In Reply to: Re: Second Coming?? posted by Not For Prophet on July 20, 2009 at 13:32:14:
Wasn't there also the alias/handle: not for profit?? ...like it anyway
Thank you for the link...it all has it's proper place, I am very sure about that...after TF you kind of reexamine scripture either by yourself or by the help of the various groups and teachers...that way you get acquainted with amillenialism & postmillenialism...pretribulation, midtribulation to posttribulation rapture...(I just looked it up today again harpazo really means taken by force...openly...in contrast to klepto...secretly...in Acts 8:39; 2.Cor.12:2.4, 1.Thess 4:17, Rev.12:5 )...I hope, people here do their own searching...Observer reminds me with his understandable reaction (many false predictions/interpretations in history) of the comment of some catholics in a Christian commune we got often some place to sleep in in the late seventies...one student commented, that HIS return could take another 1000 years...though it shouldn't matter that much to the believer, if he/she just remains faithful in the meantime...it is of apparent disadvantage to man to be asleep & then forgetting about the oil in the lamp
"In the Old Testament, the prophet Joel states, "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come." (Joel 2:31)
Church stressed despite the information suggesting 2015 could be a pivotal time, "We don't know that that will be the concluding year of the tribulation period ... so we're not setting a date and saying this is a warning. We're introducing the possibility of a watch."
I guess Rev. 6:12 ties in here as well...I figure in Rev. 7 the believers "got finally out"...this is not such an easy chapter for the pretribbers...they figure they're out already at chapter three (quite "nice" to "know", you don't have any big touble/tribulation...but what if you "guessed"/interpreted wrong??)
Here's , for those of you who haven't seen it yet...some info about the movie: The apple (1980)....which I saw in the early eighties...of all things...in a cinema in New Delhi...I saw the advertising while litnessing & was very amazed about the content...I thought/think, the movie is far better than what the public/internet bashings want to make it....I remember the saviour or Jesus coming back in the sky, white suit with a white limousine...I think it was a Mercedes of all things...the triangular BIM-mark on the forehead...the year 1994 (that was almost too much then to see/believe from the movie, that that year was proposed)...and then I was amazed to realise, that much of the movie was shot in then West-Berlin..."funny"
Though I am not in line with the links film critique...it has more movie-snapshots than other sites...therefore my preferrence...plus one of the first hits
Leave it to a Jew to have the courage to address something as vital as that...
(speeeed...either drug...also the German Autobahn...not restricted alone to America)