Fg joins the folly;
"""Correct. There are no mountains in heaven. Mt. Zion is a famous mountain next to Jerusalem and clearly Jesus has returned and is standing on it."""
But that pesky bible shows up;
Heb 12
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
There are many things in earth that are mere patterns of heaven ,you guys are unaware of
Horses
Animals
Lightning
Books
Even the destroyed temple is only a model of the one in heaven.
That's the difference.
That's why you guys can't discern.
The HEAVENLY IS THE REAL. THE EARTHLY IS A MODEL OF THE REAL.
All truth comes from heaven, to man
You guy have it exactly backwards.
You are trib, ac, suffering, judgement centered.
Get heaven's center. Get the heart of God into the equation.
Stop with the mental "interpretations"
Pssssst....that would be "bride/groom centered"[/QUOTE]
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing
we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and
let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
IF YOU ARE OF THE FINAL GENERATION THE RACE SET BEFORE YOU IS TRIBULATION CHOICE IS TO EITHER ACCEPT IT OR DENY IT
Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
OUR EXAMPLE IS CHRIST WHO ENDURED THE CROSS FOR THE JOY SET BEFORE HIM. ARE YOU LOOKING TO PICK UP YOUR CROSS? ARE YOU WILLING TO LOSE YOUR LIFE TO FIND IT? WILL YOU BE STANDING AND ENDURING TO THE END?
OR ARE YOU FOLLOWING AFTER A DOCTRINE OF MAN THAT SAY 'JUDGE YOURSELF WORTHY AND COUNT YOURSELF SAVED AND TAKEN OUT OF THE RACE SET BEFORE YOU. NO CROSS FOR YOU TO BEAR. NO PROVING OF YOU, THE 'CHURCHES' WHO WERE ABOUT TO LOSE THEIR STATUS WHILE OTHERS WERE TO BE SPIT OUT BUT THOSE AREN'T BEING RAPTURED INSTEAD THE BODY IS BEING DIVIDED YET AGAIN BY THIS DOTRINE THAT STANDS ON APOSTASY BEING TAKEN TO HEAVEN AND PUTTING OUR LORD AND SAVIOR AT THE FEET OF SATAN, OPPOSITE OF WHAT IS WRITTEN.
Hebrews 12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
YOU teach that TRIBULATION is going to be PUNISHMENT for JUDAH and BEHEADINGS FOR THE 'TRIBULATION SAINTS'
(of which they are written of where?) Along with the 'final generation' of CHRISTIANS don't deserve it - it does seem that it just might make them faint in their minds, the thought of tribulation coming to the final generation of Christians.
Hebrews 12:4 Ye have
not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
NOT YET...
Hebrews 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children,
My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him
AND WE KNOW WHAT FORM CHASTENING COMES IN. TRIBULATION, AFFLICTION, PERSECUTION....
Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth,
and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.
SURELY THERE WILL BE SOME BEFORE TRIBULATION WHO HAVE NOT YET BEEN...so how could they go without making void the words of God
Hebrews 12:7
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
ALL THE KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORLD DOESN'T HELP IF YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND what is being said.
Hebrews 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement,
whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
MORE PROOF THAT CHRISTIANS WILL GO THROUGH TRIBULATION. AND IT WONT BE THE FIRST TIME...and sure you may be going through it now BUT IT IS STILL THE COURSE SET BEFORE YOU AND THAT DOESN'T CHANGEE. WE RUN THE RACE SET BEFORE US. NOT HALF OF IT
Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh
which corrected us, and
we gave them reverence:
SHALL WE NOT MUCH RATHER BE IN SUBJECTION UNTO THE FATHER OF SPIRITS AND LIVE?
Hebrews 12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure;
BUT HE FOR OUR PROFIT THAT WE MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF HIS HOLINESS
ONE THING THE RUNDOWN OF THE CHURCHES TELL US IS CHRISTIANS NEED TO BE PROVEN IN THE FINAL GENERATION.
PRE TRIBBERS REALLY NEED TO ABSORB THIS
Hebrews 12:11
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless
AFTERWARD it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness
unto them which are exercised thereby.
HOW MANY DIFFERENT WAY ARE WE TOLD IT IS GOOD FOR US TO ENDURE THE THINGS THAT COME UPON US?
Hebrews 12:12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down,
and the feeble knees;
Hebrews 12:13 And
make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently
lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person,
as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Hebrews 12:17 For ye know
how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Hebrews 12:18 For ye are
not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Hebrews 12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
Hebrews 12:20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Hebrews 12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake
Hebrews 12:22
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
NOT AT ALL THE WAY YOU PORTRAY IT TO BE
Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and
to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel.
Hebrews 12:25
See that ye refuse not HIM that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape,
if we turn away from HIM that speaketh from heaven:
HERE IS WHAT A PROMISE LOOKS LIKE
Hebrews 12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth:
but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more
I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Hebrews 12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Hebrews 12:28
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace
, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
AND NOT A WORD ABOUT A PRE TRIB RAPTURE ANYWHERE AND MANY MANY PLACES ONE WOULD EXPECT IT TO BE FOUND.