In Over 40 years of study and debate, the ONLY ones i have heard declare " secret rapture" are postribbers.
Very disengenuous.
How the Pre-Trib Rapture Became Popular in the Modern Church
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Very disengenuous.
Absolutely--you must be here only to be an instigator if you think that--THAT is a HALLMARK of Pre-tribbers.
@Laura798 's Post #2803 (regarding the Hebrew word for "WEEKS" in Daniel 9)...
The Hebrew word means "SEVENS" (aka "a set of seven")... whether "a set of seven DAYS" or "a set of seven YEARS" would be ascertained from the CONTEXT
(this [i.e. CONTEXT] is how we know it means "a set of 70 SEVENS of YEARS" [490 years total] and not "DAYS" [490 days total]).
IOW, it is the Hebrew word ITSELF that *means* "SEVENS"...
Just like the word for "YEARS" *means* "YEARS"
The Hebrew word means "SEVENS" (aka "a set of seven")... whether "a set of seven DAYS" or "a set of seven YEARS" would be ascertained from the CONTEXT
(this [i.e. CONTEXT] is how we know it means "a set of 70 SEVENS of YEARS" [490 years total] and not "DAYS" [490 days total]).
IOW, it is the Hebrew word ITSELF that *means* "SEVENS"...
Just like the word for "YEARS" *means* "YEARS"
Are you aware that Paul had a very deliberate pattern in his epistles? I betchya you didn't. Well let me tell you....
1) FIRSTLY he would lay out CORRECT DOCTRINE.
2) THEN he would lay on the exhortations to duty, observance and right behavior.
Case in point see Rom 12:1&2. Which came ONLY AFTER 11 CHAPTERS OF BUILDING DOCTINE. Paul's other epistles follow the same pattern.
You have no right to do #(2) because you have utterly failed to do #(1).......
God Complex
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I am doing what everyone else here is doing.Absolutely--you must be here only to be an instigator if you think that--THAT is a HALLMARK of Pre-tribbers.
It is a forum.
Stop with the instigation please
2 Thes 1:9-10
These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.
Yes sir....there are your "bookends". Amazing stuff and great detective work.....
Yes.
The text states, "... because the testimony of us to you was believed IN THAT DAY" (this is not speaking of the Thessalonians themselves... Right!)
Paul is CONTRASTING the TWO "beliefs" ppl WILL BE coming to IN / DURING / WITHIN the FUTURE "TRIB" yrs (the other being 2Th2:10-12... "God shall SEND TO THEM great delusion so that THEY should BELIEVE the LIE / the FALSE / the PSEUDEI" --certain ones, not 100% of the ppl existing in the trib yrs)
What? You said post-tribbers believe in a 'secret rapture'--THAT is a pre-tribber belief--your response makes ZERO sense.
... oh, and one more thing (for the moment), to this point (that you @cv5 had asked):
Zechariah 3:8
[compared with _______]
____________
... gotta go eat dinner...
I answered directly and in accordance with Scripture, which was given = His Body is not appointed to His wrath.
cV5 if you go to Simplicity route remember the three great Commandments.First is Deuteronomy 6:5
No maam.
I am saying you guys invented it and ascribed it to pretribs.
Nobody i have ever seen believes secret rapture.
and may they find Eternal Life through the circumcision performed by the Holy Spirit upon our hearts.
@Laura798 's Post #2089 (my apologies, I'm slow at getting to each of these posts / points), where you'd said:
I dunno about that... it seems like earlier in this thread there was a member who had started out by saying he was undecided but was studying it... and just days later he said he'd come to understand the "pre-trib" perspective to be what scripture itself presents.
[I can't say what he sees/understands SINCE that time... he hasn't posted any further, that I am aware of anyway]
P.S. I do think there are many more who "READ" than COMMENT. = )
I dunno about that... it seems like earlier in this thread there was a member who had started out by saying he was undecided but was studying it... and just days later he said he'd come to understand the "pre-trib" perspective to be what scripture itself presents.
[I can't say what he sees/understands SINCE that time... he hasn't posted any further, that I am aware of anyway]
P.S. I do think there are many more who "READ" than COMMENT. = )
It's possible some of us may just be a computer program .They had those things back in my days the 90 dees and people where already getting fooled.Remenber all things work to together for those who god loves.Let god tell you despite what we might think or what we might be.God well tell what to do.
Laura is quoting another source here.
2. If the Bible says that Enoch and Elijah were taken by God to Heaven, then that is indisputable. Since sinful men are perfected through the righteousness of Christ, this is a non-issue for God. "For with God nothing shall be impossible".
1. The death, burial, and resurrection of Christ were already ACCOMPLISHED FACTS in the divine foreknowledge of God and Christ. The Lamb of God had been slain from BEFORE the foundation of the world (1 Peter). So this argument has no merit.
2. If the Bible says that Enoch and Elijah were taken by God to Heaven, then that is indisputable. Since sinful men are perfected through the righteousness of Christ, this is a non-issue for God. "For with God nothing shall be impossible".
Already addressed above. The FACT that Moses and Elijah appeared at the Transfiguration meant that God had made full provision for them to appear in bodily form before Christ's resurrection.
Now this is TOTAL BALONEY since the Bible already tells us that Enoch and Elijah were translated -- not resurrected -- to Heaven. "Translated" means raptured.