A big question

[Guest JustMeLOC]

Ahhh, but He promised not to again. The covenant of the rainbow.

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Yes, I agree that he promised not to destroy the world again by flood... but there is an upcoming destruction of the world by fire, as is written in 2 Peter 3:10,

But the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

If the Lord is slow in kindling his anger against mankind, I would say it's because He has His own appointed time, which no one knows of, by the way, in which He will make a DEFINITE end of the wickedness... of that we can be 100% sure.

[Abigailwc]

God's plan is perfect. He knows exactly when to end it all!

[Yahsway]

I agree, but are you all so ready for Him to bring about his destruction now?

[Giaour]

not in a hurry as long as there are still lost in the world.

[Guest JustMeLOC]

I agree, but are you all so ready for Him to bring about his destruction now?

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Don't think there will be too many people who will be ready for that day and the destruction thereof. I certainly wouldn't want to wish it upon anyone, even my worst enemy. All I am saying is that if it is written in the Bible that the world will be destroyed by fire.. I believe it will be, just as it was previously destroyed by a flood, saving only 8 at that time. On the other hand, I am READY and WAITING anxiously for Jesus to return to this earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. So as Christians, awaiting the arrival of our Lord... we shall rejoice at His coming and the end of the wickedness.

[his-servant-too]

Here is a question to ponder,

If 3/4 of this worlds people are non-christian , homosexuality is spreading through out the world even to hold a 10 day whatever it is in the city of Jerusalem , 35000 pagans gather in the desert to experience HELL , sin is at an all time high and even christian churches are moving away from the word, Why does GOD allow this to continue to happen. In the bible it tells of god hand cleansing first the world then two cities. What is he waiting for?

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Why don't you ask God? He's the only one who can really answer that question!

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He is not giving out any information just yet.

What I'm asking is what you think

God gave you one great thing over the rest of the anamals. The ability to think for yourself

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Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

[other one]

well, my brother in law has switched from being a atheist to agnostic as far as I can tell....... maybe the Lord is giving him the chance to find the Lord. I am sure there are many in the same situation.

I think if it were not for the belief of a pre trib rapture there would be less people ready for the end to come. I gotta tell you that I'm not looking forward to loosing my head over some mark on my hand, but......

se

[his-servant-too]

well, my brother in law has switched from being a atheist to agnostic as far as I can tell.......  maybe the Lord is giving him the chance to find the Lord.  I am sure there are many in the same situation.

I think if it were not for the belief of a pre trib rapture there would be less people ready for the end to come.  I gotta tell you that I'm not looking forward to loosing my head over some mark on my hand, but......

se

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If you look around you

[Giaour]

"A house divided against itself cannot stand"

[Christ's Free Servant]

I think if it were not for the belief of a pre trib rapture there would be less people ready for the end to come.  I gotta tell you that I'm not looking forward to loosing my head over some mark on my hand, but......

se

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Question: Are you proposing that more people come to Christ because they believe they will be raptured before the tribulation and that fewer would come to Christ if they knew they were going to have to live during the tribulation? Or, are you suggesting that believers are more excited about the return of Christ because they believe they will be raptured out prior to the tribulation? But, they would not be looking forward to the return of Christ if they knew they would have to live through the tribulation? Either way, doesn't that sound rather self-serving to you? What happened to being crucified with Christ and wanting to know Christ and the fellowship of his suffering, becoming like him in his death?

Do you know that the fastest growing churches (through conversions) are not in the USA? They are in countries where people know they are signing their own death warrants when they accept Christ. They are the most on fire Christians for God because they know what it means to die to their old lives and to walk in newness of life. Do you know how the church in the USA is fairing by comparison? I don't have the statistics in front of me, but I know that churches in the USA are closing their doors left and right on a daily basis because the churches are dead, but not dead in a good way. They lack the life of the Holy Spirit, because they never died to the flesh. Maybe if the church in the USA started believing in Post-trib rapture of the church, that we would get off our cans and start telling people about Jesus and start living holy lives. The Bible teaches us that we are to be ready to suffer for Christ. We are to take up our cross daily.

What I am seeing, instead, as a general rule among our churches in the USA is easy beliefism, meaning we tell people that all they have to do is "believe," but we don't really explain to them what that means. We just tell them that all they have to do is pray a simple prayer and they basically have their ticket into heaven, and then to add to that, we tell them that the church will be raptured before the tribulation, so basically Christianity is easy street. It is like ordering a McDonald's hamburger - quick and easy and inexpensive. Yes, Jesus paid the price, but we forget that we have a price to pay, too, which is we have to die to our old lives and be reborn. We have to repent and turn from our sin and turn to God. We need to be crucified with Christ and we need to be ready to suffer for his sake. To me, that's the mark of true Christianity. Anyone can "believe" in something that has no down side and only benefits, hey, even the demons believe and they shudder.

Sorry, got on my soapbox here, but this really troubles me. I believe truly that is why God is going to judge the USA beginning with our churches, because we have lost the "fear" of God.