would give all the facts that my pastor did, but there were a ton, and i cant remember them all!
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WWIII
Jul 24, 2006 10:37:31 GMT -5
Post by radar on Jul 24, 2006 10:37:31 GMT -5
it's definitely possible. i read this recently and thought is was interesting
1TH 5:1 Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
so i guess no matter how much we are "prepared" for the return of Christ He will probably fulfill much of prophesy without even our knowing. kind of like how when He came the first time no one could believe that this baby born in a stable could be their King.
surprise, surprise, surprise.
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WWIII
Jul 24, 2006 10:40:46 GMT -5
Post by Life Alas Merch Man on Jul 24, 2006 10:40:46 GMT -5
yep, and about the labor pains thing, my pastor did a whole long part of his message on that. He said there are labor pains, and then there are something else, that are like labor pains, but are just a precursor to the real thing, so he said we might be experiencing the real thing, or the precursor to the real thing.
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WWIII
Jul 26, 2006 8:20:04 GMT -5
Post by Heretic on Jul 26, 2006 8:20:04 GMT -5
There will be wars and rumors of wars.
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WWIII
Aug 2, 2006 11:45:03 GMT -5
Post by safehaven on Aug 2, 2006 11:45:03 GMT -5
To my knowledge, the gospel hasn't been preached to all nations yet.
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WWIII
Aug 4, 2006 15:05:39 GMT -5
Post by Heretic on Aug 4, 2006 15:05:39 GMT -5
We haven't reached a few remote tribes. That's it. And we're working on them.
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WWIII
Aug 4, 2006 16:10:52 GMT -5
Post by radar on Aug 4, 2006 16:10:52 GMT -5
this is a little of topic, but still pertains:
i thought of something last night, about prophesy in the Bible. when we read about the end times there is always a debate on whether the words are literal or not. we (or at least i do) say to ourselves "well this is impossible! how can things like this actually happen?". yet (sometimes with the exception of Creation) whenever we read in the Old Testament we as Christians as a whole take the words as fact. and there are some pretty crazy stories packed into that book of ours!
Herod being eaten alive by worms (Acts 12:21-23) the Earth opening up and swallowing men who treated God with contempt (Numbers 16:30-34) God sending fire from Heaven to light Elijah's alter (1 Kings 18)
and the list goes on and on
my point is, why should we take part of the Bible as fact and the rest figuratively? shouldn't we have to accept all of it or reject all of it? to believe only the parts of the Bible that we can wrap our minds around would be to misquote God.
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"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction." -Mark Twain
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WWIII
Aug 4, 2006 18:33:40 GMT -5
Post by safehaven on Aug 4, 2006 18:33:40 GMT -5
"shouldn't we have to accept all of it or reject all of it?"
Not at all. Each book and each section has it's own style and it's own purpose.
For example, Jesus' parables, the book of Revelation, etc, are not meant to be taken literally in the sense that a literal beast or dragon will persecute Christians. Alternatively, the crucifixion is meant as a literal event that is one of the key elements of the faith. It all depends on context. You just can't read Psalms the same way you read Leviticus or Revelation, etc. They're different types of books.
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WWIII
Aug 5, 2006 11:33:53 GMT -5
Post by radar on Aug 5, 2006 11:33:53 GMT -5
i see what you mean (about how we should read each book differently). it just bothers me how it seems we decide how we want to interpret God's Word.
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WWIII
Aug 5, 2006 22:29:18 GMT -5
Post by safehaven on Aug 5, 2006 22:29:18 GMT -5
I see what you mean. That's why you have to come to the Bible with the utmost seriousness and work at it.
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abr06
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WWIII
Sept 21, 2006 20:19:31 GMT -5
Post by abr06 on Sept 21, 2006 20:19:31 GMT -5
i see what you mean (about how we should read each book differently). it just bothers me how it seems we decide how we want to interpret God's Word. I believe people do this becuase they are comfortable and if they tweak it a little bit they can stay comfortable. I can't wait to see the battle of Ezekial.
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WWIII
Nov 15, 2006 17:32:31 GMT -5
Post by koihoshi on Nov 15, 2006 17:32:31 GMT -5
I don't get this prophecy stuff, there has been wars that have killed millions, hundreds of thousands of people all over the entire course of history and people have said "prophecy" then, whats different about now?
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WWIII
Nov 15, 2006 17:44:36 GMT -5
Post by amoyensis on Nov 15, 2006 17:44:36 GMT -5
I'm a believer in Revelation as a continual prophecy rather than a singular one, but that's just me...
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WWIII
Jan 28, 2007 20:01:00 GMT -5
Post by cleetusthefetus on Jan 28, 2007 20:01:00 GMT -5
I think that World War III may be a precursor to the one world government rising to power to more or less take control of the world.... and the rise of the Antichrist.
Think about it; with all of the nukes and chemical/biological weapons around the world, not to mention all of the ones that are unaccounted for and just may be in the hands of some angry terrorists.... there probably won't be much left after WW3.
Albert Einstein said 'I do not know what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
That's just my opinion, subject to change as events unfold.
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WWIII
Feb 4, 2007 10:06:22 GMT -5
Post by Heretic on Feb 4, 2007 10:06:22 GMT -5
After World War III, whenever that's going to be (maybe soon,) I wonder what the world will look like one hundred years after that.
Assume that nuclear weapons are used, but not to a huge extent. One thousand years later the fallout will have dissipated somewhat and much of the world will not have been poisoned. However, the fallout will have been enough to mess around with genetic material, and should the effect increase with every generation, plant and animal life in certain areas would have grown... interesting. I don't expect we'd have huge mutant plants with big teeth, but there would certainly be what appears to be new species, even if they are only species altered somewhat by the radiation. Now assume that the mutant fauna are migratory; say, a herd of bison is altered over one thousand years of radiation, coupled with natural evolution will make a very strange beast indeed. Assuming that the radiation has not killed off the plants in a certain area, only changed their genetic makeup, these bison may have a surplus of food, or food with greater nutritional value. This will allow these bison to evolve into larger shapes. Natural predators such as wolves will have to evolve as well, so now we're looking at a new species of wolf, perhaps much stronger, faster and more aggressive. However, if the food supply is neither plentiful nor nutritious, the bison may evolve into omnivores.
The tribes of man still alive (say there are 500 million humans left on the earth), will not have retained industrial capacity. This will be the next Stone Age.
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